Agresso Drives 62% Organic 2007 Sales Growth in N.A. Market

Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa), the ERP market's definition of agility, announced today that organic North American sales of the Agresso Business World enterprise solutions suite grew 62 percent in 2007. The announcement follows the release of 2007 revenue statistics by global parent Unit 4 Agresso in which the company crested $480 million, growing 39% worldwide and beating enterprise software industry averages. Agresso North America recorded a series of first-ever, million-dollar-plus contracts in 2007 to private and public sector services organizations. The overall North American deal size grew to $620,000 per contract. Agresso’s revenue surge both domestically and internationally has been tied to a strategic repositioning of the company’s core strengths. Agresso specifically targets a dynamic segment of the services sector that it calls BLINC -- Businesses Living IN Change. Launched in mid-2006, the BLINC marketing and sales strategy underscores strengths inherent in the underlying native architecture that allows organizations to support business change easily and inexpensively. "This has been a period of explosive growth for us and we have risen to the challenge of successfully taking on the multi-billion-dollar market leaders,” said Agresso North America President, Shelley Zapp. "By staying focused on sales activities that showcase our ability to save organizations money over the long term, we have carved out a very defensible niche. Companies and public sector organizations that select Agresso are those that do their homework – they have stopped buying into the ERP leaders’ proposition that business change is costly and difficult.” Despite the strong 2007, Agresso’s North American executives report that the current 2008 sales pipeline appears 48% stronger than it was at this time a year ago. The company has made strong inroads into local government, non-profit, travel and professional services organizations. About Agresso Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa) is a $480 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) company, listed in the Netherlands as 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) ™. 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 2,750 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, Business Process Automation, Field Services and Asset Maintenance, and CRM.