LUCCA, Italy, June 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Tagetik, a global provider of Performance Management, Enterprise Governance, Risk Compliance and Business Intelligence software solutions, today announced the upcoming 4th edition of its User Conference held in Lucca (Italy), on September 23rd-24th (http://www.tagetik.com/user-conference-2010 ). Throughout the annual event, global customers, analysts, partners, industry experts and Tagetik will listen to the latest, hottest market trends and illustrate the growing need to integrate collaborative technologies into Performance Management and Business Intelligence processes.

In most companies today, it is difficult to bring key decision-makers together at all - let alone on a regular basis. As a result, organizations are able to simply monitor results rather than manage real business performance. That is why companies should look for solutions that truly involve the entire organization by facilitating collaboration between workgroups, creating a common understanding of shared objectives, communicating lines of action in a clear, timely manner as well as improving operational and strategic decision-making. At Tagetik, we have worked closely with CFOs and CIOs for the past twenty years, explains Manuel Vellutini, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Tagetik. And because we understand their business problems and listen to their changing needs, we have long shared the vision to make Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management processes as collaborative as possible. Now, all this is real with a single platform that unites financial and operational processes with advanced business collaboration features.

Performance Management extended to 'Collaborative Decision-Making' is the new challenge for those complex organizations willing to manage business performance more efficiently, make business information readily accessible to everyone, implement corporate strategies more effectively, and improve the quality of decision-making. Tagetik, in collaboration with numerous market experts - including Microsoft, Gartner, KPMG, Age Consulting, Altea, Excent, Sysdata Italia, ANDAF -, will discuss how to adopt and, definitely, profit from the new CPM - 'Collaborative' Performance Management.

The audience, which last year saw over 300 participants, will also listen to exclusive guest speakers such as Rita Sallam, research director at Gartner, who will explain how to improve the quality and transparency of budgeting and forecasting processes with 'Collaborative Decision-Making' tools, and Evan Rosen, an internationally-recognized collaboration and communication strategist, presenting his book 'The Culture of Collaboration', Gold Medal Winner in the 2008 Axiom Business Book Awards. Finally, a panel discussion on 'The Rise of Collaboration in Managing Business Performance' where influential speakers will debate their point of views and share their experiences from the field.

The Big Opportunity to Do Business with Tagetik

The Tagetik Partner Summit is an exclusive one day event, that will be held in Lucca on September 22nd. This pre-conference event is a venue for Tagetik Partners to discover how to reach new business opportunities with Microsoft, share the Partner strategy and vision, providing an ideal platform to accelerate knowledge uptake and network within the Tagetik Community (http://www.tagetik.com/user-conference-2010/partner-summit). Special guest speaker Chris Dial, Application Platform Marketing Lead, Microsoft Western Europe HQ, who will guide the session on the opportunity for a Microsoft Partner to join the Tagetik Community.

Get Together for a Fun, Relaxing Round of Golf

On September 25th Tagetik will launch the 1st Tagetik Golf Cup. Special guest star will be Matteo Manassero, who at the tender age of seventeen, is already one of the world's most promising young Italian professionals (http://www.tagetik.com/user-conference-2010/tagetik-golf-cup). Many managers around the world share a common passion for the game of golf: we decided to organize this cup as an informal end to our annual User Conference. This tournament provides an excellent opportunity for Tagetik users, partners and employees to recharge after two days of intense work, concludes Vellutini.

More information on the Tagetik 2010 User Conference:

http://www.tagetik.com/user-conference-2010

About Tagetik

Tagetik - a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - delivers a unified software solution to support Performance Management and Enterprise Governance, Risk Compliance, plus extended Business Intelligence, Collaboration and Communication. Tagetik 3.0 creates value by simplifying complex business processes for CFOs and CIOs: budgeting, planning and forecasting, consolidation and reporting, financial governance, strategy management, profitability modeling, working capital analysis and compliance/industry requirements. Tagetik 3.0 is the solution to translate strategy into operations, manage and control overall performance down to business transactions, and improve decision-making across the whole organization while achieving faster ROI and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Tagetik operates in 13 countries leveraging a close partnership with Microsoft. Its market experts are totally committed to the success of 400 worldwide customers, including some of the largest Fortune 1000 companies and representing all industries, as well as to foster synergies with system integrators, technology leaders and local consulting specialists. To learn more: http://www.tagetik.com

Corporate Press Contact: Elisabetta Pierallini +39(0)583-96811 press@tagetik.com US Press Contact: Alessandra Gamba +1-203-391-7520 alessandragamba@tagetik.com UK Press Contact: Caroline Powell +44(0)20-8297-5388 carolinep@jdmarketing.co.uk

SOURCE: Tagetik

CONTACT: Corporate Press Contact: Elisabetta Pierallini, +39(0)583-96811,press@tagetik.com; US Press Contact: Alessandra Gamba, +1-203-391-7520,alessandragamba@tagetik.com; UK Press Contact: Caroline Powell,+44(0)20-8297-5388, carolinep@jdmarketing.co.uk