Business North Carolina and KPMG LLP Name Ultimus One of the State's High-Tech Companies of the Year.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2003 Ultimus, the leading provider of complete workflow automation See workflow. and business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced that it has received top honors in this year's High-Tech Company of the Year competition sponsored by Business North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. magazine and KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . The awards are given annually to select North Carolina companies based on their ability to achieve sustained growth and success over a three-year period. Due in part to more than six consecutive years of profitable growth, Ultimus was awarded top honors along with local leaders Cree Inc., Lending Tree and Red Hat. "This honor reflects the true dedication and hard work of our employees as well as the power of the Ultimus Workflow Suite," said Rashid Khan Ustad Rashid Khan (b. Badayun 1966-07-01) is an Indian classical musician in the North Indian Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, and is the great grandson of Gharana founder Ustad Inayat Hussain. , co-founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ultimus. "We have achieved sustained, dramatic growth in the past five years because our workflow automation and business process management solution provides concrete ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). to more than 1000 customers worldwide. Our global network of employees and partners and their unrelenting commitment to customer satisfaction ensures our continued success in the future." "Ultimus is in a good market position," says Jim Davis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of SAS Institute and a judge for the 2003 competition. "The current economy demands that organizations do things smarter. One way to do that is by optimizing workflow." Judging for the competition was done by David Kinney, Business North Carolina's editor-in-chief; Jim Nichols, until recently the North Carolina Department of Commerce's manager of electronics and information-technology development; Jeff Reid, executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Venturing at UNC (Universal Naming Convention) A standard for identifying servers, printers and other resources in a network, which originated in the Unix community. A UNC path uses double slashes or backslashes to precede the name of the computer. Chapel-Hill, and Jim Davis. The criteria for judging the award included a broad range of quantitative measures, including revenue growth, employment growth and capital raised over a three-year period. Cree Inc. won the 2003 competition. Ultimus, Lending Tree and Red Hat were runners up. SAS Institute was the winner of last year's competition. About Business North Carolina Business North Carolina is a statewide monthly magazine that focuses on the people, events and trends that shape business in North Carolina. Since it began publishing in 1981, it has won more than 50 national awards for its reporting, writing and design. About Ultimus A pioneer in workflow automation, Ultimus is a profitable, global software company that enables enterprises worldwide to increase their profits by modeling, automating, measuring, and optimizing every business process. Ultimus has business operations and sales offices, in countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Through these offices and a network of more than 85 partners in 60 countries, the Ultimus Workflow Suite has been deployed by more than 1000 customers, including Carnival Cruise Lines This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Citizens Bank, McKessonHBOC, Microsoft, Rubbermaid, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , Sony, and Siemens. Ultimus and its partners use the Ultimus Workflow Development Methodology to standardize implementations, accelerate deployments, and enable continuous improvement. Headquartered in Cary, NC, the company is a two-time recipient of the Technology Fast 500 Award from Deloitte & Touche and listed among the Inc. 500. Additional information about Ultimus can be obtained by visiting the Ultimus Web site at http://www.ultimus.com, emailing info@ultimus.com, or by calling 919-678-0900. Ultimus is a trademark of Ultimus Inc. 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