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Cognos
Cognos Finance is an integrated financial consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting application. Designed with a solid understanding of the real-life requirements of financial professionals Cognos Finance has all the functionality required by financial professionals in today's multinational enterprises. Cognos Finance is easy to learn and use, so financial professionals can create and distribute reports themselves, over the Web. With powerful features like, inter-company eliminations, currency conversion, interconnected budgeting and forecasting, Cognos Finance reduces monthly close activities from days to hours. Its wide range of reporting capabilities accommodate different management structures, tax structures, and external reporting needs with easy distribution via a LAN, WAN or the Internet to give you the flexibility you need to drive the success of your business. Cognos Finance brings everyone onto the same playing field with common information and common goals.

Comshare, Inc.
Comshare is the leading provider of e-business solutions for management planning and control (MPC), which includes planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting and analysis. Comshare’s MPC applications use the Web to deliver business- critical information that can be used to make sound planning and management decisions. In business for nearly 35 years, Comshare is one of the top independent software companies, with customers around the world, many of which are Fortune 500 and Financial Times Top 1000 companies. Comshare is an IBM Business Partner, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider, an Oracle Business Alliance Partner, and a Hyperion Alliance Partner.

Closedloop Solutions
Closedloop offers a suite of enterprise applications for Dynamic Financial Control. This next generation platform moves companies from a batch-oriented, finance expert-centric, rear-view mirror approach for managing financial performance, to a real-time, business manager-engaged, forward-looking capability. The web-native, real-time platform replaces a patchwork of conventional financial planning applications and manual authorization exercises, with an integrated advanced environment for forecasting and control, that business managers can access in a self-serve manner. Companies gain significantly increased visibility into bookings, revenue and expense pipelines, and have the ability to rapidly redirect and control expenditures before they are committed. For more information about Closedloop, please visit the company’s Web site at www.closedloopsolutions.com or visit with us on-site.

FM Global
FM Global is an insurance organization with a unique risk management focus. For more than 165 years leading corporations around the world have looked to us to help them maintain continuity in their business operations, and to provide cost-effective insurance and alternative risk financing solutions. FM Global’s customers benefit from our superior insurance capacity, risk management services and proven loss prevention engineering expertise and research. We develop sound loss prevention solutions that help our customers better understand the nature and causes of their risk, and that, when implemented, can effectively improve their risk profile. Headquartered in Johnston, Rhode Island, FM Global has more than $6 billion in assets and is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best.

LENDX, Inc.
LENDX Internet-enables the corporate equipment finance marketplace. Borrowers, lenders, and vendors benefit from LENDX's end-to-end e-finance solutions. By combining a robust, internally developed workflow technology platform with a team of service-oriented industry experts, LENDX delivers comprehensive solutions that enable both leading corporate borrowers and the lenders who serve them to achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency. LENDX's value-added services enable customers to access targeted real-time content about lending markets, exchange information in a virtual community, and communicate with our experienced financing experts. LENDX is privately held with over a dozen offices across the country and its headquarters in San Francisco.

PeopleSoft, Inc.
PeopleSoft is a leading provider of eBusiness applications that enable people -- customers, employees, and suppliers -- to power the internet. PeopleSoft's pure internet Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, and Enterprise Management solutions provide the industry's most open and flexible e-commerce platform. PeopleSoft employs more than 7,000 people worldwide, including 2,400 eBusiness consultants. More than 4,500 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft eBusiness applications.

Accenture
Please visit our sponsor's web site Accenture is an $8.9 billion global management and technology consulting organization whose mission is to help its clients create their future. The organization works with clients from a wide range of industries to link their people, processes, and technologies to their strategies. Accenture has approximately 65,000 people in 48 countries. Its home page is www.ac.com.

Extensity
Extensity is the leading provider of Internet-based applications for travel and expense reporting, project time capture and procurement. With its flagship product, Extensity Connect, Extensity is a pioneer in workforce optimization - a category of business solutions that leverage the Internet to free employees from the hassles of time-consuming and costly administrative tasks. Extensity has licensed 475,000 seats worldwide to over 170 customers, including A.T. Kearney, Bestfoods, Cisco Systems, Four Seasons Hotels, and Home Box Office. More information about Extensity is available on its web site located at www.extensity.com.

interBiz
interBiz™ is the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the worlds leading eBusiness software provider. BizWorks™, the eBusiness Intelligence Suite from interBiz, is the worlds leading business process management solution, enabling integration, orchestration, and visualization of the entire enterprise. BizWorks integrates a wide range of disparate internal and external sources to deliver a complete end-to-end process and information management architecture. interBiz combines superior CA technology and world-class business applications with core competencies in: Supply Chain Management, Financial Management, Human Resources, Banking, eCommerce and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). For more information about interBiz, email [email protected] or visit interBiz on the Internet at www.interBiz.com