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SPS Commerce CEO Named as a Finalist for the Ernst & Young Entepeneur of the Year^® Award in Minnesota and Dakotas

Archie Black Recognized by Business Leaders for Successful Innovation and Growth Strategies

Minneapolis, Minn., April 24, 2007 - SPS Commerce, a leading trading partner integration center offering fully outsourced Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Catalog functions, announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Archie Black, has been named as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in Minnesota and Dakotas.

"I am honored to be recognized by our area's business leaders," said Archie Black, President and Chief Executive Officer of SPS Commerce. "Since taking leadership at SPS Commerce in 2001, I have had the opportunity to work with talented and ambitious individuals who helped me to execute a dramatic new course for our organization. Today our outsourced services are used by thousands of customers every day, and have successfully turned SPS Commerce into the leading outsourced EDI provider serving 10,000 subscribers."

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its 21st anniversary this year and continues to recognize the leaders and visionaries who are creating and building world-class businesses. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

Award winners will be announced at a gala event on Tuesday, June 19 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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 SPS Commerce
SPS Commerce is the leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) B2B integration, connecting every partner in the supply chain. Retailers, manufacturers and 3PLs have selected SPS Commerce as their outsourced provider to automate and integrate their trading relationships. Using the SaaS model, SPS Commerce dramatically lowers setup and on-going costs, along with the time and risks of traditional EDI software by outsourcing the entire B2B communication process. The company’s offerings leverage its multi-tenant architecture, multi-party sharing, comprehensive knowledge of thousands of retailer’s business processes and specifications and integration expertise with a variety of systems for accounting (Great Plains, Quickbooks, MAS series), ERP (Oracle, NetSuite, SAP), packing and shipping (Agile, InSite, Scancode), and WMS (HighJump, Infor, Manhattan Associates). SPS Commerce is the recognized SaaS leader in B2B integration with more than 10,000 recurring revenue customers, pre-built integrations spanning 2,700 unique fulfillment workflows across 1,200 retailers, grocers and distributors, a customer satisfaction rate of 93% and the most comprehensive SaaS product suite available. SPS Commerce is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100.