adesso’s Subsidiary e-Spirit Intensifies Sales Efforts for its Product in North America

DORTMUND, Germany, September 8, 2011 -

- Foundation of e-Spirit Inc. and road show for partners at the end of October

adesso’s subsidiary e-Spirit, manufacturer of the content management system (CMS) FirstSpirit™, announced that it has founded a U.S. subsidiary with headquarter in Boston, MA. With this additional foreign location after founding of e-Spirit Ltd. in London for the UK region the company broadens significantly its action scope. From the new office in the U.S. e-Spirit will serve the rising demand for FirstSpirit from North American companies and will be closer to its customers and partners. As a next step it will further expand and develop its network of partners in the region. Hence e-Spirit will launch a road show at the end of October for interested partners and system integrators in three big American cities.

With FirstSpirit, companies can quickly implement their international web strategies, efficiently administer content for websites, intranets and extranets, and publish that content through the most diverse of channels or integrate it into complex portal structures. This ensures optimal editing processes and a fast return on investment. With FirstSpirit CMS, e-Spirit has become one of the technology leaders in the European market, offering integration solutions for the enterprise portals SAP NetWeaver, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft SharePoint and Liferay Portal, and the FirstSpirit AppCenter. The AppCenter offers companies the possibility of rapid, simple integration of almost any web applications into the FirstSpirit content management system. Many well-known customers are already counting on FirstSpirit as a strategic, company-wide content platform on the Internet and intranet. Among these are corporate groups such as Speedo, Bosch, EADS, BASF, Linde, Olympus and the Dutch airline KLM, which are successfully managing web projects with FirstSpirit throughout the world.

Additional information on FirstSpirit is available on the Internet at www.e-Spirit.com.

Further inquiry note:
Martin Möllmann
Manager Investor Relations
Tel.: +49-231-930-9330
E-Mail: ir@adesso.de   

company:    adesso AG
            Stockholmer Allee 24
            D-44269 Dortmund
            GERMANY
phone:      +49-231-930-9330
FAX:        +49-231-930-9331
mail:       ir@adesso.de
WWW:        www.adesso-group.de
sector:     Computing & Information Technology
ISIN:       DE000A0Z23Q5

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