BPM Triumvirate of PMOLink, E2E and IDS Scheer Automates Processes for the City of Lake Charles, Louisiana

Business Wire, Feb 15, 2008

Triple Play Effort Becomes First U.S. Deployment Combining Business Process Management, Model-Driven Integration and Project Management

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The City of Lake Charles, Louisiana, a city that boasts a population of more than 71,000 people and is home to some of the most beautiful natural habitats in the nation, has completed its rollout of Enterprise Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Process-Driven Service-Oriented Application Engineering based on the collective efforts of IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), E2E, the pioneer in Model Driven Integration (MDI) software, and PMOLink, Inc., experts in process engineering, project management and decision support. As the first U.S. organization to collectively deploy BPM, MDI and project management, the City of Lake Charles can now boast automation of its decades-old paper-driven processes and aging legacy database management system.

"The City of Lake Charles was operating within a limited budget and needed to adhere to a State of Louisiana grant to fund this project," said Mark Johnson, Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer of PMOLink, Inc. "While the City realized a need to keep the legacy 'back end' of our system, we also knew that their current processes were hampering productivity and causing bureaucratic inefficiencies." According to Johnson, the City of Lake Charles turned to the project management experts at PMOLink to lead the effort in tandem with its technology partners IDS Scheer and E2E.

PMOLink provided the answer with a synergistic approach by leveraging the combination of BPM and Model-Driven Integration (MDI) tools and adapting the functionality for the City's legacy system and DBMS. PMOLink used the ARIS Platform to streamline processes and define services designated for automation via a customer web portal model. After that phase, PMOLink turned to new partner E2E and its E2E Bridge, the first fully Model Driven Integration (MDI) software for Application Integration and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), to specify and manage the integration with the legacy system. E2E recently announced the E2E Bridge 4.0, its fourth generation MDI platform offers the first - and only - integrated development, execution and testing environment based on direct Model Execution for UML, BPMN and other modeling languages such as IDS Scheer's EPC format.

"Our collective efforts have created a template of excellence for municipalities across the U.S. to follow based on our capability for taking the processes for managing Building Permits, Inspections, and Zoning in the City of Lake Charles and bringing them into the 21st century," said PMOLink CEO Randy Surratt.

The City of Lake Charles has made significant process strides and is looking to the future. "The bottom line is that their processes are working well, their employees and other constituents have embraced the change willingly, and, most importantly, they accomplished this feat with a limited budget," added Johnson. "Their processes are now well-documented and the web services and MDI models will be completely reusable when the time comes for the replacement of its old mainframe-based legacy system."

About PMOLink, Inc.

Headquartered in Mandeville, Louisiana, with offices in San Antonio, Texas, PMOLink, Inc., provides expertise in process engineering, project management and decision support. The company applies world-class tools to empower clients to make informed decisions, enhance collaboration and meet objectives successfully. PMOLink serves clients in the United States and Mexico, including six Fortune 500 companies. As a Primavera Authorized Representative (PAR), PMOLink holds the exclusive rights to distribute the industry-leading Primavera project management software solutions in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. PMOLink is a Premier Partner of IDS Scheer in the United States. The ARIS Platform provides integrated tools for designing, implementing and controlling business processes. In 2007, PMOLink began a partnership with Swiss software firm to E2E to become a provider of the revolutionary E2E Bridge. PMOLink has been ranked by New Orleans City Business Magazine in their "Best Places to Work in New Orleans" survey three times, honored most recently as the #3 Best Place to Work (Small Business) in 2007. PMOLink has expanded its services to local, state, and federal government through its subsidiary PMOLink Government Solutions, Inc.

For more information about PMOLink, please visit www.pmolink.com

About E2E

Swiss based E2E Technologies Ltd. is a global software company offering the ultimate breakthrough in enterprise software engineering. Its flagship product, the E2E Bridge, unifies design, execution and maintenance and, as an industry first, offers Model Execution based on UML, BPMN and other modeling languages that are used as the exclusive source to implement and manage distributed software assets in support of automated business processes. This pioneering methodology called MDI - Model Driven Integration - enables existing software assets to be integrated, migrated and consolidated with unprecedented efficiency and quality. E2E supports end user organizations, software vendors and service providers to leverage the combination of BPM, SOA and EDA, otherwise referred to as Advanced SOA - rapidly and predictably. Founded in 1996 with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, E2E operates offices in Portland and Denver and has partners and resellers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Asia and Australia. Customers include Antalis, Deutsche Post, DKSH, EVN, Intrum Justitia, Swisscom and UBS. Global technology partners include SAP, Oracle and IDS Scheer.