Agresso ERP Customers Avoiding Tech "Change Pains".

69% Of Users Polled at Conference Have Faced Reorgs, Mergers by Adapting Agresso Solution without External IT Help

SLIEDRECHT, Netherlands -- Agresso, the ERP Market's Definition of Agility, today released a poll from its recent international user conference highlighting that 69 percent of Agresso customers have faced and adapted their solution during business change conditions without external technology help. The surveyed Agresso business and IT customers stated that they managed enterprise resource planning (ERP) system changes completely independently, a trend that runs counter to users of rigid competitive solutions.

The Agresso customers report that the main drivers for change were: reorganization/restructuring (61 percent), a change of business model (44 percent); and mergers/acquisitions (30 percent). For 2007, 74 percent of the respondents expect significant change in their organizations, while 84 percent expect an increased pressure to change in the coming years.

The Agresso user survey results follow a recent external poll released by Agresso reporting that ERP users feel trapped in a never-ending ERP spending cycle. "This is further proof that Agresso customers do not suffer the cost/resource depletion tied to using outside companies to deal with business change," said Ton Dobbe, vice president of product marketing at Unit 4 Agresso. "Our customers rely on our architectural difference that tightly couples data, business process and the delivery methodology - the reporting and analytics - to move in lockstep. A change made in one area does not have to be redone and rechecked for accuracy in the other two places. This saves time, money and people resources and brings about true business agility."

About Agresso

Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa) is a $225 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) subsidiary of Netherlands-based Unit 4 Agresso (Dutch Stock Exchange EURONEXT-U4AGR) and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for professional services and public sector organizations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated data/process/delivery architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC)[TM]. Agresso is known as "The ERP Market's Definition of Agility" as it allows an unlimited amount of ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that nets billions of dollars in revenue to the market leaders. Over 2,600 companies and organizations in 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management. The company's role-based, Web Services and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enabled solutions include: Financial Management, Human Resources and Payroll, Procurement Management, Project Costing and Billing, Reporting and Analytics and Business Process Automation.