Business Process Management Leader to Sponsor and Exhibit at the Gartner BPM Summit.

Ultimus customers West Park and Nelnet to Present on the Value of Business Process Management

CARY, N.C. -- Ultimus, the #1 provider of Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow automation software and solutions, with more than 1,600 customers worldwide, today announced that it will be sponsoring this year's Gartner Business Process Management Summit, February 26-28, 2007, at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. The theme of this year's event is "From Process Understanding to Business Innovation."

Now in its third year, the highly popular Gartner Business Process Management Summit is designed to bring business and IT professionals together to delve into strategies and tactics to help companies and organizations not only get started, but also get much more out of their BPM initiatives.

Ultimus customer West Park Assessment Centre will take part in a panel session on "Implementing An Enterprise-Transforming BPMS." In this session, Jodi Starkman-Mendelshon, director, will share her first-hand experience with implementing a major business process management system. She will also review the business and technical aspects of the implementation including goals, business case, strategy, tools, challenges and benefits of what worked and what didn't. This session will take place Tuesday, February 27, at 2:45pm - 3:45pm.

Ultimus will also be on hand to discuss the latest innovations in business process management as well as to demonstrate the capabilities of the Ultimus BPM Suite powered by Adaptive Discovery([R]). In addition, Ultimus customer, Nelnet, a leading education planning and financing company, will co-present with Ultimus in a vendor session about its use of the Ultimus BPM Suite to automate the processing of thousands of student loan applications each month.

The summit encompasses three powerful days designed to equip participants with insights and information they can use immediately to strengthen BPM plans and initiatives. In addition to engaging sessions, attendees can benefit from pre-conference tutorials, face-to-face interaction with Gartner analysts, and a primer on the latest technologies for building a more efficient, process-centric operation.

"The Gartner BPM Summit is a must attend," said Rick Thompson, chief marketing officer, Ultimus, Inc. "It is the perfect place for us to showcase our latest customer successes as well as the newest adaptive capabilities of the Ultimus BPM Suite. Our latest adaptive technology is interactive Business Activity Monitoring. The Ultimus iBAM Suite provides real-time visibility to key performance indicators and empowers people to change processes dynamically by simply adjusting a dial or on their desktop. This is the type of responsiveness businesses need to keep their core processes up to date in an ever changing environment."

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([R]), 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.