The McKool Smith team representing i2 included firm principals Ted Stevenson, Sam Baxter, and David Sochia, and firm associates Jill Bindler, Chris Bovenkamp, Steve Callahan, Bo Davis and Scott Hejny.

The contested patents included U.S. Patent Numbers 5,764,543; 5,930,156; 5,983,194; 6,055,519; 6,167,380; 6,188,989; and 7,085,729.

Dallas-based i2 Technologies Inc. is an innovator and worldwide provider of supply-chain management technology for some of the world's largest companies. Throughout its 20-year history of innovation and value delivery, i2 has dedicated itself to building successful customer partnerships. As a full-service supply chain company, i2 is uniquely positioned to help its clients achieve world-class business results through a combination of consulting, technology, and managed services. i2 solutions are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 21 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at http://www.i2.com.

McKool Smith has more than 95 attorneys handling commercial and intellectual property litigation for national and international clients, including Fortune 500 companies, universities, start-ups, and individuals. The firm is recognized as one of the premier litigation and trial firms in the United States, having earned significant courtroom victories for clients such as American Airlines, Electronic Data Systems, BearingPoint, Ericsson, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic Inc. and National Instruments.

For more information, please contact Bruce Vincent at 800.559.4534 or bruce@androvett.com.

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In the litigation, i2 asserted that SAP had infringed seven patents covering software programs related to supply chain planning, electronic negotiation, collaboration, and available-to-promise product management.

The McKool Smith team representing i2 included firm principals Ted Stevenson, Sam Baxter, and David Sochia, and firm associates Jill Bindler, Chris Bovenkamp, Steve Callahan, Bo Davis and Scott Hejny.

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i2 Lean Lifecycle Management is a comprehensive planning, scheduling and execution solution specifically designed to enable lean manufacturing in dynamic, complex supply chains dealing with multiple fulfillment modes and diversified product portfolios. The solution tightly integrates planning and execution by automating these functions as repeatable and standardized processes. With more than two decades of shop floor domain expertise, i2 solution can help enable planners, operators, and supervisors create, evaluate, publish, and execute pull-based production plans in challenging production environments.

"I believe that this is the only approach with the sophistication and flexibility required to deploy and sustain a successful lean manufacturing program across an extended supply chain," said i2 Vice President of Total Factory Management Aamer Rehman. "Customers can appreciate core lean manufacturing principles together with intelligent decision support and visual exception management to achieve the full operational and financial benefits of a sustainable lean initiative."

i2 Lean Lifecycle Management delivers capabilities such as:

-- Level production considering critical factory floor constraints

-- Pacemaker heijunka scheduling and execution

-- Visual interactive execution dashboards for problem detection and resolution

-- Quick "what-if" scenario management for enhanced decision making

-- Kanban management and execution for value stream synchronization

-- Visibility to lean metrics for structured continuous improvements (Kaizen)

i2 Lean Lifecycle Management is based on i2's more than 20 years of supply chain and factory floor domain expertise. The solution is part of i2's approach to SCM 2.0 that combines the people, process and technology necessary to bring innovation and success to dynamic supply chain challenges.

About i2

i2 helps business leaders make better supply chain decisions. i2's flexible new-generation solutions are designed to synchronize demand and supply across ever-changing global business networks. i2's innovative supply chain management tools and services are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.

i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies US, Inc. and i2 Technologies, Inc.

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"We looked at all other relevant solutions in the market and selected i2 for richness of functionality, advanced and proven technology. Furthermore i2 presented us with the strongest customer references," says Laurent Singer, chief information officer,of Galeries Lafayette and BHV brands. "Our business is very complex in terms of unpredictability, seasonality and competitiveness, therefore our need for good merchandise planning capabilities is a key business priority which should help us achieve our business goals."

"The intense competition in the industry is driving retailers to closely evaluate how to increase efficiency across the business. The ability to align corporate strategy and retail operations can enable our customers to improve inventory control and profitability. For years, i2 has empowered retailers around the globe to maximize revenue potential by running smarter and faster operations than their competitors and we look forward to doing the same with Galeries Lafayette and BHV," said i2 Senior Vice President of Retail and Consumer Industries Chuck Kramer.

About Galeries Lafayette

Galeries Lafayette department stores chain, part of Groupe Galeries Lafayette, has made fashion come alive for more than a century, while constantly staying in tune with the times and interpreting new trends and lifestyles. Covering fashions for women, men and children, as well as the home and gourmet foods, the department store chain has created out-of-the-ordinary concepts that reflect a commitment to showcasing style and developed these concepts in stores in Paris and throughout France. Galeries Lafayette has 63 stores that employ 12000 employees with 2007 revenues of Euro 2,520 mio. Learn more at www.galerieslafayette.com.

About BHV

BHV department stores chain, part of Groupe Galeries Lafayette, has with its innovative home improvement and decoration stores a history that goes back 150 years. The brand offers all aspects of everyday living, from interior decoration, fashion and tableware to homemaking, leisure and wellbeing. The chain consists of 9 department stores that employ 3000 employees with 2007 revenue of Euro 574 mio. Learn more at www.bhv.fr.

About i2

Throughout its 20-year history of innovation and value delivery, i2 has dedicated itself to building successful customer partnerships. As a full-service supply chain company, i2 is uniquely positioned to help its clients achieve world-class business results through a combination of consulting, technology, and managed services. i2 solutions are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.

i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies US, Inc. and i2 Technologies, Inc.

i2 Cautionary Language

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including forward-looking statements regarding i2's solutions, a customer's ability to implement or integrate those solutions successfully and in a timely fashion, receive expected functionality and performance, or achieve benefits attributable to i2 solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those projected. For a discussion of factors which could impact actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 17, 2008.

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