Leading Analyst Firm Names Hayes Technology Group “Cool Vendor” in the SAP Ecosystem

“Cool Vendors” selected for the report are innovative, impactful and intriguing

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Vernon Hills, Illinois, April 20, 2010

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Hayes Technology Group, the developer of Gold Client®, the premier refresh and replication data management software solution for use within SAP® solution-based environments, today announced it has been included in the list of “Cool Venders in the SAP Ecosystem, 2010”1 report by Gartner, Inc.

This Cool Vendors research highlights some of the many vendors in the SAP ecosystem. During the past 30 years, myriad companies have built solutions that improve and add to SAP applications. SAP has a number of formal partnership programs to support third-party developers and solutions, but many strong innovative solutions have been developed independently of the formal partner program.

“Our sole focus is to help our customers maximize the value of their investments in SAP products, whether that includes curbing database growth, scrambling data or relieving Basis Operation teams of mundane and time consuming tasks,” said Matt Hayes, CTO and founder of Hayes Technology Group. “We are thrilled by Gartner’s recognition of our value to the SAP ecosystem.”

Gold Client solutions eliminate the need to copy the entire production database to non-production environments by allowing users of SAP solutions to export user-defined subsets of SAP data dynamically from any source within the environment. This reduces the amount of time and effort required to replicate data throughout the environment, from as much as two weeks to just a few hours, helping keep projects on-schedule. Gold Client extensions also enable the importation of data subsets back to the environment as-needed for development, testing and training.

Gold Client solutions are available for use with the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP), SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS), SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) and human resources (SAP HR) applications.

To read “Cool Venders in the SAP Ecosystem”, courtesy of Hayes Technology Group, visit www.goldclient.com

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Hayes Technology Group, Inc.

Hayes Technology Group collaborates with SAP customers to provide powerful data management capabilities for enhanced testing and strategic process improvements. Gold Client solutions enable better client refresh processes and replicate user-defined subsets across the SAP environment. The software enables precise data access, reduces storage needs and establishes data flexibility while maintaining the integrity and security of data assets. For more information about Hayes Technology Group, visit www.hayestechnology.com.

[1] Gartner, Inc. Cool Venders in the SAP Ecosystem, 2010, T. Otter, C. Hestermann, C. Haight, D. Prior, T. E. Murphy, March 31, 2010.

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Gold Client is a registered trademark of Hayes Technology Group, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.