Agresso Tallies up Wins against Software Giants in Mid-Market.

Agresso's Latest Win - Vector Aerospace - Exposes Leaders' Shortcomings; Businesses Living in Change (BLINC)[TM] Driving New Market Requirements

VICTORIA, B.C. -- Agresso (www.agresso.com/USA), the ERP market's definition of agility, announced today its most recent enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services contract with Vector Aerospace, a $300+ million provider of airplane and helicopter repair and maintenance services. Once again, Agresso won the business in head to head competition against market leaders SAP and Microsoft.

The deal is valued at approximately $428,000 and continues Agresso's advance of ERP software sales against entrenched leaders in the North American mid-market. The most recent string of deals (valued up to $3+ million dollars each) show a steady trend of besting SAP, Oracle and Microsoft. These include second quarter 2007 wins to: Landauer, Canadian Commercial Corp., the city of Kelowna and a prominent U.N. agency in North America, plus dozens more internationally. Vector Aerospace is headquartered in Toronto with offices throughout North America and Europe.

In each case, Agresso's newest services clients outline a series of fast-growth, corporate/public governance and change dynamics that are re-defining ERP requirements for mid-market-sized, people-centric businesses. These business drivers are a marked contrast from the volume-centric, transaction-oriented solutions that drove the giant ERP market leaders' businesses forward in the last decade.

Vector Began its Search with List of 80 Vendors

Vector Aerospace VP Finance George Lawton said the company formed a team of 18 people who initiated a thorough list of some 80 ERP and best of breed providers in total - from niche market to the billion-dollar giants. The list was carefully narrowed to 12, and then reduced to include Agresso, SAP, Microsoft and Sage. The screening, review, demonstration and decision-making process began in November 2006.

"You can't fault the thorough sales methodology of the ERP leaders; they are very professional and use their substantial resources to court you with continual contact, customized gifts and attractive posters," Lawton said. "But at the end of the day, we're not buying their sales teams - we are buying their products. On that score, the leaders' product demonstrations were weak. The products appear more fixed-transaction based, versus low-cost, change-on-the-fly products like Agresso. We considered our options carefully, and at the end of the day there really is no comparison between Agresso and the rest of the market when it comes to business change."

Lawton defined Vector's requirements similar to other mid-market services organizations selecting Agresso over the leader landscape:

* Growth Requirements: Vector plans to grow to $1 billion within a 5-10 year window and incorporate new business process methodologies and analytics;

* Governance Requirements: As a public company, Vector requires optimal auditing and reporting controls as well as the ability to accommodate changing requirements and organizational structure easily;

* Data Consistency Requirements: Vector's disparate legacy solutions hampered the company's ability to consistently get "one version of the truth," as Lawton puts it.

"I had previous exposure to Agresso from a selection process in 1999 at another company, for which Epicor was selected and I later regretted it. The market has been dominated by transaction-based solutions for many years and the parameters have since changed. Agresso's change-oriented capabilities are much more in keeping with today's need for more analytics.

Agresso North America's President, Shelley Zapp points to Agresso's architecture as the reason why the company continues to gain mindshare and market share against much larger competitors. "At $225 million at year-end 2006 - Agresso is clearly the 'David' to the industry's billion-dollar 'Goliaths'. We aren't as large or as slick in our sales presentations, but it's clear that mid-market companies do not want to default to the old crop of leaders just because they've heard their name in ads. Today's businesses want Agresso's change-oriented architecture to gain real advantages for people-centric businesses."

Zapp also noted that the multi-billion-dollar ERP leaders are working feverishly to recalibrate their tier-one-oriented solutions to mid-market buyers by placing Services-Oriented Architectures (SOA) on top of aging data infrastructures. Zapp said this simply masks the leaders' shortcomings. "SOA provides improvements - but doesn't get you anywhere near to Agresso's low-cost, change-oriented capabilities. If you want your data, business processes and reporting/analytics to move in lockstep, Agresso offers a superior architecture at an affordable price.

About Agresso

Agresso software is a fully-integrated suite of ERP applications for services-centric organizations. Agresso's uniquely integrated data/process/delivery architecture allows unlimited post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that have cost companies billions.

This architecture is uniquely suited to Businesses Living IN Change, those we call BLINC. Over 2,600 companies and public sector organizations in over 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management. Agresso solutions are available for:

* Finance

* HR and Payroll

* Procurement 

* Project Costing and Billing

* Reporting & Analytics

* Business Process Automation

* Field Service/Asset Maintenance

About Vector Aerospace

Vector Aerospace Corporation (www.vectoraerospace.com) is an independent provider of aviation repairs and overhaul services. Through facilities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom it provides services to commercial and military customers for various types of gas turbine engines, components and helicopter airframes. It also provides information technology solutions to an international customer base. Principal operations include Atlantic Turbines, Sigma Aerospace, ACROHELIPRO and Pathix. The Company has approximately 1,100 employees.