(openPR) - Customer’s and partner’s continued success and accelerated deployments has drawn strong interest; agenda centers on exchanging best practices to address challenges of continuous process improvement spanning multi-site manufacturing operations

PARIS, France — June 30, 2011 — Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced it will host its fourth annual Customer Community day and first Partner Summit. Growing demand for platform-based manufacturing operations management solutions has steadily expanded the need for knowledge exchange amongst Apriso’s broad customer base and partner network. Customer attendance is expected to be 50 percent higher than last year.

This community event will be held July 6-7, 2011, near the company’s European headquarters in Paris, France. Pascal Ober, Director, SAP+ Global Delivery Center for the Innovative Materials Sector at Saint-Gobain will chair the customer event, representing his fourth time in this role. Attendees will have the opportunity to share best practices while learning how to optimize, expand and govern their FlexNet deployments on a multi-plant, global scale to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence.

Partner Summit
Apriso’s first Partner Summit will occur in conjunction with the Customer Community Day. Strong partner interest has dictated the gathering of over a dozen European consulting firms, solution providers and systems integrators for this inaugural event. These systems integration leaders have developed expanding practices around Apriso’s FlexNet and will share best practices for delivering manufacturing execution systems based on Apriso’s FlexNet platform while expanding their manufacturing operations practices with Apriso..

“We are proud of the success our customers are now realizing with Apriso solutions. We look forward to providing this opportunity for leading manufacturers to come together once again to discuss how to best approach their top global manufacturing operations challenges,” stated Jim Henderson, president and CEO at Apriso. “We anticipate many active discussions on how our solutions are addressing the needs of this distinct group of global manufacturing leaders.”

About Apriso Corporation
Apriso is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations by achieving and sustaining manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly and easily to market changes. Apriso's FlexNet is a BPM platform-based software solution for global manufacturing operations management. Apriso supports global continuous improvement by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, including GM, Volvo CE, Honeywell, L'Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA, Saint-Gobain and Essilor. Learn more at: www.apriso.com.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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