Pfizer to Highlight Best Practices at Gartner European BPM Summit; Lombardi Customer to Profile BPM Center of Excellence at Gartner Panel Session

Business Wire, June 21, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi(R), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that Mr. Per Mickols, Applications Platform Improvement Lead at Pfizer, Inc. will present his BPM experiences in a panel session during Gartner's inaugural European Business Process Management Summit on 27 - 28 June, 2006 at the Hilton Metropole, in London, United Kingdom. Pfizer uses TeamWorks(R), Lombardi's award-wining BPM platform, for their process management needs.

Mr. Mickols will present during the breakout panel session entitled "BPM Center of Excellence Best Practices," on 28 June, at 12:05 - 13:00 p.m. B.S.T., which will be moderated by Gartner analyst Michael Melenovsky. During the session, Mr. Mickols and his co-panelists will provide insight into managing the challenges of justifying and building a BPM Center of Excellence (COE), identifying when a COE makes most sense, where it should be located within the organization and how the BPM center of excellence should be staffed.

As a conference sponsor, Lombardi will showcase TeamWorks and demonstrate its capabilities to support a wide variety of high-impact, enterprise process improvement efforts. Lombardi staff will be available throughout the conference to demonstrate TeamWorks in the Solution Showcase at booth #1.

Lombardi TeamWorks is the leading BPM software platform for designing, executing, and improving business processes. The product is built on open standards and provides ongoing process visibility and control, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage process activity and decision-making. TeamWorks includes a rich, cohesive Eclipse-based modeling environment for building all aspects of a business process, a highly collaborative web-based work portal for process participants, and provides industry-leading optimization technologies for analyzing and improving business processes.

The session is open to all conference delegates. For more information about the conference and for a complete view of the agenda, visit http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/bpme1.jsp

About Lombardi

Lombardi 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 business process improvement and excellence to the enterprise. Lombardi's TeamWorks is a Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) 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, Allianz Life, Applied Materials, Dell, Hasbro, Hoover's, Pfizer, Sprint, T-Mobile, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. The company is noted as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for BPM and a Visionary in Gartner's BPM Magic Quadrant. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

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