Savvion and Modena Partner to Extend Business Process Management Solutions to South America

Business Wire, July 17, 2007

Established Investment Firm to Provide Savvion BPM Solutions to South American Customer Base Across Key Industry Verticals

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Savvion([R]), the industry's leading business process management (BPM) company, announced today it has partnered with Modena, a leading investment firm in Argentina, to provide key customers in South America with best practices in deploying business process management solutions. Modena is a primary investor of Patagonia Technologies, a professional services company that creates and implements scalable and high added-value technological applications. Patagonia Technologies will market and sell Savvion BusinessManager[TM] 7.0, the easiest way for everyone in the organization to create, manage, and optimize business processes across the entire lifecycle.

Savvion's decision to partner with Modena and expand operations to South America follow recent reports that show as of early 2007, South America has experienced rapid economic development, with Venezuela, Argentina and Peru growing their economies by over 8 percent per year. Modena's clients span manufacturing, financial services and telecommunications industries. As part of the strategic partnership, Modena will assist in bringing to customers the best practices and processes that Savvion has successfully developed across key vertical industries, and has a team of professionals in place to support product deployment.

"We are pleased to partner with Modena to offer its customers our industry-leading business process management solution," said A. Cass Obregon, manager, Latin America, for Savvion. "Savvion's vision is to deliver BPM solutions to enable companies to run more agile, efficient, and competitive businesses. South American customers will now have access to reliable business process solutions from Savvion that have been proven in enterprise deployments with thousands of users."

"At Modena, we have an extensive knowledge of SOA and Web Services, which makes it a logical step for us so strengthen out expertise with a BPM offering from Savvion," said Omar Arab, president and CEO of Modena. "Building our BPM practice around Savvion's solutions ensures that our customers have the opportunity to use the most innovative BPM products on the market today. We look forward to helping our joint customers achieve their first business process deployment in 90 days or less."

About Modena Technologies Capital Partners

Modena Technologies Capital Partners is a private investment fund dedicated to developing technology companies in emerging markets, which has obtained the exclusive representation of Savvion in South Latin America. Modena's business is to design, develop, manage, and operate information systems based on information technology, as well as to commercialize products and services either directly or through contract collaborators.

For more information, please visit http://www.modenatcp.com/

About Patagonia Technologies

Patagonia Technologies delivers business solutions based on state-of-the-art technologies. Patagonia Technologies supply the systems market with adaptive developments, designed to optimize a company's performance, following the highest quality standards. Patagonia Technologies offers custom-made developments, according to our client's needs, through alliances with leading companies in the market, and applications based on the latest technologies.

About Savvion

Savvion is the leading provider of business process management (BPM) software that improves business performance and reduces costs. Savvion has a proven track record of turning process improvement ideas into real-world solutions quickly, often in as few as 30 days, and delivering a return on investment as high as 300%. More than 300 global business enterprises, public service agencies, and systems integration firms, including 20 of the Fortune 100, use Savvion systems to manage their business. Savvion is recognized by Intelligent Enterprise as one of the most influential companies in information technology today, and is a Leader in the Forrester Wave for BPM. To start down the path of process improvement, download the Savvion Process Modeler available for free at www.savvion.com/startnow. Or visit the Savvion ProcessXchange, where people can connect with a community of interest devoted to business process management, at www.processxchange.com.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at www.savvion.com or 888-544-5511.

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