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In this third edition of the Balanced Scorecard Software Report, the Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management and Gartner, Inc. have again joined together to collaborate on an extensive evaluation of Balanced Scorecard vendors and their products. It includes the evaluation of 31 BSC-related products, including software from eleven new vendors that were not reviewed in the prior editions of this report. "The Cranfield (Balanced Scorecard Software) report is a must-read for anyone evaluating Balanced Scorecard applications. It provides an invaluable framework for choosing an application and this alone makes it worth the price tag.... To my knowledge, it’s the most comprehensive overview currently available." Dylan N. Miyake, director, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative In order to manage an organization, managers require performance information to understand where their organization is, where it is going and what needs to be done to get it there. Without decent performance measures it is impossible to address these three fundamental issues. That is why performance measurement is so high up on the organizational agenda. But defining the proper measurements and selecting the most appropriate methodology and the software solution to implement it has proven to be a challenge that many organizations have found daunting. In this third edition of the Balanced Scorecard Software Report, the Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management and Gartner, Inc. have again joined to collaborate on an extensive evaluation of Balanced Scorecard vendors and their products. It includes the evaluation of BSC-related products from eleven new vendors that were not reviewed in the prior editions of this report: 4GHI Solutions AB Corporater AS EFM Software Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) Insightformation, Inc. Nexance Open Ratings Pilot Software Acquisition Corp. Predicate Logic Inc. Vision Grupo Consultore