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Ingram Book Group Saves Half a Million in Three Years with Manhattan Associates' Audit, Payment & Claims Solution
Distributor Eliminates Manual and Paper-based Processes and Transforms Transportation Cost Management
ATLANTA — January 8, 2007 — Leading Supply Chain solutions provider, Manhattan Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH), and Ingram Book Group Inc., one of the world's largest wholesale distributors of book products, report significant benefits from Ingram's 2003 deployment of Manhattan Associates' Audit, Payment & Claims solution. Utilizing the solution, Ingram has increased speed and accuracy in its freight auditing and invoice processes and saved $150,000 each year for the last three years. Not counting Ingram's Proof of Delivery requirement for each shipment, Audit, Payment & Claims manages 90% of the company's billing exceptions, freeing Ingram's resources to complete value-add activities in other areas of the company.

Burda Digital Systems Selects SAP NetWeaver® as the Foundation for its Enterprise SOA Road Map; Goes Live in Half the Estimated Rollout Time

LAS VEGAS - December 04, 2006 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Burda Digital Systems, the IT services arm of Hubert Burda Media, has successfully created a new business model to expand its revenue streams and reduce costs leveraging SAP® software and the IT flexibility of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). The new model bundles the best-practice business processes cultivated over Burda Digital Systems’ 18-year history to offer them externally as standalone services, delivered via the service-enabled mySAP™ ERP 2005 application and the SAP NetWeaver® platform. Rolled out in half the estimated time, the enterprise SOA-based solution is already delivering benefits such as 20-percent cost reductions tapping business process synergies across the enterprise and seamlessly integrating SAP software with legacy applications and open-source offerings. The announcement was made at SAP’s fourth annual Analyst Summit, being held in Las Vegas, December 4-5.