
Ultimus, the #1 provider of Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow software and solutions, with more than 1,600 customers worldwide, today announced that it has partnered with software and consulting company IDS Scheer to develop an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) application that clearly and precisely analyzes business performance. With Ultimus Enterprise Performance Manager, businesses gain continuous optimization of internal and external activities crucial for business success.
Ultimus Enterprise Performance Management combines IDS Scheer's high-end business intelligence with Ultimus' rich BPM functionality"”delivering organizations true insight into how best to transform business processes. So far, business processes have been measured based on actual process data within enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, help desk, and others). With its more than 300 out-of-the box features for human centric BPM, Ultimus extends data capture and analysis to this untouched field with the Ultimus Enterprise Performance Manager. Business executives can quickly glean top-level overviews using an intuitive management dashboard and can drill down to further analyze processes and related data.
"Organizations continually seek ways to streamline internal processes to enhance service levels and reduce operating costs," said Karl Freiheit, Vice President and General Manager of Ultimus EMEA. "We are especially pleased that, through this partnership with IDS Scheer, we are able to help organizations gain the facts and necessary context about business processes to make astute decisions."
"Our alliance with Ultimus represents our continuous striving, to provide cutting-edge process analysis software to the international BPM community," said Dr. Wolfram Jost, member of the executive board of IDS Scheer. "With this software integration, customers are able to benefit from comprehensive business process execution, analysis, and optimization capabilities available today."
The solutions will be presented online on Wednesday, November 23rd at 2 pm GMT (London). To receive the meeting details and further information, please register at http://www.ultimus.com/emea/epm
About IDS Scheer AG
The software and consulting company IDS Scheer develops Business Process Management solutions for corporations and public authorities. With its ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated and complete tool portfolio for strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes. Thanks to the integrated approach of ARIS Value Engineering (AVE), IDS Scheer consultants build bridges between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and the controlling of running processes in their customers' organizations. IDS Scheer was founded in 1984 by Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer and now serves about 6,000 customers in over 70 countries through a network of its own branch offices and partners. In 2005, the company earned revenues of about 318 million Euro. About 2500 people are working for IDS Scheer worldwide. The company is listed in the TecDAX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany).
About Ultimus
Ultimus is the worldwide leader in human-centric Business Process Management (BPM) software, providing the industry's most complete and scalable platform for modeling, automating, managing and optimizing business processes. Powered by Adaptive Discovery, the Ultimus BPM Suite is the only BPM suite that enables automated business processes to be deployed without completely defined process maps. Its Microsoft-based platform is quick to deploy and easy to administer, and its integration capabilities provide seamless information transfer between applications and outside organizations. Long recognized as a BPM pioneer, Ultimus has automated more processes than any BPM vendor, resulting in reduced cycle times, lower costs, improved productivity and higher customer satisfaction for its clients. Ultimus' award-winning BPM Suite is available in 20 languages and is deployed by more than 1,600 customers across every industry, including 100 of the world's largest enterprises. Headquartered in Cary, NC, Ultimus has offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia and supports a network of 80 worldwide partners. For more information, visit www.ultimus.com.