Tagetik nominated for LinkedIn European Business Awards
Tagetik candidate for Performance Management receives most votes in the ‘Business Innovation’ category
Lucca, Italy 27 January 2010Tagetik today announced that Bani Brandolini, President International at Tagetik, ranked first among the "Business Innovation" candidates for the LinkedIn European Business Awards 2010 in association with Cisco Webex. The Tagetik executive is the sole nominee in this category from the Performance Management and Business Intelligence sector.
Luca Rotoni nominated Brandolini in November 2009 due to the ground-breaking release of Tagetik 3.0. In his written nomination, the Senior IT Manager at Capgemini France cited "[…] the great level of innovation he brought to the market with its third generation suite Tagetik 3.0 for CPM [Corporate Performance Management]. In my opinion, the Tagetik 3.0 software solution for CPM and BI represents the ERP solution of CPM.”
In the past weeks over 552 industry consultants, experts and managers from renowned companies such as Microsoft, Information Builders, Microstrategy, KPMG, Capgemini, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Deloitte, IBM Global Services, Avanade, Resources Global, Ineum, HP, Business & Decision, Praxinet, Altea, SDG, TNT Technologies, Alper & Schetter, Rinedata, Global Analytics, Concentric, [PM] Partners, Sysdata, Hyde Park, Opal Wave backed the nomination. Some of the supporting comments included:
“This is definitely the best innovation!”
“Bani's companies always deliver real value to their customers in the form of innovative solutions coupled with a customer-centric culture.”
“An innovative solution in the Corporate Performance Management area that maximizes benefits for business users and reduces time to deliver of CPM applications”
“The strong investments in Tagetik 3.0 product suite are once again driving true innovation to the market, supporting end-to-end CPM processes, enabling collaboration spanning throughout different divisions in a company, hiding complexity to the end user, and making it possible leveraging well-known tools.”
“Thanks to innovative solutions and an ever-growing need to improve businesses, the Performance Management (PM) market has grown exponentially,” explains Bani Brandolini, President International at Tagetik. “The key to future growth rests in solutions that are simple to use and develop, yet powerful and that makes the most of new opportunities for collaboration and communication. Tagetik’s “Simplexity” gives the edge to large and midsized enterprises around the world and Tagetik 3.0 enabled by Microsoft Office SharePoint is the best example of PM innovation today.”
The official nomination period for candidates closed on Friday, January 22, 2010. Voting will be open on Monday, February 1, 2010 for all LinkedIn members based in Europe. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony scheduled for March 24, 2010. For more information, please visit the official Web site for the LinkedIn European Business Awards 2010.
About Tagetik
Tagetik delivers a unified software solution that can support Performance Management & Financial Governance plus extended Business Intelligence, Collaboration & Communication.
Tagetik 3.0 creates value by simplifying complex business processes for CFOs and CIOs: budgeting, planning & forecasting, consolidation & 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.
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