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G. Costa to Reduce Reporting Effort by 40% With Geac Performance Analyser

Waltham, Massachusetts and Studley, England (ots/PRNewswire)

- New Reporting Solution to Go Live by End of April
WALTHAM, Massachusetts and STUDLEY, England, January 26 /PRNewswire/
G.Costa, a UK food manufacturer most famous for its Blue Dragon
sauces,  has invested in a new reporting solution from enterprise
software company  Geac(R) (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ: GEAC). Performance
Analyser is now being  deployed to users and is expected to be in
full production by the end of  April 2006. The system will provide
unprecedented 'in depth' access to  information held within the
company's enterprise resource planning (ERP)  system - Geac System21,
which operates on an IBM iSeries server. All  managers will soon have
easy, browser-based access to data, releasing the  IT and finance
department from the burden of generating reports.
Dale Coveney, Commercial Finance Manager for G. Costa, said:
"To date I have spent around two days a week merely generating
reports  for our sales and marketing managers. Once we're live on
Performance  Analyser they will have ready access to detailed
pre-formatted reports  themselves. Previously I was spending 40% of
my time producing information  whereas soon I will be reinvesting
that time in analysing critical business  information to aid the
business."
The contract was awarded to Geac after a thorough review process
that  included Cognos and Business Objects, as explained by G.
Costa's Head of IT , Glen Boyle:
"Instead of doing a simple beauty parade we gave each company a
detailed set of our data and said 'show us what you can do with
this.' It  worked extremely well as we could get a real feel for the
products'  capabilities within our own environment. It helped us
dismiss one vendor  straight away and the other showed that it would
take an extra three months  to create the metadata and the data
extracts. This was just too long. The  Geac solution was not only the
most functional but it could be deployed  extremely quickly, as it
has a semi-prebuilt universe over the System21 data."
Phase one of the deployment will involve rolling out the solution
to  sales managers by February 2006. Previously they either went
without data,  as it was too difficult for them to extract it
themselves or they used out- of- date information, once the IT and
finance departments had caught up  with their back log of data
requests. Instead, Performance Analyser will  provide them with real
time access to centrally held data.
Phase two will involve demonstrations to other areas of the
business to  identify their precise reporting needs. Finally
Performance Analyser will  be used to provide advanced analytical
capabilities on profitability by  product, category, customer, and
salesman. In this way G. Costa will have  ultimate control over
margin performance across the entire business.
WALTHAM, Massachusetts and STUDLEY, England, January 26 /PRNewswire/
About Geac
Geac (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ:GEAC) is a global enterprise software
company  that addresses the needs of the Chief Financial Officer.
Geac's best-in- class technology products and services help
organisations do more with less  in an increasingly competitive
environment, amidst growing regulatory  pressure, and in response to
other business issues confronting the CFO.  Further information is
available at http://www.geac.com or through e-mail  at  info@geac.com.
WALTHAM, Massachusetts and STUDLEY, England, January 26 /PRNewswire/
This press release may contain forward-looking statements of
Geac's  intentions, beliefs, expectations and predictions for the
future. These  forward-looking statements often include use of the
future tense with words  such as "will," "may," "intends,"
"anticipates," "expects" and similar  conditional or forward-looking
words and phrases. These forward-looking  statements are neither
promises nor guarantees. They are only predictions  that are subject
to risks and uncertainties, and they may differ materially  from
actual future events or results. Geac undertakes no obligation to
update or revise the information contained herein. Important factors
that  could cause a material difference between these forward-looking
statements  and actual events include, among other things: our
ability to increase  revenues from new license sales, cross-sell into
our existing customer base  and reduce customer attrition; whether we
can identify and acquire  synergistic businesses and, if so, whether
we can successfully integrate them into our existing operations;
whether we are able to deliver products and services within required
time frames and budgets to meet increasingly competitive customer
demands and performance guaranties; risks inherent in fluctuating
international currency exchange rates in light of our global
operations and the unpredictable effect of geopolitical world and
local events; whether we are successful in our continued efforts to
manage expenses effectively and maintain profitability; our ability
to achieve revenue from products and services that are under
development; the uncertain effect of the  competitive environment in
which we operate and resulting pricing pressures ; and whether the
anticipated effects and results of our new product  offerings and
successful product implementation will be realized. These and  other
potential risks and uncertainties that relate to Geac's business and
operations are summarized in more detail from time to time in our
filings  with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
and with the  Canadian Securities Administrators. Please refer to
Geac's most recent  quarterly reports available through the website
maintained by the SEC at  www.sec.gov and through the website
maintained by the Canadian Securities  Administrators and the
Canadian Depository for Securities Limited at  www.sedar.com for more
information on risk factors that could cause actual  results to
differ. Geac is a registered trademark of Geac Computer  Corporation
Limited. All other marks are trademarks of their respective owners.
WALTHAM, Massachusetts and STUDLEY, England, January 26 /PRNewswire/
WALTHAM, Massachusetts and STUDLEY, England, January 26 /PRNewswire/

Contact:

For further information: Media Contacts: Crawford Warnock, Citigate
Dewe Rogerson, +44-(0)1604-232223, crawford.warnock@citigatedr.co.uk;
Richard Moore, Geac, +44-(0)-1527-496189, richard.moore@geac.com;
Investor Contact: Alys Scott, Geac, +1-(781)-672-5980,
Alys.scott@geac.com

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