Lemontree to Resell Industry Leading Appian Business Process Management Solution

Business Wire, March 14, 2007

Appian Enterprise Provides Robust, Flexible Foundation for Improving Customers' Business Processes

VIENNA, Va. -- Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has signed a partnership with Lemontree to resell Appian Enterprise. Lemontree will leverage its experience helping organizations align systems and processes to extend the value of Appian's leading BPMS and maximize customers' return on their IT investments. Lemontree's presence in the Nordic market provides a thorough understanding of the local conditions and requirements that are a vital prerequisite for a successful BPM implementation.

Appian delivers a powerful and efficient development environment, enabling Value Added Resellers (VARs) to extend the benefits and ROI of their complementary offerings. As organizations look to leverage BPM and human workflow tools as a platform to decrease the time to market for their process-based solutions, Appian Enterprise delivers the broadest set of BPM capabilities on the market as well as new tools that enable software vendors to easily integrate it within their existing solutions.

"As the leading BPM Suite on the market, Appian Enterprise provides us with the ability to not only increase the effectiveness of our customers existing investments, but to also offer optimized application packages that increase ROI and value from the beginning," said Thomas Martinsson, CEO at Lemontree. "Our customers trust Lemontree to deliver solutions that address existing issues and future needs. Appian Enterprise fits perfectly with our mission and we are certain that our customers will immediately recognize its power."

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. The latest evolution of Appian's award-winning Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), Appian Enterprise 5.5, is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people.

"As VARs look for solutions that can help extend the value that they deliver to customers, Appian Enterprise provides them with a proven platform for managing strategic business processes and increasing the benefits of their existing, pre-packaged offerings," said Phil Larson, Director of Product Management at Appian. "Recognized as one of the most functional and easy to implement BPM suites on the market, Appian Enterprise enables our partners to integrate the industry's strongest process capabilities, while increasing the efficiency and adaptability of their existing solutions."

Appian's Partner Program provides VARs with dedicated support, including marketing, development and technical support to ensure the success of their implementations. Appian also offers the widest range of training tools and options in the BPM market including specialized programs for its VAR partners. Appian courses and certifications offer both business and IT users the skills to effectively use, customize, and develop on Appian Enterprise, and to leverage the BPM suite for greater ROI.

About Appian

Appian is the first business process management (BPM) company to deliver advanced process, knowledge, and analytics functionality in a fully integrated suite. Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations are deploying Appian's award-winning software, Appian Enterprise, to drive continuous process improvements and build next-generation, composite process solutions. For more information, visit www.appian.com.

About Lemontree

Lemontree provides market leading solutions within the areas of BPM, Integration and Enterprise Search. Our concept is to bring highly competitive service offers to our market by combining our own technical know-how and excellent market orientation with the best-of-breed software products provided by our partners. Lemontree also offers consultancy services to actors in the Telecom and Finance markets. The company was founded in 1999 and has its headquarter in Stockholm, Sweden. Please visit us at www.lemontree.se for more information.