BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- 170 Systems, a worldwide leader in automating financial processes, today announced a live webcast featuring Paul Hamerman, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. The presentation, Financial Process Automation - Just How Far Can the ERP Go?, will give attendees helpful insights that will enable them to better evaluate financial processes built around their ERP systems.

Specifically, Mr. Hamerman will share his assessment of the leading ERP's expanding capabilities to manage financial processes and outline considerations for supplementing the systems, as needed. He will offer his perspective on where the Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft ERPs fit in the finance automation equation, and when to consider complementing the ERP's functionality with additional solutions that address the end-to-end processes. Attendees are eligible to receive 1 full IAPP CAPP credit for attending this one-hour broadcast.

  DATE:          Wednesday, October 3, 2007
  TIME:          11:00 a.m. ET / 8:00 AM (PT) / 4:00 PM (GMT)
  REGISTRATION:  Registration for this online event is at
                 http://www.170systems.com/

  About Paul Hamerman

As an analyst, Paul is one of Forrester's pre-eminent contributors in research for Business Process and Applications professionals. His coverage includes ERP, financial management and human capital management systems and business processes, internal controls compliance solutions, and business performance management. Paul is a leading expert in the overall enterprise applications market, analyzing trends such as industry consolidation, next- generation architectures, and recurring revenue business models. Paul has been instrumental in developing Forrester's decision frameworks in the areas of vendor selection and application upgrades. Paul works extensively with both applications user clients and vendor clients, internationally and across a wide variety of industries. He assists corporate and governmental user organizations with vendor selection, upgrade decisions, and business process optimization strategies. Paul works with software vendors and services providers to evaluate their products, develop go-to-market strategies, and provide competitive analysis. Paul earned a B.A. in economics from Connecticut College and an M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is a certified public accountant and a certified management accountant.

About 170 Systems

170 Systems is the worldwide leader in automating financial processes. The company's flagship product line, 170 MarkView Financial Suite, provides best practice processes that improve the speed, visibility costs and controls of Finance operations and includes applications for Accounts Payable, Expense Management, Procurement, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, General Ledger and Project Re-Billing. 170 MarkView Financial Suite is tightly integrated with the leading ERPs (Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP), enabling organisations to manage end-to-end financial processes and enhancing the ERP's value.

For more information about 170 Systems, please call 781.743.1900 (North America), 44 0208 610 6009 (other regions) or visit http://www.170systems.

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