Adds Construction and Real Estate Solution Offering

DALLAS — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 3, 2009 — The Rand Group, one of the top business technology consulting firms in the United States, announced today that it is expanding on its relationship with Sage Software with the addition to its service and product offering of Sage Timberline Office, a construction and real estate vertical solution. Sage is the world’s largest vendor delivering business management applications and services to businesses with fewer than 1000 employees, according to industry analyst firm IDC*. Sage products are used by more than 5.8 million businesses around the world. Sage's Construction & Real Estate Solutions Division is the market leader in industry-specific construction accounting, operational management and filed service software solutions.

The Rand Group will be servicing construction and real estate management clients in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

“We are excited about expanding our relationship with Sage and with the addition of Sage Timberline Office to our service and product offering,” said Ron Rand, CEO of the Rand Group. “The addition of Sage Timberline Office will allow us to offer construction and real estate clients an industry leading solution for their accounting, estimating, operations management and field service needs.”

John Geffel, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sage Construction & Real Estate Solutions, sees the Rand Group as a strong complement to Sage.

“We are pleased to welcome the Rand Group to the Construction & Real Estate family. The Rand Group’s practice has been built on an intense focus on meeting customers’ software and technology needs within specific industries, and they have the capability and commitment to deliver this same extraordinary customer experience to the construction and real estate sectors.”

The Rand Group serves customers throughout the Central and Southeast United States with offices in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago and Austin. The company is actively involved in community charitable work in support of March of Dimes, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, PBS and Public Radio.

The Rand Group offers technology solutions for financial management, construction and real estate, manufacturing, distribution, jobs and projects, HR and payroll, business process automation, portal solutions, business intelligence, and application development and integration.

Businesses interested in learning more about The Rand Group’s services can visit the company web site at www.therandgroup.com.

*(IDC Worldwide ERP Vendor Analysis, Dec. 2008)

About The Rand Group, LLC

The Rand Group, LLC is made up of business-minded service professionals that help customers do better business with technology. We make processes more efficient by implementing, upgrading or right sizing technology to fit organizations. The Rand Group serves industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, distribution, construction, property management, technology and non-profit agencies as sectors in their four key markets and is recognized as one of the top technology firms in the country, climbing in Accounting Technology magazine’s VAR 100 in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

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