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UK SPORT CHOOSES PROCESSION'S E-PROCESS SUITE™

Procession's Software Will Handle Funding for Top Athletes

CHESHAM, England. April 4th, 2001 - Procession has announced that UK Sport has chosen and implemented Procession's E-PROCESS SUITE™ to handle awards of Lottery funding to UK governing bodies of sport and major sporting events, as well as awards to the UK's top athletes for their equipment, training and living expenses. Procession, which has extensive experience in grant management software, was the only supplier able to provide a solution within the tight timescales.

"We chose Procession because of its flexibility - we need to be able to introduce and modify processes very rapidly", said Liz Nicholl, UK Sport's Director of Performance Services, "and we liked the friendliness of the software. We were also impressed by the quality of Procession's Professional Services - their consultants have really become part of our team."

The E-PROCESS SUITE™ has also been chosen to administer the UK Sports Institute Athlete Medical Scheme, which is managed through the British Olympic Association (BOA). This scheme provides medical support to more than 700 athletes involved in World Class Performance Programmes. The separate system integrates with UK Sport's e-Process Suite to share the database and to make use of the information on both databases. (Payments are made via BUPA and the system at the BOA administers the process).

"Procession's unique approach to designing and building e-Processes means that we were able to create a tailored solution for UK Sport that could be implemented in record time," said Paul Greenfield, Chief Executive Officer, Procession Limited, "Procession's flexibility makes it easy to build links to other systems, such as the UK Sports Institute's medical system, and its user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) will allow UK Sport to design and integrate future changes and additions rapidly and in real-time."

About Procession
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 e-business 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, such as the Bank of Scotland, UK Sport and the New Opportunities Fund.

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 e-Business environment."
(Regina Casonato, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference, "E-Business and Process Management - Where Flesh and Blood Meet High-Speed Integration", November 2000.)