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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AGRESSO/AGILON PARTNERSHIP YIELDING EDUCATION SECTOR AGILITY
AGRESSO ADVANCES NON-PROFIT DRIVE INTO U.S. VIA ERP AND FUNDRAISING TIE;
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION REPORTS FINANCIAL EDGE
PORTLAND, OR (April 3, 2007) - Portland State University Foundation (PSUF), a non-profit foundation supporting
$90-million in assets connected to the University’s fundraising and investment management efforts, reports
today that the deployment of a combined solution from ERP leader Agresso and its non-profit solutions partner,
Agilon, is already yielding significant financial and resource management gains. The two companies partnered in
2006 in connection with Agresso’s formal drive into the North American market this summer. Agresso
(www.agresso.com), one of the top five worldwide providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions,
is deployed in over 100 countries worldwide in more than 2,400 organizations.
"PSUF is now becoming the poster child for other visionary non-profit organizations, with its new dynamic
capability to pursue philanthropic goals via sophisticated financial management solutions," said Shelley Zapp,
president, Agresso North America. "The inherent, well-documented agility of Agresso’s enterprise solutions
allows services organizations in both the private and public sector, regardless if they are for-profit or
not-for-profit, to yield significant financial gains."
PSUF officials have already noted greater efficiencies and lower personnel costs tied to a post-implementation
change made with Agresso. "We were able to take advantage of an incredible opportunity to carve out a separate
profit-making venture that would increase our returns," said Philip Varnum, CFO, PSUF. "Agresso gave us the
ability to develop a $40-million student housing project and to change our organizational, analysis and reporting
parameters - on the fly - to be in complete regulatory compliance. It was a painless process to change the entire
structure of our solution. I doubt if there’s anyone else in the financial solutions market that can do this."
Varnum adds, "With Agresso and Agilon, our opportunities to better manage the foundation are limited only by our
imagination - not by our capabilities. It has really changed the way we think and plan."
Integrating Agilon’s leading web-based fundraising solution with the powerful change-oriented framework of Agresso
financials and investment manager, PSUF now has the agility and scalability to grow rapidly with their system while
providing fund accountants with the ability to easily track, report and analyze funds and investments. Agilon’s
fundraising software also provides all the features you would expect from a sophisticated, fully integrated
fundraising application, providing a database system that successfully manages donors, prospects and members
for non-profit institutions.
About Agresso
Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa) is a $225 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) subsidiary of Netherlands-based
Unit 4 Agresso (Dutch Stock Exchange EURONEXT-U4AGR) and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for
professional services and public sector organizations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated data/process/delivery
architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC)TM. Agresso is known as "The ERP Market's
Definition of Agility" as it allows an unlimited amount of ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical
external IT costs and intervention that nets billions of dollars in revenue to the market leaders. Over 2,600
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 and Business Process Automation.
About Portland State University Foundation
Oregon’s largest, most diverse and only urban university, hosts over 24,000 students and more than 120 programs
and majors. Portland State University Foundation was established in 1963 to provide support for the private
fundraising efforts of Portland State University and to manage privately donated funds on behalf of the university.
The Foundation is a non-profit corporation organized in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon and managed
by a volunteer Board of Directors.
PSUF’s mission is to cultivate and manage both monetary and volunteer support for the University. Gifts to the
Foundation advance PSU by providing scholarships for outstanding students, supporting faculty research and instruction,
and enhancing facilities and program development and growth.
About Agilon
Agilon’s fundraising solution provides clients with a database system that successfully manages donors, prospects,
memberships, scholarships and events for a wide range of non-profit organizations. The system is entirely web-based
and includes an integrated on-line community portal and an e-mail communication system that enrich an organization’s
relationships with their donors and prospects.
Agilon is dedicated to providing products and services that empower non-profit organizations to develop life-long
relationships and effective communications with their constituents. Agilon is focused on helping its customers
achieve their philanthropic goals through the application of information management and communication technologies.
Its software is web-based and provides secure access for its clients and their constituents. For more information,
visit www.MyAgilon.com.
Contact: Judith Rothrock, CMO
Phone: 858-847-9850
Email: Judith.Rothrock@agresso.com
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