SSA Global Wins IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for Best Solution with a New Strategic Alliance

LAS VEGAS--Feb. 28, 2005--SSA Global(TM), a leading provider of extended enterprise solutions and services has been named winner in the "Best Solution with a New Strategic Alliance category" of the annual IBM Beacon Awards competition. The company will accept the award at the IBM PartnerWorld Conference in Las Vegas, February 27 - March 2.

SSA Global, an IBM Premier Business Partner, established an alliance with IBM last year to jointly develop, market and deliver comprehensive, integrated offerings that combine SSA Global's extended ERP solutions with IBM eServers, middleware, and database management applications.

The thousands of customers that currently leverage both SSA Global and IBM solutions can now further reduce total cost of ownership and time-to-value. For example, Greif, Inc., a worldwide leader in industrial packaging, integrated SSA Global solutions on new IBM Series* Power 5* platform to create a consolidated IT infrastructure. As a result, Greif streamlined its 50-plus North American industrial packaging plants to a single data center, standardized on SSA ERP and has already saved more than $1 million in IT costs.

"This ambitious move has enabled Greif to achieve 40 percent infrastructure cost savings from the hardware consolidation, and become a more agile business through its use of a single SSA ERP solution and better management reporting tools," said Donn Atkins, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "SSA Global demonstrates great passion, determination, and a keen understanding of their clients' needs."

"Earning this IBM Beacon Award, especially in the category of Best Solution with a New Strategic Alliance, is testament to the strength of the IBM and SSA Global partnership. It exemplifies how the right solution and collaboration can create substantial and quantifiable value for clients," said Graeme Cooksley, executive vice president of SSA Global. "The SSA Global portfolio of extended enterprise solutions, our strategic alliance with IBM and our commitment to IBM Websphere Business Integration ensures customers that we can address their key business drivers and help them compete in the on demand world."

About IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards:

Nearly 600 nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives, who selected winner and finalists in 31 award categories. These IBM Business Partners will be honored during the IBM PartnerWorld 2005 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 27, 2005 - March 2. For more information about the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards please visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pw2005_beacon.html.

About SSA Global

SSA Global(TM) is a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, services and public organizations 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 63 locations worldwide and its product offerings are used by approximately 13,000 active customers in over 90 countries. For additional information, visit the SSA Global web site at www.ssaglobal.com.

SSA Global(TM) is the new corporate brand for product lines and subsidiaries of SSA Global Technologies, Inc.

SSA Global, SSA Global Technologies and SSA GT are trademarks of SSA Global Technologies, Inc. Other products mentioned in this document are registered, trademarked or service marked by their respective owners.

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