Symphony-Metreo Scores Leadership Position in Ventana Research 2007 Performance Management Vendor and Product Scorecard.SymphonyRPM 5.0 Helps Company Achieve Top Position Across Multiple Categories for 4th consecutive year PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Symphony-Metreo, Inc., provider of the only integrated enterprise platform for forward-looking for·ward-look·ing adj. Concerned with or making provision for the future: forward-looking educators; a forward-looking corporate plan. Adj. 1. performance management and predictive business analytics solutions, today announced that it has again attained at·tain v. at·tained, at·tain·ing, at·tains v.tr. 1. To gain as an objective; achieve: attain a diploma by hard work. 2. one of the highest rankings in Ventana Ventana Medical Ventana Medical is one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of medical diagnostic instrument and reagent systems providing leading-edge automation technology for use in slide-based diagnosis of cancer and infectious disease. Research's 2007 Performance Management Vendor and Product Scorecard. The annual scorecard report involved more than 30 vendors, 337 questions and 46 functional capabilities. The new SymphonyRPM 5.0 platform received a total score of 94.07 percent resulting in SymphonyRPM earning a strong leadership position in the overall PerformanceCycle[TM] rankings. Fueling that outcome was SymphonyRPM 5.0 receiving high scores in the "Understand" (96%), "Optimize optimize - optimisation " (94%) and "Align align (  līn),v to move the teeth into their proper positions to conform to the line of occlusion. " (91%) categories. "SymphonyRPM continues to demonstrate leadership in performance management, achieving a top position again this year, making that the fourth time in a row for the company," said Mark Smith, 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 executive vice president of research, Ventana Research. "Its most recent product release demonstrates Symphony-Metreo's commitment to continuously improving the SymphonyRPM platform's ability to deliver the forward-looking analysis required to align and synchronize See synchronization. operational planning and execution across the enterprise." The Ventana Research Scorecard is a tool that organizations can use to increase their understanding of how different software and solutions rank in meeting business and IT requirements for Performance Management. This research, which is completely unbiased and objective, is the first industry effort to assess software designed specifically for enabling Performance Management. As opposed to other analyst reports that use subjective influence to score vendors, the Ventana Research 2007 Performance Management Vendor and Product Scorecard is based exclusively on scoring vendors' ability to provide specific capabilities in their software products and packages that meet business objectives for improving performance. The report is broken out into three steps to achieve an overall score - Align, Optimize and Understand. * Align: This step is focused on ensuring that the recommended actions and plans are in the direct path for reaching the goals, objectives and initiatives set out by executives and management. * Optimize: This step is focused on planning for future actions and decisions to define the goals, objectives and initiatives as set out in the Align step. * Understand: This step is focused on reviewing the historical performance of people and processes, enabling companies to understand how results impact the organization. "We are proud of our continued leadership position in the annual Ventana Research Vendor and Product Scorecard," said Bennett Indart In`dart´ v. t. 1. To pierce, as with a dart. , vice president of marketing, Symphony-Metreo. "Symphony-Metreo is committed to being recognized as a thought-leader and innovator in Performance Management, and we will continue to invest in the SymphonyRPM platform based on the needs of our customers, partners and the market." About Symphony-Metreo Symphony-Metreo helps organizations meet their financial goals with innovative solutions in the areas of Enterprise Pricing and Performance Management. The company's award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" platform, SymphonyRPM, is the only integrated enterprise platform for enabling forward-looking performance management and predictive business analytics solutions. Through its patented next generation business application development environment, SymphonyRPM synchronizes operational planning and execution across the organization and accelerates time-to-market and value. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Symphony-Metreo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Symphony symphony [Gr.,=sounding together], a sonata for orchestra. The Italian operatic overture, called sinfonia, was standardized by Alessandro Scarlatti at the end of the 17th cent. Technology Group, a $1.2 billion strategic holding company. For additional information, visit http://www.symphony-metreo.com. Copyright [c] 2007 Symphony-Metreo, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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