Savvion BusinessManager Achieves "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" Status

Business Wire, Oct 23, 2007

Savvion BusinessManager Achieves Optimized Interoperability with SAP[R] Solutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Savvion[R], a leading business process management (BPM) company, today announced that Savvion BusinessManager[TM] has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver[R]" status from SAP AG. With seamless integration between Savvion BusinessManager and the SAP NetWeaver platform, customers can now develop process solutions rapidly in their SAP[R] application-based environments while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging their existing investments in SAP solutions. Achieving Powered by SAP NetWeaver status enables customers to easily deploy their Savvion BusinessManager solution into existing implementations of SAP NetWeaver.

"Achieving Powered by SAP NetWeaver status for Savvion BusinessManager is an important achievement and highlights Savvion's commitment to work with industry leaders to enable the creation of process solutions," said Dr. Mohammad Ketabchi, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Savvion. "We can now seamlessly deploy Savvion BusinessManager on the SAP NetWeaver platform, further minimizing implementation time around our industry-leading business process management solutions."

To achieve Powered by SAP NetWeaver qualification, Savvion demonstrated that Savvion BusinessManager can be successfully deployed on a J2EE-based engine of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Release 6.40 and is accessible via the SAP NetWeaver Portal 6.0. This deployment has been tested and certified by the SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC).

Savvion BusinessManager makes it easier than ever for business people to adopt business process management to drive consistent, repeatable improvement. It introduces features targeted to business users, like abstract modeling, which facilitates idea generation. Business people can collaborate on high level concepts without getting caught in the technology details. Once process solutions are deployed, Savvion BusinessManager makes it easier for business people to manage daily work.

The SAP NetWeaver platform powers the SAP Business Suite, SAP xApps[TM] packaged composite applications, and solutions such as Savvion BusinessManager. SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technologies into a single platform and is pre-integrated with business applications, enabling change and reducing the need for custom integration.

About Savvion

Savvion is a 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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