CFO.com Webcast Highlighting Success of Geac MPC Performance Management Solution Achieves Record-Breaking Registration
March 07 2005 - 12:32PM
PR Newswire (US)
CFO.com Webcast Highlighting Success of Geac MPC Performance
Management Solution Achieves Record-Breaking Registration -
Financial executives will participate March 8th to hear major US
accounting firm BDO Seidman describe how Geac products are
improving financial processes and increasing corporate
profitability - SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Marking the largest webcast registration ever achieved by CFO.com,
CFOs and financial executives will attend a live webcast on CFO.com
tomorrow, highlighting the successful implementation of Geac
Performance Management at BDO Seidman, LLP, one of the largest
accounting firms in the U.S. BDO Seidman uses Geac software to
improve decision making within their organization. The online event
is co-sponsored by Geac(R) (TSX: GAC and NASDAQ: GEAC) and
Microsoft(R) (NASDAQ:MSFT), and hosted by CFO Magazine. Lynn
Calhoun, Director of Finance at BDO Seidman, will provide a candid,
inside look at the process of establishing a standard set of
metrics that can be applied across the entire organization and used
as a basis for better decision making. Mr. Calhoun will offer his
experience overcoming the challenge of a decentralized reporting
environment in which multiple locations utilize different sets of
reports from different data sources. He will review how the
adoption of a standard set of measures, universally available from
a single source, can result in ongoing process improvement and
increased profitability. Scott Lindsay, Director, Geac Performance
Management, also will make a presentation during the webcast.
Following their presentations, Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Lindsay will
field questions from the audience. The hour-long live webcast,
entitled "From Measuring to Managing: Choosing and Applying Key
Metrics," will take place Tuesday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m. ET. To
register, visit http://www.performance.geac.com/cfocast. "The best
way for Geac to describe the benefits of its Performance Management
product family is through our customers - BDO is one example," said
Brian Hartlen, Vice President Global Marketing, Geac. "We are very
pleased with the early impact that our MPC offering is having on
BDO Seidman's overall efficiency and profitability - and we are
encouraged by the number of highly qualified prospects who are
participating in the CFO webcast tomorrow and want to learn more
about the value of Geac's Performance Management Solutions." The
webcast is the latest in a series of co-marketing activities
between Geac and Microsoft designed to foster lead generation and
help close business with joint prospects. Geac is a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner for Business Intelligence and for Software
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and owned by The Economist Group, CFO.com is a unique online
resource for senior financial executives. It provides news and
articles on cutting-edge issues with the strategic insight and
analysis to help top financial managers perform their jobs more
effectively. CFO Publishing includes CFO Magazine as well as its
sister publications, CFO Europe, CFO Asia and CFO China. Together,
they offer comprehensive global coverage of business issues of
interest to the senior financial executive. CFO Enterprises, and
their conferences and sponsored research unit, extends this
coverage to a wide range of executive education programs. About
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company that addresses the needs of the Chief Financial Officer.
Geac's best-in-class technology products and services help
organizations do more with less in an increasingly competitive
environment, amidst growing regulatory pressure, and in response to
other business issues confronting the CFO. Further information is
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