ePlus Sponsors New Aberdeen Report on CPO Agenda: Managing Performance

Business Wire, March 6, 2007

ePlus Customers Contribute to Key Research Findings on Best-in-Class Enterprises

HERNDON, Va. -- ePlus inc. (Nasdaq NGM:PLUS), a leading provider of Enterprise Cost Management solutions, today announced that it has collaborated with and sponsored a new Aberdeen Research report on how best-in-class enterprise Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) manage their performance.

"We were happy to work with Aberdeen on this study and to give them direct access to our customers," said Ken Farber, president of ePlus Systems, inc. "Everything we do for our customers at ePlus revolves around helping them achieve efficiencies and direct savings in their supply chain and procurement operations. This study was a natural fit for us, and we were confident that the results our customers are realizing would put them in the best-in-class category. We are particularly pleased that so many of them are quoted in the final report."

The report not only presents numerous statistical findings, but also describes the actions CPOs can take to improve performance, from highlighting key issues to focus on, working with the CFO, and the role of technology.

"Measuring procurement performance is an ever-emerging art aided by a technology foundation, which is designed to support it. This must be supplemented by the business and financial acumen of the CPO in order to effectively manage what is being measured," said Vance Checketts, vice president of Global Supply Management Research at Aberdeen Group. "The ePlus customers we spoke to throughout our research process are making excellent use of their technology investments. Furthermore, several of them are at or above best-in-class performance levels, as detailed in our report."

The report itself can be downloaded free of charge here (http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410245&cid=3902).

About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company

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About ePlus inc.

ePlus is a leading provider of Enterprise Cost Management solutions to information technology, finance, procurement, operations, and supply chain professionals who want to reduce the costs of finding, purchasing, managing, and financing information technology goods and services. Our Enterprise Cost Management solutions provide sourcing, procurement, spend analytics, supplier management, document collaboration, asset management, professional services, and leasing to ePlus' 2,000 customers. Founded in 1990, the Company is headquartered in Herndon, VA and has more than 30 locations in the United States. For more information, visit www.eplus.com, call 888-482-1122, or email info@eplus.com.

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