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PROCESSION'S E-PROCESS SUITE™ MANAGES NATIONAL LOTTERY GRANT APPLICATIONS

New Opportunities Fund Uses Procession's E-PROCESS SUITE™ to handle Distribution of Lottery Funds

CHESHAM, England. December 12th, 2000 - Procession Limited today announced that the New Opportunities Fund, a National Lottery distributor, has installed the Procession E-PROCESS SUITE™ to manage grant applications and the distribution of lottery money. Procession's E-PROCESS SUITE™ is being implemented to handle the whole process from applications for grants through to payment of awards, via an automated end-to-end 'e-Process' solution which manages and tracks the progress of applications for grants.

Procession's technology significantly reduced the time needed to design and build the system, which was fully implemented within 90 days and is now processing grant applications quickly and efficiently.

The New Opportunities Fund needs to be able to add new processes, such as new varieties of grant applications, or to change existing ones. With Procession®, this can be done rapidly and easily.

"Procession's fast, simple to use, and highly scalable solution means that the clients can easily adapt and grow the system" said Paul Greenfield, CEO, Procession Limited, "substantial changes and additions to the system can be made on the fly, using Procession's user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI). This will allow clients to build and integrate a wide variety of new types of grant applications, as and when required."

About Procession Limited.

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.)