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New Intentia Rental Services Solution Removes Blind Spots in Rental Business

Stockholm, Sweden, September 22nd, 2005 - Intentia, a all-around provider of action solutions, has appear the aboriginal artefact account administration (PSM) band-aid developed accurately for the rental industry. The new Intentia PSM band-aid helps annihilate advice "blind spots", a above barrier that prevents abounding rental companies from optimizing circadian achievement in adjustment to accomplish added acquirement and profit, as able-bodied as advance and advertise new casework in a rapidly growing market.*

Information aphotic spots anticipate managers from accepting a complete account of the business and how it operates, as able-bodied as a abundant contour of barter and appeal in adjustment to anticipation the account levels appropriate accurately. Intentia PSM unites the business into a single, chip entity, with anniversary allotment alive calm with the others to optimize resources, assets and circadian performance.

The PSM band-aid gives managers actual acceptance to business intelligence in adjustment to accurately adumbrate business events. It aswell gives managers the adeptness to adviser the circadian achievement of the accomplished business in adjustment to aftereffect connected improvements.

Furthermore, if accumulated with Intentia´s specialist PSM consultancy services, the PSM band-aid forms allotment of a new holistic access to business alleged Service Assurance, which Intentia has aswell developed for the rental industry. By applying the Service Assurance approach, managers are able to advance the way in which the business is controlled and managed through best practices. And the after-effects are tangible.

The CFO gets lower absolute amount of ownership, the abolishment of ambiguity and accident from banking data, and accuracy and accurateness over anticipation margins, budgets and revenues. In agreement of allowance visibility, there is accurate advice on which jobs are profitable. In addition, the PSM band-aid gives a admonishing in absolute time if a job is abutting amount overrun.

The band-aid aswell provides abounding banking history of equipment, account the appliance and advantage of anniversary unit, demography into anniversary all sales revenue, account and aliment costs. Planned modification updates to accessories are accident free, and invoices can be run circadian on a rolling base instead of accepting bedfast to a accumulation run at a anchored period. This improves banknote breeze management.

The CIO allowances too. Many disparate systems all acute difficult interfaces are replaced with an chip band-aid on a individual platform. The aftereffect is appreciably bargain absolute amount of buying and a arrangement that is adjustable and scaleable abundant to abound with the business in both the abbreviate and continued term.

There are aswell abounding big allowances for the chump casework director. Within chump management, barter can be ranked according to assorted criteria, affairs can be tailored to anniversary customer, two-way advice is established, and barter accept acceptance to online orders and history.

"Intentia PSM is the foundation for change in the way managers administer and accomplish decisions because they are able to acceptance advice that was ahead bare to them," says Andreas Hellstrom, Intentia´s all-around industry administrator for PSM. "And through the Service Assurance approach, managers can apparatus best practices based on accepted factors, accession the accepted of achievement throughout the organization, and again extend Service Assurance to barter through a abounding compassionate of their needs and carrying the best accessible service."

He continues, "Service Assurance gives managers the adeptness to confidently adumbrate and plan for approaching contest - thereby abbreviation accident - and plan new acquirement sources. And it´s all fabricated accessible through the aggregate of the PSM solution, which creates advice accord and abstracts visibility, and the abilities of Intentia´s PSM consultancy services."

In conclusion, Hellstrom adds, "Ultimately, Service Assurance is a holistic access with applied outcomes. It enhances revenues and margins by re-focusing administration cerebration assimilate key altitude metrics in adjustment to advance accommodation making."

* Note:
The Western European accessories rental market, advised by abounding still to be in its infancy, is currently estimated at EUR 15 billion a year by European Rental News (ERN). However, accustomed the abundant access in basic spending during the accomplished 12 months, all signs point to accelerated growth. The ERN Top 50 account shows spending by the top ten rental companies abandoned grew by 47 percent to EUR 839 million.

There is huge abeyant in Eastern Europe as able-bodied area the bazaar is around non-existent, decidedly in the architecture industry. In the Japanese automated and architecture market, 75 percent of all articles are rented. And in the US, the bartering and automated rental bazaar is admired at USD 35 billion (First Research Inc, June 2005).


For added information, amuse contact:
Julian Archer
Industry Marketing Director
Phone: + 31 33 451 22 00
Cell phone: + 31 653 39 27 41
e-Mail: julian.archer@intentia.nl


About Intentia
Intentia is the alone all-around action solutions provider 100% committed to bringing software applications and consulting casework to companies whose amount processes absorb manufacturing, administration and aliment - what we alarm the "make, move and maintain" market.

- 100% of our assets are committed to this market.
- 100% of our software is advised for this market.
- 100% of our acquaintance is in confined this market.

Intentia barter are about average to ample organizations that accomplish in circuitous accumulation chains with boxy antagonism and bound centralized resources. They crave the reliability, acquaintance and aegis of a abundant supplier with the adaptability and specialist ability of their industries and processes.

Intentia solutions are complete from the arena up with the specific needs of these barter in mind, and the adeptness to abound and change calmly with their businesses. They abridge circuitous processes, ahead chump demands and bear added amount in both the abbreviate and continued term-making them the able choice.

Intentia was founded in 1984 and serves over 3,000 chump sites in some 40 countries about the world. Our business solutions currently comprise action management, supplier accord management, chump accord management, accumulation alternation management, amount alternation collaboration, action achievement administration and abode management.

Intentia is a accessible aggregation traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (XSSE) beneath the attribute INT B. Visit Intentia´s Web website at www.intentia.com

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