NORWALK, CT -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/09/2007 -- Cartesis, the world's leading specialist in finance and performance management software, will convene its 8th annual North American User Conference, Connect, with nationally recognized industry thought leaders, customers and partners. Connect 2007 North America will be held from May 6-9, 2007 at The Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida.

This year's event will highlight a new release of the Cartesis suite and focus on business topics such as enhanced business reporting, compliance, corporate responsibility and strategic innovations in financial reporting. The conference will spotlight the growing customer momentum around the Cartesis BPM suite, and best practices in implementation and deployments.

"We view our customers as key partners to help us to stay ahead of business trends and infuse our product suite with new and innovative functionality," said Trevor Walker, vice president marketing North America. "Connect is a critical venue to showcase our product suite, but more importantly to share best practices and develop strategies to address emerging trends such as XBRL and Enhanced Business Reporting."

Connect 2007 will feature a special "Customer Panel" moderated by IDC Research Director, Kathleen Wilhide, providing attendees with insight into the workings of successful real world implementations. Also highlighted will be customer spotlights from leading global companies including Cargill, Delhaize, Gilbane, IXIS AM, PepsiAmericas, Royal Bank of Canada, Sandy Spring Bank, Sysco, Viasys Healthcare and more.

Scott Newquist, co-founder and managing director of Perception Partners, Inc., an advisory firm specializing in identifying and managing reputational risk, corporate governance, and corporate reporting, will give a "Proactively Managing Reputational Risk" keynote address. This presentation will outline how the combination of competition and changing stakeholder expectations creates risk to a company's brand, share ways to proactively manage this risk and insight on how to avoid a reputational crisis or identify the slow brand erosion as expectations change.

With tracks in Management Reporting, Strategic Planning and Finance and Compliance and Controls, the Connect program will provide customers with demonstrations and training on new products designed to help them streamline their businesses and learn how to leverage BPM tools for enhanced business reporting business value. Steve Player, C.P.A, managing director of The Player Group, a performance management advisory firm, and North American program director of Beyond Budgeting Round Table will hold a special breakout session on "Best Practices in Planning and Rolling Forecasts."

Senior representatives from Cartesis and key partners including EDGAR Online, Microsoft, Resources Global Professionals, Parson Consulting, the Player Group, Ernst & Young, LLP and others will also present.

Visit http://www.cartesisconnect.com for Connect 2007 details or register today.

About Cartesis

Cartesis is the world's leading specialist in finance and performance management software with more than 1,300 corporate customers, 600 employees and 200 consultants worldwide. Created in 1990, Cartesis provides insight, control and confidence by unifying information, people and processes at demanding multinationals like Air France KLM, Cargill, Danone, Diageo, Nissan, Société Générale and Standard Life. One in four of Fortune Global 100 companies rely on Cartesis' deep financial expertise and standard-based technology for compliance, financial consolidation, management reporting, planning, budgeting, forecasting, intercompany reconciliation; all unified in a single data-model that can be leveraged by internal and external users. Cartesis' partners include Accenture, Bearing Point, Compuware, Ernst & Young, HP, KPMG, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Cartesis has customers in 44 different countries and offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Norwalk (CT), Paris, Tokyo, Toronto and Utrecht. For more information, go to http://www.cartesis.com.

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