Cartesis Appoints New VP Global Services to Create High-Value Consulting Offerings; Former BearingPoint Managing Director to Develop New Business Performance Management Consulting Practices and Drive Customer Value

Business Wire, July 7, 2005

PARIS -- Cartesis, a leading supplier of business performance management (BPM) software, today announced the appointment of Hubert d'Hondt as VP Global Services. Mr. d'Hondt who took up his new role on July 1, 2005 reports directly to Cartesis' CEO, Didier Benchimol.

With over twenty years international experience in managing and developing professional services organizations including BearingPoint and Accenture, Mr. d'Hondt will be responsible for driving Cartesis Services revenue by creating a unique high-value professional service proposition and developing new consulting practices.

"We are delighted to have someone with such an extensive and proven track record joining the executive team at Cartesis," said Didier Benchimol, CEO of Cartesis. "The combination of his significant experience and strong domain expertise makes him the ideal person to take our services organization forward, ensuring that we continue to provide high value services to our global clients and support our growing partner network."

Having also held senior roles at Pechiney and CarnaudMetalbox, Mr. d'Hondt will lead Cartesis' global professional services organization, which numbers some 250 highly experienced BPM professionals and domain experts, as Cartesis grows to a leadership position in the business performance management market over the next two years.

"I'm thrilled to be joining Cartesis at such an exciting time for the company," said Hubert d'Hondt, VP Global Services at Cartesis. "We have a great opportunity to develop an unequalled professional services proposition for the BPM market. This will be built upon a combination of our highly skilled and domain rich services team plus our functionally powerful software solutions, but which will also complement our existing partnership and alliance programs to allow us to effectively scale our software business".

Mr. d'Hondt who also joins Cartesis Executive Management committee is a graduate from the prestigious Ecole des Mines de Paris.

About Cartesis

Cartesis is a global software vendor that provides trusted solutions for driving your company's financial and business performance. Cartesis equips its customers with the control and insight they need to assess and react in today's rapidly changing marketplace. One in five Fortune Global 100 companies rely on Cartesis' powerful technology to unify complex information, people and processes in a single data model that can be applied easily and consistently across multiple geographies and business segments. Cartesis' customer's success depends on having meaningful insight to act upon, because great performances start with confidence.

Headquartered in Paris, Cartesis has offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Norwalk (CT), Tokyo and Utrecht. The company has more than 1300 corporate customers and partners worldwide in 25 countries around the globe.

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