Gurvendra Suri Named Finalist for
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2007 Award in the Southwest Area

    Irving, TX, July 2, 2006 -Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc., a leading SAP consulting and staffing firm, today announced that Gurvendra Suri, chief executive officer for Optimal, has been named a finalist for the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the Southwest Area. This is the third consecutive year Suri has achieved distinction as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Suri was recognized at the 21st annual awards banquet on June 30th in Dallas.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards program recognizes the leaders and visionaries who are creating and building world-class businesses. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. This year’s finalists were selected by an independent judging panel comprised of area business, academic and civic leaders.

Gurvendra Suri founded Optimal Solutions Integration in 1995 with a clear mission to bring the real-time enterprise to life for Fortune 500 companies and large government and public sector organizations. Optimal consultants work with the large building blocks of enterprise technology to plan, deploy and maintain sophisticated SAP solutions that streamline business processes, fuel supply-chain efficiency, and turn raw data into pure competitive advantage-24/7, securely, and in real time.

Under Gurvendra Suri’s leadership, Optimal has sustained year-over-year revenue growth since its inception and has achieved combined growth of 118.51% over the past three years. Gurvendra Suri has been named Entrepreneur of the year by DFW Asian American Chamber of Commerce in year 2004 as well as by Greater Dallas Indo American Chamber of Commerce in year 2002. Optimal has received numerous industry awards for its remarkable success, including the DFW Tech Titan Fast 50 consecutively for the last 6 years, the Deloitte Texas Technology Fast 50 every year for the last four years; and the SMU Cox School of Business ‘Dallas 100’ Award consecutively for the last 4 years. Additionally, Optimal was ranked the 20th largest diversity-owned business in DFW by the Dallas Morning News.

Today, Optimal has a workforce of more than 350 associates and serves leading corporations and government agencies throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia/Pacific region from offices in Irving, Texas; Washington, DC; Munich, Germany; and Bangalore, India.

“The success that Optimal has enjoyed over the past twelve years would not have been possible without the trust and confidence our customers and partners place in us,” said Suri. “We never take this trust for granted. We never tire of proving our worth. And we consider it a privilege to win our customers' business on a daily basis. I am honored and humbled by this recognition.”
Added Suri, “All of us at Optimal share in the convictions that integrity and hard work matter, that our success can only be measured by the success of our clients, and that striving to be the very best in the field is a worthwhile endeavor. These shared convictions will stand forever at Optimal, and will guide us on to continued success.”

About the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards

The Entrepreneur Of The Year® awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006, honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 125 cities and 40 countries.

About Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, is committed to enhancing the public’s trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting. Its 114,000 people in 140 countries pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism in providing a range of sophisticated services centered on our core competencies of auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions. Further information about Ernst & Young and its approach to a variety of business issues can be found at www.ey.com/perspectives. Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, a U.K. company limited by guarantee, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited does not provide services to clients. Ernst & Young LLP is a U.S. client-serving member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited.

About Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc

Optimal Solutions Integration is trusted by some of the largest organizations in the world to bring only the best SAP talent to bear on their most complex SAP challenges. With over a decade of experience, Optimal has the proven SAP expertise, talent and resources to help transform any SAP challenge into a sustainable, competitive edge. Through a proven Global Trust delivery model, Optimal offers clients the most flexibility in balancing schedule, cost, and performance by featuring onsite and offshore delivery options. For more information about Optimal Solutions Integration, visit www.optimalsol.com.