Sabre and UNIT4 Renew SignificantPartnership to Transform Back-Offices in Travel Industry

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Sabre and UNIT4 Renew SignificantPartnership to Transform Back-Offices in Travel Industry

Sabre CentralCommand With Agresso is an Industry-leading Travel and Financial Back-office Solution for Large Fast Changing Travel Management Companies

VICTORIA, British Columbia and SOUTHLAKE, Texas, June 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    UNIT4 Business Software (http://www.unit4software.com), a division
of UNIT4, the world's leading provider of business software for fast
changing organizations, and Sabre Travel Network today announced the
seven-year renewal of their partnership to advance their travel back-office
software, Sabre CentralCommand with Agresso. Representing a significant
investment, the agreement reflects the success of CentralCommand in helping
large travel management companies (TMCs) be more efficient, more profitable
and able to embrace business change independently in a simple, quick and
cost-effective way.

    "Continuing our successful journey with Sabre will provide ongoing
benefits to our customers, which include many of Sabre's largest clients,"
says Ab van Marion, COO of UNIT4. "Our partnership represents a clear
commitment to ongoing R&D in CentralCommand ensuring it remains the most
agile business information system available for the travel industry. We look
forward to evolving CentralCommand, responding to new technology trends like
the cloud, and further establishing our presence in this key sector."

    CentralCommand is a fully-integrated travel accounting and back-office
financial management and business intelligence solution. With its ability to
automate manual tasks and its multi-lingual, multi-currency, and
multi-country capabilities, CentralCommand has seen particular success among
large TMCs with multiple locations, multiple lines of business and global
operations.

    "CentralCommand combines best in class financial management tools with
Sabre's industry-leading back-office solutions for large TMCs. Specifically
designed for the travel industry, CentralCommand helps customers save money,
increase productivity and access critical business information, no matter
how challenging or rapidly changing their business environment is," said
Chris Kroeger, senior vice president of marketing for Sabre Travel Network.
"For Sabre Travel Network, offering CentralCommand in partnership with UNIT4
represents an important part of our Sabre Red portfolio, ensuring we have
the most robust selection of business intelligence products."

    CentralCommand's unique architecture is specifically designed for
organizations that are facing frequent, ongoing change - a hallmark of the
travel industry where key performance indicators are highly fluid, mergers
and acquisitions occur and considerable regulatory and competitive pressures
exist. With CentralCommand, customers can quickly respond to changing
business needs.

    Sabre and UNIT4 originally partnered in 2002 to create CentralCommand,
which is now used by TMCs across North America, Latin America and Europe.

    About UNIT4 Business Software
UNIT4 Business Software in North America (http://www.unit4software.com) is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of UNIT4, a $576 million enterprise resource
planning (ERP) company and a top six mid-market ERP software player
globally. UNIT4 Business Software's leading ERP product for organizations
living in change, Agresso Business World, is widely acknowledged as the
business software solution that delivers the lowest Total Cost of Change.
The software's unique VITA? architecture allows for ongoing,
post-implementation changes by business users, without the external IT costs
typical of disparate systems.

    Over 3,000 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, and Field Services and Asset
Maintenance.

    About Sabre Travel Network

    Sabre Travel Network [http://en.eu.sabretravelnetwork.com ] is the
world's leading provider of high-performance travel solutions. By combining
its unique expertise and leading technology, Sabre powers business
performance across the travel industry. Sabre's multi-channel merchandising
and procurement solutions enable corporate and leisure agencies, corporate
travel programs, airlines, hotels and other travel suppliers around the
world to make money, save money and provide better customer service. Sabre
Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel possibilities by
retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology
solutions for the travel industry.

    The names of actual companies or products mentioned herein may be the
trademarks of their respective owners. Agresso, Agresso Business World,
BLINC and VITA are registered trademarks of UNIT4 Business Software.

   
    Media contact:

    Sarah Milner
    Marketing & Communications Manager, UNIT4 Business Software
    P: +1-250-704-4484
    C: +1-250-516-2137
    E: sarah.milner@unit4.com
    Twitter: @UNIT4SoftwareNA

    Heidi Castle
    Sabre Holdings
    P: +1-682-605-4290
    C: +1-214-681-8169
    E: heidi.castle@sabre.com
    Twitter: @SabreNews, @heidicastle

Source: UNIT4

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