Former Philadelphia Eagles Wide Receiver and 'Invincible' Inspiration Vince Papale Will Keynote Tagetik North America User Conference

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Apr 16, 2015, 09:03 ET

STAMFORD, Connecticut and LUCCA, Italy, April 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Two day event will highlight Tagetik's latest product and technology innovations and trends in cloud, mobility, and analytics

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Tagetik, a visionary leader in global performance management software solutions, today announced it will host its North America User Conference from April 23-24 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia. During the event, CFOs and finance professionals will learn about recent advancements to Tagetik's corporate performance management solution, and gain better understanding as to how even the most complex finance organizations can take advantage of the cloud, resulting in reduced risk and greater efficiency.

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The conference will include five tracks over the course of two days with more than 20 sessions focused on helping finance professionals discover the latest best practices and processes to address their specific needs. Sessions offer a deep dive into Tagetik Cloud and how to best optimize and leverage Tagetik's CPM software solution for budgeting, planning, forecasting, financial close and reporting. The conference will also highlight financial analytics including Tagetik's native capabilities and partnerships with Microsoft, SAP and Qlik.

"We are excited to showcase Tagetik's new features and highlight the tremendous benefits our customers receive by using our corporate performance management platform," said Manuel Vellutini, co-CEO, Tagetik. "We've incorporated a mix of formats, including thought leader presentations and interactive roundtables, to further create an engaging and collaborative event atmosphere with meaningful and valuable discussions."

"Our user conference is a way to add value to Tagetik's solutions and services by sharing with our customers the various capabilities, and some underutilized functionality, which can take their budgeting, planning, consolidation, disclosure and additional financial processes to the next level," said Marco Pierallini, co-CEO, Tagetik. "Finance executives have a multitude of obstacles to conquer. Our goal is to help overcome them and reach higher standards of excellence and innovation."

In addition to exploring the hurdles that the office of finance encounters, attendees will hear from the inspirational keynote speaker, Vince Papale, former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver on whom the Disney movie Invincible was based. Vince is a sought after speaker whose rise from obscurity to NFL team captain personifies what it means to defy the odds with sheer determination, unrelenting focus and hard work.

Financial leaders from Altair Engineering, LAZ Parking, LS travel retail North America, Luminator Technology, Nelnet, Rabobank Consolidated US Operations, Resources Global Professionals North America, The Gorman-Rupp Company, The Parking Spot, Vinson & Elkins and Timex Group will be among those in attendance. Customers from last year's conference rated the overall value of the event at 95 percent, and 100 percent of those surveyed said they would attend again.

In tandem with the conference, Tagetik will also be hosting a company-wide charity run the afternoon of April 22, benefiting the local Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. The run will begin at the Ritz-Carlton and end at the top steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a world-renowned landmark.

The conference is expected to draw more than 100 attendees, including customers, partners and financial industry professionals. The complete event agenda is available here.

About Tagetik

Tagetik understands the complex challenges that face the Office of Finance and translates that knowledge into intuitive, enterprise-scale performance management software solutions that drive business results. With Tagetik, companies get the simplicity of the Cloud and the power to unify financial and operational planning; shorten the consolidation and close process; immediately analyze results, model and compare full financial statement impact of business scenarios; adjust strategic plans; seamlessly update rolling forecasts; produce formatted and auditable financial statements and management reports; collaborate on business reviews, and automate disclosure and board reporting. Tagetik has built-in financial intelligence so that CFOs, finance managers, and operations executives can orchestrate multiple or all processes in one software solution. More than 750 customers across 35 countries count on Tagetik to improve efficiency, reduce risk, save money and deliver results. For more information, visit http://www.tagetik.com. We get Finance. You get results.

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