Sapiens Announces Launch of Microsoft based Technology
Platform and Estimates $2 Million to $3 Million Revenues
from the Product in the First Year
August 6, 2008
Tel Aviv, August 6, 2008 - Sapiens International Corporation N.V. (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) today announced that it has launched a Microsoft and .NET based technology platform for the development of enterprise software applications. The new platform has special capabilities for the insurance and finance sector, which requires the agility and dynamic properties of the Sapiens product. The first beta customers have commenced using the new platform in Japan and Sapiens estimates that the new platform will generate between $2 million and $3 million in revenues during the first year of its launch.
According to Sapiens, the cooperation with Microsoft was created due to a market demand that the Sapiens' solution be suited to Microsoft's development and information technology (IT) environment and following synchronization of the technological roadmaps of the products of each of Sapiens and Microsoft.
The new platform broadens Sapiens' existing successful product line installed at hundreds of enterprise customers on the basis of Sapiens' flagship product, Sapiens eMerge™. The new platform will be included in the line of products offered by Sapiens to its enterprise customers, with special focus on the financial and insurance sectors. Sapiens eMerge™, is a rules-based model driven development suite which enables true agility in solution development for complex mission-critical enterprises to deliver new functionality, achieve legacy modernization and enterprise application integration.
Under this initiative Sapiens provides both its innovative model driven development environment and its' Microsoft and .NET targeted application server on windows and windows server versions and integrated with Microsoft enterprise ecosystem products like SQL server 2005, system-center and biztalk server.
Oren Dror, Vice President, Enterprise partners and customers division, Microsoft Israel, said: "The cooperation between Microsoft and Sapiens will enable the most advanced technologies of these two companies to service their respective customers and will enable them to benefit from independent development capabilities, quick response time and development costs saving. The new platform will also enable IT managers of organizations to benefit from reliable solutions which directly support mission-critical enterprises."
Roni Al-dor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sapiens said today: "The new platform represents a breakthrough in the field of guided model development and increases Sapiens' advantage in development speed and efficiency for enterprises operating in varied environments and especially organizations in the financial and insurance sectors which are highly regulated and competitive. The partnership with Microsoft is another layer in Sapiens' strategy of an open, integrative product through its work with Unified Modelling Language (UML) and integration with the Microsoft environments."
About Sapiens International
Sapiens International Corporation N.V. (Nasdaq and TASE: SPNS), a member of Formula Group (Nasdaq: FORTY and TASE: FORT), which is a member of the Emblaze Group (LSE: BLZ.L) is a leading global provider of proven IT solutions that modernize business processes and enable insurance organizations to adapt quickly to change. Sapiens' innovative solutions are widely recognized for their ability to costeffectively align IT with the business demands for speed, flexibility and efficiency. Sapiens operates through its subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific, and has partnerships with market leaders such as IBM and EDS. Sapiens' clients include AXA, ING, Liverpool Victoria, Menora Mivtachim, Norwich Union, Occidental Fire & Casualty, OneBeacon, Principal Financial Group, Santam and Texas Farm Bureau among others. For more information, please visit http://www.sapiens.com.
For more information, please visit http://www.sapiens.com.
Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this release are forward-looking state-ments that are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties, including such factors, among others, as market accep-tance, market demand, pricing, changing regulatory environment, changing economic conditions, risks in new prod-uct and service development, the effect of the Company's accounting policies, specific system configurations and software needs of individual customers and other risk factors detailed in the Company's SEC filings.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Roni Giladi
Chief Financial Officer
Sapiens International
Tel: +972-8-938-2721
E-mail: IR.Sapiens@sapiens.com
Roni Al-Dor
Chief Executive Officer
Sapiens International
Tel: +972-8-938-2721
E-mail: IR.Sapiens@sapiens.com
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