ESS' Essential Suite™ Achieves "Powered By SAP Netweaver®" Status

Tempe, Arizona – January, 23, 2008 – ESS, a leading provider of Environmental, Health, Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management software for Governance, Risk and Compliance, today announced that its Essential Suite™ 7.0 solution set has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" status. ESS' Essential Suite software has been proven to integrate with the SAP NetWeaver platform solutions, providing customers with an efficient means of collecting, managing and reporting EH&S information across their enterprise.

The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that Essential Suite properly integrates with the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI) 3.0 component of the SAP NetWeaver platform to exchange critical data with instances of the SAP Business Suite family of applications. ESS has also demonstrated that Essential Suite integrates successfully with the SAP NetWeaver Portal 6.0.

"ESS is pleased to announce the successful achievement of Powered by SAP NetWeaver status for ESS Essential Suite," said Robert Johnson, ESS President/CEO. "The ability of Essential Suite to leverage the business potential of assets provided by solutions from SAP and other vendors will prove highly beneficial to current and future customer engagements."

As a result of the certified integration, Essential Suite now provides ESS customers with an SAP-validated process for sharing and utilizing EH&S and Crisis information across all levels of the organization – an individual facility, business unit or across the enterprise. Material information included in SAP solution-based purchase order information will be used in Essential Suite to manage EH&S compliance and operational risk. Organizations that use ESS Essential Suite and SAP solutions together can reduce the complexity associated with managing EH&S and Crisis purchase order information.

The SAP NetWeaver platform powers the SAP Business Suite and solutions such as Essential Suite from ESS. SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technologies into a single platform and is pre-integrated with business applications, enabling change and reducing the need for custom integration.

About ESS

ESS is the leading provider of Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management software for Governance, Risk and Compliance. The company has provided global and local software solutions to thousands of businesses, government agencies and other organizations worldwide. ESS is headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., with offices in Denver, Washington, Houston, Calgary and Beijing.

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