Bikini Village Selects Epicor Retail SaaS Solution

Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions to the midmarket and Global 1000 companies, today announced Canadian swimwear retailer Groupe Bikini Village inc. (TSX: GBV) has selected the Epicor Retail Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to provide the infrastructure, software and best practices to streamline its retail organization and support long-term growth plans.

Serving Canadians for almost a quarter-century, Bikini Village, is a leading swimwear retailer with locations across Eastern Canada. Bikini Village is known for offering customers a vast selection of swimsuits, beach and vacation accessories, and cruise wear, from a wide range of well-known brands including Roxy, Christina, Gottex, O’Neill, OP, Anne Cole, Guess, Body Glove, and Tommy Hilfiger. Headquartered in Boucherville, Québec, the company operates 60 stores under the Bikini Village banner in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Bikini Village has made a significant investment in overhauling and refreshing many of its stores — part of an ambitious renovation and expansion strategy — which is now beginning to yield impressive financial results. The company recently posted a 25 percent increase in Q1-2008 year-over-year revenues.

To support its growth, Bikini Village sought an end-to-end fully integrated, retail solution that would give the company greater inventory visibility, improve operational efficiencies and streamline business processes. To this end, Bikini Village chose the Epicor Retail SaaS solution to provide the right infrastructure and best practice methodologies.

The Epicor Retail SaaS delivery model is a turnkey retail solution that provides retailers with access to Epicor’s award winning suite of solutions for the specialty retail marketplace while virtually eliminating the need for an on-site retail IT infrastructure. The “pay as you go” SaaS pricing model eliminates the need to amortize the cost of “traditional” software licenses, providing substantial total cost of ownership advantages as a result. The Epicor Retail SaaS solution for retail includes the associated implementation and integration services, support and maintenance as well as ongoing updates and upgrades, giving retailers the freedom and flexibility to focus their IT resources on other parts of the business. With a proven four month project timeline from project kick off to live, the Epicor Retail SaaS solution for retail offers significant time-to-market benefits.

For a fixed fee plus a one-time start-up charge, the SaaS offering delivers Epicor’s acclaimed Store, Merchandising, Planning, Audit & Operations Management, CRM and Business Intelligence directly to store locations and the head office, via reliable, high-speed networks. Epicor hosts the software on secure, redundant servers, supplies and installs all hardware and infrastructure, and provides round-the-clock data security, backups and complete system maintenance — all at a fraction of the cost of a traditional software licensing and implementation model. The SaaS offering also includes ongoing updates to the latest Epicor Retail software releases, making it the last migration a retailer will ever need.

“The Epicor Retail SaaS solution offered everything we were looking for,” said Yves Simard, president and chief executive officer, Bikini Village. “We wanted a solution that offered flexibility and could evolve over time as our business needs and requirements changed. Additionally, because we do not have an extensive IT support team, we were keen to find an outsourced solution that would offer us best-of-breed functionality without requiring a major investment in resources and talent to run the new systems.”

Simard says the Epicor Retail SaaS solution will help Bikini Village with its efforts to consistently replenish stores and provide an overall better experience for shoppers, improve margins, enable quicker turn, lower inventory and reduce the need for inventory markdowns. The solution will also help Bikini Village address key compliance requirements, financial systems reporting and controls, and provide greater operational visibility. Bikini Village will also benefit from Epicor’s multilingual help desk support.

“We’re delighted to have the opportunity to add Bikini Village to our impressive roster of retail clients,” said David Henning, executive vice president and general manager for Epicor Retail. “Bikini Village has made great strides in reinventing and reinvigorating its business model, and the company’s investment in Epicor’s Retail SaaS offering will further the adoption of industry best practices as the company continues to hone its execution.”

Bikini Village is the latest in a growing list of retailers that have selected the Epicor Retail SaaS solution to streamline operations and drive cost efficiencies, including Boot Barn, Kellwood Company, Metropark, Twigland Fashions and Eclipse Stores.

About Epicor Retail

Epicor Retail solutions are used by hundreds of the world’s leading retailers to become more profitable, productive, and competitive. Our solutions leverage proven Microsoft .NET technology to improve business operations and meet the evolving merchandise and service expectations of today’s cross-channel shoppers. Epicor delivers comprehensive retail management solutions to enterprises in all tiers — from regional chains to multichannel global brands. Our retail customers include hundreds of marquee names, from Aéropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, and Ann Taylor to Zales and Zumiez. Epicor employs more than 800 employees in retail-focused operations.

About Epicor Software Corporation

Epicor is a global leader dedicated to providing integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and professional services automation (PSA) software solutions to midmarket companies and divisions of the Global 1000. Founded in 1984, Epicor serves over 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries, providing solutions in over 30 languages. Employing innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services technology, Epicor delivers end-to-end, industry-specific solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services that enable companies to drive increased efficiency, improve performance and build competitive advantage. Epicor solutions provide the scalability and flexibility to meet today’s business challenges, while empowering enterprises for even greater success tomorrow. Epicor offers a comprehensive range of services with its solutions, providing a single point of accountability to promote rapid return on investment and low total cost of ownership. Epicor’s worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, Calif., with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information, visit www.epicor.com.

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