Gold Client from Hayes Technology Group Manages Growth and Precision of Room & Board’s SAP Databases

Gold Client chosen to empower SAP project teams to select and copy data subsets

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Vernon Hills, Illinois, January 21, 2009

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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, announced today that Room & Board, a 25-year-old family-owned company offering comfortable, modern home furnishings that are well-designed and long lasting, has chosen Gold Client to manage the growth and precision of its SAP testing and training databases.

Room & Board is a Minneapolis-based furniture retailer offering unique home furnishings that combine classic, simple design and exceptional quality using natural materials. More than 85 percent of its furniture is manufactured in America. Room & Board has stores in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, Orange County, San Francisco and New York, and makes its unique collection of home furnishings available nationally through Shop From Home, which includes a catalog, Web site, and a team of knowledgeable Design Associates to help with the selection process and professional, in-home delivery service.

Gold Client, developed by Hayes Technology Group, eliminates the need to copy the entire production database to non-productive environments by allowing users of SAP solutions to dynamically export user-defined subsets of SAP data from any source within the environment. Extensions of Gold Client then enable these teams to import the data subsets back to the environment as needed for development, testing and training.
“Gold Client greatly improves our testing efficiency by removing the need for costly and inefficient full production copies,” said Linda Solheid, Room & Board’s IT Director. “Gold Client allows our SAP project teams to quickly select and copy the exact subset of data they want.”

Gold Client dramatically reduces the amount of time and effort required to replicate data throughout the environment which can be reduced from as much as two weeks to just a few hours, helping keep projects on-schedule. The innovative software also reduces enterprise storage requirements, improves the quality and availability of test data, restores development integrity, and helps assure data security.

Gold Client has successfully completed ABAP® Add-on certification for SAP NetWeaver® Application Server, achieving “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” and “SAP Solution Manager Ready” status. Gold Client is available for use with the SAP ERP, SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) and human resources (SAP HR) applications.

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 software enables better client refresh processes and replicates user-defined subsets across the SAP environment.  The technology enables precise data access, reduces storage needs and establishes data flexibility while maintaining the integrity and security of their data assets. For more information about Hayes Technology Group visit www.hayestechnology.com.

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