Infor completes SSA Global acquisition

Issued by Watt Communications & G Watt Design for EOH
Johannesburg, 16 Aug 2006

Business and financial management company SSA Global last week underwent an identity change, adopting the name of its new owner, Infor.

Softworx, regional master distributor of SSA Global in South Africa, has confirmed that Infor, the third largest global provider of enterprise software, has completed its acquisition of SSA Global. The name change follows the completion of Infor`s US$1.4 billion acquisition of SSA Global last month.

Infor delivers fully integrated end-to-end enterprise solutions as well as best-in-class standalone products that address the essential challenges customers face in areas such as enterprise resource planning, supply chain planning and execution, customer and supplier relationship management, asset management, and product lifecycle management.

The acquisition now results as SSA Global being part of world`s fastest-growing enterprise software company. Infor is the third largest business application company behind SAP and Oracle with $2.1 billion in annual revenue and about 70 000 customers.

Infor CEO Jim Schaper said the acquisitions of SSA Global, Systems Union and Extensity will enhance the company`s product roadmap, giving it more customer appeal.

"The acquisition will result in us being able to broaden our offering services to include solutions that will enable our customers to improve performance throughout the organisation," Jane Thomson, Managing Director, Softworx said. "Companies can choose integrated solutions for specific industries as well as standalone solutions from one provider."

Infor`s acquisition strategy benefits customers by extending the life of an enterprise`s technology investment, integrating highly complementary product sets and providing rich vertical market experience. Infor enriches and extends its customers` current solutions, while providing a path to new technologies.

Softworx

Delivering business solutions with a difference.

Softworx is a successful South-African business applications company that prides itself in being able to deliver world-class products to its extensive customer base, which includes a number of Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Softworx supports clients in industries ranging from manufacturing, retail, distribution and financial to supporting various government entities. The company is dedicated to marketing, implementing and providing support for its range of complementary software products to medium and large enterprises that require effective solutions to optimise their business processes.

Softworx has positioned itself as a leading provider of business applications in South Africa specialising in end-to-end business solutions. The company prides itself in being able to deliver true value to its customers through the implementation of business solutions based on a powerful combination of leading edge products and consultancy. As a wholly owned subsidiary of EOH, Softworx has increased the number of services and products that can be offered to its customers from within the group.

EOH

EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients. EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:

Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education. The EOH Consulting business unit is responsible for delivering IT solutions that make business sense. We focus on providing remarkable technology solutions using robust methodologies to perform along the following four dimensions of IT excellence:

* Business-alignment
* Quality
* Risk management
* Cost management

Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement, and support a range of world-class business applications including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems.

Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of clients` IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition, EOH offers full business process outsourcing (BPO) services.

EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and Botswana, and operates in the rest of Africa.

Infor

Infor is one of the largest global software providers focused on delivering world-class enterprise applications to select verticals in the manufacturing and distribution industries. Infor delivers integrated solutions that address the essential challenges its customers face in areas such as supply chain planning, enterprise asset management, relationship management, demand management, ERP, warehouse management, and business intelligence. With more than 3 100 employees in 50 global offices, Infor provides enterprise solutions to almost 24 700 customers in over 100 countries. For additional information, visit http://www.infor.com/.

SSA Global

SSA Global (NASDAQ: SSAG) is a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, services and public organisations worldwide. In addition to core ERP applications, SSA Global offers a full range of integrated extension solutions including corporate performance management, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management. Headquartered in Chicago, SSA Global has over 50 locations worldwide and its product offerings are used by customers in over 90 countries. For additional information, visit the SSA Global Web site at www.ssaglobal.com.

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