The ESM team is pleased to officially announce the forthcoming ESM 5.0 Beta release in Q1 2009. Thank you to all the past and present clients over the past 8 years for your feedback on how to make the ESM as user friendly and effective as a meeting mangement solution as possible.

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The ESM is the only application that has the core meeting view interface to present the right level of strategic information to leadership. At the end of the day effective strategic decision making is at the heart of what organizations are trying to achieve. In our new 5.0 release, we are really expanding on the features of Meeting View and making the entire application just as meeting friendly. Although the release dates have yet to be finalized, expect a beta version of ESM 5.0 late this year and the full release in early 2009. Find a partial list of the new 5.0 enhancements after the jump.

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The ESM team is working hard to make best practice guidance, advice, and training available to ESM users right in the ESM application.

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Performance is big to us. We're constantly striving to enhance the performance of the application in any way that we can, because we know how frustrating it can be trying to use a slow website. That's why we were so excited to finally be perusing a partnership with Akamai to help deliver our application to the far reaches of the globe. Don't get me wrong, we've always had very good performance and very good global coverage, but there are a few spots around the world that saw excessive latency and delays that were out of our control.

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The ESM has completed the much anticipated partnership with Akamai Technologies to provide a truly global acceleration of the ESM. Over the next few days we anticipate a 50 -80% or greater speed improvement of the ESM suite of tools, allowing us to reach our clients around the globe at record breaking speeds.

Everyone Benefits

Whether you are an Employee in our Lincoln, MA. USA office or a client halfway around the globe the ESM performance is now equally the same. Akamai route optimization and cache servers work 24x7X365 to identify the best route from your laptop to our ESM servers. There will be no more waiting for content to load as one navigates through Measures and Objectives in meeting view.

The ESM is now 100% globally-distributed using the Akamai EdgePlatform that continuously pulls and caches fresh content onto strategically positioned servers that are closer to our customers. A dynamic mapping system directs user requests for ESM content to an optimal Akamai edge server. Then, through route optimization Akamai identifies the fastest, most reliable path back to your data center to retrieve ESM content. Several connection techniques are in place to optimize communications between the Akamai edge server and the ESM infrastructure to deliver dynamic content to our clients over optimized connections that avoid Internet problem spots.

What to expect

• Much faster ESM performance worldwide.
• Capacity scaling on demand allowing the ESM to meet critical demand.
• Increased availability through uninterrupted service capability.

The quality of the ESM service will not diminish as the ESM continues to rapidly grow it's customer base. The Akamai EdgePlatform scales as the demand increases. That flexibility frees the ESM to allow you to truly execute on the strategy execution premium.

Stay tuned for future enhancements.

The Executive Strategy Manager will soon be home to a completely refreshed list of objectives and measures from which our users will be able to sort by both perspective and industry (and sometimes function) to get a list of potentials for their own scorecard.

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I've recently returned from my 5th trip to a new client to help roll out a massive cascaded BSC project. As a billion-dollar entertainment empire, they've got stores, restaurants, hotels, and casinos. Being just your run-of-the-mill developer, I don't normally get first-hand experience with the way that BSC implementations are done, but I have to say, this one is quite fascinating.

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The web services now available in version 4.5 create brand new possibilities for the Executive Strategy Manager. With the ability to push and pull data directly from the ESM database into applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, and nearly any web-based application, you can pull real time data into your Excel reports or PowerPoint presentations by simply clicking a button.

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With the launch of web services in 2007, the ESM truly has become an integrated strategy management platform for organizations around the world. An early adopter with the web services, a government defense organization is streamlining the reporting process with their strategic initiatives.

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As we reflect on the key stages that make the Executive Strategy Manager the strategy management platform it is today, we must honor the tremendous effort by both Drs. Kaplan and Norton and the hundreds of clients who advance its capabilities every day.

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As Palladium approaches the 7 year anniversary of the Executive Strategy Manager application this November/December, I'd like to take a look back at how the product has evolved into a one of a kind strategy management platform.

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