Coastal Range Systems Invited to Attend SAP Americas' Partner Club 2010

Coastal Range Systems, one of Canada's fastest-growing business systems integration providers, today announced it has been invited to attend SAP Americas' Partner Club 2010.

Canadian Reseller One of Five North American SAP Channel Partners for SAP® Business One™ Selected

VANCOUVER - April 13, 2010 - Coastal Range Systems, one of Canada's fastest-growing business systems integration providers, today announced it has been invited to attend SAP Americas' Partner Club 2010. Coastal Range is among the leading channel partners specializing in the SAP® Business One application in North America invited to Partner Club 2010. Invitations were extended to an elite group of 15 of the top-performing SAP channel partners and SAP BusinessObjects™ partners in North America for outstanding contributions in revenue and customer service and satisfaction.

Invitations were given to the top U.S. and Canadian partners at SAP Partner Summit Americas 2010, held in March in Las Vegas. The annual event is a gathering of SAP sales executives and partners, and a collaborative forum to discuss and learn more about SAP sales methodology, best practices, business growth opportunities and product innovations. The theme of this year's summit was "The Clear Path Forward" and the focus was on helping SAP channel partners succeed by providing the tools, resources and training to make them successful in 2010.

Being amongst the top SAP channel partners for SAP Business One is recognition Coastal Range Systems has been honoured with since 2006. Partner Club invitations are reserved for leading SAP channel partners and SAP BusinessObjects partners in North America and are based on sales for the year as well as customer satisfaction and overall business relationships.

"We are delighted to once again receive this recognition from SAP as one of the top channel partners for SAP Business One," said Stephen Loyd, president and chief executive officer, Coastal Range Systems. "We are committed to helping our customers achieve their business goals and feel SAP Business One is the ideal solution for entrepreneurs as it enables them to focus on what's important to them - growing their business."

Despite a challenging economy in 2009, Coastal Range Systems has continued to find success emerging as one of the largest resellers of SAP Business One in North America. With offices in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Nevada, Coastal Range Systems is able to service its customers' IT needs over an expanding geography.

"So much of the credit for our success in the SME market goes to our qualified network of channel partners," said Conrad Mandala, vice president, SME, SAP Canada Inc. "Coastal Range has been extremely successful in driving the SAP Business One practice in North America, and the invitation to Partner Club 2010 is recognition of that. We look forward to working closely with Coastal Range on continuing that momentum."

For more information on SAP Business One, please visit www.sap.ca


About Coastal Range Systems
Coastal Range Systems is a privately owned group of companies that is recognized as a national leader for the implementation of SAP Business One in Canada (and amongst the top ten) in North America. Coastal Range is a gold SAP channel partner and has been the recipient of prestigious awards from SAP every year since the initial introduction of SAP Business One in North America, including recognition for some of the first implementations of the application in Canada. Awards include those for Top Performers (2009, 2008, 2007 & 2006), SAP Business One Canadian Partner of the year (2008, 2007 & 2005), and IQ for Excellence (2004). These awards recognize Coastal Range Systems achievements in sales, depth of product knowledge, and customer satisfaction.

Coastal Range's seasoned management and staff have been providing information technologies solutions to meet customers' challenges. They have experienced business analysts who scrutinize business processes so that their customers receive precisely tailored management systems to meet their specific operational requirements. The Coastal Range difference combines world leading software with depth of knowledge and experience to give their customers an easily measured and quickly realized return on investment. For more information, please contact, Stephen Loyd, President & CEO, 604.473.2100, Toll-free number 1-866-277-2736, www.coastalrange.ca

Visit www.sap.com/canada for more information about SAP Business One.

About SAP Canada Inc.
SAP Canada Inc., based in Toronto, is a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), the world's leading provider of business software*. SAP delivers solutions to help Canadian enterprises of all sizes to create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations, optimize performance and profitability, reduce costs, and increase competitive advantage. In addition, SAP Labs Canada, a division of SAP Canada Inc., develops cutting-edge software for a wide array of SAP applications from its Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver locations.

SAP Canada Inc. has more than 1,200 customers and over 2,200 employees across the country.

For further information, please visit www.sap.ca.

About SAP AG
SAP AG is the world's leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 95,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP." For more information, visit www.sap.com.


(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, and related applications.

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