On behalf of Corporater, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all our customers and partners to Corporater User Conference 2010, which returns to Stavanger.

The conference will be held in three days. The first day (Tuesday, September 14), is reserved for
Corporater customers, partners and those evaluating the Corporater Enterprise Performance Management Suite. The second day (Wednesday, September 15), will host the Soria Moria International Conference open to all.

This year, we also invite you to a third day (Thursday, September 16) of workshops, introduced with an aim to impart practical knowledge of using the Corporater EPM Suite. We hope to share best practices for using the solution, which you can take home and implement in your own business situation.

All attendees are welcome to attend any particular day(s) or the full 3 conference days.

The focus of the conference will be on practicing performance management in a world that is constantly changing and will cover areas like -

• How do external factors affect our businesses?
• How should we respond to change?
• What are the dynamic (event-driven) management processes to be implemented?
• How do we establish exceptional management processes?

The conference will include sessions on activity-based management with focus on how to prepare businesses for the future. We will also introduce new management methodologies, such as rule-based and event-driven business management.

For this year’s conference, Corporater offers some of the best speakers in performance management and the Balanced Scorecard, like Paul Niven, Jeremy Hope, Steve Morlidge and Bjarte Bogsnes, all of them renowned at home and around the world. In addition to the main stream sessions by veteran speakers, there will be parallel sessions focusing on how various companies in different verticals have implemented performance management within their organizations.

I wish to see the Corporater User Conference as a meeting place which fosters inspiration, knowledge sharing and learning. This year's program includes a wide variety of presentations, live sharing of experience by our customers, and will showcase the new technology and functionality available in Corporater version 3.

I hope you will use this opportunity to invite and join other colleagues and superiors ready to be inspired. We will spotlight the important success criteria while introducing a performance management system, including creation of a good environment for change, motivating employees, communicating strategic goals and establishing good management processes.

Welcome to Stavanger!

Best regards,

Tor Inge Vasshus
Founder & CEO