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ORSYP announces new customer win in South Africa with PIONEER FOODS

Boston, November 20, 2006 - ORSYP Software, worldwide provider of Enterprise Job Scheduling solutions, expands its presence further into Southern Africa with a new reference: Pioneer Foods, a leading South African food and beverage company, chose ORSYP’s flagship enterprise job scheduling solution to automate its manufacturing delivery processes.

This new client represents yet another joint success in the South African market for ORSYP and its partner Dimension Data, the specialist IT services and solutions provider. Pioneer Foods selected ORSYP’s automation solution for its comprehensive SAP job scheduling solution. The advanced technical qualities of ORSYP’s product combined with Dimension Data’s extensive experience and local expertise were key elements in the selection of ORSYP’s SAP job scheduler.

"This is an additional illustration of how our partnership with Dimension Data allows us to add a strategic aspect to our range of solutions and services. As witnessed by our recent success with Pioneer Foods, ORSYP and Dimension Data together provide an efficient and high performance answer to IT data production control, automation and optimization needs within the South African market" Christophe UNRUG, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ORSYP stated.

About ORSYP www.orsyp.com

ORSYP was founded in 1986 with the single focus of delivering best in-class IT automation solutions using cutting-edge technology. Over the years ORSYP has established a worldwide reputation for business-friendly job scheduling and job management solutions and excellence in customer care. ORSYP continuously strives to innovate in this area with solutions that are practical for today and tomorrow’s IT and business needs.
Companies around the world—from small companies to Global 500— use ORSYP’s job scheduling software to modernize and standardize IT automation enterprise-wide. By providing one standard automation tool across the enterprise, more processes can be automated and managed; improving IT operations productivity, reducing costs, and impacting IT service delivery to the core business. With more than 950 customers and 35,000 licenses sold, Dollar Universe provides a key IT infrastructure component to companies in industries such as retail, banking, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, and services.

About Pioneer Foods www.pioneerfoods.co.za

Pioneer Foods is home to over 60 of South Africa's most popular household food and beverage brands – including Ceres, Marmite, Weet-Bix, Heinz, Bokomo, Sasko, Safari and Liqui Fruit. It first entered the beverage market in 1999 by purchasing a 37.5% stake in Ceres Fruit Juices. Since then it has acquired the rest of the shares and now owns 100% of the company.
Further diversification of the Ceres beverage business was achieved in February 2004, with the acquisition of Gauteng-based Retail Brands Interafrica and Continental Beverages, which handle contract packaging of carbonated soft drinks and iced teas. In April 2005, Ceres took over Frucon Beverages, thereby gaining access to the dilutables category, as well as coffees and teas.