Allianz Life to Participate on BPM Insurance Panel at Forrester Research 2006 Finance Forum; Leading Insurer to Profile BPM Best Practices and Projects

Business Wire, May 18, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi Software(R), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that Mr. Tim Rolfing, IT Manager over Business Process Management Technology at Allianz Life will present his BPM experiences in a panel session during Forrester Research's 2006 Finance Forum. Allianz Life utilizes TeamWorks, Lombardi's award-wining BPM platform for their process management needs. The two-day event will be held on May 22-23, 2006 at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City, N.Y.

Mr. Rolfing will present during the breakout panel session entitled "Creating Agility With Business Process Management," on May 22 at 2:30-4:00 p.m. EDT, which will be moderated by Forrester analysts Marc Cecere, Connie Moore and Mary Pilecki. During the session, Mr. Rolfing and co-panelist Ms. Becky Adriaenssens-Colucci, SVP at Meadowbrook Insurance Group, will provide insight into how business executives should think about BPM as well as highlight best practices for deploying BPM within insurance and banking companies.

The session is open to all conference attendees. For more information about the conference and for a complete view of the agenda, visit http://www.forrester.com/Events/Overview/1,5158,1244,00.html.> 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.

About Lombardi Software

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 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(a) and a Visionary in Gartner's BPM Magic Quadrant. For more information, visit www.lombardisoftware.com.

Lombardi Software and TeamWorks are registered trademarks and TeamWorks Process Optimizer, TeamWorks Portal, TeamWorks Rule Service and Lombardi for Office 2003 are trademarks of Lombardi Software, Inc.

(a) Source: The Forrester Wave(TM): Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006, Forrester Research Inc., 2006.