Tagetik Goes Ashore in Turkey

LUCCA, Italy and ISTANBUL, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Distributor, Keysoft - Financial Performance Management Applications Provider, and First New Customer Tuerk Ekonomi Bankasi Already

Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence, today announced the opening of its new distribution in Turkey and the first Turkish customer, Tuerk Ekonomi Bankasi. In confirmation of its ongoing global expansion strategy, the company has just signed a partnering agreement with the leading vendor in the region, Keysoft - Financial Performance Management Applications provider.

Heading the new partner based in Atasehir - Istanbul is Fehmi Ozisitmez, who is a veteran in software business and financial performance management applications, will report directly to Tagetik's Chief Operating Officer, Manuel Vellutini. Keysoft (http://keysoft.com.tr/) has strongly committed to Tagetik's mission of helping organizations in all industries translate strategy into operations, manage and measure their overall performance, while improving decision-making down to each business level.

This is the case of Tuerk Ekonomi Bankasi, abbreviated TEB (http://www.teb.com.tr/), the first customer just a few months after the opening of the Turkish distribution. In March 2005, TEB has signed a joint venture agreement with the French BNP Paribas SA, one of the largest financial associations in the world. TEB is aggressively expanding its retail network in Turkey since and has more than 240 branches as of Q2 2007.

TEB's 2010 merger with Fortis Bank increased the group numbers to over 600 branch offices and 10,000 employees. TEB decided to implement Tagetik 3.0 with the support of Keysoft's consultants to manage easily and quickly the rising demands on improving its legal reporting requirements following the merger. The Tagetik's financial reporting application went live as of March 2011.

"Tagetik leverages a global presence in 20 countries, strong relationships with system integrators, technology leaders and local consulting specialists as well as major analysts validation," says Manuel Vellutini, EVP Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. "The opening of a new distribution in Turkey clearly demonstrates the ability to expand internationally as an independent, specialist software vendor in the CPM market. And the first banking customer in the region is an incredible success as it can help us conquer market credibility and strengthen our enviable track of records in responding to the complex needs of the financial services industry."

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About Keysoft

Keysoft is a specialist vendor with more than 10 years experience in implementing and customizing financial performance management applications & implemented more than 50 live projects, ranging from budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning to closing, consolidation, reporting and profitability analysis.

To learn more: http://keysoft.com.tr/

About Tagetik

Tagetik delivers a unified software solution for Performance Management, Enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Disclosure Management with specialized Business Intelligence tools to optimize Collaboration and Communication.

Tagetik 3.0 creates value by simplifying complex business processes for CFOs and CIOs: budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, statutory and management consolidation, cost allocation, profitability analysis, financial close and fast closing, dashboard, scorecarding, collaborative disclosure management and compliance/industry requirements. Tagetik 3.0 is the solution to translate strategy into operations, manage and control overall performance down to business transactions, and improve decision-making across the whole organization while achieving faster ROI and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Tagetik's vision to extend Performance Management and Business Intelligence to collaborative decision-making inspired us to develop Tagetik 3.0 Enabled by Microsoft SharePoint, moving CPM from Corporate to Collaborative Performance Management.

Tagetik operates in 18 countries leveraging a close partnership with Microsoft. Its market experts are totally committed to the success of 400 customers worldwide, including some of the largest Fortune 1000 companies representing all industry sectors, as well as to build strong relationships with system integrators, technology leaders and local consulting specialists.

    Tagetik is a Microsoft Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV).
    To learn more: http://www.tagetik.com

    Corporate Press Contact:
    Elisabetta Pierallini
    Luca Pieretti
    +39-0583-96811
    [email protected]

    Turkey Press Contact:
    Fehmi Ozisitmez
    Managing Partner
    +90(216)575-50-45 [email protected]

    US Press Contact:
    Alessandra Gamba
    +1-203-391-7520
    [email protected]

    UK Press Contact:
    Shak Akhtar
    Managing Director
    +44(0)8708510540
    [email protected]

SOURCE Tagetik