YASH Technologies™ Announces Successful Go-Live of SAP® ERP and SAP® BusinessObjects™
Implementations For Au Bon Pain

Woburn, MA (July 21, 2009) – In today's highly competitive and fluctuating economy, it's imperative for Small and Midsized Enterprises (SMEs) to leverage technology to overcome market challenges and sustain a competitive advantage. YASH Technologies, a leading enterprise business and technology partner for global companies, is pleased to announce the successful Go-Live of SAP ERP and SAP BusinessObjects at Au Bon Pain, an international fast-casual restaurant chain.

Au Bon Pain has experienced tremendous growth in the last five years. They chose YASH to implement SAP to replace legacy systems and drive business improvement across the company. With the implementation of SAP complete, Au Bon Pain now has a unified IT platform that will allow for:

• Optimized performance
• Enhanced visibility with real-time data capture
• Increased productivity
• Accelerated financial closings
• Improved business processes with access to aggregated information

Investing in technology is an effective way for organizations to better position themselves in a challenging business environment, said Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of YASH. "By consolidating all business processes into one ERP system, you gain the ability to make strategic business decisions that grow profit margins." The successful Go-Live of Au Bon Pain's SAP ERP implementation included:

• General Accounting
• Purchasing
• Controlling with Cost and Profit Centers
• Accounts Payable and Receivable
• Financial Reporting
• Real Estate Management

YASH utilized industry best practices as well as proprietary methodologies for the implementation, which sped the realization of benefits for Au Bon Pain. The integrated, single platform will lower operating costs, and will allow Au Bon Pain to extend system capabilities to support its growth initiatives. In addition to leveraging SAP for their ERP needs, Au Bon Pain wanted to take advantage of SAP's business intelligence platform to give its management more powerful, efficient and user-friendly analytical reporting capabilities. With the SAP ERP implementation underway, the decision to deploy SAP BusinessObjects for full business insight supported their business strategy. The SAP BusinessObjects implementation provided Au Bon Pain the ability to proactively change business processes based on:

• Changing trends in the marketplace
• Customer behavior and spending patterns
• Customer preferences and experiences

Mr. Ed Mockler, CIO of Au Bon Pain said,"Market fluctuations are a constant for the restaurant industry-it's the nature of the business. We're faced with tighter profit margins than other industries and wanted to leverage the best-in-class functionality of SAP to help us gain a competitive advantage."Mockler added, "Because of YASH's successful deployments, we're now able to drive business priorities, based on trends and measurable performance indicators, that help us remain a market leader.: