EXODUS Selects Appian As BPM Solution Provider for Greek and Southeast European Financial Services Customers

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2007

LONDON & VIENNA, Va. -- Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, and EXODUS, one of the major software solutions companies in Greece, today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to deliver BPM solutions to financial services organisations in Greece and other Southeast European countries.

Following an extensive and rigorous review of global BPM software providers, EXODUS selected Appian's BPM Suite as the most agile, comprehensive and easy-to-use solution that would deliver the greatest value to its financial services customer base.

"EXODUS has identified Appian's BPM suite as the easiest to deploy and to use, putting the power of process in the hands of the business decision makers," said Justin Thomas, Appian managing director, EMEA. "We are confident that Greek and Southeast European financial services organisations seeking to improve the management of their business processes will find that Appian's BPM suite drives business innovation and provides real-time visibility into their organisations."

"EXODUS works closely with each customer to help them maximise the benefits of the technology solutions we deliver to help them meet their business goals," said Andrianos Drougas, EXODUS commercial director. "By delivering Appian's BPM solution to our financial service customers, EXODUS will empower customers to improve their overall functionality and performance, reduce costs, and increase the effectiveness of management."

Appian works with financial services organisations around the world to help them manage regulation, globalisation and consolidation issues, and has seen triple digit growth in financial services customers over the past year. With a large number of dedicated financial services resources and significant research and development efforts focusing on financial services industry needs, Appian's BPM suite provides smart services, rules, pre-built forms and interfaces, and process templates specific to the needs of financial services organisations. Thus, customers are able to get to market faster with financial services applications and processes such as loan origination, account origination, credit management, and compliance with financial industry standards and regulations.

For more information on how Appian BPM suite and solutions meet the needs of financial services organisations worldwide, please visit http://www.appian.com/solutions/industry/financialservices.jsp.> About Appian

Appian is an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology. By implementing Appian's BPM technology, business and governments worldwide are empowered to easily drive process improvement. Appian's flexible and easy-to-use products enable customers to quickly adopt BPM while providing real-time business visibility. Headquartered in the Washington D.C. region, Appian has professional services and partners worldwide to address the process improvement requirements of its customers. For more information, visit www.appian.com.

About EXODUS

EXODUS, a member of the Piraeus Bank Group, caters for the needs of the financial services and telecoms industries either through its own products/solutions (e.g. money laundering prevention, credit collection management, financial management, e-learning, e-business) or through partnering with leading global software vendors (e.g. business process management, banking payments, business intelligence, HA/DR). Exodus offerings help organizations to gain added value, cut costs and increase profits. For more information, visit www.exodus.gr.