Grupo ASSA and IDS Scheer Announce Significant Success for the ARIS Platform in 2006 for Latin American Partnership.AMELIA ISLAND Amelia Island is one of the southernmost of the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands that stretches along the east coast of the United States from South Carolina to Florida. It is 13 miles long (21 km) and approximately 4 miles (6 km) wide at its widest point. , Fla. -- Grupo ASSA, a leading provider of consulting and outsourcing services in Latin America, and IDS Scheer, the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence, announced today at ARIS ARIS American Religious Identification Survey ARIS Architecture of Integrated Information Systems ARIS Active Rack Isolation System ARIS Aggregate Route-based IP Switching ARIS Agentia Romana pentru Investitii Straine ProcessWorld 2007 that the partnership has yielded significant success for the ARIS Platform in 2006 with major customer wins. Through a joint venture in Brazil targeted to improve business processes in the paper, pulp & mills industries, new customer acquisitions included Arcelor do Brasil (Arcelor Mittal is the world's number one steel company, with 330,000 employees in more than 60 countries), Klabin (Klabin is the leader in the integrated Paper/Paperboard Packaging Products industry in Brazil Brazilian Industrialization Industrialization during colonial Times During the colonial period, due to the rules of the economic theory of Mercantilism, no industrial activity could take place in Brazil. ) and Bahia Pulp (the 3rd largest pulp & paper company in the world). In the South and Andean region, new customers included Banco de Guayaquil in Ecuador, Banco Credito Inversiones and IANSA IANSA International Action Network on Small Arms in Chile, and Amcor, Quilmes and Telecom in Argentina among others. Grupo ASSA clients in Latin America showed increased demand for ARIS-based solutions to address: * Process-oriented SAP implementation projects * Operational Risk Management (Basel II) * Compliance (SOX) * Enterprise Architecture Expanding its focus on Business Process Management (BPM), Grupo ASSA has been chosen by SAP as its BPM Partner in Latin America for SAP's ESOA ESOA Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (branch methodology) ESOA Entomological Society of America Business Process Platform to leverage the capabilities offered by ARIS and SAP and create flexible and reusable business solutions. Grupo ASSA and IDS Scheer Announce Significant Success for the ARIS Platform, Page 2 "We are thrilled at the tremendous success Grupo ASSA has achieved with ARIS in Latin America," said Charlie Doucot, Managing Director and Sr. Vice President for IDS Scheer Americas. "We look forward to expanding and replicating this success throughout the Americas Region." Roberto Wagmaister, 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 Grupo ASSA, said: "We've seen strong demand in our ARIS-based BPM offerings last year, and we expect this trend to only increase in 2007 as companies in Latin America understand the value this approach delivers to their business" About Grupo ASSA Founded in 1992 with over 600 consultants and offices in Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, Grupo ASSA is a Consulting and Outsourcing firm that has been helping its customers improve their business processes using Information Technology across the whole of Latin America. Grupo ASSA has customers throughout this region, such as: Shell, Electrolux, Petrobras, Johnson & Johnson, Arcor, Gerdau, Andrade Gutierrez, Cargill, British American Tobacco British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS, AMEX: BTI, KLSE: BAT) is the second largest listed tobacco company in the world. It is based in London, England and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index with a market capitalisation of over £29 billion as of June 2005. , Danone, Kraft Foods and Pfizer, among others. For further information, please contact: e-mail: marketing@grupoassa.com, or web site www.grupoassa.com. About IDS Scheer With the ARIS Platform, IDS Scheer is the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence. The company's ARIS-based solutions offer a complete portfolio of software, services and methods to address all phases of the business process lifecycle: strategy, design, implementation, controlling, documentation, and continuous improvement. From small/medium enterprises to Global 1000 organizations, IDS Scheer helps companies optimize their investments in Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Architecture (EA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ), Corporate Performance Management (CPM), and Compliance Management. As a Global SAP Service Partner and strategic SAP development partner, IDS Scheer has unmatched domain expertise in Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ), Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), and SAP NetWeaver. With more than 2,500 employees worldwide and 6,000-plus customers in over 70 countries, IDS Scheer's 2005 revenues reached $386.4 million USD/318 million Euros. IDS Scheer was established in 1984 by August-Wilhelm Scheer, widely recognized as a founding father of Business Process Management. For more information on IDS Scheer in the Americas, visit http://www.ids-scheer.com/us. Copyright [c] 2007 IDS Scheer All rights reserved. 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