EANS-News: USU is taking Aspera into the US market

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Strategic management decisions

Subtitle: • Aspera’s new US location in Boston is further boosting
its market leadership • Software license management is a dynamic
growth market • Services and expert on-site consulting by a
knowledgeable and experienced management team

Möglingen (euro adhoc) - The USU Group is intensifying its
international involvement. In future the USU subsidiary Aspera will
supply the US market with its established software license management
products and solutions from its own branch in Boston, Massachusetts.
Its American customers, such as Jacobs Engineering, Axa Equitable,
General Dynamics, Denver Water and Texas Instruments will not only
reap the benefits of German software quality, they will also find
matching technical expertise and services on their doorstep. Software
license management and the demand for suitable solutions are a
rapidly growing market, particularly in the USA, and now Aspera can
also offer single-source provision of the entire globally renowned
ITIL-compliant USU portfolio for IT service management acclaimed by
analysts such as Gartner and Forrester.

In recent years, Aspera´s direct sales to the USA showed growth rates
of over 30% p.a., and opening this local branch will serve as the
basis for further expansion. The US team, under the leadership of
Christof Beaupoil, an internationally experienced, ITIL-certified
license management specialist who is also one of the founders and
directors of Aspera, will be operating under the name Aspera
Technologies Inc.

"Aspera is a solid leader in the market for entitlement-centric
software license management tools and services…Adding a company-owned
office and staff in the U.S. in 2012 will not only increase its
international presence but also its credibility with U.S.-based
customers", is the positive verdict of Steven Russman, analyst at US
market researchers ECPweb.com and founder of the International
Business Software Managers Association (IBSMA).

Increasingly stringent compliance guidelines have made sublicensing a
major risk factor for companies. Failure to comply can result in
hefty sanctions up to and including fines and imprisonment. At the
same time, optimized license management can also provide enormous
cost benefits. In this area of competing interests, managers need to
reduce the drastically increased costs for managing software licenses
- substantially, sustainably and compliant with all requirements. The
cost of implementing a license management system can normally be
recouped within 12 months. Among others, Aspera´s portfolio includes
the premium market product SmartTrack and the SME solution Licensum.
And more than 120 customers worldwide already rely on Aspera´s
software and services.

By founding this new subsidiary the USU Group is reinforcing its own
profile as a global player. In 2011 the Group´s earnings outside of
Germany increased by around 60% to over 5.4 million euros, bringing
the proportion of foreign business up to 12% of Group revenue. Before
very long, by utilizing international partners and foreign
subsidiaries to expand its worldwide presence, the USU Group aims to
increase that figure to at least 15% of overall revenue. Other
portfolio topics, such as knowledge management solutions, will
increasingly also contribute to this.

USU. The Knowledge Business Company The USU group is the leading
European vendor of IT and Knowledge Management software. USU
solutions enable customers worldwide and in all sectors of the
economy to apply the added value of IT, to become more flexible, to
save costs and to minimize business risks. The USU Group consists of
German and foreign subsidiaries, including USU AG, Omega Software
GmbH, LeuTek GmbH and Aspera GmbH. USU Software AG (DE000A0BVU28) is
listed in the Prime Standard segment of the German Stock Exchange in
Frankfurt as well as in the Gate-M trading initiative of the
Stuttgart Stock Exchange.

With Valuemation®, USU offers a powerful and feature-rich integrated
suite of tools for Knowledge-based Service Management all from one
source, This modular suite, which is recognized by leading
international analysts, comprehensively supports all ITIL®
disciplines. Customers use the USU KnowledgeCenter technology either
in the form of an integrated research and navigation system or as a
portal solution to activate all of an organization´s knowledge..

USU was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Germany. Further
information is available at www.usu-ag.com

Further inquiry note:
Gerick Thomas

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