11/06/2007

Ultimus , a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow software and solutions, with more than 1,700 customers worldwide, today announced the general availability of the Ultimus Adaptive BPM Suite™, version 8.

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According to Forrester Research, the BPM market will reach $6.3 billion by 2011 as enterprises seek to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and strategic value of key business processes that span a range of scenarios including human interactions, system and application integration, document processing, and complex decision making. Based on customer feedback from thousands of real-world BPM deployments worldwide, Ultimus’ 8th generation product empowers organizations to optimize business efficiencies, providing them with the maximum flexibility to adapt processes to their unique environment.

"Truly effective process automation offers organizations ways to dynamically adapt to an ever-changing business environment," said Rashid Khan, Chief Technical and Strategy Officer of Ultimus. "By creating front ends that allow business owners to ‘own’ and adapt core processes, version 8 of our Adaptive BPM Suite maximizes the return on investment from process automation. Businesses achieve unprecedented speed and agility because both business and IT teams are empowered to drive continual process improvement."

"What really impressed us as an organization was the level of customization that Ultimus has incorporated into its new solution. We looked for a BPM vendor that truly responds to the needs and requests of its customers," said Jason Chretien, assistant vice president at Tulane University. "We evaluated the new Ultimus Adaptive BPM Suite and found that through its new comprehensive features and functionalities, it was the technology that was going to help Tulane leap into the next century. We are currently running two business processes with roughly 300 incidents per day, and Ultimus has demonstrated to us that they have the ability to provide this university with the most complete packaged solution for our ever-growing needs."

Key capabilities of the Adaptive BPM Suite, version 8, include:

• Powerful Collaborative Clients for the flexible sharing of work



• Collaborative Design that supports a team approach to BPM deployments



• Versatile Office 2007 forms and seamless SharePoint integration for ubiquitous participation



• The innovative, patented Ultimus Human Services Bus™ for faster process design, based on the Distributed XML™ Model for supporting human-centric processes



• Ultimus' leading Adaptive Discovery technology for handling rule changes in real time



• Service Oriented Architecture that exposes core process information as reusable services



• Comprehensive reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) services



• Powerful new Community Clients that enable mass participation in business processes



• Adaptive Organization Charts to easily handle role changes and routing



• Modern, intuitive human-centric user interface



• Comprehensive round-trip optimization and modeling