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Akili and WCI Consulting Form Strategic Alliance to Expand Delivery of Comprehensive SAP® Solutions to Broader Range of Clients

3/3/2010 10:09:00 AM

DALLAS, Texas (March 3, 2010)  --  Akili (www.akili.com) and WCI Consulting (www.wciconsulting.com), both SAP channel partners in the SAP® PartnerEdge™ program, have formed a strategic alliance to expand delivery of a full range of SAP solutions to small, medium and large enterprises throughout the United States.

“Through this alliance, clients who are seeking a holistic set of SAP solutions can tap into a unified, experienced team from the combined Akili and WCI Consulting talent pool,” explained Shiek Shah, chief executive officer of Akili. “This alliance can work very well for current and future clients because our firms – both SAP channel partners for the SAP BusinessObjects™ portfolio – offer complementary solutions, services, and support of executive functions within an enterprise. We also share the same strong commitment to achieving high standards of client satisfaction.”

Based in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Akili is a provider of world-class information management solutions to large-scale business enterprises.  Akili team members support clients in a variety of industry sectors throughout the United States.  Akili’s solutions include planning, budgeting and forecasting; financial consolidations; enterprise performance management; business intelligence; and information architecture.  Akili, an SAP BusinessObjects silver partner and SAP services partner, has been an SAP partner since 2008,maintaining a keen focus on implementing the SAP BusinessObjects solution portfolio.

“This new alliance with Akili improves our overall offering of SAP solutions to the market,” added Marty Carney, chief executive officer of WCI Consulting. “Together, we can bring a full suite of business intelligence product and services to bear across an entire enterprise – regardless of the type or size of the organization.  WCI has deep experience and success in working with the office of the CIO (chief information officer) to bridge the gap between an organization’s business and technology groups while Akili has deep experience in working with the office of the CFO (chief financial officer).”

Headquartered in Dallas, WCI Consulting focuses on mastering the technology and tools essential to business intelligence and applies the most effective and appropriate solutions to help clients turn data into valuable business information.  Throughout the company’s 11-year history, WCI’s reach has spanned  North America, South America and into Europe.  WCI brings expertise and knowledge in business intelligence to many different industries and verticals through solutions such as data warehousing, ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), custom portals, dashboards, training, and application development.  WCI is an SAP BusinessObjects gold partner and an SAP channel partner authorized to resell the SAP Business One application and the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. Prior to the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, WCI has been partnered with Business Objects since 1998.

For more information on Akili’s solutions and services, please visit www.akili.com or contact Laura Claborn, Sales Executive at 214-978-3202 or lclaborn@akili.com. For more information on WCI Consulting solutions and services, please visit www.wciconsulting.com or contact Keith Metcalfe, vice president of Client Relations at 604/761 7821 or kmetcalfe@wciconsulting.com.

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