Business Finance Magazine, SAS Sponsor 2006 Vision Awards to Recognize Excellence in Business Performance Management17 May 2006
Companies that excel in business performance management can enter to win the 2006 Vision Awards to recognize their leadership, Business Finance Magazine and SAS announced today.
Now in their tenth year, the Vision Awards are the only awards developed specifically to recognize business performance management.
"It's no surprise that business performance management is the number one strategic initiative for companies today," said David Blansfield, group publisher of Business Finance Magazine. "In today's economic and regulatory environment, companies that demonstrate success in such fundamental disciplines as budgeting, planning and reporting achieve significant benefits on the top and bottom lines. Business Finance Magazine is honored to partner with SAS to recognize those who've done it best."
"Finance executives achieve significant improvements to corporate performance by applying business intelligence to financial plans, budgets and reports," said Don Parker, CFO at SAS. "Leading companies are leveraging powerful software technology to achieve these goals while promoting the alignment and execution of strategy that drives growth and profitability. SAS is pleased to sponsor this year's Vision Awards."
The awards recognize organizations that have successfully developed and implemented integrated business performance management processes to include strategic planning, business planning and budgeting, performance measurement, and business and financial reporting. In addition to having met the above criteria, award winners have established organizational cultures that support and reinforce best practices in business performance management.
Organizations are evaluated and recognized by size, as determined by annual sales revenue/turnover, in several categories. The categories are: more than $5 billion; $501 million to $5 billion; and less than $500 million.
Past Vision Award winners include the United States Postal Service, Hyatt International Corp., Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, IBM, Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages, Keane Inc., Zarlink Semiconductor, Best Buy Company Inc., Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Herman Miller Inc., The Dow Chemical Co., Northrop Grumman, Lucent Technologies, Fujifilm, Advantage Sales & Marketing LLC, Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Roy F. Weston Inc., The Boca Raton Resort & Club, Bar-S Foods, Disney's Contemporary Resort, National Transportation Exchange, InTuition Inc., Momentum Group, Bal Seal Engineering Co., American Petroleum Institute, Zebra Technologies Corp., Spray Equipment & Service Center Inc., St. John's Hospital, and United Asset Coverage Inc.
Executives interested in nominating their organization for the 2006 Vision Awards may submit an application online at http://www.bfmag.com/visionawards.
The 2006 Vision Award winners will be profiled in an extensive article in Business Finance Magazine and featured in a national public relations campaign.
In addition, the winners of the 2006 Vision Awards will be recognized at a gala awards dinner held in their honor at the Business Performance Management Summit, October 30 and 31 at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich, CT. All Vision Award winners' travel and conference expenses associated with this event will be assumed by the sponsors.
About Business Finance Magazine
Business Finance is a trade magazine about and for senior business and finance executives - CEOs, CFOs, COOs, treasurers, finance directors, etc. Its purpose is to help them do their jobs and make better purchasing decisions.
Editorially, Business Finance emphasizes content that anticipates important trends and quantifies their potential impact to its subscribers. Major areas of coverage include performance management, corporate finance, treasury and cash management, and technology management.
Business Finance is read by senior business and finance executives at midtier and large companies.
For more information or to subscribe to Business Finance, visit http://www.bfmag.com/subscribe.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites use SAS(R) software to manage and gain insights from vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products. Only SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and traditional business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). http://www.sas.com
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Contacts:
David Blansfield
Business Finance Magazine
(203) 750-8245
dblansfield@penton.com
Marla Hudnell
SAS
(919) 531-7423
Marla.Hudnell@sas.com
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