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PROCESSION AT THE AGILE BUSINESS CONFERENCE

Welcome to the Revolution

CHESHAM, United Kingdom. June 26th 2002. Business process management (BPM) specialist, Procession, will be revealing details of its unique Process Engine on show at the Agile Business Conference, being held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, on 26th and 27th June. It will also be discussing its approach to BPM, as well as giving details of its recent work developing grant management systems for local government.

According to Procession's chief executive officer (CEO), David Chassels: "Significantly, this conference and exhibition comes at a time when analysts, such as the Delphi Group, are talking about BPM being 'on the cusp of a revolution', as organisations search for the optimal use of their IT resources to connect business processes with their business partners and integrate process knowledge within the business desktop.

"Of course, a key feature of revolutions is that they tend to kill people!" he added. "If we have a revolution, some software companies will not survive - because businesspeople will now understand what they are buying and what they buy will cost about a half of what it cost before!

"Procession welcomes such a revolution because its philosophy has always been to produce what businesses need, rather than what IT buyers want," stated Chassels. "Procession provides the automated building blocks that produce increasingly efficient and effective business processes."

He continued: "At the same time, there is a move towards the 'utility model' of computing, where computers are viewed as resources, such as electricity or water. This could mean that business computing is moved off-site, with computers being linked in parallel to harness a processing power that is greater than the capacity of each individual computer.

"Again, this will reduce the power of individual IT departments and return that power to organisations' senior executives," he predicted. "In other words, the '25 year bubble' of IT omniscience will burst.

"Thankfully, BPM is bringing the businessman and woman back into the process of running businesses," Chassels said. "This is change for the better: long live the revolution!"

Procession's approach to this revolution is to make its products more accessible to organisations through offering a 'fast track' series of prices. Procession's sales director, Ralph Tebby, explained: "Typically, acquiring the Procession Process Engine would cost well over £30,000.

"However, Procession is making a 'fast track' version of its Process Engine available for just £12,000. These prices make exploring the potential of BPM and experiencing its cost-cutting and efficiency-enhancing properties increasingly attractive," he said.

 

About Procession
Procession develops and markets Business Process Management (BPM) software for the emerging process automation marketplace.

Supporting the operational aspects of Six Sigma Plus* and conforming to the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) standards, it enables organisations to implement, control, monitor and improve their processes - leading to continual improvement in customer focused quality and falling operational costs by allowing managers to take control of their key business processes. The architecture uses an RDBMS (Oracle), along with Java and J2EE application servers. Procession's products are task-driven - unlike applications such as CRM and ERP, which are based on data.

Based around a unique Process Engine, Procession's range of products includes:

•  The Financial Planning Suite - covering sales management and forecasting for leads,  opportunities, revenue and invoicing
•  Grant management
•  Custom applications
  
  

Procession also provides low cost conduits to link 'front end' systems such as the web with 'back end' systems, such as mainframe and ERP systems.

Procession Software Ltd, formerly known as Datacore Ltd, was founded in 1994. It became Procession in 2000. Its current clients include the Bank of Scotland, UK Sport, Edinburgh City Council and the New Opportunities Fund in the UK, along with Magma in the USA. Procession has also recently formed an alliance in Holland.

* Six Sigma is a management philosophy originally developed by the Motorola organisation. It sets extremely tough objectives for the collection of data and the analysis of results. Its targets are to reduce defects in products and services as far as possible.

Further information from:
David Chassels/Ralph Tebby, Procession, 01494 781444
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405

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