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Allianz Life to Highlight BPM Best Practices at BrainStorm Conference in San Francisco; Global Insurer to Profile Independent Agent Orders Case Study.


AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi(R), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that Ms. Kim Kostelecky, Manager of BPM Development at Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , will present her user experiences in a case study session during BrainStorm's Business Process Management Conference. Allianz Life utilizes TeamWorks(R), Lombardi's award-wining BPM platform, to manage orders processed through its independent broker network. Lombardi is a co-sponsor of the conference. The two-day event will be held on June 27 - 28, 2006 at The Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA.

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 "From Initial Concept to Process Improvement", on June 28 at 2:15 - 3:00 p.m. PDT PDT
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. During the session, Ms. Kostelecky will describe the various steps that Allianz Life used to determine that BPM was the correct approach, share best practices and lessons learned, provide an overview of the project results to date, and highlight where BPM will continue to impact the business moving forward.

Additionally, Mr. Jim Rudden, Director of Product Marketing at Lombardi, will present during the conference panel session entitled "Transforming To A Process Driven Enterprise", on June 28 at 10:45-11:30 a.m. PDT. During the session, moderated by Tom Dwyer, Research Director at Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. , Mr. Rudden and other software executives will explain why BPM technology creates synergy between business requirements and information technology solutions, faster response to change, and improved visibility of business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets .

As a conference sponsor, Lombardi will showcase TeamWorks' capabilities to support a wide variety of high-impact, enterprise process improvement efforts. Lombardi staff will be available throughout the conference to demonstrate TeamWorks in the Solution Showcase.

The session is open to all conference attendees. For more information about the conference and for a complete view of the agenda, visit http://www.brainstorm-group.com/bsgweb/index.asp?city=23131792370& conf=2378515370 : (Due to its length, this URL URL
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Lombardi TeamWorks is the leading BPM software platform for designing, executing, and improving business processes. The product is built on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced  and provides ongoing process visibility and control, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage process activity and decision-making. TeamWorks includes a rich, cohesive Eclipse-based modeling environment for building all aspects of a business process, a highly collaborative Web-based work portal for process participants, and provides industry-leading optimization technologies for analyzing and improving business processes.

About Lombardi

Lombardi is the leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies as recognized by Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
  • Founded: 1983 by George F.
 in their report Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006. Lombardi has both the award-winning technology and implementation best practices to bring process excellence to the enterprise. Lombardi's TeamWorks(R) is built on open standards and provides ongoing visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage their process activity and decision-making. Lombardi customers include Dell, Hasbro, Pfizer, Sprint, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. The company is also noted as a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. . For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

Lombardi and TeamWorks are registered trademarks and TeamWorks Process Optimizer, TeamWorks Portal, TeamWorks Rule Service, Lombardi OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  Edition and Lombardi for Office 2003 are trademarks of Lombardi Software, Inc.

(1) Source: The Forrester Wave(TM): Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006, Forrester Research Inc., 2006.
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