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Business Financial Management

Visa, the world's leading payment brand and largest payment system, offers trusted, reliable solutions to meet the commercial payment needs of businesses and government agencies. Visa solutions offer comprehensive transaction data and robust reporting tools to help businesses reduce overall costs and improve cash flow for better management of their payment processes. For more information, visit www.visa.com/commercial. Contact your Visa Commercial card issuer for more information.

Customer Profitability Management (CPM)

Hyperion, the global leader in Business Performance Management software, introduces Hyperion Profitability Management. Customers have relied on Hyperion technology to do profitability analysis for years, and now Hyperion is combining software, services and best practices to analyze and understand profitability at a granular level. Hyperion Profitability Management solves one of the most pressing problems in business today--understanding a company's most and least profitable customers, products and challenges. This solution enables analysts to understand the true cost of retaining and serving customers, determine new customer acquisition costs, as well as evaluate customer purchasing behaviors and margin contributions by product. This is the first in a long line of Business Performance Management solutions focused on select business challenges that Hyperion will offer in the coming months.

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Solange Brill | solange_brill@hyperion.com

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Financial Analytics

FRx Software, a Microsoft company and a part of Microsoft Business Solutions, is a leading provider of financial analytic applications that work with virtually any general ledger to give you the control you need to be more effective. Our product suite, Microsoft[R] Business Solutions for Analytics-FRx[R] and Microsoft[R] Business Solutions for Analytics-Forecaster, can improve productivity by helping you efficiently manage your organization's financial reporting and budgeting processes. FRx is used by more than 115,000 sites worldwide to gain immediate control of the financial reporting process. Forecaster is a browser-based budgeting and planning application that makes it easy for organizations to quickly realize the benefits of budgeting. Used together or separately, FRx and Forecaster provide the financial visibility you need to actively manage your business and take decisive action. Visit...