Lombardi Named Overall Leader for HumanCentric Business Process Management in BPMS Watch Ratings



Lombardi, a leader in business process management (BPM) (http://www.lombardi.com/), today announced that it has been named the overall leader in Human-Centric BPM in the BPMS Watch Ratings, Q2 2008. The BPMS Watch ratings are a comparative scoring of eleven leading BPM Suites written by renowned BPM expert Dr. Bruce Silver, as part of a BPMS Report series. Dr. Silver evaluated Teamworks 6, Lombardi's award-winning BPM suite, for this ranking.

"For human-centric BPM, equally weighting production workflow and case management processes, Lombardi is the overall leader," wrote Dr. Bruce Silver, independent analyst and author of the BPMS Report Series. When compared with other vendors, the report points out that Lombardi's strengths are in the areas of "modeling; architecture and standards; event and exception management; and human task design."

During the review, Dr. Silver reviewed and compared Lombardi Teamworks against the other vendors' products using a common analytical framework. The results of these vendor product reviews have been published as The BPMS Report Series __title_ The BPMS Report Series (http://www.bpminstitute.org/bpmsreport.html), available on BPMS Watch as well as on BPMInstitute.org. Each report in the series covers a single BPMS in terms of eleven capabilities. The BPMS Watch ranking is a comparative scoring of each of the vendor offerings.

"We are pleased to be ranked in the BPMS Watch ranking as the overall Human-Centric BPM leader," said Jim Rudden, vice president of marketing, Lombardi. "We view this as further confirmation of our strategy to deliver the most innovative BPMS products and services that help drive superior business results for our customers."

To learn more about the BPMS Watch ratings Q2 2008, please go to: http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2008/04/10/bpms-watch-ratings/. To access a complimentary copy of the BPMS Report Series Review of Lombardi Teamworks 6, visit http://www.lombardi.com/bpm-resources.php.

Lombardi Teamworks (http://www.lombardi.com/enterprise-bpm-software.php) is the leading BPM software for designing, executing, and improving business processes. Teamworks for Office makes it easy for anyone to participate in business process management using the familiar Microsoft Office System products. Teamworks for SharePoint extends structured processes into the collaborative world of SharePoint portals, forums and discussion threads. Teamworks for Organization Management provides advanced organization modeling for process relationships. Lombardi Blueprint (http://www.lombardi.com/bpm-blueprint-product.php) is the only on-demand, collaborative process documenting tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities.

About BPMS Watch

BPMS Watch is an independent analyst's view of business process management technology - the tools and standards, methodologies and best practices, and BPM Suite offerings. BPMS Watch is written by Dr. Bruce Silver, an independent analyst and consultant focused on BPM technology. For more information regarding the BPMS Watch ratings and more detailed product evaluations, contact Bruce Silver (bruce @ brsilver.com).

About Lombardi

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM). We offer award-winning BPM technology and services to help our customers, partners and government agencies around the world succeed with their process improvement initiatives.

Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Group, Aflac, Banco Espirito Santo, Barclays Global Investors, Dell, El Paso Energy, FETAC, Financial Services Authority, Ford Motor Company, Hasbro, ING Direct, Intel, Maritz Travel, National Bank of Canada, National Institute of Health, Safety-Kleen, T-Mobile, UCLH, Wells Fargo Financial, Xbridge and numerous governmental agencies. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

Lombardi, Teamworks are registered trademarks and Teamworks Process Optimizer, Teamworks Portal, Teamworks for Office, Teamworks for SharePoint, Teamworks for Organization Management and Lombardi Blueprint are trademarks of Lombardi Software, Inc. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.





Lombardi Named Overall Leader for HumanCentric Business Process Management in BPMS Watch Ratings