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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Agilon Partners with Agresso to Provide Fundraising Financial
Cedar Rapids, IA - March 15, 2006 - Agilon announces today that it has entered
into a new partnership with Agresso, a leader in providing business financial
software, to implement the AGRESSO Business World financial system into higher
education and non-profit foundations. The partnership brings Agilon's fundraising
solution, Portland State University Foundation (PSUF), an Agilon fundraising system client, is currently implementing AGRESSO Business World. The implementation of AGRESSO Financials went very smoothly as the module had a seamless fit with the needs of PSUF. Coleen Peterson, Agilon's Project Manager for the PSUF implementation says, "Agresso and Agilon worked together as an integrated project team to create a leading-edge system solution that provides all of the capabilities needed by a fundraising organization." David Best, President and CEO of Agilon, highlights the reason they chose to partner with Agresso: "AGRESSO is our financials solution of choice because of its outstanding ability to be an organization-wide information warehouse that allows for unlimited dimensions of analysis and powerful reporting capabilities to keep pace with ongoing change. Process and organizational change can be undertaken far more rapidly with AGRESSO and at a much lower cost because, with AGRESSO, it does not require complete re-implementation." "This agreement is part of a series of premium-level alliances and commitments that Agresso is making to the North American market," said Shelley Zapp, President of Agresso's North American operations. "Agilon's solution for non-profits offers an efficient environment for fundraising operations and relationship management through web based software that seamlessly integrates with AGRESSO. This partnership gives organizations the opportunity to fulfill their philanthropic missions and achieve a higher level of service to their constituencies, supported by our fullservice, change-oriented framework." Agilon's fundraising solution provides clients with a fundraising database system that successfully manages donors, prospects, memberships, scholarships and events for a wide range of non-profit organizations. The system includes an integrated online community portal and an email communication system that enrich an organization's relationships with their donors and prospects.
The AGRESSO Financials system includes Core Financials, Fixed Assets, Budgeting,
Procurement, Human Resources, Payroll and Project Costing and Billing modules
along with system-wide workflow, reporting and business process components with
integration to and from Agilon's solution, The architecture of AGRESSO Business World has been designed specifically to meet the needs of ‘people-centric' organizations in terms of its flexibility, powerful reporting capabilities and ease of system updates to keep pace with organizational changes. AGRESSO provides the ability to analyze expenditure beyond the confines of a standard accounting package has made it the choice of complex, sophisticated organizations working within rigidly controlled budgets.
About Agilon
About Agresso
Agresso is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unit 4 Agresso. Agresso's North American
offices are located in Victoria, British Columbia; Greater Los Angeles, California; and
Dallas, Texas. Unit 4 Agresso, headquartered in the Netherlands, is listed on the
Dutch Stock Exchange that employs 2,000 professionals and staff worldwide and had
a turnover of $420million USD in 2005. Unit 4 Agresso is a leading international
producer of business software for service companies and organizations and supplier
of security software. For more information,
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