EANS-News: adesso´s subsidiary e-Spirit intensifies sales efforts for its product in North America

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Plant Openings

Subtitle: Foundation of e-Spirit Inc. and road show for partners at
the end of October

Dortmund (euro adhoc) - adesso´s subsidiary e-Spirit, manufacturer of
the content management system (CMS) FirstSpirit™, announced that it
has founded a U.S. subsidiary with headquarter in Boston, MA. With
this additional foreign location after founding of e-Spirit Ltd. in
London for the UK region the company broadens significantly its
action scope. From the new office in the U.S. e-Spirit will serve the
rising demand for FirstSpirit from North American companies and will
be closer to its customers and partners. As a next step it will
further expand and develop its network of partners in the region.
Hence e-Spirit will launch a road show at the end of October for
interested partners and system integrators in three big American
cities.

With FirstSpirit, companies can quickly implement their international
web strategies, efficiently administer content for websites,
intranets and extranets, and publish that content through the most
diverse of channels or integrate it into complex portal structures.
This ensures optimal editing processes and a fast return on
investment. With FirstSpirit CMS, e-Spirit has become one of the
technology leaders in the European market, offering integration
solutions for the enterprise portals SAP NetWeaver, IBM WebSphere,
Microsoft SharePoint and Liferay Portal, and the FirstSpirit
AppCenter. The AppCenter offers companies the possibility of rapid,
simple integration of almost any web applications into the
FirstSpirit content management system. Many well-known customers are
already counting on FirstSpirit as a strategic, company-wide content
platform on the Internet and intranet. Among these are corporate
groups such as Speedo, Bosch, EADS, BASF, Linde, Olympus and the
Dutch airline KLM, which are successfully managing web projects with
FirstSpirit throughout the world.

Additional information on FirstSpirit is available on the Internet at
www.e-Spirit.com.

Further inquiry note:
Martin Möllmann
Manager Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 231 930-9330
E-Mail: ir@adesso.de

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company: adesso AG
Stockholmer Allee 24
D-44269 Dortmund
phone: +49 231 930-9330
FAX: +49 231 930-9331
mail: ir@adesso.de
WWW: http://www.adesso-group.de
sector: Computing & Information Technology
ISIN: DE000A0Z23Q5
indexes: CDAX
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, München,
regulated dealing/general standard: Frankfurt
language: English