Savvion and Nissho Electronics Partner to Bring BPM Solutions to the Japanese Market

Business Wire, Nov 6, 2007

Leading Japanese Distributor to Resell Savvion BusinessManager 7.0

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Savvion([R]), the industry's leading business process management (BPM) company, today announced its further expansion into Japan through a partnership with Nissho Electronics, a company dedicated to providing services and solutions that are tailored to meet unique Japanese requirements. Terms of the deal enable Nissho to sell and support Savvion's award winning BPM suite, Savvion BusinessManager [TM] 7.0, the easiest way to drive business process innovation with the ability to rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and flexible interfaces to manage daily work efficiently. In addition, Nissho will OEM Savvion BusinessManager 7.0, embedding the product into future releases of Nissho applications.

The agreement establishes Nissho as a Tier 1 reseller of Savvion BusinessManager 7.0 in Japan. Nissho has trained technical resources to demonstrate, implement, and support Savvion software deployments. The partnership with Nissho further extends Savvion's BPM footprint in the Japanese market, where current customers are already seeing cost savings and better time to market with their Savvion BPM deployments.

"We are excited to enter into a new partnership with Nissho to bring BPM solutions to the Japanese market," said Dr. Mohammed Ketabchi, founder and CTO of Savvion. "Nissho Electronics is one of Japan's leading technology distributors and we are thrilled to be partnering with them as Savvion experiences tremendous growth and increased interest in BPM in the region. Nissho shares Savvion's values and commitment in delivering the best customer care in the industry, as well as delivering solutions that, once deployed, can bring ROI to customers in 90 days or less."

"Savvion's product architecture and ability to scale, as well as its unprecedented support for the Japanese language match well with Nissho's business objective to bring leading technology to Japan," said Nobuyuki Nishimura, Executive Officer, General Manager of Financial Institutions & BPM Business Unit at Nissho. "We look forward to successfully implementing this solution with Japanese companies and growing our business through the relationship with Savvion."

About Nissho Electronics Corporation

Since its founding in 1969, Nissho Electronics has brought the world's most advanced technologies to an ever-widening segment of the Japanese market. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company has annual consolidated revenues approaching $540 million. With extensive experience and expertise built on strong market-leading customer and cutting-edge partner relationships, Nissho focuses on providing clients with practical IT solutions. As a strategic partner, Nissho resources are focused on meeting client needs.

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. 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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