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Delivery Method: Group-Live
Program Level: Intermediate
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Corporate Sponsor

Cisco BizWise TV
www.cisco.com/go/interact/bizwise      

BizWiseTV is your internet source for the latest information about the issues that affect today’s small to medium-sized businesses. BizWiseTV features interviews with business owners, industry experts and authors that will give you important advantages in growing your own business. From cash flow and double-bottom line accounting, to personnel issues and the latest in greening your business, BizWiseTV has insightful, objective answers for the CXO of the small to medium-sized company. Watch the 30-minute video broadcasts, download podcasts or catch the segments on SBTV.com and other Web sites. BizWiseTV is sponsored by Cisco, innovators of networking and voice-over-IP solutions specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Visit us at www.cisco.com/go/interact/bizwise

Associate Sponsor

Business Objects - booth # 208 & 210
www.businessobjects.com      

Business Objects is the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) software company. With more than 39,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company’s business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry’s most advanced and complete platform for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports®, the industry standard for enterprise reporting and a suite of industry leading financial planning and performance management products, which offer integrated budgeting, planning, forecasting, consolidations, productivity measurement, and reporting functionality. Business Objects has also built the industry’s strongest and most diverse partner community, and also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence and performance management projects. For more information visit: www.businessobjects.com

CIGNA HealthCare - booth # 301 & 303
www.cigna.com      

CIGNA HealthCare provides medical benefits plans, dental coverage, behavioral health coverage, pharmacy benefits and products and services that help to improve the health, well-being and productivity of employees. CIGNA provides expertise and integrated services that can improve the health of our members; manage costs for plan sponsors and enhance employee productivity. We engage the member via health advocacy by providing cost, quality and health information and offering sophisticated information tools and resources members can use to make health care decisions. Through our broad array of consumer-focused programs, we help guide members to effective, quality care through industry-leading wellness initiatives, health coaching, disease management and personalized case management. "CIGNA HealthCare" refers to various operating subsidiaries of CIGNA Corporation.

Clarity Systems - booth # 300
www.claritysystems.com      

Clarity Systems delivers superior CPM software solutions, training, consulting, and advisory services for financial budgeting, planning, reporting, consolidation, and analytics to a large client base across North America and Europe. With a rich feature set, Clarity 6 is a unified application that offers the flexibility, security, and control needed to meet compliance requirements, make more informed business decisions, and ensure better corporate responsibility. Named as one of Profit's 100 fastest growing companies in 2005 and a Branham 300 top 100 IT company, Clarity Systems continues to experience a large growth in revenue, expand its client base, and lead the industry as the CPM solutions' specialist. For more information on Clarity, please visit our website at www.claritysystems.com or call us at 1-877-410-5070.

Computer Sciences Corporation - booth # 302
www.csc.com      

Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global information technology (IT) services company. CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

With approximately 87,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

KPMG LLP - booth # 200
www.us.kpmg.com      

KPMG recognizes the changing face of today’s organizations and the transformed roles of their chief financial officers. By providing audit, tax and innovative financial advisory, risk, and performance improvement services, we can help CFOs meet their new responsibilities and create value for their organizations. In addition to traditional fiduciary roles, the CFO plays a critical role in driving business value including the growth agenda, operations improvement, business transformation, M&A activity and post-merger integration, strategic sourcing, and technology initiative needed to achieve these objectives.
KPMG can work with you and your organization to help achieve:
• Early identification and assessment of risk and control issues that affect performance improvement and growth
• Improved effectiveness of key risk, financial management and performance improvement initiatives.
• Informed and effective responses to existing and proposed regulatory requirements, including geographic and industry-specific issues
• Strengthened governance, reporting, and internal controls to build stakeholder trust and create sustainable confidence and value

Manhattan Associates Inc. and Computer Sciences Corporation
www.manh.com      www.csc.com      

Manhattan Associates® provides global supply chain solutions to organizations that consider supply chain software, processes and technology strategic to market leadership. The company's software portfolio includes five key Supply Chain Solution Suites: Planning and Forecasting, Inventory Optimization, Order Lifecycle Management, Transportation Lifecycle Management and Distribution Management. These solution suites are enhanced by Platform Applications - including Supply Chain Intelligence, Supply Chain Visibility and Supply Chain Event Management - that organize and deliver the information and processes needed to optimize supply chains across functions and locations within and outside an enterprise. A Supply Chain Process Platform provides a unifying architecture that fosters agility and scalability while minimizing solution implementation, evolution and support costs. More than 1,200 customers worldwide use Manhattan Associates' global supply chain solutions to enhance profitability and build sustainable competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.manh.com.


Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global information technology(IT) services company. CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

With approximately 87,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting - booth # 402
www.mercer.com      

As a leading global provider of human resource consulting, outsourcing and investment services, Mercer serves more than 25,000 clients globally. These include not only most of the world’s leading companies and governments, but also many rapidly growing organizations, including those in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. We are truly a worldwide organization with 60 percent of our clients located in Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America.

Mercer also has a strong market presence serving mid-size companies. Such clients benefit from the expertise we have acquired not only working with the largest multinationals, but also from our experience with many smaller but rapidly growing companies seeking best practices in order to gain competitive advantage.

Mercer has an unmatched global network, which ensures integrated, worldwide solutions for clients who wish to establish global policies and procedures while allowing for the flexibility to accommodate local cultural, legal and regulatory requirements. Our locally based professionals are also available to address country-specific issues and opportunities.

Microsoft Corporation - booth # 202
www.microsoft.com/bi/products/performancepoint-overview.aspx      

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application designed to help improve operational and financial performance across all departments and all levels of your organization. With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can monitor progress, analyze what is driving variances, and plan your business from budgeting to creating management reports. You can have metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and reports delivered to every desktop through intuitive scorecards, dashboards, and the easy-to-use 2007 Microsoft Office system environment. A key component of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you understand how performance can align with personal and departmental goals and objectives.

Softrax Corporation - booth # 214 & 215
www.softrax.com      

Softrax Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise revenue management and billing software solutions that fundamentally change the way companies manage, analyze, report, and forecast their revenue. Softrax solutions automate the entire revenue cycle, from revenue recognition, reporting and forecasting, through complex billing and contract renewals. Hundreds of corporations benefit from using Softrax to optimize their revenue, reduce operating expenses, comply with revenue recognition regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, and gain unprecedented visibility into their business performance. Softrax Corporation, headquartered in Canton, MA, is privately held. More information can be found at www.softrax.com, www.RevenueRecognition.com, or by calling 1.888.4SOFTRAX.

TATA Consultancy Services - booth # 401
http://www.tcs.com      

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 94,000 of the world's best trained IT associates in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2007 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

Jr. Associate Sponsor

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
www.intellinex.com      

ACS is the leading provider of learning services to companies who consider people among their most valuable investments. We partner with our clients to help them increase the value their people provide through the deployment of effective, efficient and performance based learning solutions in alignment with strategic business goals.

ACS is a trusted partner- we help clients “grow” through a transformational life-cycle approach to execute business strategies, drive performance, accelerate speed to profit, improve people effectiveness, reduce costs and achieve growth. ACS sports an unrivaled track record of success in providing end to end dynamic learning and talent development solutions for over 3 million learners at corporate organizations and government agencies.

ACS is recognized as a leader in industry reports and sited annually by HRO Today and Training Industry as one of the “Best” companies in Training & Training Outsourcing.

American Express Global Commercial Card - booth # 400
corp.americanexpress.com/midsize      

Through its Global Commercial Card group, American Express provides the Corporate Card™, Corporate Purchasing Solutions™ and other expense management services to mid-sized, large and global companies worldwide. In the US, it is the leading issuer of commercial cards, serving more than 50% of the Fortune 500 as well as tens of thousands of mid-sized companies. American Express issues local-currency commercial cards in 36 countries, and International Dollar Corporate Cards in an additional 85 countries. More information can be found at http://www.americanexpress.com/corporateservices.

The American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel, insurance and international banking.

Applix, Inc. - booth # 201
www.applix.com      

Applix is a global leader in business analytics applications that enable continuous strategic planning, management and monitoring of performance across the financial, operational, sales and marketing, and human resources functions within the enterprise.

At Applix, we empower agile enterprises by exclusively focusing on providing the solutions that drive decisions for companies who pursue leadership in their markets. Applix's solution provides a single, cohesive set of performance management and business intelligence applications for planning, budgeting, consolidation, financial reporting and complex analysis. The Applix solution deploys easier, reacts faster and reaches farther than any business analytics solution available today.

Applix and its global network of partners help its more than 3,000 customers worldwide manage their business analytics needs to respond proactively to the marketplace. To learn more about Applix, visit our website at www.applix.com.

Be the Change Champion at your organization with Applix!

Ariba, Inc. - booth # 105
www.ariba.com      

Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of spend management solutions to help companies of any size realize rapid and sustainable bottom line results. Recognized by analysts as the undisputed leader in multiple categories, Ariba’s world-class solutions are designed to provide technology and business process improvements in flexible and scalable on-demand, licensed, hosted packaging and as a managed service to match the implementation and budget needs of all companies. Ariba also helps organizations overcome business obstacles to success by offering solutions that address speed, sustainability, coverage, and flexibility. Ariba can be contacted in the U.S. at 1.650.390.1000 or at www.ariba.com.

Booz Allen Hamilton
www.boozallen.com      

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for more than 90 years. Providing consulting services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps clients solve their toughest problems, working by their side to help them achieve their missions. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

With 18,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales that exceed $3.7 billion. Booz Allen has been recognized as a consultant and an employer of choice. In 2005 and in 2006, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” and for the past eight years, Working Mother has ranked the firm among its “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.”

To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com. To learn more about the best ideas in business, visit www.strategy-business.com, the Web site for strategy+business, a quarterly journal sponsored by Booz Allen.

George Group - booth # 405
www.georgegroup.com      

For more than two decades, George Group has created an unsurpassed record of successful partnerships with Global 1000 companies and government agencies. George Group’s proprietary analytical methodologies help clients link strategy to execution to achieve rapid and sustainable enhancement in their business performance. George Group is focused on getting results for our clients - real, verifiable results- in record time. Further, we create the essential capability and cultural transformation for our clients to achieve and sustain those results.

George Group is the recognized authority in the development and deployment of strategies for Conquering Complexity of product or service offerings. George Group’s Fast Innovation approach is a collaborative, multi-stage process designed to help organizations accelerate time-to-market, build a pipeline of truly differentiated offerings and create lasting capability inside the organization. The undisputed leader in Lean Six Sigma, George Group has supported more global Lean Six Sigma operations engagements than any other consulting firm.

SAP America - booth # 305
www.sap.com      

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software. More than 41,200 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP® applications—from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize enterprises to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol “SAP.” (Additional information at http://www.sap.com)

Workday, Inc. - booth # 311
www.workday.com      

Workday is delivering the first on-demand alternative to ERP, with a new generation of solutions designed to meet the needs of today's dynamic and global businesses. Built on a completely new model, Workday solutions use the most modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability. For more information about Workday, please visit www.workday.com.

Golf Tournament Sponsor

Booz Allen Hamilton
www.boozallen.com      

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for more than 90 years. Providing consulting services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps clients solve their toughest problems, working by their side to help them achieve their missions. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

With 19,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales of $4 billion. Booz Allen has been recognized as a consultant and an employer of choice. In 2005 and in 2006, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” and for the past eight years, Working Mother has ranked the firm among its “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.” To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com.

Equity Administration Solutions, Inc.
www.easiadmin.com      

Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. (EASi) provides CFO-focused accounting, tax and administration software for managing equity compensation plans. EASi is a web-based, real-time collaboration solution for FAS 123R reporting, stock plan recordkeeping and Employee Stock Purchase Plan administration. It gives plan administrators, finance personnel, auditors, transfer agents and brokers controlled access to date stamped information 24 hours a day. The EASi product was developed jointly with a Fortune 10 and Big Four firm as a compliant, auditable accounting tool that also handles equity administration. Twelve major award types including CSARs/SSARS and Performance Shares are tracked and expensed, with full dilution, FAS109 and A240 reporting detail ready for 10K and proxy statement disclosure. EASi reduces finance and auditing costs and SEC risk. EASi features robust reporting, mobility management and recordkeeping. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, EASi is a privately held rapidly growing company serving more than 275,000 participants at more than 200 companies.

Thomson Financial
www.thomson.com/financial/corporations      

Backed by more than 15 years of experience serving the needs of 4,500 corporations worldwide, the Corporate Services segment of Thomson Financial combines the industry’s highest quality suite of solutions with outstanding client service and proven best practices to help increase the efficiency and effectiveness of corporate officers across the investor relations, corporate communications, treasury and corporate finance functions.

Through its suite of desktop solutions and advisory services targeted to strategists and corporate development and competitive intelligence professionals, Thomson Financial streamlines the corporate finance and intelligence workflow at corporations. Clients can leverage the flexible and scalable solutions to access the institutional quality information and analytics they need to effectively identify and evaluate acquisition and partnership opportunities, define their funding strategy, monitor their debt levels, manage risk, and gather in-depth competitive information.

Breakfast Sponsor

HiFX, Inc.
www.hifx.com      

HiFX, Inc. is a financial services advisory firm focused on foreign exchange risk management and transactional services to commercial clients. The company assists financial executives better manage their foreign exchange exposures through proactive processes. Such processes, delivered in a collaborative approach, focus on: risk identification, establishment of fx risk management policies (if required), hedging strategies development, pricing negotiation with financial institutions, timing of transactions, and overall exposure management.

HiFX, through its global platform of offices in Europe, Australasia, and North America assists over 2,500 companies manage over $40 billion a year in foreign exchange exposures.

The company’s approach is to provide tailored risk management advisory and brokerage services to its clients. A frequent contributor to such major business media as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Marketwatch, and The Financial Times, HiFX is recognized in the industry as an intelligent provider of practical approaches to managing foreign exchange risks.

Opening Reception Sponsor

Institute of Management Accountants (IMA®) - booth # 304
www.imanet.org      

With a worldwide network of nearly 65,000 professionals, IMA is the world’s leading organization dedicated to empowering accounting and finance professionals to drive business performance. IMA provides a dynamic forum for professionals to advance their careers through Certified Management Accountant (CMA®) certification, research, professional education, networking and advocacy of the highest ethical and professional standards. For more information about IMA, please visit www.imanet.org.

Exhibitor

Adaptive Planning - booth # 407
www.AdaptivePlanning.com      

Adaptive Planning makes it easy for midsized companies and departments to move beyond spreadsheets and automate their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. With instant online access, rapid configuration, low subscriptions, and a free entry-level version, Adaptive Planning is easy: easy to test drive, easy to get started, easy to customize, and easy to afford.

Find out how easy it is -- test drive it today! Express Edition, the entry-level budgeting software, is instantaneously available -- for free -- from www.adaptiveplanning.com/express. Enterprise Edition, the full-featured solution with budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards, can be trialed for free online at www.adaptiveplanning.com/trial.

Named “2007 Mid-Market Vendor of the Year” by BPM Partners for innovative technology and stellar customer satisfaction, Adaptive Planning is used by thousands of companies in over 80 countries worldwide.

If you are ready to move beyond Excel and dramatically improve your budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, the choice is easy—Adaptive Planning.

Agresso - booth # 205
www.agresso.com/usa      

Agresso software is a fully-integrated suite of ERP applications for services-centric organizations. Agresso’s uniquely integrated data/process/delivery architecture allows unlimited post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that have cost companies billions.

This architecture is uniquely suited to Businesses Living IN Change, those we call BLINC. Over 2,600 companies and public sector organizations in over 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management. Agresso solutions are available for:
• Finance
• HR and Payroll
• Procurement
• Project Costing and Billing
• Reporting & Analytics
• Business Process Automation
• Field Service Management and Asset Maintenance

Ajilon Finance Solutions - booth # 204
www.ajilonsolutions.com      

Ajilon Finance Solutions is a leader in finance, accounting and operations project consulting services. Through our unique methodology we uncover client needs and develop a strategy to meet their objectives. Then, we locate the best finance professionals to help execute the plan and overcome the most critical business challenges.

We offer cost-effective solutions in the areas of staff augmentation and project consulting. Our goal is to become a trusted business advisor to each of our clients – right away and for years to come. And that’s exactly what we’re achieving with the many organizations with which we currently have a partnership.

With our expansive network of offices and project professionals, we’re well-positioned to offer focused solutions in a number of specific industries and specialty areas. Our senior-level project professionals know what it takes to deliver results at the highest level because they have done it time and time again.

Alight Planning - booth # 413
www.alightplanning.com      

Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and analysis software package that automates complex business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and easy-to-use interfaces provide finance staff all the power they need to build any complex driver-based planning model, while delivering traditional planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Alight’s capabilities include: out-of-box integrated financials—P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and contribution analysis; intuitive modeling tools with object based linking; integrated actuals with import from any operational or financial database at any level of detail; automated sensitivity analysis, goal seek, tops-down adjustments and volume/rate causal analysis; and dashboards for managing key measures, scenarios and other analytics. Priced for mid-market companies and divisions of Fortune 1000.

Ashland Group L.P. - booth # 207
www.ashlandgroup.com      

Companies throughout the country rely on Ashland Group for state and federal tax recovery services. As one of the nation’s largest and most respected state and federal tax recovery firms, Ashland provides cutting-edge, innovative tax solutions for our client companies. Much of our success stems from identifying specific tax issues and then focusing only on those companies that will benefit from these positions.

Founded on a tradition of integrity and uncompromising service, Ashland Group delivers high-value state and federal tax solutions to clients across the United States. Our tax specialists, who are recognized as leaders in their respective fields, are adept at income and franchise tax strategies that recover millions of tax dollars each year for our clients. With offices in major cities throughout the United States, we aggressively pursue opportunities for mid-size to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries.

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) - booth # 403
www.accaglobal.com      usa.accaglobal.com      

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the largest and fastest-growing international accountancy body in the world with 260,000 students and 115,000 members in 170 countries.

ACCA delivers its qualification in partnership with many organizations. It conducts 21 joint examination programs with national bodies around the world and works closely with 420 registered tuition providers and 7,500 employers of accountants and finance professionals. ACCA supports their students and members throughout their careers, delivering services through a network of 80 offices and centers.

Members and staff use their expertise and experience to work with governments, donor agencies and professional bodies to develop the accounting profession. ACCA’s main objectives are to achieve and promote the highest professional, ethical and governance standards and advance the public interest.

ACCA's reputation is grounded in over 100 years of providing accounting and financial qualifications. Their long traditions are complemented by modern thinking, backed by a young, dynamic membership.

Bloomer deVere Group Avia, Inc. - booth # 206
www.bloomerdevere.com      

Bloomer deVere Group Avia, Inc. is an industry-leading Business Aircraft acquisition, marketing, and consulting firm with a level of expertise earned through years of daily market involvement and over 500 transactions.

Our client-base spans three continents, reaching corporate boardrooms and high-net worth individuals, building relationships that last for decades. Whether a client is considering corporate jet travel for the first time, fractional ownership or charter, adding an aircraft to an existing fleet, or selling an under-utilized asset, our team of seasoned aviation professionals brings an unequaled level of market intelligence and expertise to all projects. Bloomer deVere has the ability to provide educated options and strategies to accomplish and exceed our client’s objectives.

Clifton Gunderson Valuation & Financial Consulting Group - booth # 306
www.cliftoncpa.com      

The Valuation & Financial Consulting Group of Clifton Gunderson LLP provides valuation and consulting services to public and private companies as well as to private equity firms across the country. The majority of our valuation services consist of purchase price allocations, impairment tests, valuations of stock options and restricted stock awards, and valuations of pre-IPO common stock. The team of professionals at Clifton Gunderson is very experienced in fair value and continually strives to keep up with the ever-changing world of valuation in financial reporting.

Connections, Telecom Cost Control - booth # 310
www.callaccounting.com      

CONNECTIONS, is a leading distributor of call accounting and other telecom cost control tools. Offering “Best-of-Breed” Call Accounting systems, low-cost Directory Assistance service, VoIP Monitoring and Reporting, and Telecom Expense Management systems, we offer our customers choices to suit their needs. These tools deliver meaningful information about the technical and financial health of your voice system so you can make intelligent business decisions to optimize efficiency.

Reports can be generated to assist departments with marketing, sales, human resources and much more. PBX Performance can be measured with trunk/traffic, trunk member and time of day reports. It can help allocate costs to multiple departments or projects within the organization for equitable expense management. Analytic reports provide visibility to Performance, Security and Compliance issues. VoIP monitoring and reporting allows IT departments to ensure overall quality of service.

Founded in 1986, CONNECTIONS has built a reputation as “the call accounting specialists,” with hundreds of systems installed representing thousands of sites and hundreds of thousands of extensions monitored.

Euler Hermes ACI - booth # 406
www.eulerhermes.com/usa      

Euler Hermes ACI is North America’s oldest and largest provider of trade credit insurance and accounts receivable management solutions and is the US subsidiary of the Euler Hermes Group. Headquartered in Owings Mills, MD, the company protects and insures more than $150 billion in US trade transactions annually. Additionally, Euler Hermes ACI provides a suite of receivables management services that includes commercial third party collections, receivables management outsourcing, and international collections. Euler Hermes ACI is owned by the Paris-based Euler Hermes group, the world’s leading credit insurance provider. The group is majority-owned by AGF, which is ultimately owned by Allianz. Through its network of market-leading subsidiaries, Euler Hermes’ local presence spans 49 countries and six continents. Euler Hermes maintains a database with proprietary information on more than 43 million companies worldwide. Euler Hermes ACI is rated AA- by Standard & Poor’s and A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best.

GDI Consulting & Training Company - booth # 107
www.gdiconsult.com      

For over 15 years, GDI Consulting & Training Company professionals have provided practical fact-based solutions to complex business and managerial problems. Focusing mainly on the manufacturing and distribution industries, GDI has developed a reputation as one of the most innovative and hardest working professional services firm in these industries.
GDI Consulting has recently rolled out their new Supplier Assessment Practice to help company’s better control the diverse and complex supply chains that can have a significant impact on your company when a supplier fails.
The President of GDI Consulting & Training, Alan Dunn, serves on a variety of Boards
of Directors and was recently awarded the prestigious National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Member of the Year Award for 2007. Mr. Dunn is also the course leader for executive courses at the California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center focused on: Manufacturing Cost Strategies, Successful Global Business Operations, and Supplier Assessment Reviews.

Institute of Management Accountants (IMA®) - booth # 304
www.imanet.org      

With a worldwide network of nearly 65,000 professionals, IMA is the world’s leading organization dedicated to empowering accounting and finance professionals to drive business performance. IMA provides a dynamic forum for professionals to advance their careers through Certified Management Accountant (CMA®) certification, research, professional education, networking and advocacy of the highest ethical and professional standards. For more information about IMA, please visit www.imanet.org.

LOCATION Switzerland - booth # 211
www.locationswitzerland.com      

Recently rated “most competitive” by the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007, Switzerland is the number one choice for American companies seeking fast and sustainable growth in Europe. LOCATION Switzerland, the official Swiss Economic Development Agency of Switzerland provides information on taxes, incentives, employment, property ownership, intellectual property rights, transportation, trade and other details relevant to establishing a business in Switzerland.

Longview Solutions - booth # 309
www.longview.com      

Longview Solutions makes Performance Management software that leading companies use to drive performance with speed, visibility and financial integrity. Since 1995, many of the world's most respected companies have been using our technology platform to support the diverse needs of their complex finance organizations. The Longview Performance Management Platform is highly scalable, providing a single repository of financial truth from which Statutory Consolidation, Management Reporting, Financial Planning, Modeling, Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, Strategic Tax and related Learning, Compliance, and Knowledge Management processes can be performed quickly and accurately, enterprise-wide.

Longview Solutions has a focus on finance, and expertise that covers all industry sectors including energy, natural resources, media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and retail.

Metafile Information Systems, Inc. - booth # 203
www.metaviewer.com      

The MetaViewer Report Management, Workflow and Document Imaging solution from Metafile is enabling the paperless transaction, providing powerful source-to-settlement and electronic invoicing solutions.

Whether your vendor invoices and customer orders are received on paper, EDI or electronically through the Metafile Online Trading Partner Portal, MetaViewer scanning and workflow automates your entire Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables process.

MetaViewer automatically alerts your vendors and customers regarding the transaction status and allows them secure self-service access to all appropriate documents. Full integration with all major accounting and ERP packages eliminates data entry and ensures accuracy. This full visibility provides greater levels of customer service, eliminates nearly all vendor calls and helps capture your early payment discounts.

The MetaViewer solution is also offered as a fully outsourced solution at our secure data center or as an onsite appliance completely supported and maintained by Metafile, all for a low monthly fee.

Mohr Partners, Inc. - booth # 411
www.mohrpartners.com      

Dallas-based Mohr Partners Inc. is an international corporate real estate services, advisory and consulting firm with 17 U.S. offices. Since 1986, Mohr Partners has been managing real estate portfolios for corporations and completes in excess of 2,000 transactions each year for its clients. U.S. offices are located in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Lake Forest, Calif., Melville, N.Y., Minneapolis, Nashville, Tenn., New York, Newport Beach, Calif., Orlando, Fla., Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Walnut Creek, Calif. Through its Mohr/Martindale CRE, Ltd. in London and its alliance with AsiaPac International in San Jose, California, Mohr Partners has local representation in 29 major cities overseas. For more information on Mohr Partners please visit: www.mohrpartners.com.

PricewaterhouseCoopers - booth # 410
www.pwc.com/us/advisory      

PricewaterhouseCoopers' 120,000 professionals in 144 countries help build public trust and enhance value for businesses and their stakeholders. With expertise in finance, operations, risk management, compliance, internal audit, human resources, IT strategy, security, and data management, our Advisory professionals help clients resolve complex issues and execute their business strategies.

If you are looking to improve performance, we help identify, measure, and close gaps that affect the organization’s ability to create and sustain value. Should you need transaction support, we evaluate and assist in the implementation of acquisitions, sourcing, divestitures, and strategic alliances, as well as in gaining access to global capital markets. When a crisis arises, we are there to help contain, respond to and mitigate the impact of unplanned events.

For more information, visit us at www.pwc.com/us/advisory

PROS - booth # 307
www.prospricing.com      

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products. To meet the many pricing challenges across the financial services disciplines, PROS provides a comprehensive suite of pricing software tools, including Analytics, Execution, and Optimization. PROS high performance software architecture allows PROS to support the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with 100s of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS has installed over 200 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries. Founded in 1985, PROS has over 300 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and 20 with Ph.D.s. To learn more about PROS, please visit www.prospricing.com.

TechTurn - booth # 404
www.techturn.com      

TechTurn is the trusted industry leader for technology recovery, refurbishing and remarketing. Through our world-class facilities and processes, TechTurn is helping to build the foundation for sustainable technology, providing enterprises with an economically smart, environmentally friendly and risk-free method for the collecting, recycling and reselling of used technology—so it can continue to benefit others.

Since 1999, TechTurn has been the preferred take-back partner and information source for 300 of the Fortune 500 and the top four computer manufacturers. These leading organizations provide us with a non-stop supply of high-quality, high-value technology systems and components that, after testing and certification, we make available to customers worldwide. By extending the life of these products, TechTurn is able to enrich the lives of millions while also helping to significantly reduce the amount of e-waste that is filling our landfills and polluting our environment.

TRAVELTRAX - booth # 308
www.traveltrax.com      

TRAVELTRAX, the latest technology innovation from TRX, helps you gain control over travel spending and find savings opportunities for your company. The ability to track and control your company's travel activities gives you the power to reduce unnecessary travel costs and optimize your leverage with suppliers for deeper discounts.

This ground-breaking reporting platform revolutionizes your access to, and understanding of, consolidated corporate travel data, helping you manage travel costs easily and more effectively.

TRAVELTRAX leverages the latest in data visualization functionality, featuring a homepage dashboard that summarizes your data in a simple, intuitive, visual format. TRAVELTRAX makes it easy for you to control spending and maintain budgets, and save money through reduced travel expenses and better supplier contracts.

Learn more about TRAVELTRAX at www.traveltrax.com or visit us at booth 308.

Zions Bank - booth # 209
www.zionsdirect.com      

Zions Direct makes investing easier by offering access to thousands of bonds, stocks, mutual funds, CD auctions, and other investment alternatives from the comfort of your own home.

Zions Direct also brings you Bonds for Less which is an unprecedented breakthrough in personal investing. With it, you can perform online searches and buy more than 10,000 bonds at institutional prices. There are no hidden commissions or mark-up rates, so you pay only $10.95 per transaction.

Zions Direct has also created online CD Auctions where you can bid on price or yield on a wide variety of CDs from multiple issuers. These CDs have been designed to suit a range of investment objectives, and most include an estate feature.

Zions Direct also created ESOARS. ESOARS provide a market-based alternative to employee stock option valuation for 123R. ESOARS are tracking instruments that measure the cost of the underlying option grant by making payments to holders when employees exercise their options. A fair market value for ESOARS, and consequently the option grant is determined in a competitive online auction.


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