Adaptive Planning CEO William A. Soward Scheduled To Speak At SaaScon 2007.Chief Executive to Speak On Convergence of Open Source and Software as a Service (SaaS) As Future Business Model for Enterprise Software Companies MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Adaptive Planning, the leading provider of collaborative business performance management (BPM (Business Process Management) A structured approach that models an enterprise's human and machine tasks and the interactions between them as processes. BPM software provides users with a dashboard interface that offers a high-level view of the operation that typically ) solutions, today announced that William William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack A. Soward, Adaptive Planning president and chief executive officer, will participate in a C-level C-level category level (US DoD) C-Level Top-Level Executive (CEO, CRO, CIO) speakers panel at SaaScon 2007, April 17 in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . The session, "Tapping into Open Source for SaaS," will examine how the open source software (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) and Software as a Service (SaaS) models are rapidly converging con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. to create the business model of the future for enterprise software companies. As chief executive of Adaptive Planning, Soward offers a leading edge perspective on the convergence of the open source and SaaS models. Adaptive Planning was founded in 2003 as a SaaS provider of budgeting, forecasting and reporting solutions. In 2006, the company became the first BPM provider to embrace open source, launching a successful OSS initiative that supports and extends the company's SaaS business. In his remarks, Soward is expected to review the business drivers for combining open source development and distribution principles with the SaaS model. He will point out the key considerations for SaaS companies interested in adopting open source principles, and describe how end users can obtain the greatest business value by working with vendors that embrace both SaaS and open source. Also serving on the speaker panel for "Tapping into Open Source for SaaS" will be John Roberts, chairman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of SugarCRM SugarCRM is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution vendor. History Origins SugarCRM was founded in 2004 by John Roberts, Clint Oram and Jacob Taylor. The company began as an open source project on Sourceforge in April 2004. ; Barry Klawans, chief technical officer of JasperSoft; and Joaquin Ruiz, vice president of marketing and product management for SpikeSource. The session, to be held at 2:35 PM, will be moderated by Mikael Blaisdell, principal of Mikael Blaisdell & Associates, Inc. During SaaScon 2007, Adaptive Planning will also be exhibiting its products from its display at Booth 1200. For more information about Adaptive Planning, including the opportunity to test drive the company's budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solutions for free, visit www.adaptiveplanning.com. About Adaptive Planning: Adaptive Planning is the leading provider of collaborative business performance management (BPM) solutions. Adaptive Planning makes it easy for midsize companies and departments of larger corporations to move beyond spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
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