The Oasis opportunity has many attractive characteristics that we seek in a transaction. Led by a strong management team, Oasis has a solid franchise with a compelling value proposition, excellent customer retention and a highly scalable business model serving a large, under-penetrated and fragmented market.

Led by a strong management team, Oasis has a solid franchise with a compelling value proposition, excellent customer retention and a highly scalable business model serving a large, under-penetrated and fragmented market. Oasis fulfills a need among small and medium-sized businesses for human resources-related products and services that can be difficult, complex and disproportionately expensive for these businesses to provide on their own.

The more chaotic the market is, the less competitive balance is a problem because there's more opportunity for efficient management, ... [Steinbrenner's] spending creates a chaotic market.

AMLI represents an opportunity to acquire a large portfolio of high-quality multifamily assets, an outstanding multifamily management team and organization, strong development capabilities, and a recognized brand name in the sector.

The 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management list is our annual opportunity to recognize the companies we believe best exemplify the ideals of true knowledge management - the ones whose products and services continue to fundamentally transform the way organizations operate. These companies meet the needs of our readership in solving critical business problems, and they are united by one quality: they listen to their customers. Long gone are the days of developing elegant software in a vacuum and expecting the world to beat a path to your door. Decision makers and users grow more savvy each year, and these companies realize that the key to adding value is staying close to their customers.

Greg is an outstanding executive with a wealth of global supply chain management experience. As we continue to grow the company into more diverse geographies and markets, and as we are faced with an increasingly challenging global cost environment, it will be critical to have someone with Greg's experience on our team to help us leverage our supplier relationships and better serve customers.