Savvion Founder to Speak on Business Process Management Solutions at BrainStorm BPM Conference

Market Wire, June, 2005

Savvion, Inc., the company that knows business process, today announced that one of its executives -- Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, CTO, Founder and Chairman -- will speak on "BPM Best Practices - Matching the Right Tools for the Job" at a Business Process Management conference hosted by the BrainStorm Group, to be held June 28 - 29, 2005, in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Ketabchi will participate in a panel session moderated by Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, along with executives from IBM and other industry vendors.

The conference, titled "Strategies and Techniques for Successful Process Innovation" is designed to assist executives in exploring and identifying their business process needs and then assessing and successfully defining a solution for those particular business processes. Presentations and panel discussions will provide guidance and insight to Business and IT leaders looking to apply process thinking to critical business processes for organization effectiveness. Participants will share insight, lessons learned and practical advice on how a properly designed and deployed BPM initiative can: improve compliance mandates, decrease costs, unite organizational silos and deliver strong ROI.

"Savvion's award winning BPMS has a proven track record of providing significant value to a broad range of companies across the Communications, Financial Services and Manufacturing industries including Sprint, Bell Canada, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Motorola and General Motors," said Ketabchi. "Our partnerships with leading Systems Integration firms enable us to deliver large scale process automation solutions to reduce our customer's operational costs and decrease their time to market for new product development."

Ketabchi, a 25-year veteran of the enterprise business software industry, has extensive experience with large-scale enterprise business process systems architecture and solutions. Dr. Ketabchi founded Savvion in 1994 to pioneer the development of the industry's first Business Process Management system.

Savvion solutions enable companies to optimize operations by modeling, automating and managing consistent, repeatable business processes. Savvion addresses the business technology imperative to achieving true process improvement and management by treating processes as managed corporate assets. Savvion provides role specific tools that give managers unique real-time visibility into their ongoing business operations, not just with metrics and reports, but by also providing a framework that empowers companies to innovate while managing change.

About Savvion

Savvion develops business process management (BPM) software that improves business performance and reduces costs within and across functional business units. Savvion's lifecycle approach to process enables business and IT to truly collaborate to bring process improvement initiatives on-line in less than 90 days while delivering a 200% - 300% return on investment. Over 200 global business enterprises, public service agencies, and systems integration firms, including 20 of the Fortune 100, use Savvion systems to manage their business, from workgroup to enterprise, in real-time. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at www.savvion.com or 888-544-5511.

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