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Cargill Selects Cartesis Performance Management Applications

Norwalk, CT — September 12, 2005

Cartesis, a leading supplier of business performance management (BPM) software, today announced its newest customer in the US, Cargill Incorporated. Cargill, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, is an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With over 105,000 employees in 59 countries, the company provides food, agricultural, health, pharmaceutical, financial and risk management products and services around the globe.

Cargill, as with many global companies, faced the challenges posed by operating a consolidation system composed of multiple applications resulting in a complex closing process. Cargill sought to replace the existing process with a single integrated solution that would provide greater speed, accuracy, control and security.

“We were looking for a vendor to partner with that offered not only a viable solution, but also had the functional consolidation expertise, the required technical knowledge and proven implementation experience,” said Dennis Walters, VP, Director Corporate Financial Reporting. “We found that Cartesis not only offered these qualities but were easy to work with during the evaluation process and was genuinely committed to the success of the project.”

During the selection process Cargill reviewed the offers of the major BPM vendors and chose Cartesis Magnitude Extended Suite based on several key differentiators. Cargill preferred the flexibility behind CartesisÂ’ three tiered architecture, which offered ease of implementation, ease of configuration, ease of integrating outside reporting tools and the inclusion of a flexible and comprehensive intercompany solution. Cartesis Magnitude Extended Suite provided Cargill with an integrated solution based on a single data model eliminating the need for bolt on tools and supplementary point solutions.

“Cargill was keenly interested in the additional value the solution offers in terms of its breadth, depth and flexibility for data collection, consolidation, validation, and workflow capabilities”, stated Marc Schnabolk, President of US Operations for Cartesis. “With Cartesis ES Magnitude, Cargill will be able to handle detailed data analysis, supporting narratives with comprehensive audit trails and traceability of the results all from one integrated solution.”

“Cartesis ES Magnitude offers the ability to analyze results for multiple reporting periods in multiple management and legal reporting structures” states, Dennis Walters. “Cartesis ES Magnitude is able to support Cargill’s 350+ global reporting locations, 1,000+ users, 2,500 active entities with multiple currencies, multiple general ledgers and varied reporting needs in a non-proprietary infrastructure that offers both robust controls and security.”

About Cartesis

Cartesis is a global software vendor that provides trusted solutions for driving your company’s financial and business performance. Cartesis equips its customers with the control and insight they need to assess and react in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. With the recent acquisition of INEA Corporation, Cartesis offers best-of-breed planning and forecasting capabilities with the number one best-in-class financial consolidation and compliance solution for an integrated approach to business performance management.

One in five Fortune Global 100 companies rely on Cartesis’ powerful technology to unify complex information, people and processes in a single data model that can be applied easily and consistently across multiple geographies and business segments. Headquartered in Paris, Cartesis has offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Norwalk (CT), Tokyo, Toronto and Utrecht. The company has more than 1300 corporate customers and partners in 44 countries around the globe.

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For more information, please visit http://www.cartesis.com or call:

Matthew Papertsian

203-956-2800

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Next Generation of CorVuÂ’s RapidScorecard Available – Version 2 of Automated Balanced Scorecard Application Offers Numerous
Enhancements, Ideal Solution for Customers

— January 25, 2002

Next Generation of CorVuÂ’s RapidScorecard Available

Version 2 of Automated Balanced Scorecard Application Offers Numerous

Enhancements, Ideal Solution for Customers

Minneapolis – January 24, 2002 – CorVu Corporation (OTC BB: CRVU), a leading provider of enterprise e-business performance management, business intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions, today announced the availability of RapidScorecard Version 2. This release of CorVuÂ’s innovative Balanced Scorecard application offers enhanced visualization of performance results and an improved user interface; an option to drive and maintain an organizational scorecard via email; seamless integration with CorVuÂ’s CorManage and HyperVu applications; as well as a variety of other new features.

“RapidScorecard has been overwhelmingly adopted by the marketplace as the best practice for automating a Balanced Scorecard,” stated Justin MacIntosh, CorVu’s president and CEO. “Our clients have proven that RapidScorecard makes it simple and quick to automate a Balanced Scorecard, and to achieve results in only a number of days, not weeks or months. With the enhanced visualization in version two, RapidScorecard has matured into a complete, robust application that can quickly and positively impact our customers’ corporate performance.”

“After an extensive evaluation of business performance management systems, we determined that RapidScorecard was the ideal Balanced Scorecard solution for Promina,” commented Glenn Black, Sr. Vice President and CFO of the Promina Health System. “We chose RapidScorecard to serve as the foundation of the organization, promote a stronger focus on performance improvement, and align our activities with organizational goals. Upon completion of the implementation, we expect that Promina will benefit from a positive cultural change, improved communication and better strategic management.”

What Is RapidScorecard?

RapidScorecard is a combination of CorVuÂ’s market leading Balanced Scorecard software and Rapid Return on Investment consulting services that will allow virtually any company to automate its Balanced Scorecard in about two weeks, deployed via the web either in-house or via an application service provider (ASP). Customers can easily custom-build scorecard applications integrating many scorecards (business unit, department, etc.), highlighting performance aligned to strategic objectives and business perspectives. RapidScorecard delivers a high level strategic view seamlessly linking to the tactical view of initiatives, performance rated scorecards, alignment reports, and measure analytics.

RapidScorecard v.2 Enhancements

The initial release of RapidScorecard facilitated a rapid process for developing performance models based on the Balanced Scorecard methodology; the web-based software allowed hierarchies of scorecards to be defined, measure data to be entered, the aggregated scores to be viewed in various modes, and provided a set of objects for analysis of the resulting performance model. RapidScorecard version 2 introduces:

·    Improved user interface: separate panes for hierarchies (scorecard, Initiatives, and Themes), charts, interactive tactical scorecards and a strategy map;

·    A shortcut navigation bar, period scrolling and informative prompts for new users;

·    Additional descriptive fields for measures and new ways of updating measures;

·    Email Integration to maintain and update scorecard measures, as well as to receive Executive Alerts;

·    Improved system administration and security;

·    Configurable coding and coding of calculated scores;

·    Online commentary and collaboration, cascading HTML scorecards and drill-down scenarios;

·    Java access to CorVuÂ’s powerful analytics functionality is fully incorporated;

·    Integration with HyperVu, resulting in live, online access to performance information;

·    New reports and scorecard views within CorManage to enhance the analytical capabilities of the overall scorecard solution;

For more information about RapidScorecard, or to learn more about how CorVu can help your company to manage and improve its business performance, please contact sales@corvu.com or call 800.610.0769.

About CorVu Corporation

CorVu Corporation is a global provider of enterprise business performance management, e-business intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions. Combining OLAP query and reporting, executive dashboard alerts and forecasting, CorVuÂ’s solutions offer information analysis capabilities that empower our customers to achieve strategic objectives and improve business performance. CorVu provides a comprehensive business performance management solution to over 3000 customers, including leading suppliers in aerospace, banking, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, mining, the public sector, telecommunications, and transportation. For more information, please visit http://www.corvu.com.

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Contact:    

Sara Nicole Combs

CorVu Corporation

770.891.0833

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Vizualize Lands Prestigious Award Nomination for Leading Tech Companies

Hong Kong, China — December 25, 2010

Vizualize, Asia’s premier provider of automated shopper intelligence solutions for bricks and mortar retailers, today announced that Red Herring has named the company a finalist for its prestigious Red Herring Global 100 Awards. The Red Herring Global 100 list is recognized by many technology executives, investors and industry observers as an invaluable tool for discovering the most promising young companies that will lead the next wave of market disruption and innovation.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of 1200 companies from across the world – the Finalists from its Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America Awards. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

The finalists, elite executives and venture capital leaders will celebrate the Top 100 Privately Held Companies from around the world in Los Angeles from January 24-26, 2010. Vizualize’s market position, solutions, sales traction and overall organizational performance contributed to its selection by Red Herring. Vizualize is privately held, and has shown steady growth in quarterly and annual revenues and profits.

“2010 was very difficult but extremely rewarding,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite lingering effects of the global economic situation, there are many great companies producing truly innovative and amazing technologies, to the extent that we had a hard time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Vizualize shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Winners of the Top 100 Global Award.”

Red Herring’s Global Top 100 has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring was among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“We are very pleased to be recognized by Red Herring by our nomination for this prestigious award,” said Mike MacMillan, CEO at Vizualize. “Being named a Red Herring Global 100 finalist further validates our position as a leader in shopper behaviour monitoring, and our commitment to helping retailers develop advanced bricks and mortar shopper intelligence platforms. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide our customers with accurate insights they can rely on, so this nomination comes as a welcome validation of our continuing innovation in this field.”

About Vizualize

Vizualize’s solutions deliver key insight into every element of retail store shopper activity, allowing retailers to make smarter decisions in order to acquire, convert and retain more customers. Its solutions tie together leading-edge sensors, intelligent appliances, software, analytics and reporting solutions to enhance business performance. Managing the retail environment thus becomes a sophisticated approach to tracking and measuring consumer interaction and engagement. The result is higher returns on infrastructure, human resource and marketing investments and improved visitor-to-customer conversion rates for their clients.

Today, Vizualize’s customers include 10 world renowned brands for every employee. The company tracks over 2 billion shoppers annually and its solutions are installed in more than 40 countries.

For more information, contact us on +852-2851-3180 and speak with Michael MacMillan or Mac Chan or visit http://www.vizualize.net.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a media company whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity. Its journalists, research specialists and newsletter editors investigate on a global basis and report how the world of innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming business and how the business of technology is transforming the world.

For more information on Red Herring, visit http://www.redherring.com.

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CorVu Buoyant in Stormy Economy
With Leading Applications, Strong Sales & Partnerships

— January 26, 2002

CorVu Buoyant in Stormy Economy

With Leading Applications, Strong Sales & Partnerships

Minneapolis – January 25, 2002 – CorVu Corporation (OTC BB: CRVU), a leading provider of enterprise e-business performance management, business intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions, today announced that it is benefiting from growing momentum and interest in business performance management applications, acquiring over 400 new customers during 2001. These customer wins, as well as healthy partner activity and efficient operations, indicate that CorVu is well positioned to overcome the challenges of the yet-faltering global economy.

“Our business has been buoyed by the recession,” commented CorVu president and CEO, Justin MacIntosh. “Organisations are relying heavily on corporate performance management to optimize their business and improve the bottom-line, and CorVu’s solutions are catalysts to our customers’ success. Our over 400 new customers in 2001 are proof that the business community understands how essential it is to continually monitor and foster strategic alignment and efficiency and to have easily accessible, accurate information.”

Counted among CorVuÂ’s new license sales in 2001 are many of the worldÂ’s leading companies, such as Australia Post, Baker & McKenzie, Brisbane City Council, Caterpillar, Charles Schwab, Countrywide Home Loans, Credit Suisse Financial Services, Datex-Ohmeda Pty Ltd., Deakin University, FiremanÂ’s Fund Insurance Company, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hilton International, Infraco JNP Ltd. (London Underground), Julia Ross, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New Zealand Defence Force, Robert Bosch Company, St. Jude Medical, Shiseido, Skandia Life Assurance Company, Societe Generale, Specsavers, TDG Logistics, Tennessee Mat Company, University of New South Wales, and Visible Genetics.

CorVu Customer Success

\    Reinhardt Peper, Finance Director, Robert Bosch Ltd.:

“CorManage allows managers to monitor departmental performance with custom alignment, initiative, and performance reports. In addition, the implementation has brought about positive cultural change, improved communication, and better strategic management.”

\    Anthony Harris, CEO, Hilton International:

“The combination of Hilton’s operational expertise and CorVu’s RapidScorecard solution provides a robust Hospitality Scorecard application. Since the Balanced Scorecard is an integral part of Hiltons operating philosophy, we chose the premier Balanced Scorecard application.”

\    Kevin Andrews, Director of Buying and Merchandising, Specsavers:

“CorVu is an indispensable tool for the Buying and Merchandising departments. We use it to analyse sales trends by store, by region or by country. It enables us to plan our buying strategy more accurately, and to give our customers more of what they want.”

\    Jonathan Pott, Head of Finance, Infraco JNP Ltd, London Underground:

“We monitor safety, financial, contract, and improvement measures, in order to ensure high performance standards are met. RapidScorecard allows us to better communicate performance to all senior directors, and automatically delivers ‘fire alarms’ to the metric owners whenever their measures are below par. Now managers can quickly isolate any operations issues and take immediate action.”

Industry Accolades

\    Â“The software industry is undergoing a dramatic reorganization. What will emerge? We believe the initial reorganization period will center on systems that are practical, focused, have short implementation times, and allow companies who use them to get leaner or increase their speed.”

    Â“Recession-Ready Software,” Yankee Group, 2001. This report identified CorVu as a key player in the recession-ready software category.

\    Â“CorManage is a sophisticated balanced scorecard solution powered by CorVu’s robust business intelligence functionality. The product offers the broadest functionality, according to our evaluation. The application’s built-in drill-down capability enables users not only to monitor performance results but also to investigate the reasons behind those results.”

    CorManage achieved highest ranking in the 2001SPEX “Balanced Scorecard Report,” with perfect scores on Functionality and Technology.

These commendations reinforce CorVuÂ’s assertions of market and technology leadership. Additionally, in 2001 CorVu was ranked on the Software 500, the Deloitte & Touche Minnesota Technology Fast 50, and continued to reap the rewards as one of the first vendors to receive the certification from the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

Global Sales and Partner Activities

During 2001 CorVu recruited new partners around the globe including EDS, Cap Gemini, and Proudfoot Consulting. By aggressively recruiting partners to increase the breadth and width of market penetration – from integrated VARs to CorVu Associate Partners (CAPs) – CorVu met its 2001 target sales model, combining direct and indirect sales with a targeted 50/50 ratio. As a result, CorVu is looking forward to continued growth in 2002 and securing its position as the business performance management market leader.

About CorVu Corporation

CorVu Corporation is a global provider of enterprise business performance management, e-business intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions. Combining OLAP query and reporting, executive dashboard alerts and forecasting, CorVuÂ’s solutions offer information analysis capabilities that empower our customers to achieve strategic objectives and improve business performance. CorVu provides a comprehensive business performance management solution to over 3000 customers, including leading suppliers in aerospace, banking, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, mining, the public sector, telecommunications, and transportation. For more information, please visit http://www.corvu.com.

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Companies Risk Productivity and Profits by Paying for Dead Weight

Philadelphia — September 29, 2005

New research by Hay Group, a global organizational and human resources consulting firm, shows that less than half of employees in the manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and high tech industries as well as the public sector believe their organizations adequately address poor performance.

This compares to more favorable ratings in the pharmaceutical, retail, and insurance industries where more than 50 percent of employees believe their companies have adequate systems in place for dealing with poor performers.

Asking whether employees believe that their company has a fair system for evaluating individual performance, the study found that less than 4 in 10 public sector employees (38%) agreed with the statement. Other notable sectors were financial services and manufacturing (both 42%) as well as telecom (44%).

This research comes from Hay Insight, Hay Group’s employee survey group, which maintains a database of approximately 1.2 million employees in over 400 organizations worldwide.

“When companies don’t address issues with poor performers and continue to provide them with pay increases, companies send mixed messages to employees at all levels and risk turnover of their top performers,” said Tom Agnew, a senior consultant with Hay Insight. “Companies need to consider how much compensation dollars they are tying up in dead weight at the bottom of the performance scale. And if top performers don’t receive the recognition they deserve, don’t be surprised if they look elsewhere.”

Top performing companies believe that well-differentiated rewards – even forced ranking of employees – leads to better execution. Yet, at year-end, rather than confront poor performers with the bad news, many managers choose the path of least resistance, speeding through performance reviews and spreading merit pay out almost evenly – like “peanut butter.”

Reward Programs

Even with tight budget constraints, many leading companies give above-average pay increases to top performers and provide nominal or no increases to those who do not perform adequately. When combined with a sound performance management program, reward programs can be effective in attracting and retaining the staff in a way that best supports organizations to grow their businesses.

Performance Management

More than ever, businesses need the tools and processes to identify the under-achievers. Rigorous performance planning, coaching, assessment, and reward programs help ensure that a company’s top people are motivated and engaged in the organization.

During the fourth quarter, many companies will look at year-end bonuses and pay increases for their employees. As managers discuss with their staff the past year’s performance, goals for the coming year, and pay increases, these should be just one of several conversations during the year discussing performance.

“Ideally, supervisors are having performance-related discussions throughout the year,” said Agnew. This should be an ongoing dialogue so that there should be no surprises regarding the employees evaluation and bonus.

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About Hay Insight and Hay Group

Hay Insight (http://www.hayinsight.com) Hay Group’s survey research division, is a global leader in employee and customer opinion research. Through customized survey programs focused on organizational objectives, we help organizations attract and retain talent, improve operating efficiency, manage change more effectively, and enhance customer loyalty and business performance.

Over the last 30 years, Hay Insight has assisted more than 4,000 organizations. The breadth of our experience enables us to identify best practices for our clients, not only within their own industries but also across industries.

Hay Group (http://www.haygroup.com) is a global organizational and human resources consulting firm that helps its clients — Boards, CEOs, Executives, and HR Managers — on virtually all aspects of their people-related business issues. Founded in 1943, Hay Group has over 2,200 employees working from 79 offices in 78 cities and 44 countries.

Our areas of expertise include:

– Design and analysis of organizations and jobs;

– Talent management through assessment, selection, and

development of executives, managers, and teams;

– Compensation, benefits, and performance management;

– Executive remuneration and corporate governance; and

– Employee and customer attitude research.

Hay Group works with nearly three-quarters of FORTUNE’s top-50 Most Admired Companies, as well as many mid-sized and non-profit corporations, public institutions, and governments.

For more information, please contact:

Jeff Meyers, 215-861-2623 or Jeff_Meyers@haygroup.com

Hay Group | The Wanamaker Building | 100 Penn Square East | Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA

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Blackbaud CEO Marc Chardon Appointed to CASE Industry Advisory Council

Charleston, SC (Vocus) December 3, 2007

Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB) announced today that Marc Chardon, the companyÂ’s chief executive officer, has been appointed to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Industry Advisory Council (IAC) for a three-year term starting in 2008.

CASE is a professional association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who serve them through their work in alumni relations, communications, marketing and development. The IAC was formed in 2003 to provide CASE with executive counsel and advice on opportunities to expand its relationship with educational partners within the advancement industry.

“CASE is pleased to have Marc as a member of the IAC,” says Donna Hasslinger, vice president of member relations. “His enthusiasm for the work that CASE does and his strong leadership will be definite assets as we work to better serve our corporate affiliates and expand our relationships with educational partners within the advancement industry.”

As a member of the IAC, Chardon will provide advice and counsel to the CASE Board of Trustees on:

Broad industry trends and their implications

Matters related to gift reporting, data collection and reporting, and various practices

CASE’s relationship and opportunities with consultants and corporate affiliates

Research opportunities within advancement theory and practice

“I am honored to have been selected by CASE to serve on the IAC. The work that CASE does and the role that it plays in advancing and supporting education worldwide is vital to the sector and to the more than 52,000 advancement professionals that it serves,” said Chardon. “I look forward to helping further develop the initiatives that are underway and to support and advise the Council on its future endeavors.”

Chardon joined Blackbaud as chief executive officer and president in November 2005. He previously served as chief financial officer for the Information Worker business group at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the core functions of long-term strategic financial planning and business performance management. He joined Microsoft in August 1998 as general manager of Microsoft France. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chardon was general manager of Digital France. He is an economics honors graduate from Harvard University.

About CASE

CASE is the largest international association of education institutions, serving more than 3,300 universities, colleges, schools, and related organizations in 55 countries. CASE is the leading resource for professional development, information, and standards in the fields of educational fundraising, communications, marketing and alumni relations. For more information, visit http://www.case.org.

About Blackbaud

Blackbaud is the leading global provider of software and services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, enabling them to improve operational efficiency, build strong relationships, and raise more money to support their missions. Approximately 19,000 organizations — including the American Red Cross, Dartmouth College, the WGBH Educational Foundation, Episcopal High School, Lincoln Center, Cancer Research UK, Special Olympics, and Arthritis Foundation — use one or more of Blackbaud products and services for fundraising, constituent relationship management, financial management, direct marketing, school administration, ticketing, business intelligence, website management, prospect research, consulting, and analytics. Since 1981, Blackbaud’s sole focus and expertise has been partnering with nonprofits and providing them the solutions they need to make a difference in their local communities and worldwide. Headquartered in the United States, Blackbaud also has operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. For more information, visit http://www.blackbaud.com.

Media Contacts:

Melanie Milonas

Blackbaud, Inc.

melanie.milonas@blackbaud.com

843.216.6200 x3307

Pamela Russell

CASE

russell@case.org

202.478.5680

Source: Blackbaud

Forward-looking Statements

Except for historical information, all of the statements, expectations, and assumptions contained in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Although Blackbaud attempts to be accurate in making these forward-looking statements, it is possible that future circumstances might differ from the assumptions on which such statements are based. In addition, other important factors that could cause results to differ materially include the following: management of integration of recently acquired companies and other risks associated with acquisitions; risk associated with successful implementation of multiple integrated software products; lengthy sales and implementation cycles, particularly in larger organizations; uncertainty regarding increased business and renewals from existing customers; continued success in sales growth; the ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to our dividend policy and share repurchase program, including potential limitations on our ability to grow and the possibility that we might discontinue payment of dividends; risks relating to restrictions imposed by the credit facility; risks associated with management of growth; technological changes that make our products and services less competitive; and the other risk factors set forth from time to time in the SEC filings for Blackbaud, copies of which are available free of charge at the SECÂ’s websites at http://www.sec.gov or upon request from Blackbaud’s investor relations department.

All Blackbaud product names appearing herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blackbaud, Inc.

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Cartesis Unveils ES Magnitude: The Financial Foundation for BPM

Las Vegas, NV — May 17, 2005

Cartesis today unveiled Cartesis ES Magnitude, a leading-edge financial consolidation and management reporting application, at their 6th Annual North American User Conference.

Cartesis ES Magnitude enables managers to accurately and quickly assess and report on the financial state of their businesses, including the ability to produce consolidated accounts that comply with global accounting principles and regulatory requirements. The first in a series of new components which together form the new Cartesis Extended Suite range of business performance management (BPM) applications, this solution is unique in its ability to deliver advanced, standards-based compliance reporting through a simple, reliable interface built upon a unique single integrated data module.

“The release of Cartesis ES Magnitude provides the financial foundation of our leading BPM suite, said Didier Benchimol, CEO of Cartesis. “From talking to our customers, we know they are facing the challenge of operating in a tough compliance driven environment and successful finance transformation is key if they are to stay ahead of demands. ES Magnitude is designed to lie at the heart of our BPM platform and provides the basis on which our clients can build robust management-centric applications.”

Honed and performance-hardened by 15 years experience in delivering trusted financial systems of record which are suited to the complexity of global businesses, this new release is a continuation of CartesisÂ’ commitment to delivering the greatest possible speed, accuracy and accountability to the finance function. Some of the most recent additions to the Cartesis Magnitude user base include Standard Life, AirFrance KLM, Total, LÂ’Oreal, Sanofi Aventis and Renault.

“Companies continue to recognize the value of performance management solutions and the business benefits of functionally rich financial consolidation tools,” said Gartner Research Vice President Lee Geishecker. “While many organizations adopt a point approach to these key processes, its important they also understand how well these solutions are integrated. In many performance management suites, metadata and data is duplicated across a range of applications with integration processes to connect them. We advise clients that a single integrated model for all processes would improve the accuracy of performance data and enable organizations to create more-agile performance management processes.”

Cartesis ES Magnitude is a client-driven software, designed to solve today’s new business “pains” including lengthy and static reporting, lack of flexibility and difficulties in analyzing and managing changes in company structures, the need to drive down the cost of ownership, limited traceability and control needed for full compliance, as well as fragmented BPM applications.

“As an existing Cartesis client, we are very excited about the release of Cartesis ES Magnitude and it once again demonstrates Cartesis’ ability to deliver on their visionary performance management roadmap, said Sue Lea, Director of Finance Systems, Diageo plc. “We particularly welcome the new XBRL and Sarbanes-Oxley related features which will be extremely valuable as Diageo continues to meet and anticipate the demands of today’s compliance environment”.

The new features of Cartesis ES Magnitude directly address companiesÂ’ technology and business compliance needs:

•Agility: Adapts to diverse industry structures and supports major business changes by providing in-depth analysis and versioning capabilities on a global scale.

•Control: Increases compliance efficiency by unifying global consolidation compliance requirements (International or local GAAPs, IFRS, legal requirements like SOX & LSF); automating control processes (SOX document management, XBRL publishing) strengthening security requirements (password management) and providing comprehensive traceability.

•Simplicity: Offers a user-friendly, wizards driven and business-oriented interface with a Microsoft Windows XP look and feel. Provides also more intuitive modeling of complex organizations, chart of accounts and other key business dimensions.

•Cost Efficiency: Reduces TCO through ease of migration, simplified set-up, maintenance, and integration with legacy and transactional systems and overall infrastructure including ERPs and BI.

“Cartesis is a key vendor in the business performance management market,” said Kathleen Wilhide, Research Director for Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions, IDC. “The importance of extremely robust financial consolidation tools, as part of a fully integrated performance management suite, cannot be emphasised enough in today’s compliance driven environment. Cartesis continues to deliver powerful and flexible solutions to its growing global client base. A key aspect of the Cartesis strategy is to deliver all solutions on a single integrated data model, helping businesses increase productivity, efficiency and reliance on consistent information to improve decision making.”

“We are very excited about the new features provided in ES Magnitude,” commented Randy Fear, Assistant Controller at UICI. “We can clearly see that Cartesis listens to the needs of their clients in today’s changing business environment by implementing the new security features and management authorizations needed for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. In addition we are very excited about the various other new features such as the ability to e-mail reports in a one-step process and the enhanced report retrieval.”

Cartesis ES Magnitude will be unveiled at a press conference today at Connect 2005, CartesisÂ’ 6th Annual North American User Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About Cartesis

Cartesis is a global software vendor that provides trusted solutions for driving your companyÂ’s financial and business performance. Cartesis equips its customers with the control and insight they need to assess and react in todayÂ’s rapidly changing marketplace. One in five Fortune Global 100 companies rely on CartesisÂ’ powerful technology to unify complex information, people and processes in a single data model that can be applied easily and consistently across multiple geographies and business segments. CartesisÂ’ customers success depends on having meaningful insight to act upon, because great performances start with confidence.

Headquartered in Paris, Cartesis has offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Norwalk (CT), Tokyo and Utrecht. The company has more than 1300 corporate customers and partners worldwide in 25 countries around the globe.

For more information, please visit http://www.cartesis.com or call:

Matthew Papertsian

203-956-2800

mpapertsian@cartesis.com

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Johnson To Present At ISPI Houston Special Event

Dallas, Texas — May 23, 2004 -

Stacey H. Johnson, CPT and the president of Zen Consulting, will speak at “Performance and Learning: A Day at the Front”, a special event co-hosted by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) that will focus on the latest insights in organizational performance.

In a presentation titled “Virtual Teams Made Easy,” Johnson will discuss the value of real-time collaboration as an effective means of increasing quality and productivity among a distributed team. “Today, many companies are challenged to collaborate in distributed environments but lack the tools and expertise to do so effectively. My experience in this area has led to some best practices that will benefit other companies in the transition to virtual teams,” Johnson said.

In addition, she will discuss how process re-engineering can improve the environment at post-layoff companies where individual employees struggle to complete work previously distributed among multiple employees. “After a company has held several rounds of lay-offs, it’s difficult for employees to pick up the pieces and move forward at a consistent pace. Because their processes were designed for larger teams, re-engineering and re-prioritizing the workflow can help a smaller team maintain productivity without risking burnout and employee turnover,” Johnson said.

In addition to her role as the president of Zen Consulting, a Dallas-based performance management consultancy, Johnson currently serves as the communications chair for the ISPI DFW chapter. Her consulting work in the field of Human Performance Technology (HPT) to-date has been recognized with two ISPI Awards of Excellence and numerous awards from other professional organizations.

About Zen Consulting LLC

A privately-held company founded in 2001, Zen Consulting is a Business Performance Management (BPM) firm that specializes in helping organizations re-engineer their business so they can take advantage of today’s growing economy. With a multidisciplinary approach that pulls from the best of BPM, program/project management, content management, knowledge management, and real-time collaboration, our solutions facilitate awareness, improvement, results, and ultimately enlightenment. The company also has developed expertise in Continuous Performance Improvement™, a set of proprietary performance improvement methodologies.

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Industry Experts Launch First Ever Strategic IT Management Course to Help Business to Manage the IT and IT to Manage the Business

London — April 11, 2006 -–

Managing IT for Business is a course aimed at business leaders who are responsible for, or concerned about, the way their company uses its IT resources. It is also suitable for IT managers who need to understand how they can integrate IT into their organisation more effectively.

While many companies now understand the need for an IT strategy, too many either depend on IT managers to produce this in isolation, or allow it to be dictated by finance or another department and imposed on IT. IT managers are trained in IT but not necessarily in management yet most are expected to manage a vital part of the organisation’s business.

Regulatory changes, data privacy laws and other legal requirements mean that firms can’t afford to make mistakes with their data retrieval and storage.

Everyone knows that IT can improve their business performance and Managing IT for Business can help achieve that objective.

The course covers:

    Compliance and risk

    Policy and controls

    Business continuity and disaster recovery

    Interaction between the organisation and IT

    Staff, personnel and recruitment

    Systems security

    Outsourcing and managed services

There is an opportunity for delegates to network with others facing the similar issues.

Courses take place every month at central locations in the City of London. Each session caters for between 8 and 16 delegates.

About Managing IT for Business

Courses are presented by David Taylor, Director of IT services company DGT Technology Limited and Bernard Brett, director of Galleywood Consulting Limited.

David Taylor is a director of DGT Technology Ltd providing IT business services and support to a range of SME clients. He has worked for several years in a technical IT role, and has held the position of IT Manager for a number of smaller international banks based in the City of London. He has written a number of articles about IT issues and been published in financial and legal magazines.

Managing IT for Business is a trading arm of DGT Technology Limited.

Media contacts

DGT Technology Limited

174 Victoria Park Road

London

E9 7HD

Phone 0845 257 9698

Fax 0871 994 0947

http://www.managingitforbusiness.co.uk

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Complex Manufacturers Define Strategic Advantages in ERP

Wilmington, MA — April 12, 2006

Complex manufacturers have more than fifty percent of their business in international markets. The need to access the dynamic communication interface has never been stronger. Strategic advantages across the entire enterprise must include Operations Management, Technology, Business Performance Management, Collaboration, Material & Production Planning, Financial Management, Customer Relationship Management and Engineering & Product Lifecycle Management.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for the Complex Manufacturing sector, non-repetitive manufacturing, has been less than effective in accomplishing these strategic advantages until VISIBILITY.net. Business integration, comprehensive functionality, collaborative capabilities, global features and compliance based controls enable effective decision making, increased organizational productivity, and a system infrastructure optimized for profitable business growth.

According to Stephen Carson, Executive vice president with Visibility Corporation, “VISIBILITY.net provides businesses with strategic insight, ability to differentiate, increased productivity and the flexibility needed to achieve business goals.”

Carson adds, “The VISIBILITY.net technology framework provides companies a significant competitive advantage by providing a comprehensive, scalable, adaptable, and lower cost to deploy and maintain foundation. This foundation offers database choices of Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server and is built using industry standard contemporary technologies. The technical environment is far ahead of most ERP solutions through its clean architecture ensuring a consistent methodology throughout the system. The system is based on industry standards, open systems, ease of integration, use and collaboration. This gives companies unmatched flexibility to meet the challenging demands cost effectively for all business operations.”

Visibility Corporation (http://www.visibility.com) is a leading developer and supplier of business software solutions designed for the unique needs of project-based, engineer-to-order and to-order manufacturers. Visibility’s Enterprise Application solutions help midsize manufacturers of complex products operate their businesses effectively. Visibility has an extensive customer base throughout North America and Europe and has the strongest representation of ERP among complex manufacturers.

VISIBILITY.net is an integrated ERP solution and more. Offering unparalleled functionality and integrated workflow, this browser-based solution cost effectively delivers the power of .NET-based Web services for use with either a Microsoft SQL Server™ or Oracle® database. Conducting business any place, any time, any where is a reality, deployable with unprecedented flexibility.

Visibility

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Jaclyn Aldrich

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