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Join Enterprise 2.0 and Moxie Software’s Customer TEVA Pharmaceutical During Live Webinar

Published: July 26, 2011 7:03 AM

By The Associated Press

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 26, 2011–
Moxie Software, Inc.:

Who:

What:

Free, live webinar: TEVA Pharmaceutical — A Case Study on Spontaneous Association Leveraging Enterprise Social Software

When:

Where:

To register, please visit http://bit.ly/ohwho5

Moxie Software(TM), the social workspace, today announced Enterprise 2.0 will host a free, live, webinar on how TEVA Pharmaceutical employed social enterprise software to address a challenging business environment from shifting consumer demand and changing regulations to supply shortages. Like most organizations today, TEVA Pharmaceuticals business had become unpredictable, but the company tackled critical issues by employing enterprise social software, leveraging one of its key benefits — “spontaneous association,” that allowed its employees the ability to come together quickly to solve specific problems.

Join this informative discussion with TEVA Pharmaceutical vice president of supply chain, Tony Martins; industry analyst Michael Fauscette, head of IDCs Software Business Solutions Group; and SteveWylie, general manager of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, UBM TechWeb. Learn how TEVA Pharmaceutical reduced manufacturing cycle times, became more responsive to vendors and partners, and streamlined business processes through social enterprise software, dramatically increasing operational efficiencies.

Please register to receive additional details about this webinar. Also, join the live discussion by tweeting questions or comments using the #MoxieCast hashtag. Follow Moxie Software on Twitter @MoxieSoft.

About Moxie Software, Inc.

Moxie Software, the social workspace, enables companies to connect employees, customers and partners to engage in business, share knowledge and collaborate.

Moxie Software provides the most complete and intuitive enterprise social software for employee and customer engagement through Spaces(TM) by Moxie applications. These highly intuitive, user-centric applications were designed for “The Way People Work” through collaboration with world-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO and incorporating the thought leadership from Moxie Insight. Companies using Moxie Software’s solutions are able to innovate faster, and improve operational efficiencies and customer support. To learn more about Moxie Software, visit www.moxiesoft.com.

Moxie Software, Spaces by Moxie, Employee Spaces, Customer Spaces and Knowledge Spaces are trademarks of Moxie Software, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Moxie Software

Simone Souza, 650-294-4693

ssouza@moxiesoft.com

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Erin McCabe, 650-480-4025

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Producers Completes Production on Television Commercial for Dicks Sporting Goods Featuring US Olympian, Shannon Rowbury.

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CLOSE … Sylvain Marveaux shoots inches wide during a Pre-season friendly match between Sporting Kansas City and Newcastle United at the Livestrong Stadium.

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Salvation is here. And its in reality show (read: awful) form:

The Real Housewives of the Bible.

The spin-off is created by Ty Adams , a relationships expert and CEO/Founder of Heaven Enterprises.

Through bad acting and laughable voice-overs, the episodes use stories from the Bible to teach women how they can fix their lives and relationships.

Adams described (spoiler alert?) one of the characters story-lines to FOX411:

Delilah, she had the attention of a very powerful and influential man named Samson and her problem though, was her greed, her needs, her high maintenance lifestyle, could not allow her to sustain this relationship…She was more caught on what this man could do for her financially, than what he could do for her emotionally and intimately. As a result of that, she was his downfall. She actually took a high-powered man down. We wanted to capture how Delilah did this, so you see this unveiled in The Real Housewives of the Bible.

According to her site, Adams has an obligation and a blood-bought, authoritative right to pray for you, equip you, and edify you until you come into the perfection and fullness of Christ. Thanks.

In case the series isnt enough, you can also purchase one of Adams many guides to relationships, like Sexual Temptation: Not if but when! Temptation is coming, whatcha gonna do when it comes for you?

Thats the actual title.

The straight-to-DVD series is scheduled for release this August.

Watch a preview below.

(via Gawker)

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By Michael Crittenden

The Federal Reserve shouldnt use monetary policy to address potential asset bubbles, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig said Tuesday.

Hoenig, appearing before a House of Representatives subcommittee, said the central bank cant solve every economic problem through monetary policy. Asked about the ability to pump up or deflate asset bubbles, Hoenig said the Fed should not be in a position of creating froth in the market any more than it should try and pinpoint some sector and eliminate that froth.

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A steep climb in agricultural commodities in the past year has been driven by supply and demand factors, not monetary policy, the US governments chief economist said Tuesday.

Prices for a variety of commodities, from corn to livestock, have risen sharply in the past year, stoking fears of food inflation in the US and around the world. Critics of the Federal Reserves monetary policy have said its bond-buying program, known as quantitative easing, has helped drive those gains, sending investors into risky assets such as equities and commodities.

US Department of Agriculture Chief Economist Joe Glauber said hes seen several studies on the influence of monetary policy, including quantitative easing, but that I dont think Ive seen convincing evidence that its had much impact.

I think there are a lot of fundamentals in these markets than can explain why prices have been so high, he told reporters at a conference at the Kansas City Federal Reserve on agriculture.

Grain prices started to soar last summer, after a severe Russian drought decimated the wheat crop there. Concerns have since spread to other markets such as corn, which has doubled in price during the past year amid relentless global demand and disappointing crops.

Those increases have drove the cost of livestock production, sending cattle and hogs prices higher as well.

Glauber said monetary policy does have some impact on the market, and that a weaker dollar has helped drive export demand for US products.

He added that an increase in the Feds core interest rate would hurt US farmland values, which have soared roughly 20% in many areas in the past year, but that he doesnt see a large crash in prices.

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Ongoing concerns about a solution to the euro-zones debt crisis are likely to affect Hungarian central bank policy, the Monetary Policy Council said Tuesday.

The most important risk factor affecting Hungary in the short run is a possible prolonged euro-zone debt crisis, National Bank of Hungary Governor Andras Simor said at a press conference following the banks rate-setting meeting.

Future rate decisions, besides inflation, will from now on also be influenced by the ability of European Union decision makers to find a solution to the euro-area crisis, a release published by the MPC showed. Such a solution would decrease overall risk aversion and would thus improve the external risk assessment of Hungary, also a factor in monetary policy.

The comments led economists adjust their rate forecasts, with some now saying that Budapest’s rate setters could loosen policy earlier than expected.

Nomura economist Peter Attard Montalto said the MPC comments show the sensitive balance between factors for and against rate movements “could well be tipped in favour of rate cuts in the near future.”

Mr. Attard Montalto now sees room for rate cuts toward the end of the second half of the year “given a … lower risk post the euro [zone] summit, and inflation and growth both a surprise to the downside.”

Others, such as Erste Bank economist Zoltan Arokszallasi, still expect the central bank to wait until next year with cutting interest rates, saying this would also decrease interest rate differentials favoring the forint. This in turn have a negative effect on consumption because monthly mortgage instalments would become more expensive if the forint weakened further against the Swiss franc. This, naturally, would go against the original intention of boosting growth through lower rates.

The euro zone debt crisis, which drove the haven Swiss franc to new highs against most emerging European currencies, also hit Hungary hard, especially in relation to a high number of household mortgage holders indebted in francs.

In an attempt to allay fears that extreme franc strength may even affect the Hungarian banking system as a whole, Mr. Simor said the banking system would remain resilient to an even stronger franc.

Simor noted however, that prolonged franc strength could indeed be a drag on household consumptiondue to increased monthly instalmentshitting hard an area thats already in the doldrums.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — MetricStream Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms*.

We believe our presence in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner further affirms our ability to continually meet the evolving governance, risk and compliance needs of customers across the globe, says Shellye Archambeau, CEO at MetricStream. We are constantly innovating to serve our customers through richer platform, application, content and personnel capabilities, and helping them improve risk-based decision-making, and drive business performance.

MetricStream GRC Platform has been widely adopted by many Global 1000 corporations, as well as small and medium enterprises, to automate and streamline specific functions such as Enterprise and Operational Risk Management, Audit Management, Corporate, Financial, IT and Regulatory Compliance. The platform and applications unify diverse risk, control and assurance process across the enterprise in an integrated GRC system to additionally support programs such as Policy Management, Quality Management, Supplier Risks and Performance, IT Risks and Compliance (IT-GRC), and Environment, Health and Safety (EHS).

According to the report, Instead of acquiring separate solutions for finance, IT and other business units, many enterprises are choosing to use a single EGRC platform and, when necessary, integrating the many point and functional solutions to satisfy specific GRC needs. Reporting and managing through a single platform give executives, auditors and managers a holistic view of the enterprises risk and compliance postures, as well as views sorted by requirement, entity and geography.

MetricStream has made significant investments and has years of experience in providing GRC solutions to customers in sectors such as banking amp; financial services, energy amp; utilities, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, food amp; beverage, retail and manufacturing. The companys highly specialized solutions ship with regulation and industry specific information schemas, workflows, content, reporting templates and functionalities that address best practices and nuances in specific operating environments.

These capabilities, along with MetricStreams domain expertise, ensure that the companys GRC solution implementations are consistently successful and able to address vital business issues such as Operational Risk, Loss Tracking and Regulatory Relationship Management for banks, Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIA) programs for life sciences companies, NAIC Model Audit Rule or OIG Medicaid and Medicare compliance for healthcare providers, and NERC reliability assessments and FERC compliance for utilities.

The need for quicker and more accurate risk-based decision making has significantly increased in the last few years. Large enterprises have become very wary of GRC solutions that are siloed, have rigid data-models, and require extensive customization from a programming perspective. They are typically looking for a multi-functional GRC platform from a company that can be a partner in their GRC strategy. Because of these reasons, we are seeing significant adoption of the MetricStream solution in large companies, says Gaurav Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer at MetricStream. Small and medium enterprises are also rapidly realizing value from MetricStreams successful cloud-based OnDemand GRC offerings that are quick to adopt, and deliver rich out-of-the box functionality with embedded content such as risk libraries, control hierarchies and regulatory intelligence.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise GRC Platforms presents a global view of Gartners assessment of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking a technology solution to support the oversight and operation of enterprise-wide risk management and compliance programs, with the overall objective being improvements in corporate governance and the ability to achieve business objectives. MetricStream was one of 18 companies that were analyzed in the report.

*Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms, French Caldwell, Tom Scholtz, John Hagerty, July 13, 2011.

PR Source: http://www.metricstream.com/pressNews/pr_309_Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-EGRC-Platforms-2011.html

About MetricStream

MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Constellation Energy and Cummins in diverse industries such as Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives, as well as by over a million compliance professionals worldwide via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be reached at www.metricstream.com

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartners analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Leaders quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Email: pr@metricstream.com
Phone: 650-620-2955

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CINCINNATI — Its the same routine for Scott Rolen. Hell rest his shoulder and do the exercises to make it stronger.

But Rolen knows his left shoulder never will be the same as it was six years ago before he had three surgeries.

Is it going to come easy for me? Rolen said. No. I dont expect it to. I dont need it to. When I have trouble lifting my arm because Im in pain, like I did after the Pittsburgh series, thats different.

Rolen is on the disabled list for the second time this year because of the shoulder. Its the fifth time in his career the shoulder has put him on the disabled list.

This last time on the off day, I realized that something else was going on, he said. It wasnt the normal thing. I was having a hard time picking my kids up. Thats almost my barometer. My son weighs 30 pounds. Im 6-(foot)-4, 250 (pounds). I should be able to handle this one.

Even when Rolen is healthy, the shoulder can make hitting difficult. Rolen, a lifetime .284 hitter, was hitting .242 when he went on the disabled list.

Its hard to play and not contribute, Rolen said. Its frustrating.

Rolen is confident he can find his way back. He has another year on his contract. Dealing with the shoulder has not made him think about retirement.

This, he said, is not as bad as it was in Toronto in 2008. Then it was so painful he didnt know if he could continue.

I made adjustments with my hand positions and was able to find my way back a little bit, Rolen said. I dont think this is it. Ive struggled with the shoulder for a while, really for the last few years.

It changed my career around at the time. I was able to turn the momentum around a little. Thats the hope. Thats the plan.

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