Meyers Norris Penny LLP Selects Agresso to Support Firm’s Growth

Victoria, B.C. – January 26, 2010 – Agresso (www.AgressoNA.com), a leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company, today announced an agreement worth over $1 million dollars with Meyers Norris Penny LLP (MNP) (www.mnp.ca), one of the largest chartered accountancy and business advisory firms in Canada. In the agreement, Agresso’s ERP solution will provide core financials and payroll capabilities and act as a platform to support both MNP’s growth in size and its increasingly complex business model. MNP’s ERP evaluation process included solutions from Lawson, Elite and Epicor; however Agresso proved the best fit with MNP’s selection criteria: meeting functional and system requirements with minimal customization, a high degree of flexibility to evolve as MNP evolves, open-style architecture using industry-standard tools to facilitate integration with other systems, and ease of fit with existing hardware and communication infrastructure.

With more than 2,400 employees in 50 locations and strategically entering new markets and jurisdictions, MNP faces an ever-changing business environment. “With plans to double in size and add new locations and services over the next five years, our existing software was not going to scale with our growth plans or support the resulting complexity,” said Cheryl Lemieux, finance director for MNP. “We needed a solution like Agresso that was both comprehensive and agile so we could transform our finance team to provide strategic decision support and other more value-added services.”

As a provider of accounting and business expertise itself, MNP was conscious of avoiding the proverb of the shoemaker’s children– it’s always the shoemaker’s children who go barefoot – and is proactively preparing itself for growth and for change. MNP is well on its way; its fiscal year ending May 31, 2009 saw revenue growth of 20 percent over the previous year. In the midst of this growth, MNP was named one of the 50 Best Employers in Canada two years running, a testament to MNP’s strategic preparations for success in an evolving business environment.

“Meyers Norris Penny is a perfect example of what we call ‘Businesses Living In Change,’” said Shelley Zapp, president of Agresso North America. “They are growing, and expanding into new territories, both activities that demand responsive ERP software that won’t lock them down or entangle them in costly re-implementation exercises. They understand and embrace change and they appreciate the advantages of Agresso’s post-implementation agility.”

MNP anticipates going live with its Agresso system in the fall of 2010.

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About Meyer Norris Penny LLP
MNP is one of the largest chartered accountancy and business advisory firms in Canada, providing client-focused assurance, taxation and business advice. MNP has proudly served mid-market public and private companies for more than 60 years. Through the development of strong partnerships, MNP provides organizations with customized strategies and a local perspective to help clients succeed. For more information, visit www.mnp.ca.

About Agresso
Agresso (www.agressoNA.com) is a $500 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) company and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for professional services and public sector organizations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC). Agresso 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 2,900 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.

ABOUT UNIT4
 
UNIT4 is a global business software and services company aimed at helping dynamic organizations to embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively in a market sector it calls 'Businesses Living IN Change' (BLINC)™. The Group incorporates a number of the world’s leading change embracing software brands including Agresso Business World and CODA financial management software.
 
For mid-sized services intensive organizations, UNIT4 markets the Agresso Business World ERP suite that is widely acknowledged as the business software solution that delivers the lowest Total Cost of Change. This is achieved thanks to its VITA™ architecture which allows for ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and services that cost firms huge sums of money each year.
 
CODA Financials is our award-winning suite of best-of-class financial management software designed to integrate with your industry- and company-specific applications. CODA’s LINK™ architecture sets it apart from ordinary accounting systems by providing a financial information backbone for companies with fast-changing and mixed application environments. It is a global accounting solution for mid-to large sized organizations, offering a "no compromise" approach to financial modeling, process control and application choice.

UNIT4 is a top six mid-market ERP software player globally and the 2nd largest European ERP supplier. With offices in 13 European countries, as well 6 countries across North America, Asia Pacific and Africa and sales activities in several other countries, a revenue of €379.4 million was realized in 2009. UNIT4 is headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. The company has 3,456 employees (31 December 2009).
 
For more information, please visit: www.unit4.com, or call:
Emma Hoyle
Group PR Manager
UNIT4
+44 1423 537 977
emma.hoyle@unit4.com