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Heating Up The Market — AIIM Research Shows Increased Growth And
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Recent AIIM research of 354
end users found that 56 % of respondents indicated that they have
implemented BPM projects ranging from departmental and cross
departmental to enterprise-wide. The research report , entitled
"Business Process Management (BPM): Leveraging Competencies and
Streamlining Processes to Achieve Operational Excellence", also found
that the remaining 44% of respondents indicated that they have not yet
begun a significant BPM project as yet, but plan to do so in the coming
year—a definite indication that there is a growing focus on process
improvement. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;When asked which area of the business was the focus of their
implementation, the largest segment showed back office operations for
the primary project followed closely by IT, Human Resources and
Customer Service. In relation to the type of process that are
BPM-enabled, 37% cited a balance between transactional and document
centric processes while 31% said their focus was on transactional
processes and another 20% focused specifically on document-centric
processes. When asked, "who is responsible for defining the business
process rules and logic?" 54% responded that this responsibility rests
on either the individual process owner or line of business manager. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Respondents also cited that they feel the lack of interchange
standards between process modeling and execution tools remains an issue
while exception handling and interfaces follow close behind. If offered
the option of using an Open Source solution, 52% indicated that they
would consider it while those who said they would not, cite lack of
support as the main reason. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;The drive toward BPM is clear. More organizations are gaining
a better understanding of BPM, more capable of identifying areas where
BPM will make significant improvement, and the potential benefits it
has to offer. Reflecting this growth in the BPM market, AIIM has seen
significant increase in interest and enrollment of their
internationally recognized Business Process Management (BPM)
Certificate Training programs. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;According to Bob Larrivee, AIIM Director and Industry Advisor,
"The findings of this report indicate that a majority of respondents
believe that their organizations as a whole are at "process ignorance"
rather than "process excellence." The AIIM Market IQ report
additionally confirms that Business Process Management has taken center
stage to meet the needs of most businesses and that the establishment
of BPM environments and practices continues to provide the greatest
benefit in relation to operational efficiency." He continues, "The AIIM
BPM Certificate program helps organizations learn how to structure,
identify, map, and improve business processes using best practice
examples. Attendees who successfully complete these programs earn the
designation of Practitioner in understanding the fundamentals and
concepts of BPM, Specialist in understanding the implementation process
of a BPM project, and Master for demonstrating an applied understanding
of the concepts and process against an actual case study." &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Information about AIIM's six Certificate Training Programs can be found at &lt;a href="http://www.aiim.org/training"&gt;www.aiim.org/training&lt;/a&gt; 
 
 
 
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;b&gt;About AIIM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; AIIM (www.aiim.org) is the community that
provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations
find, control, and optimize their information. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit
organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges
associated with managing documents, content, records, and business
processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent,
implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire
enterprise content management (ECM) industry- including users,
suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's intermediary. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association
and later became the Association for Information and Image Managment.
AIIM is also known as the Enterprise Content Management Association. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Subscribe to AIIM feeds at &lt;a href="http://www.aiim.org/feeds"&gt;www.aiim.org/feeds&lt;/a&gt;  
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Subscribe to industry press release feeds at &lt;a href="http://www.aiim.org/ResourceCenter/RSSFeed.aspx?Type=PRESSRELEASES"&gt;www.aiim.org/ResourceCenter/RSSFeed.aspx?Type=PRESSRELEASES&lt;/a&gt;  
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;Subscribe to AIIM Blogs at &lt;a href="http://www.aiim.org/blogs"&gt;www.aiim.org/blogs&lt;/a&gt;  
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Verdana"&gt;SOURCE: AIIM &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0 size=3&gt;Opalis Software Delivers Industry &lt;EM&gt;First with Business Process Centric IT Initiative&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Partnership with Altosoft Enables New Levels of Real-time Process Automation Analytics&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;TORONTO, Nov 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Opalis Software Inc., the independent market leader in IT process automation software, today announced a next generation of process automation analytics that will enable enterprise IT organizations to achieve shared visibility into IT process performance, systems and services with their business partners. Enterprise customers will benefit with new levels of transparency between lines of business and IT and improved business agility through increased IT responsiveness. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The Business Process Centric IT (BPC IT) initiative links business process metrics and KPIs with IT process automation. The result is the industry's first solution to enable customers to understand and analyze the impact of the IT environment on business process performance. Available December 1, 2008, from Opalis, the Business Process Centric (BPC) IT Dashboard features Opalis IT Process Automation solutions combined with advanced, process-aware business intelligence (BI) technology from Opalis' OEM partner, Altosoft. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The BPC IT Dashboard empowers executives, business users and IT staff by linking operational IT and business process metrics into a single view where organizations can track and monitor process performance across IT systems and services, visualize real-time activity across heterogeneous systems and vendors, and ensure compliance with business process KPIs, SLAs and IT policies. Enterprises can monitor key processes in real time, be alerted when a process starts to fail, drill down to evaluate the cause of the problem and take action to remediate the problem, all in either a fully automated or semi-automated manner. The solution provides the ability to do offline analysis of process performance bottlenecks allowing business and IT to synchronize the changes necessary to improve future performance. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For example: &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Provisioning a new customer is a business process that depends on an IT service. In the real-time operations environment, if that process stalls for lack of IT resources, the Opalis BPC IT Dashboard would highlight the business process problem, the business impact, the associated IT services causing the problem, and where possible, automate the response to mitigate the resources bottleneck. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Within this example, offline review of the analytic data suggests that this business process tends to fail every Saturday morning when over capacity utilization of a particular server occurs. Not surprisingly, the business analytic data shows that there is a spike in new customer provisioning traffic on Saturday mornings. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Using Opalis automation, a corrective action is put in place to expand server capacity every Saturday morning by provisioning an additional virtual machine through an ITIL workflow, allocated to new customer provisioning, for the duration of the day. At the end of the day on Saturday, the virtual machine is automatically decommissioned by the Opalis process and resources are returned to the free pool. Business needs and IT become synchronized to deliver business agility. &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Leading companies worldwide are choosing to improve their business agility by enabling IT to deliver critical services faster, and with fewer errors. With Opalis, this can be achieved through solutions that automate processes so skilled IT staff can be reallocated to strategic business initiatives, resulting in reduced management cost and increased productivity. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;According to a May 2008 report published by independent research firm Forrester(1) titled Tech Horizons: The IT Management Software Market In 2013 the evolution of IT management software is advancing to a process centric view as the most mature state over the next 5 years with automation and dashboards, end-to-end management, analytics and decision support all critical elements in this evolution. &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;"Pressure from the business to improve service quality while reducing costs is forcing IT organizations to act as service providers: they must structure themselves as business units, using best practices, process streamlining and automation," wrote Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester in the report.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;"IT services must align closely with business processes...More and more enterprises are using business process management (BPM) to architect their business processes. Inputs from IT services into BPM tools will pinpoint the necessary IT changes and BPM will directly drive application and IT service design," continued Garbani. Forrester estimates the size of this market at $18.5Bn by 2013.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;"Our customers and their business partners are looking for end to end visibility of their critical processes, coupled with actionable intelligence. Traditional big IT management vendors focusing on Data Center Automation (DCA), Business Service Management (BSM) and Business Service Automation (BSA) can't be trusted to deliver this end-to-end process view because their focus is limited to their stack of software and all large enterprise companies use multiple vendors for their systems management tools and infrastructure." said Charles Crouchman, chief technology officer for Opalis Software. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"What makes the Opalis approach unique is that it does not rely on heavy BPM tools or require a suite of IT management software to produce high value results. Opalis will pull information from the tools that already exist in the environment, including BPM and systems management tools from all vendors, protecting the enterprise investment in these tools. We selected Altosoft because their technology was uniquely well suited to enable the heterogeneous, open approach that we had envisioned between IT process and business process" continued Crouchman. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For organizations that are interested in expanding visibility and analysis capabilities beyond the Opalis system, Opalis and Altosoft offer a seamless upgrade path to the full Altosoft Insight business intelligence solution, enabling full analysis of other IT-related data sources in-line with Opalis. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Opalis' leading IT process automation technology has empowered organizations to significantly improve performance, reliability and efficiency of information technology and business services delivery," said Scott Opitz, chief executive officer, Altosoft. "Our alliance with Opalis makes perfect sense because both organizations are helping customers achieve business goals through process excellence. By integrating Altosoft's unique, process-aware BI platform, Opalis creates a compelling competitive advantage for its product and delivers the superior data visualization and analysis experience that IT executives and operational managers are looking for." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=1&gt;&lt;EM&gt;(1) Forrester "Tech Horizons: The IT Management Software Market in 2013", Jean-Pierre Garbani and Thomas Mendel, PHD, May 2, 2008, updated July 1, 2008. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Opalis Software Inc., headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is the IT process automation market leader with some of the largest enterprise customers in the world, including Accenture, VMware, Toyota, Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson, British Telecom, Bank of New York, and Woolworths. Opalis provides a comprehensive IT process automation solution to orchestrate, integrate and automate IT processes for large and medium enterprises focused on improving service delivery and reducing costs. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For more information on Opalis, please visit &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.opalis.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;www.opalis.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0 size=3&gt;Appian Announces New Innovations in Business Process Management Software&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Appian is a world-renowned developer of business process management solutions (BPM). They have today announced the new version of their Business Process Management Software.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Nov 13, 2008&lt;/EM&gt; – Vienna, Virginia, &amp;nbsp;– Appian Corporation has been a long-time innovative force in the BPM arena. &amp;nbsp;Their business process management software (BPMS) solution provides corporations with the means to integrate valuable innovative efforts, collaborative endeavors and more into a seamless whole.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In addition, through the web-based suite, an entire corporation can participate in the process. &lt;BR&gt;Perhaps the single best aspect of Appian's BPM solution is the ease of use it enjoys. &amp;nbsp;The suite is designed for business users and provides you with the means to integrate different elements into the BPM process. &amp;nbsp;Whether you are just starting out with BPM, or have a long-standing effort in the area including a COE, Appian's software suite can provide you with outstanding benefits. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In addition, this business process management software is scalable, in order to provide the most flexibility and benefits for your needs. &amp;nbsp;Regardless of the size of your company, Appian provides you with the means to ensure success. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Combining the best document management capabilities with real-time analytics, monitoring, collaborative elements and web-based ease of use, Appian's business process management suite ensures productivity in the COE, as well as the means to avoid common pitfalls. &lt;BR&gt;For additional information about business process management software, visit &lt;A href="http://www.appian.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3060e0&gt;http://www.appian.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; or call 703.442.8844. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;About Appian – Appian is an industry leader and innovator, dedicated to providing corporations of all sizes with the BPM software needed to ensure proper COE implementation and integration. &amp;nbsp;Business process management is simple when you use the tools available through Appian's unique approach to development.&lt;!-- google_ad_section_end --&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;A title="Bookmark and Share" onclick="window.open('http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?wt=nw&amp;amp;pub=garyedwardsmith&amp;amp;url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&amp;amp;title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'addthis', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,width=620,height=520,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,screenX=200,screenY=100,left=200,top=100'); return false;" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target=_blank&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG height=16 alt="Bookmark and Share" src="http://s7.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width=125 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;______________________________________________________________________&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0 size=3&gt;Savvion Announces Communications Foundation&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;BPM-Enabled Software for Communications and Media Companies Dramatically Improves Quality and Speed of Service to Customers&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Savvion(R), the trailblazing business process management (BPM) company, today announced Savvion Communications Foundation, a comprehensive set of capabilities which enable quick definition and deployment of carrier grade solutions for the communications and media industry.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Communications Foundation is built on top of Savvion's industry-leading business process management software, Savvion BusinessManager(TM). The new product suite provides the ability to promptly build solutions such as trouble ticketing, returns and repair, number portability, network order management, and other solutions that handle some of the most critical functions facing communication service providers. Savvion Communications Foundation was used to develop the Communications Order Management Solution (COMS 7.0) for customer orders, which Savvion first announced on September 30, 2008. Savvion will be demonstrating its new Communication Foundation at next week's TMForum Management World in Orlando, Florida, in booth #121. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Communications Foundation is one in a series of domain foundation products that Savvion is creating to address increasing demands for critical enterprise application solutions that are highly agile, provide visibility into business metrics and process performance, increase the productivity and quality of business operations, and enable business users to improve their operations without taking on lengthy IT redevelopment efforts. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Our new Communications Foundation is another significant step forward in delivering business-driven BPM-enabled solutions," said Dr. Ketabchi, President, CEO and Founder of Savvion. "Our customers have told us -- and we have listened very carefully -- that having the agility and visibility to change and improve their processes increases productivity and are key to their success. Communications Foundation addresses these requirements and allows them to differentiate themselves in a competitive market." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"With the increase in mergers and acquisitions, the trend of bundling of voice, data, mobile, and content service, and the shifting of the global competitive landscape, communication service providers are under tremendous pressure to rapidly deploy new and changing service offerings to their customers, " said Sanjay Kumar, Vice-President of Communications and Media Solutions at Savvion. "With this new Foundation, we are the first in the industry to provide the ability to deploy solutions that help service providers meet their goals at the pace that their business demands while deliver in-year returns on investment." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Savvion Communications Foundation leverages Savvion's successful track record of building advanced order management and other BPM-based, next-generation Operational Support System (OSS) solutions for many of the world's leading communication and media companies. These solutions can be overlaid on top of existing systems, or can be used to replace traditional systems that have become too cumbersome and costly to adapt to rapidly changing business needs. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A full list of product features and benefits can be found on Savvion's website at &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.savvion.com/communications" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;www.savvion.com/communications&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;More than 300 of the world's top-performing companies, including 22 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably. As the business process management trailblazer, Savvion moves enterprises beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software solutions and services that make them more competitive and cost-efficient, including a return on investment as high as 300%. Savvion has a proven track record for turning process improvement ideas into real-world solutions within 30 days. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.savvion.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;www.savvion.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; or 888-544-5511. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;ENGLEWOOD, CO, Nov 12, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- BusinessGenetics, a pioneer in the Business Modeling/Analysis, Business Requirements, Enterprise Architecture and IT automation industries, announced that it has been positioned in the Gartner BPA MQ (Business Process Analysis Tools Magic Quadrant) report. &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;With business process analysis tools continuing to play a strategic role within organizations, especially in light of recent economic trends, business managers, IT practitioners and process analysts are constantly seeking to better understand, streamline and automate business processes and communicate their needs to IT professionals. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;BusinessGenetics' Business Modeling and Analysis Suite consists of a graphical business modeler, an enterprise Business Modeling manger/Repository, a leading edge Business Requirement auto-generator plus advanced business reporting capabilities. Together, these components make it possible for organizations to rapidly visualize, analyze, automate, manage and optimize all business areas. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The BusinessGenetics solution, because of its intuitive business interface, is rapidly becoming a standard front end to BPM (Business Process Management), Business Optimization, Six Sigma, compliance and many IT application implementation/integration efforts. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Cedric Tyler joint CEO commented, "We are delighted to be recognized by Gartner in the BPA quadrant. In my opinion, this is a true testament to the breakthrough nature of our solution. We are committed to our growing client following and have exciting future technology enhancements in development to augment our existing solution suite." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;To view the full report, available to Gartner clients, please visit &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.gartner.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;http://www.gartner.com/&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;About BusinessGenetics, Inc. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;BusinessGenetics, Inc. is Headquartered in Englewood, CO and assists Fortune 500 organizations and Federal Agencies with the definition, optimization and automation of business operations using xBML(R) its unique and proprietary methodology and software.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;BusinessGenetics, Inc. is acknowledged as a market innovator and pioneer, earning repeated accolades from clients, practitioners, industry analysts and thought leaders. The company is listed on the Inc. 5000(R), as one of Americas fastest growing corporations. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Additional information on BusinessGenetics may be accessed at &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.businessgenetics.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;www.businessgenetics.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;About the Magic Quadrant &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors' measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;FONT size=1&gt;Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools" by Michael Blechar, September 23, 2008 -- ID # G00161090 &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0 size=3&gt;Colosa Launches Business Process Library to Enhance Business Process Management: ProcessMaker Library&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;- ProcessMaker Library offers ProcessMaker community access to workflow templates -&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The new templates complement Colosa's open source business process management software, ProcessMaker, which is available free for download at &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;ProcessMaker Library will be available to business managers and owners that want to simplify or implement business processes to increase the efficiency and structure of their businesses. Current downloads available include basic process management workflows and an expense report workflow. The templates are available for download at &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://library.processmaker.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;http://library.processmaker.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;New templates will be added every month to the ProcessMaker Library, which will be a repository of a range of business process templates. Simple to use, users can read the workflow description, and then choose to download the template and import it to ProcessMaker with the click of a button. Templates offer a first-hand look at advanced ProcessMaker features, and can be adapted for Enterprise use.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;ProcessMaker is commercial open source BPM software that SMEs use to simplify workflow and business processes. Enterprise users pay for support and services, and do not have to pay for licenses or upfront signup fees. ProcessMaker is a high-quality and affordable solution that allows SMEs to better compete with larger organizations by streamlining business processes and giving them greater control over how their businesses run. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"ProcessMaker Library responds to a community desire to share workflow designs," said Patricia Cabero, ProcessMaker Community Lead. "This innovative resource will offer increased utility to ProcessMaker users and grow the community network in new and interesting ways. The Library is in Beta version, and new templates and features are coming soon." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"ProcessMaker aims to help organizations automate and simplify business processes," said Brian Reale, CEO of Colosa. "Adaptable workflow templates make it easy for users to manage crucial business processes with only a few clicks. SMEs, who often can't afford more expensive proprietary solutions, will now have access to business processes that can help their businesses grow." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;About Colosa &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Colosa is a developer of software solutions that enable companies to simplify workflow through the capture and automation of business processes. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The company's flagship product, ProcessMaker ( &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.processmaker.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;www.processmaker.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;) is an open source application that enables SMEs to automate document intensive, approval-based processes acrosssystems including finance, HR and operations. ProcessMaker is an AJAX enabled, SOA, web-based application that allows users across single and multiple sites to create and share workflows, customize forms, manage processes, and enhance reporting. ProcessMaker OSS is available for download at &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker/&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Colosa was founded in 2000 and has customers in local and central government, retail, insurance, and finance. Colosa has offices in Brooklyn, NY, Coral Gables, FL, La Paz, Bolivia, and Lima, Peru. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For more information visit &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.processmaker.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;www.processmaker.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;DERRY, Northern Ireland, Nov 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Leading Business Process Management software company Singularity is investing over GBP3.5m ($5.5m) to expand its operations and create 112 jobs worldwide. The investment was announced by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster as she visited the company's headquarters in Derry, Northern Ireland.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Singularity intends to accelerate its growth in the rapidly expanding Business Process Management (BPM) market through increased research and development and expansion of its global solution delivery teams. The company plans to invest in a series of innovations to its main BPM product and to expand its presence in the telecoms, capital markets and government sectors in the UK, US and Asia. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Padraig Canavan, Singularity's founder and CEO, said: "We compete at the highest levels internationally and consistently win. Our ability to do that is based on constant innovation, hiring the best people and continuously focusing on what our customers want. We have achieved a lot, but we have even greater ambitions for the future and we look forward to expanding our presence worldwide through the investment announced today." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Singularity employs over 200 staff across its offices in Londonderry, Belfast, London, New York, Singapore and Hyderabad in India and is rated in the top 10 in its software sector by the world's leading analysts. The jobs created by the investment will bring staff numbers worldwide to over 300. Of the GBP3.5m to be invested, state enterprise support agency InvestNI is providing assistance of GBP1.28million ($2.02m). &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;The investment announcement comes in the same week that Singularity was honoured by the Irish Software Association with its prestigious 'Sales Achievement Award', in recognition of the company's 80% growth in the past year and a succession of recent deals in its target sectors. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Singularity is a global leader in Business Process Management (BPM), Workflow and Case Management Software, with over 200 staff and offices in Derry, Belfast, New York, London, Singapore and Hyderabad. Singularity's award-winning product helps organizations automate complex business processes, linking human and system activities seamlessly together to achieve business goals. Singularity also provides a range of market-specific BPM solutions to customers in the Telecommunications, Government and Capital Markets sectors. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For more information, please visit &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.singularity.us.com/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;http://www.singularity.us.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A class=lk001 href="http://www.singularity.co.uk/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000cc&gt;http://www.singularity.co.uk&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0 size=3&gt;Appian Announces Appian Enterprise 5.7 and Appian ShareBase&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Technology and Knowledge-Sharing Enhancements Increase BPM Value for Entire Appian Community&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c0c0c0&gt;&lt;SPAN class=content&gt;&lt;FONT class=contpresstxthl&gt;&lt;FONT class=contpresstxthl&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;VIENNA, VA, Nov 10, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today unveiled Appian Enterprise 5.7, the latest version of its industry-leading BPM Suite, and Appian ShareBase, a rich repository of BPM content contributed by customers, partners and Appian staff. This tandem announcement of technology and community enhancements continues Appian's tradition of driving innovation to simplify process improvement and maximize the returns on BPM investments. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Technology Innovation &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Appian Enterprise 5.7 introduces many new innovative features into the BPM market that make it easier than ever to design, execute, manage and optimize key business processes. These features are centered on enabling users to rapidly build process-based applications that seamlessly integrate people and systems. &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;-&lt;FONT face=Verdana&gt;-  Expanded support for Custom Data Types in Appian Process Models.
    Complex data types can be used to define Process Variables, which are
    available for use in process nodes, forms, and reports
--  Enhanced Web Services support across a wide range of services and the
    latest standards. Automatic creation of complex data types allows for more
    flexible mapping of Web Service inputs and outputs
--  Web Services for Remote Portlets: support for WSRP 1.0 consumption,
    and easy publication of 3rd party WSRP content into Appian Portal Pages
--  Process Modeling Enhancements for faster discovery of key functions
    and discovery of process errors
--  Enhanced Portal Capabilities including improved portlets and portal
    content sharing
--  Improved Content Management interfaces with more actions for
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&lt;DIV class=p&gt;Appian Enterprise 5.7 will be generally available on December 19th, 2008. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Appian ShareBase -- BPM Community Knowledge-sharing &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;The Appian ShareBase repository is immediately available, and is free to use with an Appian product license. All content in the repository is contributed by the members of the Appian community, and includes Process Models, Smart Services, Form Libraries, Rules, enhancements and other extensions. Appian ShareBase will enable a new level of knowledge-sharing among Appian users that will help expand the value of Appian's BPM Suite technology. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Appian has pre-loaded Appian ShareBase with popular content, and will continue to add to it regularly. Appian ShareBase also enables partners and customers of Appian to freely upload, review, and discuss content. Appian ShareBase can be accessed via Appian Access, the online collaborative network for Appian Enterprise users. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"The Appian community is a diverse global network of organizations with one thing in common: they are all using Appian to drive fundamental improvem