Bayer Group, E2E, ENMAX, MacGregor Golf and VALE Among Companies Honored with Business Process Excellence (BPE) Awards at ARIS ProcessWorld 2008.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), today announced the winners of its prestigious Business Process Excellence (BPE) Awards at its annual ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 Americas conference. The following companies, which made outstanding efforts to improve their business performance, were among those honored at an awards ceremony yesterday evening to cap the first day of the conference: Bayer Group, E2E, MacGregor Golf, ENMAX and VALE.

The BPE Awards recognize thought leaders in the industry for applying innovative business process optimization measures and the use of the tools and methods to achieve business process excellence. Winners were selected in the following six categories: Business-driven SOA Management; Enterprise Architecture Management; Partner Innovation; Process-driven SAP Management; Process Intelligence and Performance Management; and Small and Medium Enterprises.

"What a better way to end our first day of ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 than to honor those forward-thinking companies who are taking IDS Scheer products and consulting services to the pinnacle of innovation," said Thomas Volk, CEO & President, IDS Scheer AG. "We congratulate all the winners for their hard work and dedication to improving their company's business performance by taking a process-oriented approach."

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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. As a Global SAP Services Partner, strategic SAP development partner and SAP Vertical Solution Reseller, IDS Scheer offers small/medium enterprises to Global 1000 companies a process-oriented approach to optimize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Approximately 3,000 employees in over 70 countries serve the company's 7,000 customers. In 2007, IDS Scheer's revenues reached 394 million Euro / 576 million USD (preliminary figures). 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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