BearingPoint to Establish SAP Center of Excellence

BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced it will open a Center of Excellence at the SAP PartnerPort in Walldorf, Germany, on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. BearingPoint will mark the occasion with a formal event beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The center will serve to concentrate BearingPoint’s SAP practice in Europe to work with BearingPoint’s SAP® applications group, as well as SAP customers and partners to deliver leading BearingPoint and SAP integrated applications. The Walldorf PartnerPort is dedicated to SAP partners, and is used as a central hub for collaboration between SAP, its partners and customers.

“Establishing this center of excellence solidifies our commitment to work with SAP to develop the next generation of enterprise-level service-oriented architecture and business process platform solutions, as well as innovative, verticalized composite applications,” said Kiumars Hamidian, managing director with BearingPoint’s EMEA SAP Solutions group.

The agenda for the event includes

* Welcome comments from Dr. Manfred Heil, senior vice president,
Alliances & Solutions, SAP AG

* Keynote addresses from Jim Hagemann Snabe, general manager, Industry
Solutions and corporate officer, SAP Group, and Peter Mockler,
executive vice president of BearingPoint’s EMEA practice, and

* A demonstration of BearingPoint and SAP NetWeaver® in Action --
“External Meets Internal Excellence for IT Innovation—Degussa’s
Advanced Solution Competence Center” by Werner Kroer with Degussa AG.

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About BearingPoint, Inc.
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE - News) is one of the world’s largest providers of management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations in 60 countries worldwide. Based in McLean, Va., the firm has over 17,000 employees and major practice areas focusing on the Public Services, Financial Services and Commercial Services markets. For nearly 100 years, BearingPoint professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done. For more information, visit the Company’s website at http://www.BearingPoint.com