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With $311.1 billion assets and 18.1 million customers worldwide, Des Moines, Iowa-based Principal Financial Group® (The Principal®) is a Fortune 500 company that excels at delivering a wide range of financial products and services to businesses, individuals, and institutional clients from across the globe.

T. Rowe Price is an independent global investment management firm and mutual fund manager based in Baltimore, Maryland. For over a decade, the company has relied on software from Business Objects, an SAP company, to handle critical reporting needs—and, increasingly, sophisticated business intelligence (BI) tasks—across the enterprise.

After evaluating the marketplace for operational risk self-assessment solutions, Credit Suisse decided to write an in-house system to its own specifications and integrate BusinessObjects XI Release 2 from Business Objects, an SAP company, to create summary reports.

Pernod Ricard is the world's number two in wines and spirits. This history begins in December 1974 when Pernod and Ricard were still long-standing competitors in the French anise-based spirits market. Nevertheless, they decided to join forces to win foreign markets. Since its creation in 1975, Pernod Ricard has undergone sustained rapid growth, development and acquisition, building on its portfolio of Premium brands and its presence on every continent.

Founded in 1986 by friends residing in a Harvard dorm, Aquent is today the world's largest marketing staffing firm. The company helps Fortune 500 marketing organizations find the people they need, on a contract and direct hire basis, and helps marketing professionals find the rewarding engagements they want.