London: IDS Scheer Customers Speak at Gartner's Business Process Management Conference About Business Improvement Using ARIS

BIRMINGHAM, England and SAARBRÃœCKEN, Germany, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- ABN Amro and Alenia / Finmeccanica Report on the Positive Impact of 
Process Management on Strategic Decision Making and Business Performance

Two customers of IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process 
Management (BPM), will speak at Gartner's BPM Summit in London, UK, from 
April 28 to 30, 2008. In an executive keynote and an end-user case study, 
ABN Amro and Alenia Aeronautica report on how strategic process management 
using ARIS Platform can leverage business performance. This year's theme at
Gartner's Business Process Management Summit is 'Create and Sustain a 
Continuous Process Improvement Culture'.

This year's BPM Summit hosted by Gartner covers both, creation and 
development of process management. The focus on "creation" will apply to 
those new to BPM - how do I get started? "Sustain" is for those who have 
a BPM effort underway and want to keep it sharp. The event shows not only 
the technical perspective like BPMS vendors, infrastructure, and best
practices. Gartner emphasizes BPM's management challenges: organizational 
design, roles and responsibilities, strategic planning, metrics and methods. 
The research firm states, BPM is a management capability enabled by 
technology assets. According to IDS Scheer, this falls in line with its 
promise that optimized processes using ARIS improve management relevant KPIs
like turnover and profitability.

Under that aspect, two of IDS Scheer's customers speak at the BPM Summit 
from April 28 to 30, in London, UK. ABN Amro and Alenia Aeronautica, a 
company of the Finmeccanica Group, report on how strategic process 
management using ARIS Platform can leverage business performance.

The ABN Amro executives Theo van den Hurk and Jos Wieleman will do the 
Executive Keynote on "Creating 'One Single Point of Truth for Business, 
Compliance and IT' Using BPM". The longtime IDS Scheer customer explains 
how its BPM solutions department designed and implemented a Business 
Process Management methodology. This methodology or approach leveraged 
external best practice processes and created one compliant Business
Architecture which encompassed multiple requirements and viewpoints from 
disparate groups: business, IT, compliance, operational risk, finance and 
audit. This comprehensive Business Architecture is the basis for the 
implementation of one global Group Finance SOA.

Stefano Privitera and Massimo Scalvenzi, representatives of Alenia 
Aeronautica, a company of the Finmeccanica Group, present an end-user case 
study on "Adaptable Processes to Define Differentiated Business Components 
in a Time-Compressing World". The IDS Scheer customers discuss how senior 
management utilizes BPM in their strategic decision making. In particular,
they report on their approach to support the strategic choices of the 
Group's companies in terms of business transformation, make or buy 
evaluations, mergers and demergers, and start up of new companies.

"We are proud that of our customers speak at this year's Gartner BPM 
Summit. With ABN Amro and Finnmeccanica, the attendees will experience 
two presentations that clearly highlight the positive effect of ARIS 
related business process management on business performance", states says 
Dr. Wolfram Jost, Member of the Executive Board with responsibility for
Product Strategy and Development of IDS Scheer.

About IDS Scheer

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 3,000 
employees in over 70 countries serve the company's 7,000 customers. In 2007, 
IDS Scheer's revenues reached 393.5 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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