SHS VIVEON AG wins new key account – De Lage Landen International BV

SHS VIVEON AG / MiscellaneousRelease of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStoryAG.The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.----------------------------------------------------------------------Martinsried (near Munich), June 17th, 2008 – SHS VIVEON, a solutionprovider for end-to-end customer management, has won a new, internationalkey account – De Lage Landen, a subsidiary of the Dutch Rabobank Group. TheDutch financing specialist will use SHS VIVEON's GUARDEAN Gateway incombination with SHS VIVEON’s Business Rule Engine as part of its creditdecision-making process. The agreement has been concluded for a term ofseven years, and underscores the strategic nature of the alliance betweenSHS VIVEON and De Lage Landen.De Lage Landen plans to integrate all of the European credit agencyproviders into its system landscape. Credit agencies in the USA and Canadaare likely to be included in 2009. De Lage Landen will use SHS VIVEON'sGUARDEAN Gateway to link these providers with its credit decision-makingsystem. In addition, it will also use SHS VIVEON's Business Rule Engine. Infuture, this will allow De Lage Landen to define and use intelligentdecision-making rules for the selection and effective use of creditagencies in the credit decision-making process. The aim is to significantlyimprove decision-making quality and to simultaneously cut costs forenquiries made with credit agencies. In addition, this will significantlyaccelerate the credit decision-making process. In the first stage,decision-making rules for the whole of Europe were mapped in the GUARDEANGateway Solution in fiscal year 2007. In the first instance, informationproviders in each of Germany (already successfully implemented), Spain,Italy and the United Kingdom will be linked in. The company then intends tosuccessively link in up to 30 credit agencies throughout Europe, the USAand Canada.De Lage Landen’s project co-leads Fal de Saint Phalle and Eric Janssensstate that 'The credit decision-making process is one of the key componentsof our value chain. We believe that SHS VIVEON’s GUARDEAN Gateway incombination with SHS VIVEON’s Business Rule Engine is the best solution toimprove our service to our customers'SHS VIVEON's CEO, Dirk Roesing, is very pleased with this new customer: 'Weare proud to have expanded our international customer base with De LageLanden, thus again demonstrating our capabilities and proving ourcompetence for customer risk management.'De Lage Landen is a global provider of high-quality asset-based financingproducts. Headquartered in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), De Lage Landen is100% owned by Rabobank. This Dutch bank is Triple-A rated by the majorrating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. With offices and jointventures in more than 30 countries worldwide, De Lage Landen specializes inasset financing and vendor finance programs on a worldwide scale. De LageLanden also offers private-label leasing programs for the Banking industry,and delivers a broad range of financial services to leasing organizationsand non-banking financial institutions. The global offering also includesan array of commercial finance solutions.The company focuses on the following industries: Food & Agriculture,Healthcare, Office Equipment, Technology Finance, Financial Institutions,Trucks & Trailers and Materials Handling. In 2007 De Lage Landen grew itsnet profit to €234 million ($321 million) and its lease portfolio to €20.7billion ($30.5 billion). By year end 2007, De Lage Landen had 4,735employees. For more information, please visit our website:www.delagelanden.com.SHS VIVEON AG is a pan-European business and IT consulting firm forcustomer management solutions, with a range of products specializing incustomer risk management. The company offers market-leading expertise incustomer value and customer risk management. SHS VIVEON pioneers for theconvergence of these two topics, which aim to optimally further developcustomers and companies. Its other core competences span all of thedecisive issues for implementing successful customer management: customerinteraction management, customer analytics, customer managementapplications as well as business intelligence and data warehouse.SHS VIVEON AG, based in Martinsried (by Munich), is listed in FrankfurtStock Exchange’s Prime Standard and has a presence in four Europeancountries with four subsidiaries and eleven locations: SHS VIVEON GmbH (D),SHS VIVEON Schweiz AG (CH), SHS Polar Sistemas Informáticos S.L. (E) andSHS VIVEON Iberia S.L. (E). SHS VIVEON is one of Europe’s leading providersfor customer management with more than 500 employees and in excess of 150customers in 15 countries, of which 30% are included in Fortune 500International. SHS VIVEON’s customers include well-known companies from thefinancial services, industrial and retail and telecommunications segments,including BayWa, BMW Financial Services, Credit Suisse, DaimlerChrysler,Deutsche Telekom, Ingram Micro, RaabKarcher, o2 Deutschland, Orange,SüdLeasing and Telefonica. Further information on the company can be foundat: www.The-Customer-Management-Company.comFor further information please contact:SHS VIVEON AGMatthias SeidelFraunhoferstraße 12D-82152 Martinsried (near Munich)T +49 (0) 89 747257-102F +49 (0) 89 747257-10Matthias.Seidel@SHS-VIVEON.comwww.SHS-VIVEON.com Hartmut Schultz KommunikationHartmut SchultzHöchlstr. 2D-81675 MunichT +49 (0) 89 992496-20F +49 (0) 89 992496-22schultz@schultz-kommunikation.de17.06.2008  Financial News transmitted by DGAP---------------------------------------------------------------------- Language:     EnglishIssuer:       SHS VIVEON AG              Fraunhoferstraße 12              82152 Martinsried bei München              DeutschlandPhone:        +49 (0)89 747-257-0Fax:          +49 (0)89 747-257-10E-mail:       investor.relations@shs-viveon.comInternet:     www.shs-viveon.comISIN:         DE0005072409WKN:          507240Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr              in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf End of News                                     DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------