SSA Global Launches Technology Architecture 5.0, a Modern, Standards-Based Service-Oriented Architecture

CHICAGO--May 1, 20057, 2005--SSA Global(TM), a leading global provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, today announced the general availability of SSA Technology Architecture 5.0, a modern, standards-based platform that enables companies to align IT infrastructures with business strategies for reduced operational costs, faster response to customer requirements and easier compliance with government regulations.

SSA Technology Architecture is a service-oriented architecture that facilitates interoperability and enables companies to leverage their current and future technology and application investments. SSA Technology Architecture forms the foundation for SSA Global's core and extended ERP solutions and has already been applied to SSA Global's flagship products, SSA ERP LN and SSA ERP LX.

"The imperative to reduce IT costs has organizations standardizing their technology infrastructures," said Cory A. Eaves, chief technology officer, SSA Global. "The general availability of SSA Technology Architecture is further evidence that SSA Global is delivering the open, platform-independent technology foundation that companies need to be successful."

SSA Technology Architecture is a J2EE-based foundation for:

-- Personalized and consolidated Web-based user interfaces for a more effective and efficient user experience. This secure, modern user interface provides a unified picture of customers' enterprise data, enabling them to preserve and extend their technology investment

-- Advanced reporting, analysis and monitoring tools for enabling better and faster manipulation, configuration and analysis of business information. This solution combines personalized, cascading scorecards with integrations to SSA Global solutions and comes standard with pre-defined content

-- Business process management and integration infrastructure for implementing integrated, end-to-end business processes that enable automation and collaboration across the enterprise and into the extended supply chain network. Interoperability between diverse application architectures is increased through standardization, Web services and modern integration platforms

-- A common enterprise-wide administration tool set for more efficient modeling and deployment of products. User administration will be simplified through a unified user management and single sign-on across SSA Global applications. Centralized licensing, logging and general configuration further reduce complexity and cost of application maintenance.

SSA Global has standardized on the industry-leading IBM Websphere suite to integrate its core and extended solutions. With SSA Technology Architecture, customers can leverage the substantial investment IBM is making in developing new Websphere capabilities.

"Businesses are trying to unify and consolidate their infrastructure into technology platforms that enable them to be more agile in response to market dynamics," said Bob Mick, vice president, emerging technologies, ARC Advisory Group. "To address these needs, SSA Global's Technology Architecture builds on industry-leading technology and delivers an application environment that helps customers become more dynamic and competitive when incrementally applying emerging technologies and architectures."

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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