(Oslo, 5 December 2012) The Norwegian Agricultural Authority (SLF) has entered into an agreement with EDB ErgoGroup for applications operating services. The agreement provides for SLF to concentrate all its applications operations to EDB ErgoGroup. The agreement runs for three years with an option to extend for a further three years, and represents total contract value over the entire period of NOK 20 million.

"We carried out a very comprehensive process of tenders and negotiations, and our aim was to choose a new IT supplier that would underpin SLF's future IT strategy. A key objective for our strategy is to bring together all the operating services we use with a single strong supplier instead of using several different suppliers. We feel confident that EDB ErgoGroup, with its expertise and delivery capacity, will be the right supplier for us in the years ahead. Through the tendering process, EDB ErgoGroup clearly demonstrated that it is the innovative and forward-looking partner that we were looking for", comments Alf Selnesaunet, Head of IT at SLF.

"The Norwegian Agricultural Authority (SLF) is an exciting new customer for EDB ErgoGroup. We look forward to starting work on modernising SLF's IT applications platform, and we will do our utmost to help SLF achieve its strategic objectives for IT in the years to come", comments Thorolf Thorstensen, Head of Global IT Operations at EDB ErgoGroup.

About SLF and the contract
The Norwegian Agricultural Authority (SLF) is a government agency with 190 employees that is responsible for monitoring agriculture, forestry and the agricultural and food industries, and is responsible for the implementation of national agricultural policies. SLF's IT systems currently operate some 30 applications that deliver a variety of services to around 45,000 farmers and 30,000 forestry owners and users in local authorities and county authorities, as well as private sector businesses involved in import and export of agricultural and forestry products.

SLF has previously used several suppliers for applications operating services and has also carried out some operations in-house, but the new agreement provides for EDB ErgoGroup to take on responsibility for all applications operations. The agreement also provides for an upgrade of SLF's Oracle platform. EDB ErgoGroup already provides services for some elements of SLF's applications portfolio. Work on bringing together operating services for all the applications will take until September 2012. The first phase of work will involve EDB ErgoGroup modernising SLF's current platform, and the second phase will be the migration and integration of all applications to this platform.

For further information, please contact:
Torgeir Kristiansen, Information Director Corporate Communications, EDB ErgoGroup. Tel: +47 901 27 909

About EDB ErgoGroup
EDB ErgoGroup ASA is one of the leading Nordic IT companies, with some 10,000 employees and annual turnover of NOK 12.4 billion. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and operates from headquarters in Oslo with major activities in both the Norwegian and Swedish markets. In all, the company operates from 135 offices in 16 countries around the world.