Sopra Group/Axway Ranked No. 2 French Software Vendor on the Truffle 100 for Third Year in a Row

Paris, April 14, 2010 – Initiated in 2004 by Truffle Capital, a venture capital firm, the Truffle 100 ranks the top 100 French software vendors by revenue.

For the third year in a row, Sopra Group and its subsidiary, Axway – specializing in business-to-business (B2B) software solutions – ranked second out of French software vendors, with €317.9 million in revenue for 2009.

This represents 30 percent of the Sopra Group’s total revenue – 13 percent for solutions dedicated to banking, human resources and real estate industries, and 17 percent for Axway in the B2B data exchange area.

The sixth Truffle 100 list shows cumulative industry revenue of €4 billion – a 5.6 percent increase compared to last year. The 2010 list reveals the capacity for innovation of companies which, despite the economic crisis, were able to keep momentum and even increased spending on research and development by 7.14 percent.

About Axway
Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.

About Sopra Group
A leader in the European consulting and IT services market, Sopra Group generated revenue of 1.094 billion euros in 2009 and has a human and intellectual resource potential of over 12,000 people. Thanks to a longstanding culture of excellence and strong sector-specific, functional and technological know-how, the Group offers its clients an end to end approach based on a well-honed business model. Sopra Group’s ambition is to allow its clients to focus on transformation projects that will give them a competitive edge and help them drive growth. Sopra Group’s savoir-faire encompasses prior strategic reflection through to the supervision and implementation of major systems integration and application outsourcing projects. The Group also pursues the worldwide deployment of its activities in both application integration and business process management through its subsidiary Axway, a leading provider of Business Interaction Networks, with a complete range of solutions and services. For more information, please visit our website www.sopragroup.com.