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February 15, 2007
Answerthink Receives SAP's SME Partner of the Year Award
SAP America Inc. Recognizes Answerthink for Top Performance and Most New Accounts
MIAMI, February 15, 2007 - Answerthink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSR) announced today that it has been named an SAP® All-in-One Partner of the Year by SAP America, in recognition of the company's sales and implementation efforts with small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). In addition, three individual Answerthink account executives were recognized as top SME performers in the U.S. by SAP.
The awards were presented to Answerthink at SAP's 2007 Field Kickoff Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., an annual gathering of SAP employees and partners. This year's event featured more than 550 partner attendees. Answerthink was named SAP All-in-One Partner of the Year for delivering the most new named accounts while improving customer satisfaction measures.
Answerthink account executives also received awards at the event. Ernest Perno was named top performing account executive in the U.S., while Chris Regan took the #2 spot in the same category. Tom Reul was also named as the account executive with the most new accounts in 2006. In addition, Answerthink received an award for the best field use of best practices.
SAP All-in-One solutions are industry-specific software, implementation, and training solutions developed by SAP partner companies like Answerthink. Small and midsize companies typically have revenues under $500 million and require cost-effective solutions that can be up and running quickly. These companies benefit greatly from the industry and business-specific solution expertise that partners like Answerthink provide.
In addition to SAP software sales, Answerthink offers a broad array of implementation services designed to enable clients to achieve world-class business performance and maximize the return on technology investments.
"Answerthink continues to be a standout in the partner channel, offering distinct solutions that address the needs of the small and midsize enterprise customer," said Michael Sotnick, senior vice president, Small and Midsize Enterprise, SAP America Inc..
According to Answerthink Vice President of Sales Art Colombo, "The hard work of the team, along with the development of a successful vertical and continued support from SAP, have proven to be very rewarding for us in 2006. We look forward to an even more successful 2007.
About Answerthink
Answerthink, Inc. (www.answerthink.com) is a leading business and technology consulting firm that enables companies to achieve world-class business performance. By leveraging the comprehensive database of The Hackett Group, Answerthink's business and technology solutions help clients significantly improve performance and maximize returns on technology investments. Answerthink's capabilities include benchmarking, business transformation, business applications, business intelligence, and offshore application development and support. Founded in 1997, Answerthink has offices throughout the United States and in Europe and India.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Answerthink's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that impact such forward-looking statements include, among others, the ability of the products, services, or practices mentioned in this release to deliver the desired effect, our ability to effectively integrate acquisitions into our operations, our ability to attract additional business, our ability to effectively market and sell our product offerings and other services, the timing of projects and the potential for contract cancellations by our customers, changes in expectations regarding the information technology industry, our ability to attract and retain skilled employees, possible changes in collections of accounts receivable, risks of competition, price and margin trends, foreign currency fluctuations, changes in general economic conditions and interest rates as well as other risks detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2006 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
