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EXHIBIT HOURS:

Monday 10 May  Tuesday 11 May
    10:30-11:00       10:30-11:00
  12:30-13:45     12:00-13:15
  15:15-15:45     15:20-15:50
  17:15-18:30     16:40-18:30

GOLD SPONSORS:

MEGA
www.mega.com
   mega

MEGA International assists companies in improving their competitiveness by helping them understand, analyze and design new and enhanced business processes. MEGA solutions are targeted at teams of business analysts and IT developers that need to improve organizational efficiency by connecting fast changing business processes with IT development efforts. As a global provider of business process analysis and Enterprise Architecture solutions, MEGA enables business and IT stakeholders to drive bottom line profits, unlock new customer value, and otherwise minimize the risk involved with changing critical business processes. Founded in 1991 the company has offices in Paris, Birmingham, Milan and Boston. Over 800 customers, having purchased more than 14,000 licenses, use MEGA International's analysis and design solutions. Customers include American Electric Power, Airbus Industries, British American Tobacco, Credit Lyonnais, France Telecom, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Microcell, Pioneer Electronics and Renault.


STAFFWARE
www.staffware.com
   staffware

Staffware is the leading global vendor focussed exclusively on providing BPM solutions. Staffware’s BPM expertise has evolved over 15 years of automating and managing processes, so the interaction of people, applications and processes has remained central to its philosophy. Unlike the majority of its competitors, Staffware has focussed exclusively on BPM and has a deep understanding and unique insight into the complex people-to-people, people-to-application and application-to-application interactions that make up business processes.

The Staffware Process Suite provides a complete set of tools to create, transform and streamline the internal and external processes and tasks of an organization. Staffware enables the creation of an Independent Process Layer that separates process from the application logic, facilitating rapid development and change to an organization’s processes. The Staffware Process Suite is an open and standards-based BPM solution that, from the outset was designed to provide ease of integration with existing IT infrastructures and applications.


PROFORMA EMEA LIMITED
www.proforma-emea.com
   Proforma EMEA Limited
Proforma EMEA Limited, formerly Winsoft Business Solutions Ltd, has been involved in the Process Improvement business for about seven years. We provide consultancy, training and software product ("ProVision", from Proforma Corp, Detroit USA) that enables customers to learn how to model their organisation using ProVision in a quick, efficient and self-sufficient manner. Although we do provide consultants for long term contracts, in the main our customers require very little in the way of on-going training or consultancy. Our EMEA customer base includes Axa Insurance, RAIB. Zurich Finance, Saudi Aramco and the NHS.

PEGA
www.pega.com
   Pega
Pegasystems provides rules-based, smart business process management (BPM) software to large organizations, helping to deliver significant ROI and providing them with the flexibility and agility to respond to changing business needs. With annualized revenues of approximately $100 million and a blue-chip customer base, Pegasystems offers applications for the financial services, healthcare, insurance and government markets, as well as a cross-industry BPM application. Pegasystems is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., and has regional offices in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. For more information, visit www.pega.com.

ADAPTIVE
www.adaptive.com
   adaptive
Adaptive provides business management and business transformation software and consulting services to large organizations and governments around the globe. The software and services platform is very versatile and adaptable to handle many problems faced by enterprises today, including business process management, IT portfolio optimization, project portfolio management, operational risk management, pre and post merger planning and design, and performance scorecard implementation. Adaptive and its partners enable organizations to become "real-time enterprises" by providing solutions that allow them to understand and align their critical enterprise assets and capabilities thus reducing the time, cost and risk of adapting to continuous market change.

C-LOG
www.c-log.com
   C-Log

In order to support companies in their efforts towards Excellency, C-Log international offers a global and modular framework to manage business processes through their whole life-cycle such as: Customer Claim, New Product Launch, Purchase Request,…

C-Log is an editor of software solutions and provider of consultancy services to:

  • Formalize enterprise processes and procedures through a full modelling framework following the OSSAD approach (a graphical process “open” representation originated from a EU Esprit project).
  • Fully implement the process models into an automatic workflow application under a 100% web environment.
  • Publish and communicate process models and documentation through a collaborative internet/intranet portal.


Created in 1998, C-Log is located in France (Noisy le Grand) and in Switzerland (Geneva).

C-Log has rapidly become a major player in the corporate organisation domain and its solution framework has been adapted by a large set (more than 200 clients) of French and international large corporations.


FILENET
www.filenet.com
   FileNet
FileNet Business Process Manager controls the flow of work throughout your business by streamlining, automating and optimising business processes. It helps shorten process lifecycles and automatically manages exceptions so you can react immediately to internal events or customer demands. FileNet BPM also monitors and tracks business processes so analysts and managers can see how their operations are performing. This helps you simulate and optimise key processes and the value of internal resources. By integrating content with business processes, all levels of your organization can make timely decisions based on the most accurate information available. FileNet BPM Optimisation and Simulation are unique tools that offer real competitive advantage and are based on the FileNet P8 architecture. To find out how a bank saved $20 million through BPM please visit www.filenet.com.

NIMBUS
www.nimbuspartners.com
   Nimbus
Nimbus develop and implement a software solution called control-ES, a Performance Management application, which has been designed to help companies improve their operational performance by driving clear direction, accountability and measurement from a strategic perspective down to task/activity level. This is achieved by focusing on the intersection of people, process and performance, and providing the tools required to make continuous improvement achievable over the web. Nimbus has an impressive client list of over 150 clients in 15 countries. Nimbus operates from its Head Office in Hampshire, UK, and has offices in mainland Europe and United States.

POPKIN
www.popkin.com
   Popkin Software

Popkin Software is a leading developer of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Process Management (BPM) modelling tools that help companies to align their business and IT. Popkin’s System Architect® models business processes, data and systems in a shared repository to create a collaborative working environment.

System Architect’s multi-user repository enables users to visualise the relationships between their business processes and IT architecture, allowing for evolution from legacy processes and systems and collaboration between technical and business initiatives.

System Architect supports interchangeable frameworks giving users their own architectural viewpoint. Frameworks supported include Zachman, TOGAF and C4ISR (DoDAF).

Founded in 1986 in New York City, privately held Popkin Software has sold more than 70,000 licenses worldwide. Popkin’s clients include BBC, British Airways, GlaxoSmithKline, House of Commons, Nationwide Building Society, MOD, Sainsbury's, Vodafone.


STANDARD SPONSORS:

WORKPLAINS
www.workplains.com
   WorkPlains

Workplains Ltd. offers a global solution for business process automation. This solution is a key tool for enterprises and government organizations striving for improved customer service; competitive advantage; organizational productivity; and tighter adherence to statutory and other regulatory standards. Typically, customers achieve productivity gains of more than 40%, with reduced costs and enhanced customer service. Workplains WORK+® is the ultimate full lifecycle Business Process Management WORK+solution. ® through a complete suite of business modules allows the WORK+user to graphically design, develop, deploy, refine and manage business processes to increase productivity and improve the quality and availability of management information. Historically, the development of BPM systems has been costly and time consuming, requiring significant levels of business process analyses and systems integration. WORK+® is quick and easy to use because it does not require any programming, scripting or macros. WORK+® allows easy integration with existing applications using intelligent integration Agents and Wizards. Anyone with web access can participate in the business process. In addition, it has not always been easy to monitor and control business systems and determine what was causing bottlenecks in work throughput. WORK+® can easily be used to provide such monitoring and control information.


IDS SCHEER UK LTD
www.ids-scheer.co.uk
   IDS Scheer
IDS Scheer specialises in business process management solutions. With the ARIS Process Platform, the company offers a complete portfolio for “Business Process Excellence.” This includes methods, software and solutions for development, implementation, operation and evaluation of business processes, supporting the whole business process lifecycle. IDS Scheer consultants support companies in their entirety from the development of the business strategy to the setting up of a process organisation and the architecture of application to the implementation of concepts such as Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Application Integration.

Customers include major retail banks, financial service providers, oil companies, and telecommunication providers such as BT, Nestle and Credit Suisse First Boston. ARIS is the world’s best selling business process optimisation tool and is rated number 1 by Gartner.

IDS Scheer promotes: Business Process Excellence


CASEWISE
www.casewise.com
   casewise
Casewise enterprise modeling software helps organizations such as Swiss Re, T-Mobile and Powergen to model, improve and manage business processes right across the enterprise.

Powered by a central enterprise architecture repository, Casewise Corporate Modeler provides a collaborative environment to capture, simulate, streamline and communicate 'end-to-end' business processes and supporting IT architectures.

What's more - via market-leading HTML publishing - organizations can communicate 'best-practice' processes across the enterprise to support staff in their day-to-day tasks. And, through a range of powerful bidirectional interfaces, transfer process designs into leading database design,application development and process automation tools such as IBM Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Sybase PowerDesigner, Allfusion Erwin, Oracle Designer and TIBCO.


FUTURE TECH SYSTEMS, INC.
www.future-tech.com
   Future Tech Systems
Envisioning Your Information Your Way!

ENVISION® VIP is the premiere enterprise modeling environment for today and tomorrow. It facilitates visualizing, sharing, and leveraging virtually any type of enterprise information.

Stakeholder interests, enterprise objects & attributes can be easily incorporated into visually intuitive "user views" of "enterprise assets". Powerful analysis capabilities facilitate Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, Strategic Planning, IT Project & Resource Tracking, and Executive Information Systems.

Business managers can see the "Forest for the Trees" and make much better enterprise decisions. Vital information can be managed on an enterprise-wide level, referential integrity can be maintained. Leveraged use of information assets assists efforts to streamline the organization. Legacy systems can be documented and properly accounted for in future enterprise re-engineering activities.


ENDORSEMENTS:

BPMI
www.bpmi.org
   BPMI.org
BPMI.org (the Business Process Management Initiative) is a non-profit corporation that empowers companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop, operate and improve business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. The Initiative's mission is to promote and develop the use of Business Process Management (BPM) through the establishment of standards for process design, deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization. BPMI.org develops open specifications such as BPML, BPMN and BPQL, assists IT vendors for marketing their implementations, and supports businesses for using Business Process Management technologies.

OMG
www.omg.com
   OMG
The Object Management Group (OMG™) is an international consortium of IT end-user companies, information system vendors, and software vendors. Based on its modeling standards the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the MetaObject Facility (MOF), the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM), and XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) bases software development on a model of an application's business functionality and behavior, increasing application lifetime and maximizing ROI. Combined with its CORBA middleware standards, OMG supports the enterprise and Internet, real-time and safety-critical applications, embedded systems, and vertical domains including manufacturing, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation, and more. With well-established standards covering software development from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the OMG supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. For more information: www.omg.org, +1 781 444 0404

ABPMP.org
www.abpmp.org
   ABPMP.org 
The Association of Business Process Management Professionals is where practitioners go to find unbiased information, resources and networking in the rapidly expanding domain of business process management (BPM). The ABPMP is a non-profit, vendor independent organization dedicated to the advancement of BPM concepts and practices. ABPMP is practitioner-oriented and practitioner-led. The mission of the ABPMP is to promote the practice of BPM, to develop a Common Body of Knowledge in this field, and to contribute to the advancement and skill development of BPM professionals.

WfMC
www.wfmc.org
   Workflow Management Coalition
The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), founded in August 1993, is a non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, users, analysts and university/research groups. The Coalition's mission is to promote and develop the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products. Comprising over 300 members throughout the world, the Coalition is the primary standards body for this significant software market. The creation of the WfMC Standards Reference Model has proved its importance in other areas of technology, most notably the ISO Seven Layer reference model for computer communications.

MEDIA SPONSORS:

BPT
www.bptrends.com
   .BPT

Business Process Trends (BPTrends) is the comprehensive source of information and analysis focused on trends, directions and best practices in business process change. BPTrends is targeted at business managers, vendors and associations. Membership in BPTrends is available FREE to everyone, and all members receive Monthly e-mail UPDATES and ADVISORS. Sign up to become a member today. Go to www.bptrends.com and click on the BECOME A MEMBER box and start receiving the most comprehensive and timely information on business processes available today. www.bptrends.com.


CUTTER IT JOURNAL
www.cutter.com
   Cutter IT Journal