itelligence Awarded 2011 SAP® Pinnacle Award

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16.05.2011

Global Partner Awards Presented to Top SAP Partners for Delivering Unparalleled Technology, Services and Solutions to Mutual Customers

CINCINNATI, OHIO — May 16, 2011— itelligence today announced it has been awarded a 2011 SAP® Pinnacle award in the category “SME Global Fastest Growing Partner of the Year/ Small and Midsize Enterprise (SME)”. SAP Pinnacle awards are presented annually to leading SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP (NYSE: SAP) and driving customer success. Winners were selected based on more than 150 nominations in 18 categories received from partners and SAP employees. itelligence received the award on May 16 at SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP’s international customer conference held in Orlando, Fla. May 15 – 18.

“The SAP Pinnacle award represents an important, annual barometer of our success in both delivering value-added solutions and services to improve enterprise customers’ businesses and building on our strategic, mutually beneficial partnership with SAP,” said Herbert Vogel, CEO itelligence AG. “We continue challenging our organization to set and exceed even higher levels of customer satisfaction and sales performance, while demonstrating business intelligence in everything we do.”

“We are delivering new levels of value and enhanced business intelligence in support of SAP solutions every day to a constantly expanding range of customers,” said Steve Niesman, itelligence U.S. president and CEO. “Our close partnership with SAP and organizational assets in terms of SAP knowledge, experience and best practices approaches is making a difference for customers in their industries as well.”

An SAP partner for more than 20 years, itelligence is an SAP gold channel partner, an SAP BusinessObjects™ solution provider partner and a global value-added reseller. itelligence offers best-run businesses the SAP software and solutions needed to address increasingly critical business issues, including the need for better access to valuable business intelligence to inform their decisions.

“We congratulate itelligence on receipt of the 2011 SAP Pinnacle award, demonstrating a strong commitment to the SAP partnership and delivering outstanding value and satisfaction to customers in the midmarket,” said Fritz Neumeyer, senior vice president, Volume Reseller and Services Partners, SAP. “The SME market represents the largest portion of the SAP customer base, and it’s the fastest-growing segment of our business. The success experienced by SAP and our customers in the midmarket is due in large part to strong collaboration with our channel partners. Recipients of this year’s Pinnacle awards have delivered outstanding value and mutual business success for our customers, our partners and SAP.”

About itelligence
itelligence Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of itelligence AG, an international full-service solution and consulting company with a global presence in 19 countries. itelligence provides a broad range of consulting and customer support services to maximize SAP solutions, including implementations, application support, hosting and training. itelligence AG has a global value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with SAP AG, a highly selective program via invitation through SAP management only, developed to transform itelligence from a high-growth midmarket partner and local reseller into a managed, global partner. itelligence is a gold-level SAP channel partner authorized to resell SAP Business All-in-One and SAP BusinessObjects solutions and is one of only 6 SAP global services, global hosting and global application management services partners. itelligence also holds global quality accreditation by SAP Active Quality Management organization for demonstrating clear quality standards and processes. For more information please visit http://www.itelligencegroup.com/.
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For more information, contact Laure Poquette, director of marketing, itelligence, at 630-725-3346 or laure.poquette@itelligencegroup.com

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