Ultimus Reinforces Leadership Status in Human-Centric BPM with new iBAM Suite; Powered by Adaptive Discovery, Business Owners can go from Zero to BAM in less than 10 minutes

Business Wire, June 27, 2006

CARY, N.C. -- Ultimus, the #1 provider of Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow software and solutions, with more than 1,600 customers worldwide, today announced the Ultimus iBAM Suite. The new interactive Business Activity Monitoring Suite provides an easy-to-use, yet powerful, way for business owners and managers to visually monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) from the convenience of their desktops and interactively control the process for roundtrip optimization. Ultimus is the only BPM software provider with a complete suite of interactive BAM controls.

The Ultimus iBAM Suite enables state-of-the-art BAM by utilizing a number of modules that work together to enable business owners to create a BAM dashboard in under 10 minutes while providing an optimal user experience. When used with the Ultimus BPM Suite, the Ultimus iBAM Suite derives flexibility and power from Adaptive Discovery(TM), Ultimus' patented BPM rules engine that enables business processes to be deployed without completely defined process maps and allows rules to be discovered and changed easily in real-time.

"Ultimus iBAM furthers our commitment to creating powerful, human-centric capabilities that simplify BPM and return ownership to the business team. One of the most important aspects of the Ultimus iBAM Suite is that the real process owners, the business people, can easily create their own real-time gauges and establish controls in minutes without the need for IT," said Rashid Khan, CEO and co-founder, Ultimus, Inc. "It is easy and fast to create the rules because iBAM connects to Ultimus' innovative Adaptive Discovery rules environment which provides a simple user interface where rules and conditions can easily be created, changed, tested and deployed in minutes using simple logic skills and drag and drop tools."

Ultimus iBAM Suite is a complete interactive BAM suite that contains:

--Ultimus BAMports--A graphical digital display for a single KPI or a feedback dial. Each BAMport also provides a customized drill-down report associated with it to provide insight behind the KPI.

--Ultimus BAMboard--A digital dashboard that hosts multiple BAMports. It is configured for each business user and available on their desktop.

--Ultimus BAMstudio--An application that allows business users to easily design and configure new BAMports and set their attributes and properties. It provides flexibility to change calculations, shapes, sizes, colors, access rights and other attributes for each KPI.

--Ultimus BAMserver--A server application that maintains the BAMports, updates their values, controls access for security, and allows Ultimus processes and third party applications to interact with them.

--Ultimus BAMrepository--A repository for saving BAMport definitions and values of KPIs.

--Ultimus BAMactions--A set of XML Web Services and .NET actions that allow Ultimus processes to easily interact with the BAMsever without any coding. Web Services are used for 3rd party applications to interact with BAMports; thus, making it an easy, open and flexible environment.

Roundtrip optimization is one of the most powerful capabilities of the Ultimus iBAM Suite. It allows business users to instantly optimize resources and change the flow of business processes on the basis of real-time KPI activity. BAMports can be either configured to automatically compare current KPI values with KPI performance ranges, and adjust the process based on the results of this comparison, or allow the business user to use a dial or switch to change the process based on personal judgment. This unique capability allows business owners to optimize processes based upon real-time information and without IT involvement.

The Ultimus iBAM Suite enables organizations to rapidly configure and deploy BAMports for individual KPIs within minutes using the full flexibility of a rules engine to translate data and events into any meaningful business metric. These digital indicators can be configured to display business performance metrics carried by Ultimus processes using familiar graphical display components such as gauges and speedometers. Additionally, while a BAMport graphically displays one KPI on the business user's desktop, a combination of BAMports can be collectively displayed in a BAMboard, empowering business users to make decisions by visually comparing KPI values with performance ranges. Alternatively, one or more BAMports can be configured as a component on the business user's desktop. This provides limitless flexibility to display many KPIs tailored to the unique needs and preferences of each user.

About Ultimus

Ultimus is the worldwide leader in human-centric Business Process Management (BPM) software, providing the industry's most complete and scalable platform for modeling, automating, managing and optimizing business processes. Powered by Adaptive Discovery(TM), the Ultimus BPM Suite is the only BPM suite that enables automated business processes to be deployed without completely defined process maps. Its Microsoft-based platform is quick to deploy and easy to administer, and its integration capabilities provide seamless information transfer between applications and outside organizations. Long recognized as a BPM pioneer, Ultimus has automated more processes than any BPM vendor, resulting in reduced cycle times, lower costs, improved productivity and higher customer satisfaction for its clients. Ultimus' award-winning BPM Suite is available in 20 languages and is deployed by more than 1,600 customers across every industry, including 100 of the world's largest enterprises. Headquartered in Cary, NC, Ultimus has offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia and supports a network of 80 worldwide partners. For more information, visit www.ultimus.com.