VB Leasing accelerates application processes with SHS VIVEON’s GUARDEAN software

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 (Munich), June 3rd, 2008 – SHS VIVEON, a solution provider forend-to-end customer management, has won VB Leasing as a new customer. Thesubsidiary of Österreichische Volksbanken AG (ÖVAG) group will optimize andsimplify its application processes with GUARDEAN software. The processingof leasing applications will be accelerated and customer proximity will besecured. Decisive factors for the selection of the SHS VIVEON solution werethe high flexibility and superb degree of automation which GUARDEANproducts allow.The Austrian company VB LEASING Finanzierungsgesellschaft m.b.H. is awholly owned company in the Österreichische Volksbanken AG (ÖVAG) Group.The company was honoured with the 'Victor' banking award as the best bankof the year in the German-speaking region in 2006/2007 and operates in thevehicle and moveable assets leasing sector. As part of the transition tosystem-supported control of application decisions, the company has decidedto use software from SHS VIVEON's GUARDEAN product family. The GUARDEANRiskSuite software platform will accelerate and optimize the applicationdecision processes at VB Leasing. For example, internal data is enrichedwith information from external data providers and recommendations fordecisioning are generated. Depending on the industry, workflows can begeared to specific market and customer requirements and adapted on anongoing basis.'We can process application decisions even more quickly and with greatercustomer proximity than before thanks to SHS VIVEON's solution,' commentedPeter Stanzer, VB Leasing's managing director.'A key factor in selecting the system was that our employees have theopportunity to make well-founded decisions on applications faster bysimplifying and accelerating workflows. This will make our day-to-dayapplication management work easier, opening up potential for further growthfor both us and our employees.''In winning VB Leasing, SHS VIVEON has gained a key player from the ranksof Austrian financial services providers as a new customer,' commentedAndreas Schöner, Business Unit Manager Austria and head of SHS VIVEON'sAustrian branch in Vienna. 'This is welcome confirmation that we areperceived as a trustworthy and competent partner on the Austrian market. Inaddition, the fact that VB Leasing will be using GUARDEAN RiskSuite onceagain proves the position that GUARDEAN products hold on the market forcustomer value and credit management solutions.'VB LEASING Finanzierungsgesellschaft m.b.H. is a wholly-owned subsidiary ofthe Österreichische Volksbanken AG (ÖVAG) Group and operates in the vehicleand moveable assets leasing segment. The company's structure is geared toits individual divisions, which results in a high level of asset-relatedand industry expertise in each area of financing. Workflows within thecompany are geared to industry-specific market and customer requirementsand are adapted on an ongoing basis. Speed, proximity to the market,orientation to customer requirements and industry expertise characterizeeach specialist's activities.SHS VIVEON AG is pan-European business and IT consulting company forcustomer management solutions, specializing in generating and developingcustomer risk management products. The company offers market-leadingexpertise in customer value and customer risk management. SHS VIVEON is apioneer for the convergence of these two issues – which aims to optimizecustomers' and companies' value growth. Additional core competences spanall of the issues that are crucial for putting successful customermanagement in place: customer interaction management, customer analytics,customer management applications as well as business intelligence and datawarehousing.The GUARDEAN product family offers process-oriented software solutions forcustomer risk management. GUARDEAN integrates and automates all of therisk-relevant customer management processes, from procuring information andevaluating customers through to credit control. The individual solutions inthe product family are: GUARDEAN RiskSuite, GUARDEAN DebiTEX and GUARDEANGateway. GUARDEAN is developed and sold by the SHS VIVEON AG's productcompany, a wholly owned subsidiary of SHS VIVEON GmbH.SHS VIVEON AG is headquartered in Martinsried (by Munich) and is listed onthe Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Prime Standard. It has four subsidiaries ineleven locations in four European countries: SHS VIVEON GmbH (D), SHSVIVEON Schweiz AG (CH), SHS Polar Sistemas Informáticos S.L. (E) and SHSVIVEON Iberia S.L. (E). SHS VIVEON is one of Europe's leading customermanagement providers with more than 500 employees and 150 customers in 15countries, of which 30% are Fortune 500 International companies. SHSVIVEON's customers include well-known customers from the financialservices, industry, retail and telecommunications sectors, including BayWa,BMW Financial Services, Credit Suisse, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom,Ingram Micro, RaabKarcher, o2 Deutschland, Orange, SüdLeasing andTelefonica. Additional information is available at: www.The-Customer-Management-Company.comFurther information:SHS VIVEON AGMatthias SeidelFraunhoferstraße 12D-82152 Martinsried (by Munich)T +49 (0) 89 747257-34F +49 (0) 89 747257-10Public.Relations@SHS-VIVEON.comwww.SHS-VIVEON.comHartmut Schultz KommunikationHartmut SchultzHöchlstr. 2D-81675 Munich, GermanyT +49 (0) 89 992496-20F +49 (0) 89 992496-22schultz@schultz-kommunikation.de03.06.2008  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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------