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PROCESSION APPOINTS NEW CHAIRMAN

Company to Gain from Bob Critchlow's Wealth of Experience in the IT Industry

CHESHAM, England. August 9th, 2000 - Procession Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Critchlow as Chairman.

"I am delighted to welcome Bob to the Board at this exciting time," said Deputy Chairman David Chassels. " Procession, with its unique approach to the emerging e-Process market, already has proven successes and Bob's wealth of experience will help the company to realize its undoubted potential."

Bob Critchlow has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and was most recently Chief Executive of Tetra plc. Under his guidance, Tetra, a developer of Enterprise Resource Planning software, achieved a full listing on the London Stock Exchange and was acquired by Sage Group last year. Bob is also a non-executive director of Intelligent Environments Group plc and Chairman of Armature Limited and Xpert Client Systems.

Bob Critchlow has a degree in physics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prior to Tetra he held international vice president positions with US software companies Central Point Software and Frame Technology. Bob began his career with Intel.

About Procession plc
Procession develops & markets Business Process Management (BPM) software for the emerging e-Process* market. Procession's unique user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) allows the intuitive description of any given eBusiness process by the day-to-day user of that process, which means that new systems can be deployed very rapidly. The Procession E-PROCESS SUITE™ is highly scalable due to its standards-based architecture (Java & XML) and is already in use by several blue chip organisations.

Headquartered in Chesham, United Kingdom, the company is currently expanding its operations to support the global marketplace. More information can be found at www.procession.com

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*Gartner defines e-Process as " ... a new term that applies work management and process automation techniques to an eBusiness environment."
(Regina Casonato, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference, "E-Business and Process Management - Where Flesh and Blood Meet High-Speed Integration", November 2000.)