Lombardi Software Joins Object Management Group; Lombardi's CTO will Serve on the Business Process Management Initiative Steering Committee

Business Wire, Sept 7, 2005

AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi Software(R) announced today that the company has joined the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), the international not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications, as part of the merger between OMG and the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org). Phil Gilbert, Lombardi's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, will participate on the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) Steering Committee.

"OMG and BPMI.org recognized the opportunity of working together for integrating business processes and IT, and propagating the use of OMG's standards to help ensure productivity interoperability, portability and technology reusability," said Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG. "We are very pleased that Lombardi Software will be continuing their leadership role in helping to develop business process management standards within the OMG."

"In the new world of software, the winning commercial companies will be those that adopt, promote and assist in the innovation of open standards, and the best business process management suites (BPMS) will package standards-based tools into a cohesive platform that is easy-to-use for business, yet adheres to the infrastructure of the Internet and of corporate IT," said Lombardi's Gilbert. "Through our membership in BPMI.org and our leadership role in OMG, Lombardi is committed to providing more standards-based tools and encouraging consistency within BPM."

The BPMI Steering Committee will encourage consolidation and standardization of BPM technologies with an eye toward meeting business needs and improving ROI on BPM investments.

Among the hundreds of companies, government organizations and universities belonging to the OMG are Adobe, BEA, Computer Associates, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsystems.

About Lombardi

Lombardi Software is the leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies. Lombardi has both the award-winning technology and implementation best practices to bring process excellence to the enterprise. Lombardi's TeamWorks(R) is built on open standards and provides ongoing visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage their process activity and decision-making. Lombardi customers include Aflac, Dell, Hasbro, Pfizer, Sprint, Universal Music Group, Wells Fargo and Whole Foods. The company is noted as a Leader in the 2004 Forrester Wave and a Visionary in Gartner's 2004 Magic Quadrant. For more information visit www.lombardisoftware.com.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA(R), include the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(R)) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)). CORBA(R), the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.

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