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January 8, 2004 - Terra Firma Consulting, Inc. (TFC) announced today that it has been awarded a contract from a competitive RFP for providing SAP Upgrade Project Quality Assurance Review Services to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). SMUD, with assets of $3.3 Billion and annual revenue of $1B, employs 2,300 people and is the 6th largest municipal utility in the US serving 1,300,000 people and approximately 541,000 commercial, industrial and agricultural customers.

The upgrade project consists of SAP R/3 v4.0B and SAP Customer Care and Services (IS-U-CCS) v1.2 to R/3 Enterprise v4.7 and SAP IS–U-CCS v4.72. The District has also identified a number of SAP optimization initiatives to improve the District’s use of SAP within the District. SMUD is nationally recognized as a leader in applying advanced technologies in its quest to serve clients, partners and constituents.

As part of the awarded contract, Terra Firma Consulting, Inc. will provide review, analysis, findings and recommendations to the District with regard to their planning and execution of the upgrade, with an initial review to be conducted in January 2004, and other review intervals through the end of 2004 at the discretion of the District and mutual agreement of TFC/SMUD.

About TFC
Terra Firma Consulting, Inc. (TFC) is a preeminent supplier of SAP consulting and training services with critical domain experience in several industry verticals including public sector, utility, chemical/pharmaceutical, oil & gas and consumer products. TFC manager, instructor and consultant resources have a minimum of 6 to 17 years SAP experience, some as many as 36,000 project hours, each with many years experience in the technology industry and in the specialized business processes in various industry segments. TFC SAP certified personnel provide for full service global implementations, IV&V/quality reviews, outsourcing, onsite training, and strategic consulting and support services to organizations like: US Navy, State of North Carolina, CSC, Kimberly-Clark, ConAgra, AGFA, Kodak, Bayer, EDS, Ecolab, Eastman Chemicals, Entergy, Elizabethtown Water, Newport News Shipbuilding, City Public Services, Shell, City of San Antonio, Philips, SAP and many others. www.tfconsulting.com.

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