SAP Press Release

Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
January 27, 2006

ETL Solutions Limited, a leading provider of enterprise integration solutions today announced that Transformation Manager™ transforms have achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" certification. SAP NetWeaver is the open integration and application platform that aligns people, information and processes.

Transformation Manager — ETL’s highly productive data transformation and integration product suite is used by major corporations worldwide in a range of business sectors that include Supply Chain Planning, Finance, Defence, and Geoscience. Transformation Manager, a market leading fully featured data extract and integration product suite, supports the multiple integration strategies available with SAP, including integration with NetWeaver® Architecture using BAPI interfaces, IDOC exchange or Remote Function Calls. Transformation Manager provides flexible, bi-directional data integration between SAP and RDBMS, XML, Flat Files, or indeed any other kind of data within hours of the requirements being defined.

John Bigerstaff, ETL’s CEO, said “Transformation Manager is one of the first data transformation and integration toolkits that automatically generates transforms, to obtain Powered by SAP NetWeaver certification. I believe that the speed at which solutions can now be provided, almost as soon as the integration requirements are defined, will lead to a step change in delivering integration solutions to our users and partners.”

Tom Brady, I.T. Manager at Thorn Lighting, one of the first companies to use Transformation Manager SAP integration, said “ETL were able to quickly design and map the solution required and commence with the development work required. In a relatively short time we were able to trial a data flow between our systems in England and in Germany and then work on the fine-tuning exercise before deployment into a live environment.”

Transformation Manager 3.8 transforms were certified to be deployed on the latest version of the SAP Web Application Server Release 6.40 and to have UI integration through the SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0.

To coincide with this announcement ETL are offering their new SAP Adapter free of charge with purchases of Transformation Manager made before March 31st 2006.

Value of Powered by SAP NetWeaver Certification
Most large organizations have initiatives to consolidate their IT resources in order to reduce complexity and increase productivity and as the enterprise evolves the demands to become ever more agile, deliver more business benefits with less effort and in shorter timeframes demand new innovative integration solutions. Transformation Manager provides a proven solution to deliver and maintain interfaces between SAP and data residing in external formats, in the most cost effective manner, thus fulfilling the primary objective of most businesses, which is gaining access to every aspect of the company’s data. Deploying SAP's NetWeaver Enterprise Architecture can provide a single interface to all of a company's business applications.