IDS Scheer Announces Appointment of Head of BPI Consulting to the Board of Directors of the Business Process Management Initiative

Business Wire, March 3, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BERWYN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003

IDS Scheer, Inc., the leading provider of business process excellence services and tools, today announced that Georg Simon, IDS Scheer's Director of BPI Consulting, has been appointed to the Business Process Management Initiative's (BPMI.org) Board of Directors.

Board members are selected to provide BPMI with business and technical leadership as the organization provide open, royalty-free standards for the management of business processes.

BPMI is a leading standards organization that empowers companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. BPMI's mission is to promote and develop the use of Business Process Management (BPM) through the establishment of standards for process design, deployment, execution, control and optimization.

"Georg's expertise and experience in the area of Business Process Management and his 10 years of experience with IDS Scheer will be a great asset to BPMI," commented Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, President and CEO of IDS Scheer, Inc. "His appointment to the Board of Directors at BPMI is an important step in helping the organization advance the various standards initiatives required to help deploy process-driven technology solutions in inter-enterprise scenarios."

IDS Scheer is a member of BPMI and a supporter of the organization's Business Process Modeling Language (BPML 1.0), the first proposed business process modeling language standard that provides a graphical notation used by business analysts for the modeling of executable and manageable business processes, especially in the field of inter-enterprise processes. IDS Scheer's industry acknowledged ARIS Toolset fully supports the BPML standards, as well as the other standards in this field.

About IDS Scheer, Inc.

IDS Scheer, Inc. is the global leader in providing consulting and software solutions to organizations to enable business process excellence. With more than 1,500 employees worldwide, IDS Scheer combines leading edge technology with a range of vertical market expertise to help organizations streamline enterprise resource planning, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, and e-business initiatives. The company's ARIS product suite is the market leader in business process management, including the award-winning ARIS Toolset and ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM) which are used by more than 3,000 organizations worldwide, and consistently recognized by the industry's leading analyst groups. For more information, visit http://www.ids-scheer.com/us.>

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