FinancialForce.com Parent UNIT4 Named Financial Software Provider of the Year for Large Firms in Prestigious UK FDs' Excellence Awards

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - May 25, 2012) -

• Beats SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor and Sage
• Award based on the annual Satisfaction Survey of UK Financial Directors (1,100 responses)
• Covers UNIT4 finance apps including FinancialForce Accounting

UNIT4, the global business software group and majority investor in FinancialForce.com, has been awarded Financial Software Provider of the Year for Large Firms in the 2012 UK FDs' Excellence Awards. The award was presented for FinancialForce Accounting as well as UNIT4's other finance apps, Agresso and Coda Financials. The awards were announced at a glittering ceremony in London on 24^th May.

The awards recognise the UK's best Finance Directors and their service providers. UNIT4 (Agresso, Coda and FinancialForce.com) faced stiff competition from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor and Sage to secure the award for the best software provider category for large firms (£50 million+ turnover) as voted for by its clients. These awards are determined by votes cast by Financial Directors in an annual FDs' Satisfaction Survey, which was completed by 1,100 finance directors and finance decision-makers in 2011.

UNIT4, FinancialForce.com's parent, is the world's leading provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC)™. 6000 medium and large client organisations and more than two million users around the world benefit from the flexibility that its flagship ERP software, Agresso Business World, and best-of-class financial management software, Coda Financials, deliver to them. Its software is designed to help clients embrace business change independently, while minimising the cost and maximising the speed and efficiency of the change process. FinancialForce.com, a joint venture with salesforce.com, was launched in 2009 and delivers cloud-based financial management and professional services solutions to clients in 23 countries.

Anwen Robinson, UK Managing Director for UNIT4, commented: "These awards have great significance to us as they represent the opinions of real finance professionals who are using and benefiting from our solutions. Our objective as a business is to deliver quantifiable business benefits through the provision of first class financial and business management systems supported by excellent customer service. To be awarded Financial Services Provider of the Year to large firms demonstrates that we are meeting these objectives and we intend to build on this success and retain our position as solution provider of choice to an ever expanding customer base across the UK and Ireland."

To read more about the awards from Real Business please click here.

About FinancialForce.com
FinancialForce.com is the cloud applications company. We focus 100% on building business applications for Force.com, the world's leading cloud computing platform from salesforce.com. Our applications include Accounting, Billing, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Services Resource Planning (SRP). We serve fast-growing organizations and dynamic enterprises, helping them to align Finance, Sales and Service in a way that enables profitable growth. We are backed by two of the biggest and best players in the business, UNIT4 and salesforce.com. To learn more please follow us on Twitter @FinancialForce, visit out Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FinancialForce or visit www.FinancialForce.com