Lombardi® (www.lombardi.com), the leader in business process management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that Banco EspÃrito Santo SA, the 3rd largest financial institution in Portugal, is deploying its award-winning Teamworks® BPM software suite to support numerous front- and back-office business processes throughout the organisation.
"We reviewed a number of BPM products but found them to be inadequate for our needs," said Miguel Rio Tinto, CIO at Banco Espirito Santo. "Teamworks' ability to bring IT and the business together, coupled with its overall ease of use, and deep capabilities, made it the obvious choice for BES."
BES provides a broad range of financial services both within Portugal and abroad. The company operates through a universal banking model with multi-channel distribution and client segmentation, enabling it to extract higher value from customers. Its main business areas are: retail, with a special focus on affluent customers, private banking (domestic and international), corporate banking (middle market) and wholesale and investment banking (Portugal, Spain and Brazil).
Banco Espirito Santo identified that manual execution of its processes possessed a major risk to capturing a greater market share for their business. Teamworks will automate and manage BES' Credit Card application, Customer Service, Corporate Finance and Individual Credit business processes. By implementing Teamworks, BES expects that quality and customer service issues such as poor response times, poor quality of responses, and lack of accountability will decrease dramatically.
"With Teamworks, global organisations such as BES can design and implement mission-critical business processes and achieve dramatic results very quickly," said Rod Favaron, president and chief executive officer at Lombardi. "Lombardi is clearly playing a critical role in helping to transform business process efficiencies throughout the financial services community."
Lombardi Teamworks (www.lombardi.com/bpm-software-products.php) is the leading BPM software for designing, executing, and improving business processes. Teamworks for Office (www.lombardi.com/bpm-microsoft-office.php) makes it easy for anyone to participate in business process management using the familiar Microsoft® Office System products. Lombardi Blueprint (www.lombardi.com/bpm-blueprint-product.php) is the only on-demand collaborative process planning tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritise improvement opportunities.
About Banco Espirito Santo
With more than one century of history, Banco EspÃrito Santo is the third largest bank in Portugal (second non-state owned) with a market cap of € 8.25 bn (as of June 25, 2007), listed in the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange.
BES has a track record of delivering strong return to shareholders. Moreover, maintaining high standards of investor relations is critical for modern equity and fixed income markets. We are committed to using the Internet as a prime medium for ensuring an open and transparent dialogue with the existing and prospective investor audience. www.bes.pt
About Lombardi
Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies and government agencies. We offer award-winning BPM technology, know-how and services to help our customers become Process-Driven. Lombardi products are built on open standards and provide ongoing prioritisation, planning, visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organisations can manage their business process activity and decision-making.
Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Life, Aflac, Dell, Hasbro, ING Direct, Maritz Travel, Reuters, Renault F1 Team, Sprint, T-Mobile, The UK Insolvency Service, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.
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