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Pegasystems Partners with IDS Scheer to Enhance its Roundtrip BPM Solution for Enterprise Organizations

 

Integration of SmartBPM^® and ARIS™ enables global enterprises to improve process modeling, execution and optimization

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — June 11, 2007 — Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in unified process and rules technology, today announced it has signed a technology alliance agreement with IDS Scheer to promote an integrated solution based on the award-winning SmartBPM^® suite and the market-leading ARIS^™ platform from IDS Scheer.

The alliance offers global organizations an enhanced business process modeling, execution and optimization environment, which enables them to better meet changing business needs.

The new solution will offer customers a full BPM lifecycle, from design through to process execution and onto the full continuous improvement lifecycle.

"Our customers will be able to use the ARIS Business Process Design Platform and exploit their ARIS modeling, analysis and simulation capabilities within our market-leading business process management suite," said Douglas Kim, managing director Global Alliances, Pegasystems. "Both companies understand the need to unify enterprise assets in one environment — on the strategic modelling level with IDS Scheer and on the execution level with Pegasystems — and this is what makes our alliance unique."

David Wells, managing director EMEA, at Pegasystems comments, "Pegasystems has many customers across the world, not least here in Europe — many of whom have asked us for this level of integration between ourselves and IDS Scheer. I'm confident this initiative will offer real value to both our and IDS Scheer's customers."

"We're delighted that Pegasystems recognizes the openness of our ARIS Platform as the de facto standard for process excellence and joins our Technology Partner Program," said Werner Klapp, head of Global Technology Alliances Europe, IDS Scheer. "We are looking forward to working collaboratively to help the world's leading enterprises measure and optimize their business processes."

Pegasystems will be exhibiting at this year's IDS Scheer ARIS Processworld event in Berlin on 13–15 June 2007. Please visit us on Stand 11 to see a demonstration of the integrated SmartBPM and ARIS solution.

IDS Scheer is the market leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software, solutions and services for corporations and public organizations worldwide. With its unrivaled ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes. Utilizing the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling. Approximately 2,800 employees in over 70 countries serve the company's 6,000 customers. In 2006, IDS Scheer's revenues reached 354 million Euro. Established in 1984 by Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, IDS Scheer is listed in the TecDAX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany).

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About Pegasystems

Pegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, provides software to drive revenue growth, productivity and agility for the world's most sophisticated organizations. Customers use our award-winning SmartBPM® suite to improve customer service, reach new markets and boost operational effectiveness.

Our patented SmartBPM® technology makes enterprise applications easy to build and change by directly capturing business objectives and eliminating manual programming. SmartBPM® unifies business rules and processes into composite applications that leverage existing systems -- empowering business people and IT staff to Build for Change®, deliver value quickly and outperform their competitors.

Pegasystems’ suite is complemented by best-practice frameworks designed for leaders in financial services, insurance, healthcare, government, life sciences, communications, manufacturing and other industries.

Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Pegasystems has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Visit us at www.pega.com.

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