ChemOne,designed specifically for the chemical industry, is a robust solution that provides a closed loop view of key information across the enterprise. Everyone from procurement staff and production planners, to sales and customer service agents, onsite or offshore, is provided with a clear view into plant information to set customer expectations, make smarter decisions and control costs.

The comprehensive features of TechOne, in turn, greatly benefit those organizations that are in the high-tech software industry. Packed with preconfigured business scenarios including procuring, selling, and analysis, TechOne eases compliance regulations such as revenue recognition.   

"ChemOne and TechOne are particularly attractive to organizations that want to have access to the rich functionality of SAP ERP to get their businesses running efficiently with minimal risk and disruption," said Tushar Srivastava, Product Manager, SAP Solutions, YASH Technologies.  "The successful requalification of ChemOne and TechOne from SAP, validates YASH's commitment to this marketplace and to develop leading solutions based on best practices".

Both solutions are delivered on a fixed price with rapid deployment utilizing a combination of S-Imple, YASH's proprietary implementation methodology, and leading SAP methodologies. ChemOne and TechOne can be adapted to support even the largest organizations, and its preconfigured business scenarios help SMEs rapidly realize benefits. Also, YASH's recent addition of new business processes to all of its Business All-in-One solutions allows organizations to activate, at any time, the expanded functionalities to meet their unique business needs and bolster their competitive advantage.

For more information about YASH Technologies, please visit www.yash.com/sap or email info@yash.com.

SAP services partners help SAP customers design, implement and integrate solutions, optimize business processes, and provide strategic business consultation. As an SAP services partner, YASH will take an active part in the support, customization and deployment of SAP solution-based systems.

Adding to their multiple partner credentials including SAP gold channel partner status, YASH as an SAP services partner brings vast expertise and implementation experience to customers in core enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, as well as human capital management (HCM), customer relationship management (CRM), application management services (AMS), and business intelligence (BI) enterprise solutions. Additionally, as an SAP services partner, YASH's positioning will be further expanded to deliver SAP BusinessObjectsTM solutions to companies looking to improve operational efficiency with BI initiatives.

"YASH as an existing SAP partner has the credentials, in-depth experience and knowledge that customers expect from an SAP partner," said Abe Iruegas, Vice President, SAP Solutions for YASH Technologies. "Now that YASH is also an SAP services partner, we're able to respond and execute solutions quickly utilizing proven processes and best practices, to facilitate even greater benefits to our customers."

As an SAP services partner in SAP PartnerEdge, YASH will have access to a much broader range of software tools and solutions for its clients. SAP PartnerEdge offers tools and resources that provide a strong foundation of support and collaboration that fosters unparalleled value and mutual business success for customers, partners and SAP.

As a longstanding and successful AMS provider for large enterprises, YASH created Core AMS to better meet the needs of Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) customers looking to reduce the cost and complexity of managing their SAP system landscape. The bundled set of services was designed as foundational support with a "keep-the-lights-on" approach allowing SMEs a cost effective solution to compete more effectively, improve service quality, and generate measurable savings.

Because REACH compliance activities involve an ongoing process of monitoring substances, its volumes, and various usages across the supply chain, it can consume substantial amount of resources, data, and time. YASH developed inREACH to help customers obtain environmental, social and financial benefits by simplifying the complex legislation into an easy step-by-step approach.

inREACH is much more than a supply chain communication or SIEF management platform.It is a single solution for all REACH compliance activities and includes categorized data/document management along with quick analysis and reporting features. inREACH automates many of the manual processes in communicating, tracking, filtering and reporting to ensure rapid and accurate compliance.

Designed for Small-to-Midsized Enterprises (SMEs), the additional functionality provides extensive pre-configured business scenarios, training and documentation for faster implementations and rapid Return-on-Investment (ROI).  These extensions are delivered standard as part of YASHs SAP Business All-in-One solution implementations allowing organizations to activate the new functionality as needed based on their business demands.

YASH developed these solution extensions based on client feedback, internal research and numerous implementations, comments Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of Sales for YASH Technologies, SAP Software Sales Division. The benefit to our clients is that the functionality comes standard now with our SAP Busines All-in-One solutions and gives clients a competitive advantage of having industry specific functionality that is not standard in other business software solutions.

While some of the extended functionality was designed to span across all of YASH's SAP Business All-in-One solutions, there are pre-packed scenarios that meet industry specific needs.

YASH's ranking of 230 is based on revenues from US operations and does not represent revenue of its international operations. This ranking includes revenues from consulting/professional services, system integration and enterprise implementations, application management services, SAP software license sales, and training.

Since its inception in 1996, YASH has experienced growth in terms of service and solution portfolio extensions, delivery capabilities and geographic reach. Today, YASH serves customers on a global scale and continues to gain market share as a leading application outsourcing provider.

SDN is an online community for SAP developers, consultants and system integrators, and the leading forum for open contributions, collaboration and innovation within the SAP community. SAP ranks both companies and individuals in terms of contribution to SDN. Points are allocated for the quantity and expertise of solutions given to questions posted on the portal. As the Top Contributor, YASH accrued over 43,000 points in the area of ABAP Programming, with the second ranked company accruing 21,000.

YASHs active participation on SDN is a clear indicator of the deep technology expertise of our associates and their willingness to share this knowledge and learn from others, said Abe Iruegas, Vice President of SAP Solutions and Services for YASH Technologies. This translates directly back to the development of solutions for our clients.

As a Top Contributor of this robust community of two million participants, YASH is able to leverage this experience to enable clients to successfully adopt and optimize their use of SAP technologies for business benefit. YASHs comprehensive SAP portfolio includes: full lifecycle services from consulting, implementation, to application management services of an SAP environment and include:

• Implementation Services based on Best Practices
• Application Management Services
• Business Intelligence Services within SAP
• SAP Business All-in-One Solutions

The Run SAP methodology extends past the implementation phase and provides the smooth transition of outsourcing and sustaining the efficient management of a customer's SAP system landscape. By adopting the Run SAP methodology, YASH will help clients utilize SAP best practices and tools to provide a sustainable reduction in operating costs, minimize risks in IT operations, and enhance planning reliability. Additionally, customers will benefit from YASH's adoption of Run SAP as it ensures high availability of business applications at all times, and reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for SAP solution-based systems.

YASH has been successfully providing SAP application management services to global customers for years while leveraging many components of Run SAP. This full adoption will enable YASH to optimize the implementation and on-going management of end-to-end solution operations for its customers, focusing on application management, business process operations, and administration of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.

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 will speak on "SAP® BusinessObjectsTM Business Intelligence Offerings for DB2 Environments." Attendees will learn how it can help their organizations cleanse, analyze and distribute data across diverse user communities to help maximize the value gained from the vast amounts of information accumulated within an organization.

The New England DB2 Users Group was formed in 1988 for the purpose of exchanging info among users of DB2. The Group's annual banquet has attracted speakers of international stature on a variety of topics related to the use of DB2. For more information, please visit www.nedb2ug.org.

As a contributing partner for SAP, YASH was responsible for loading, personalizing, configuring, and testing the best practices. Any errors reported by YASH were used by SAP to take corrective measures. Recognized by SAP for deep domain expertise in the High-tech industry, YASH has provided technology solutions for prestigious High-tech customers worldwide. YASH provides full lifecycle services around SAP, including a certified SAP ERP Business All-in-One solution, TechOne, which is based on High-tech Best Practices and provides out-of-the-box functionality to save customers up to 60% in implementation costs.

"We're honored to be a part of the SAP development process that will help High-tech companies link people, processes, and information. Our industry expertise will provide guidance to companies wanting to collaborate with less effort, adapt to gain better insight, boost efficiency while managing costs, and be agile enough to respond to changing market demands," said Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of YASH Technologies' SAP Software Sales Division.

In 2008, YASH was one of only 17 partners selected globally by SAP to create an inaugural, localized version of their Chemical Best Practices for the Indian market.

"YASH Technologies" previous contributions to SAP Best Practices have been well recognized and SAP is proud to have partners such as YASH to be part of our efforts to make continuous improvements and create best of breed solutions for our customers," said Hanuma Rupakula, Manager, Best Practices for SAP.

ChemOne is a certified SAPar Business All-in-One solution that is specifically designed for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the chemical industry. It accelerates an organization's return on investment by providing fully optimized operational systems to support rapid growth with minimal risk of disruption to the business.

"YASH is excited to partner with Microbia on their ERP initiative,"comments Kevin Jansen, Executive Vice President of YASH Technologies. "With their aggressive plans for growth, ChemOne will provide the system optimization needed to sustain this vision."

Microbia is positioning itself as a future market leader in the production of sustainable, specialty ingredients and biomaterials utilizing fermentation technology. The comprehensive functionality of ChemOne supports the key business processes of planning, procurement, sales, and analysis in a single platform, and it incorporates industry best practices for standard operating processes required by chemical and biotechnology companies.

"Microbia decided to invest in an SAP solution that would provide the necessary level of integration to support our commitment to innovation, leadership and growth in the biotechnology industry," said Rich Bailey, President and CEO of Microbia. "In addition, Microbia specified key manufacturing capabilities to ensure compliance with product traceability and safety requirements a critical considerations in today's marketplace."

TechOne is a prepackaged ERP solution, built on industry best practices, that delivers the processes, content, and methodologies required for a cost-effective, turnkey deployment.With pre-configured business scenarios tailored for the high-tech industry, StreamServe will quickly realize benefits via real-time visibility across the entire enterprise. TechOne can be fully integrated with other prepackaged software, such as CRM or HCM packages.

"With over 310 joint customers, StreamServe and SAP have a long-standing and positive relationship," commented Dennis Ladd, StreamServe's president and CEO. "Given our experience with SAP, we are very aware of all the functionality that comes with SAP-certified solutions such as TechOne. The predictability in implementation costs, duration, and risks, as well as the scalability provided by TechOne and YASH made our decision to deploy their solution an easy one."

StreamServe has a corporate initiative to automate all of its business processes, including Financials, Sales and Receivables .TechOne supports these exact process areas and will also be able to integrate with StreamServe's CRM tool. All customer and license data can be transferred to TechOne for simpler customer invoicing. By optimizing these operational processes with an integrated system, StreamServe will benefit from savings on maintenance costs while future proofing their growth initiatives in a dynamic marketplace.

The partnership provides a true, holistic set of global services and products that cover hardware, networking, security, implementation of leading prepackaged and custom solutions, application management services, full offshore support, training, and certified, out-of-the-box ERP business solutions. The YASH and Precision partnership provides the advantages of strategic technology alliances of both companies including: HP, CISCO, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Vmware, Interwoven, Business Objects, and Hyperion. Clients will benefit from working with premier industry leaders that have a wealth of technology and business consulting expertise.

Precision is well known for our infrastructure integration services and YASH has strong brand recognition in developing enterprise solutions, especially around ERP and eBusiness technologies, comments Micheal FitzSimons, CEO of Precision Computer Services. We complement each other well and will be able to leverage each others strengths when solving client challenges.

AOne Max is designed to give SMEs a competitive advantage and demystifies the perception that SAP is too large, too complex, and too expensive to implement. It is an all-inclusive program that offers managed hosting options and application management services, in addition to the standard software implementation, enterprise maintenance support included in most ERP offerings. This innovative program allows SMEs to experience the ROI, process efficiencies, economies of scale, and value that an SAP ERP solution delivers to an organizations bottom line.

YASH is recognized for their deep domain expertise in the chemical industry. With prestigious customers like Chemtura, Terra Industries, DOW, Quaker Chemicals and ARCH Chemicals, YASH has proven success in providing enterprise services and solutions to the chemical industry. In addition, YASH has a mature EH&S practice, certified SAP Business All-in-One solution, ChemOne, designed for SMEs, and is one of only 17 partners selected globally for SAP REACH Compliance solution implementations.

"Were honored to be chosen as a development and testing partner by SAP," said RK Vilayannur, VP SAP for YASH Technologies. "It's another acknowledgment of our expertise and commitment to this space and our ability to provide best of breed SAP solutions. It assures our clients that we have the credentials, track record and capabilities to provide innovative enterprise solutions."

SAP estimates that an average chemical company will manage 15,000 compliance projects in the next several years and another study by PricewaterhouseCoopers indicates that many chemical companies may miss the December 1, 2008 REACH pre-registration deadline. The enterprise-wide coordination of compliance activities can be difficult to manage and many companies remain uncertain about the type of technology commitment required to achieve compliance. SAP's recognition of leading REACH Compliance implementation partners alleviates concerns about qualifications needed to implement the REACH Compliance solution successfully.

"YASH is delighted to be recognized in this elite group of implementation partners," comments Sreekanth Muktevi, Sr. REACH Consultant for YASH Technologies. "SAP's REACH Compliance solution is robust and easily integrates with a companys existing ERP, Supply Chain Management and EH&S applications. Organizations can benefit from a single integrated solution and dramatically save cost and implementation time."

Compliance has become a business-critical process. YASH Technologies has developed a suite of services around SAP's REACH Compliance solution to address these requirements.

CPGOne is a completely defined and documented, ready-to-operate solution, built on SAP Best Practices, that allows full real-time information integration for complete control of business operations including financials, sales processing, procurement, materials inventory and more. Based on pre-defined, industry specific business scenarios, CPGOne delivers a comprehensive set of business functionalities with little or no customization required. This means minimal disruption to daily operations during installation, and maximum return on investment.

S-imple (Streamlined Implementations) is a processed-based methodology that transforms how enterprises deploy SAP by dramatically reducing time from project start to realization of tangible benefits. Through the use of templates, tools, and other accelerators, YASH incorporates best practices and predefined business scenarios from key industry verticals to create rapid deployment. Instead of managing projects exclusively to milestones, the S-Imple methodology separates the project plan by business process scenarios. This leads to a more exact project completion date as the implementation teams are better able to gauge progress by measuring completion for each scenario, i.e. Accounts Payable is 56% complete.

"S-Imple is a result from a culmination of many sources including our own best practices from years of successful SAP solution implementations," states Abe Iruegas, Vice President, SAP Solutions for YASH Technologies. "Customers are benefiting with extraordinary savings and rapid deployment using S-Imple."

The SAP AMS framework includes basis/ technology, functional, and technical support, helping customers to meet internal and external SLA's at an affordable cost. With over 20 support options to choose from, companies can select which services makes sense to outsource to a partner and which ones to keep in-house, freeing up internal resources to concentrate on mission critical applications or new initiatives. A sampling of services includes:

• Basis-Data archiving, Unicode conversion, and SAP security
• Technical - ABAP development support, Java support, and bug fixes
• Functional - Production Run Requests, job analysis, and batch dump resolutions

"On average, organizations are spending over 33% of their IT budget on maintenance and support costs," said Abe Iruegas, Vice President, SAP Solutions, YASH Technologies. "We understand that it's critical for organizations to optimize their environments in order to focus on new initiatives to remain competitive. Companies are partnering with us because we truly understand how our performance impacts their bottom line and each customized support model is developed to help them achieve their business objectives."

YASH has demonstrated expertise in multiple areas including enterprise application integration, implementation, upgrade and maintenance for packaged application solutions and design, development and maintenance of custom applications for global customers. Examples of industry verticals that YASH has provided Microsoft solutions include:

• Information Worker Solutions in Portals and Collaboration - Manufacturing, Financial, and Chemical
• SOA and Business Process - Retail, Manufacturing, and Hospitality
• Business Intelligence - Real Estate and Technology

Compliance will weigh down the global chemical supply chain all the way to downstream users, with regulatory activities. From testing and reporting requirements for dossier submission, to supply chain collaboration and minimizing costs, companies will have to look for the most effective way to align and manage these activities. YASH is at the front-line with REACH compliance services to help organizations obtain environmental, social, and financial benefits.

Mr. Manoj Baheti, President & CEO, said, "The new development center in Bangalore will help enhance our contribution to the IT industry in India and also assist us to maintain the excellence in services provided to our esteemed customers globally. The investment in infrastructure is in line with global plans. It is essential for us to cater to our global offshore business with India being a country of focus for us in terms of the domestic business and customer mindshare. Besides our technology and business expertise, innovation in being customer focused has been a key factor in our growth."

This center will be another hub for YASH to grow its delivery footprint in the Enterprise Solutions space, centered on its SAP service offerings. As a premier enterprise solutions and outsourcing partner for medium and large global customers the new development office will add bandwidth to its existing services and leverage performance. YASH Technologies other development centers are located at Hyderabad, Indore, Pune and Mumbai.

The Portal Accelerator program focuses on two key industries: manufacturing and chemical addressing three common challenge areas of Manufacturing Operational Excellence (such as New Product Lifecycle Management, Employee Self Service, and KPIs and Dashboards), Supply Chain Collaboration (such as Supply Chain Visibility, Supplier Management, and Warehouse Management) and Customer Service (such as Sales Order Management, Dealer Management, and Integrated Sales and Marketing). Each industry challenge area is grouped with subsequent modular solutions designed to empower organizations to look beyond supply-driven efficiencies and sense and respond in real time to customer signals. The Accelerator program provides an ideal platform for companies to create an adaptive business network, no matter what stage they are at in their portal initiatives.

YASH follows a proven execution methodology that allows companies to take small steps initially with modular selections, and move towards an adaptive network through a continuous cycle of build, execute, and adapt. The Accelerator program is a 12 week program that entails implementation of one of the modules from one of the three challenge areas, followed by another solution in each subsequent 12 week cycle. The benefits are tremendous as it allows the delivery of essential and business transformational functions in shorter cycle times and predictable costs, and the ability to leverage existing investments on enterprise applications and IT assets.

"This program provides industry specific solutions allowing companies to start realizing benefits as quickly as three months," comments Kevin Jansen, Executive Vice President, YASH Technologies. "The flexibility of the program allows companies to complement their existing portal initiatives or to use it as a baseline to gain functionality in carefully time-boxed iterations. These solutions are based on best practices and years of successful ERP, eBusiness, and industry specific solution implementations."

YASH's Portal Accelerator Program is designed to revolutionize a part of a company's ecosystem in short, 12 week cycles. YASH can help get an organization started by providing a preliminary assessment and recommendations towards transformation. The program will also be launched to the financial services sector in the near future.

GCS was acquired by YASH in 2003 and has been providing the SMB market with complete end to end SAP solutions including software sales and professional services for implementations, consulting, and outsourced application management services that lower total cost of ownership and speed ROI. The acquisition provided YASH the ability to extend its reach in the SAP SMB market space and establish a sound presence in the Northeast. With new organizational initiatives that include the expansion of the SAP Practice focus, the need to execute a well defined brand message to customers and partners drove the identity change to YASH Technologies, SAP Software Sales Division. Now integrated and branded as one company, YASH will continue the strong momentum of providing solutions and services around the SAP suite of products to clients in the Northeast. In addition, clients will receive the added value of an expanded portfolio that includes eBusiness, Business Analytics, and Security for end-to-end enterprise solutions.

"The high caliber of our SAP Practice is signified by the innovative solution offerings to global clients," states Manoj Baheti, CEO YASH. Our well defined portfolio, including our business All-in-One solutions (pre-packaged SAP vertical solutions for the chemical, high-tech, wholesale distribution, and consumer products and goods SMB market), will be expanded to meet the needs of other verticals to speed productivity and streamline operational processes. With plans to launch additional strategic offerings, the timing is right to integrate the brands."

As part of GCS' identity change to YASH, an organizational structure change was also made. Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of Sales, will also focus on the SAP alliance and build on the already strong alignment with SAP and tap into the extensive partner network. "This is an exciting time for YASH, its employees, and customers," comments Mr. Arauz. "We have aggressive initiatives moving forward as YASH. Our strong history of delivering quality solutions, outstanding consultant base, global capabilities, and proven project methodologies, all of which benefit our customers abilities to run their businesses efficiently, provides YASH a solid foundation of growth."

YASH has Software Development facilities in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Speaking for the occasion Mr. Manoj Baheti, The President and CEO of YASH Technologies said, "We are honored to have been recognized for our contribution to the growing IT industry in the country and for the excellence in services provided to our esteemed customers globally. India is a country of focus for us in terms of the domestic business and customer mind-share. We are also increasing our investments in growing infrastructure to cater to our global offshore business."

He added, "We are thankful to the government of Madhya Pradesh for recognizing our commitment to the country and our perseverance in delivering business value to our global customers. I also want to thank everyone who is part of YASH for making this possible."

YASH Technologies focuses on customer success. As a premier enterprise solutions and outsourcing partner for medium and large global customers, we leverage technology and our flexible delivery models to drive performance and business value throughout a customer's enterprise. YASH serves our customers and partners in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. In India, we have seen rapid growth and have opened additional development centers in Mumbai and Bangalore, to add to our existing development centers in Indore, Hyderabad, and Pune.