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PRESS RELEASE
People at Work GROUP ACQUIRES Software And Assets OF THE Community MarkEt LEADER cassiopeia INC. Munich, July, 21st 2003

The People at Work Group announces the acquisition of the assets of cassiopeia AG. The contract has been closed between the insolvency administrator of cassiopeia AG, attorney at law Mr. Jaffé, and the People at Work Group. People at Work is taking over all essential assets, in particular the source codes as well as all brands, trademarks and Internet domains.


Within the People at Work Group a new company was initiated (People at Work Systems Inc. in the course of foundation) to take over the software rights and to develop the software. Meanwhile the new company has ensured the development and support.

"cassiopeia perfectly meets our strategy of holistic customer service and enables us to support the People at Work method with interactive software tools complementary to existing ERP and CRM systems. We particularly plan to actively market the business communities area interacting with the People at Work sales method. Here we already received very positive feedback from our key customers." reports Marcus Schmelzer, CEO of People at Work Systems.

Marcus Schmelzer, Member of the Executive Board at People at Work Systems, points out the following aspects: "The investments of cassiopeia customers are safeguarded through further development in our house. We are particularly pleased to have won important members of the cassiopeia organization – among these two founders of cassiopeia, Carsten Hecht and Christian Seiler, as well as the head of service and support organizations, Stefan Merchel and Holger Stratmann – and further employees who take up the development and the service of the cassiopeia software immediately."

"In accordance with intensive market observation we do appreciate very much that we succeeded to integrate cassiopeia in our group. Apart from an excellent customer base cassiopeia possesses a fully-developed and field-tested technical platform meeting our customers’ demands as communication platform for optimization of the sales, service and marketing processes." says Robert Frank, co-founder and CEO of People at Work AG.

The People at Work Group in a nutshell:

The People at Work Group consists in an association of consulting and service companies supporting their customers to establish and/or to optimize growth-oriented, cost-effective and transparent sales organizations. Hereunto the members of the People at Work Group contribute with their longtime experience in the sales, marketing and service areas. Important clients like e. g. Siemens, Microsoft, Lufthansa Systems, GE Smallworld use processes, methods and tools of People at Work to strengthen their sales, service and marketing organizations.

For further information please refer to http://www.paw-systems.com or http://www.cassiopeia.de.

Press contact:

People at Work Systems AG
Uwe Ritter
Münchner Strasse 14
85774 München-Unterföhring
Phone: 089-982929-0
Fax: 089-98292929
email: uwe.ritter@paw-systems.com

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