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Essilor of America Purchases Hummingbird ETL Solution

Hummingbird Ltd, a world-leading enterprise software company, announced that Essilor of America, a subsidiary of Essilor Group has purchased Genio Suite to consolidate sales and production information. Essilor Group is the world leader in ophthalmic optical products with $2 billion in sales and 22,000 employees worldwide.

Essilor of America purchased Genio Suite, a powerful ETL (extract, transform, load) and data integration solution from Hummingbird, to replace its custom, in-house ETL system. Essilor was looking for an efficient way to move information from flat files to an Oracle database. Sales information will be consolidated into the data warehouse and will be used to support Essilor's customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing initiatives. Essilor Labs of America manufacturing information from various locations will be loaded into a data warehousing project run by the data center at the Dallas, US headquarters.

At its corporate headquarters in France, Essilor already uses Genio Suite for a range of business applications including loading information from customer records into a data warehouse. This successful implementation of ETL technology from Hummingbird led Essilor of America to select Genio Suite for its ETL project.

"When we visited headquarters in France to research their ETL solution everyone was very happy with Genio Suite. They've been using it for three years," said Konstantinos Voyiatzis, vice president, Information Systems, Essilor of America. "We discovered that Genio Suite was easy to use, had the functionality we needed and that it was well integrated with Oracle."

"Hummingbird has focused on building a strong ETL solution that delivers measurable ROI to our customers. It is very satisfying to see the vote of confidence expressed by Essilor as it continues to expand the use of Genio Suite in its worldwide operations," said Barry Litwin, president, Hummingbird Ltd.

About Essilor

Essilor of America Inc (Essilor) is a subsidiary of Paris-based Essilor International S.A.

Essilor is a leading manufacturer of optical lenses in the United States and founding partner of VisionWeb, www.visionweb.com, which is creating the world's largest eye care network. An industry pioneer in the development and production of ophthalmic lenses, Essilor is the market leader in progressive, high-index and anti-reflective coated lenses. The company manufactures optical lenses under the Varilux, Crizal, Airwear and Essilor brand names.

About Genio Suite

Genio Suite enables IT professionals to realize data exchange from any source to any target across the spectrum of operational and decision support systems in the enterprise, including data warehouses, OLAP cubes, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and financial systems. Genio Suite automates many of the tasks that normally require time-consuming programming, allowing users to rapidly develop data transformation routines with immediate return on investment.

About Hummingbird

Hummingbird develops enterprise software solutions that provide the ability to access and act upon all business-critical information and resources, aggregated and categorized through a single user interface. Hummingbird offers these global enterprise solutions through the desktop and the Web with Hummingbird EIP (Hummingbird Enterprise Information Portal), the cornerstone product of the Company's e-Business solutions. Integrated within Hummingbird EIP are the Company's proven technologies for Host Access and Network Connectivity, data integration and business intelligence, as well as document and content management and collaboration. The Company offers its solutions, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, please visit: www.hummingbird.com.