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smartShift Extractor Certified as Powered by SAP NetWeaver®

Reduces Time, Resources, Risks of Custom Code Improvements Through Interoperability With SAP® Solutions

Mannheim, Germany March 05, 2010 : – smartShift, a Cambridge Technology Enterprises (NSE: CTE) company, today announced that its interface software product smartShift Extractor version 3 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The solution is certified as an ABAP™ add-on for the SAP® ERP 6.0 application and the deployment has been tested by the SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC). smartShift Extractor provides customers with custom source-code improvements as required in projects like upgrade and Unicode enablement, performance and security improvements, applying coding standards, improving stability, enabling object-oriented ABAP coding, consolidating systems, as well as source code and clone reduction. By using SAP NetWeaver with smartShift Extractor, the results can be delivered in days not months.

“The certification demonstrates our strong commitment to support and develop innovative tools in support of SAP solutions,” said Stefan Hetges, CEO of smartShift. “The extraction helps our clients to perform source-code adjustments with little manual intervention. The smartShift Extractor is also integrated into our SaaS offering that allows companies to analyze their ABAP custom code within hours.”

smartShift provides an innovative approach to custom code changes in the ABAP programming language. The tools help in analyzing and transforming custom-developed ABAP codes for upgrade and Unicode conversions as part of an upgrade to SAP landscapes. The tool-driven methodology provides faster transformation of older versions of SAP solutions to SAP ERP 6.0 and at the same time improves stability and maintainability at a significantly lower cost, delivering proven and predictable results and higher reliability with consistent quality of transformed custom ABAP code.

About smartShift

smartShift, a Cambridge Technology Enterprises (NSE: CTE) company is the leading provider of solutions for tool-based modernization of complex IT systems.  Using smartTools, smartShift’s migration platform, and proprietary methodology, smartShift automates the migration process for a broad array of technology stacks including those from SAP AG, other enterprise applications and legacy applications.  smartShift customers are major global organizations such as Deutsche Bank, Bertelsmann, Kimberly-Clark, Mercedes-Benz, CommerzBank and Northrop Grumman. 
For more information, please visit www.smartShift-group.com

On November 30, 2009, Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE) acquired smartShift GmbH (smartShift), This acquisition uniquely positioned CTE to take advantage of the fast growing cloud services market, which according to IDC is expected to reach $44.2 billion worldwide by 2013.  CTE solutions improve business performance and provide clients with a compelling competitive advantage. CTE solutions include Transformation to a Cloud Infrastructure, IT Modernization, Application and Infrastructure Managed Services and Business Process Outsourcing. CTE customers are major global commercial and government organizations such Vodafone, AIG, Pfizer, State Bank of India and US government agencies.

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