Siemens Teams with SEEBURGER to Provide Low-Cost, High-Quality EDI Solutions to mySAP ERP Users

Business Wire, Jan 30, 2007

Easy Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Managed Services for Siemens mySAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Users

MALVERN, Pa. -- Siemens Medical Solutions (www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit) today announced a teaming agreement with SEEBURGER, a leading provider of global business integration solutions to the healthcare industry.

SEEBURGER provides easily deployed, managed services for business-to-business integration, including classic electronic data interchange (EDI), with native integration to mySAP ERP (enterprise resource planning). Siemens, an authorized reseller of mySAP ERP, selected the SEEBURGER B2B Gateway solution because it allows customers who implement mySAP ERP to benefit from SEEBURGER's extensive experience in hosted e-business and EDI services for SAP environments.

As the healthcare industry's leading Application Service Provider (ASP), Siemens Medical Solutions provides hosting services to more than 1,000 customers from its state-of-the-art Information Systems Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Siemens Medical Solutions and SAP have extended their long-standing partnership to offer a joint Health Information System (HIS) and ERP solution to local, regional and university hospitals across the US. Siemens has the ability to host mySAP ERP in the Siemens Information Systems Center. The SEEBURGER B2B Gateway solution allows customers to communicate seamlessly with trading partners in electronic business-to-business transactions in a hosted and managed services deployment model. In addition, SEEBURGER's native integration with mySAP ERP allows fast, streamlined business processes with trading partners.

"We have seen many healthcare enterprises reduce costs, increase revenue and extend their market reach among patients and physicians through the execution of e-business initiatives, such as EDI," stated Luis Castillo, Senior Vice President, Foundations Enterprise Systems, Siemens Medical Solutions Healthcare IT Division. "SEEBURGER's managed services approach to EDI takes a large, complex operational burden off a hospital's IT staff."

Under this new teaming agreement, SEEBURGER will work directly with interested Siemens SAP users to improve overall trading partner integration and automation, and to assist in maintaining compliant data standards through the implementation of its B2B Gateway solutions.

"As healthcare organizations are continually expanding their operations and implementing new technology solutions to assist in improving the quality of patient care, they are faced with many different data formats and structures," explained Scott Lewin, president of SEEBURGER USA. "Through our superior B2B integration services and solutions, we are confident that SEEBURGER can help Siemens SAP users maintain compliance and improve their processes through integration."

SEEBURGER has worked with SAP for more than 10 years and has executed more than 4,000 implementations in SAP environments, making SEEBURGER SAP's largest business-to-business integration partner.

About SEEBURGER

SEEBURGER is a leading provider of global business integration solutions designed to optimize transactions throughout the extended enterprise by automating trading relationships with all partners regardless of their size and technical resources. Launched in 1986 to provide integration solutions to the automotive industry in Germany, the company today is ranked among the top business-to-business gateway providers by top industry analysts, and serves more than 7,000 customers in 42 countries and more than 15 industries through its flagship B2B Gateway and related products and services. SEEBURGER has global offices in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, including a U.S. office that opened in 1998. For more information, visit www.SEEBURGER.com

About Siemens Medical Solutions

Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry. The company is known for bringing together innovative medical technologies, healthcare information systems, management consulting, and support services, to help customers achieve tangible, sustainable, clinical and financial outcomes. Recent acquisitions in the area of in-vitro diagnostics - such as Diagnostic Products Corporation - mark a significant milestone for Siemens as it becomes the first full service diagnostics company. Employing approximately 36,000 people worldwide and operating in more than 130 countries, Siemens Medical Solutions reported sales of 8.23 billion EUR, orders of 9.33 billion EUR and group profit of 1.06 billion EUR for fiscal 2006. Further information can be found by visiting www.usa.siemens.com/medical-pressroom.>

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