Financial services

Tagetik in Touch opens its doors

29 September 2011

Over 500 participants worldwide, including OnWindows editor Karen McCandless, are attending Tagetik’s fifth global conference at the historical Real Collegio in Lucca, Italy.

The global software provider’s annual two day event kicked off with a keynote speech from Manuel Vellutini, Tagetik’s chief operating officer, and Marco Pierallini, chief development officer, who reviewed the company’s key milestones over the past year and gave an outlook of the road ahead. The company’s executives emphasised Tagetik’s specialist vendor approach and ongoing focus on product innovation, customer satisfaction and partner collaboration.

“Our company has made a rapid, successful ascent into the performance management and business intelligence (BI) software markets in the past years,” explained Vellutini. “Our undying determination and specialist vendor approach are the reasons why we have been winning against major global competitors. Tagetik is positioned among the top five worldwide vendors in the Magic Quadrant for corporate performance management solutions. As market studies show, we have strengthened our position year after year through our proven track record for innovation and execution, high customer satisfaction rates and our complete focus on financial process excellence.”

“Tagetik is both global and ‘boutique’ because we deliver our undivided attention to performance software – and not many different types of solutions like most other players on the market,” added Vellutini. “Our vast expertise in finance and performance management flows back into our technology to provide a unified, collaborative platform that simplifies and streamlines business processes throughout the office of finance. We believe we do it better than anyone else and we are pleased that Microsoft has awarded our efforts by naming Tagetik its 2011 Microsoft ISV/Software Line of Business Partner of the Year.”

We have revamped the traditional format of our annual conference to promote even more dialog among our participants and truly ‘get in touch’ with peers, colleagues and experts around the globe

Pierluigi Pierallin, Tagetik The event has also has seen the official launch of Tagetik 4.0, the latest release of its renowned software platform, and highlighted exciting new and upcoming features in the areas of mobile BI, in-memory technology and cloud computing. The session ‘The Future of BI in Tagetik 4.0: Mobile BI with Roambi and SQL Server Denali’ will include an introduction and demo of these new technologies and provide the roadmap for their integration within Tagetik 4.0. “Throughout the conference, we will also present case studies of customers who share Tagetik’s vision for ‘Collaborative’ Performance Management which makes BI and performance management processes as collaborative as possible,” Pierallini added.

Pierluigi Pierallini, president and CEO at Tagetik added: “We have revamped the traditional format of our annual conference to promote even more dialog among our participants and truly ‘get in touch’ with peers, colleagues and experts around the globe.” On both days of the conference, users can participate in five breakout sessions on a variety of topics.”

Tagetik customers will share project experiences and best practices in informative case studies hosted by Keller Group, Platinum Administrative Services, KAR Auction Services, Talanx AG, Vinson & Elkins, Crif, ISAB, Dyckerhoff AG, Bolton Group, Oetker Group, Propex and Lombardini Group.

Users can also preview the latest Tagetik 4.0 features in demo presentations and 1-hour, hands-on workshops with Tagetik product experts. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to liaise with conference partners and sponsors including Accenture, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Microsoft, Roambi, Excent, Twinergy, Aeonvis, Age Consulting, Altea, Blue Sof Consulting, Reply, ANDAF, Data Manager, Executive.it and ZeroUno.

Other highlights of the event include presentations from Gartner analysts as well as industry experts from Microsoft. Day 2 will end with a panel discussion on “BI and Performance Management at the Core of Finance” hosted by Neil Chandler, Research Director at Gartner. Rounding out the panel are Bani Brandolini, President International at Tagetik; Achim Heidebrecht, Head of Group IT at Talanx AG; and Mike Willis, Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers, Global XBRL Leader and Chairman Emeritus XBRL International.
 

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