Möglingen, July 17, 2019: With its current financial report, the USU Group again achieved a top result in this year's competition for the world's best annual reports. In the Software category, the (LACP) awarded USU's 2018 Annual Report platinum, the highest award, for its annual report. Around 1,000 entries from 25 countries were submitted to LACP and judged according to various criteria. The USU publication ranked 17th among the top 100 reports from all over the world and seventh among the TOP 50 reports from EMEA. In addition, LACP honored the creativity of the annual report as "most creative report worldwide" with gold. There was another award for the best letter to shareholders.

The jury - staffed by international communications experts - awarded the USU Annual Report 99 out of a possible 100 points. USU thus took first place worldwide in the "Software" competition category. In addition to the text and narrative style, USU also received the highest number for its first impression, report cover, creativity, accessibility of information, financial report and letter to shareholders.

"Dark Digit" are the title and concept of the USU report and shed light on the "little secrets of success" of USU customers, which usually take place in the background. The Annual Report is dedicated to USU clients and presents some of them in the narrative report. The focus is not on the technical information of the customer projects, but on the people behind them.

"Our annual report has been our company's calling card for years. This year's "freestyle section" also reflects the close relationship of trust with our customers. That makes me just as happy as the high awards in one of the world's most important communications competitions," says Bernhard Oberschmidt, CEO of USU Software AG, commenting on the good results.

The award was presented in particular for the outstanding work of the experts involved: Raimund Vollmer, a journalist from Reutlingen, Germany, acted as a provider of ideas and shaped the content of the annual report with his concise and entertaining style. And the Asperger agency freework Grafik-Design was responsible for the expressive graphic implementation.

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The USU Group is the largest European provider of IT and knowledge management software. Market leaders from all sectors of the international economy use USU applications to create transparency, enhance agility, save costs and reduce their risks. In addition to USU AG, founded in 1977, USU Software AG - which is listed in the Prime Standard of Deutsche Börse (ISIN DE000A0BVU28) - also includes the subsidiaries Aspera GmbH, Aspera Technologies Inc., LeuTek GmbH, OMEGA Software GmbH and USU SAS.

In the area of IT management, USU supports companies with comprehensive ITIL^(R)-compliant solutions for strategic and operational IT and enterprise service management. USU solutions give customers an overall view of their IT processes and IT infrastructure and enable them to transparently plan, allocate, monitor and actively manage services. USU is one of the world's leading manufacturers in the area of software license management.

USU is driving the digitization of business processes with its intelligent solutions and expertise in the area of digital interaction. Standard software and consulting services are used to automate service workflows and actively provide knowledge for all communications channels and points of customer contact in sales, marketing and customer service. The portfolio in this area is rounded off by system integration, individual applications and software solutions for industrial big data.

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