Savvion BPM Deployment Garners Top Award for Grandi Stazioni CTO

Business Wire, June 20, 2007

InfoWorld Names Nicola Gazzaneo a Top 25 Chief Technology Officer for 2007

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Grandi Stazioni, Italy's leading railway management and revitalization company, is on the right track with Savvion([R]), the industry's leading business process management (BPM) company. Nicola Gazzaneo, Chief Technology Officer for Grandi Stazioni, a long-time Savvion customer, has been named to the 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25. Gazzaneo joins other CTO's on the prestigious list which honors top IT executives who are leading their companies and the industry.

"This year's CTO 25 award winners are true visionaries who believe that leading edge technology equals leading edge business," said Steve Fox, InfoWorld editor-in-chief. "Their constant invention and reinvention of strategic tools, coupled with an eagle eye for business opportunity, provide a blueprint for IT success."

Nicola Gazzaneo is profiled in this month's edition of InfoWorld and is honored for his roll-out of Savvion's BPM solution across Italy's 13 most important railway stations, including terminals in Rome, Milan, Florence, and Venice. The article states, "The BPM initiatives are now key to managing all areas of operations, such as HR, forecasting, compliance, claims (including those related to security), maintenance, repair inspection, and cleaning services. And efficiency is up across the board. For example, it now takes Grandi Stazioni 30 percent less time to get contractors to make repairs than it had before BPM was in place." The full article can be viewed at www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/07/23FEcto07-gazzaneo_1.html?s=feature

"I am thrilled to be honored by InfoWorld for our Savvion deployment. Over the years Grandi Stazioni has established a reputation of excellence in Italy and beyond for managing the infrastructure maintenance of some of Europe's premiere railway stations," said Nicola Gazzaneo, CTO of Grandi Stazioni. "Managing railway stations is often encumbered by the number of processes required. Savvion BusinessManager has enabled us to improve multiple key processes around the maintenance of our railway stations, cutting repair time, improving financial transparency, more effectively managing supplier relationships and enhancing the overall customer experience."

"We congratulate Nicola and Grandi Stazioni for a BPM deployment well done," said Shawn Price, president and CEO of Savvion. "Savvion strives each and every day to make our customers successful. Grandi Stazioni is one of hundreds of examples of organizations we work with who have unlocked their process potential, improved visibility, and exceeded ROI expectations with Savvion."

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About Grandi Stazioni

Grandi Stazioni S.p.A. was established in 1998 with the goal of upgrading and managing the 13 most important Italian railway stations, representing a real estate patrimony of over 900,000 square meters visited every year by over 600 million users, an enormous potential of human and financial resources. Grandi Stazioni is owned 60% by Italian Railways and 40% by EuroStazioni, which includes Benetton, Pirelli, Caltagirone, and the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer. For more information, visit www.grandistazioni.it.