Hasbro Wins 2006 Global Excellence Award with Lombardi Business Process Management Software; Worldwide Leader in Toys and Games Recognised for BPM Best Practices by Workflow And Reengineering International Association.

LONDON -- Lombardi(R) (www.lombardisoftware.com), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that its customer - Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) - won a prestigious award at the 2006 Global Excellence Awards, (www.waria.com/awards/awards.htm) for its industry-leading achievements in BPM & Workflow. Lombardi's award-winning TeamWorks(R) BPM suite software represents the technology foundation that helped Hasbro, Inc. secure the Silver award for the North American region.

"Winning the Silver award for innovation and excellence for our BPM project is a great honour," said David Adams, Business Integration Manager at Hasbro, Inc. "Users within both our business and IT units are very excited to see that the processes they work to improve every day have achieved such high-profile recognition for the company."

Hasbro, Inc. received the Silver Global Excellence in BPM & Workflow Award for its successful "e-Connect" project, which delivers a collaborative, automated process -- designed to manage a global supply chain comprising hundreds of diverse suppliers and numerous large orders a day. It provides secure, self-service business transactions with Hasbro's business partners, and seamlessly integrates into Hasbro's back-office systems. The streamlined business process provides Hasbro, Inc. with a range of benefits such as reduction in cycle times, and enables its customers, suppliers, and shipping partners to be more deeply integrated into Hasbro's supply chain.

The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) (www.wfmc.org) and the Workflow And Reengineering International Association (WARIA) (www.waria.com) jointly sponsor the annual Global Excellence in BPM & Workflow Awards for innovation and excellence in BPM and workflow implementations. These prestigious awards are used to recognize organizations that have demonstrably excelled in implementing innovative solutions to meet strategic business objectives. Particular attention is paid to BPM and workflow implementations that show solutions that extend beyond the corporate boundaries to support customers, suppliers, trading partners etc.

The Gold and Silver Awards will be presented at the SAS Portman Hotel in London, England at 17:00-18:00 on Tuesday, 19 September, 2006, in conjunction with the Business Process Management Group's (BPMG) (www.bpmg.org) Process 2006 Conference and Expo. (www.process2006.com)

"Hasbro's e-Connect project is a perfect example of how process-driven companies can use BPM to achieve real-world results," said Rod Favaron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lombardi. "Everyone here at Lombardi is delighted and proud to be the technology behind Hasbro's exciting Global Excellence in BPM & Workflow Award."

Lombardi TeamWorks (www.lombardi.com/bpm-software-products.php) is the leading BPM software platform for designing, executing, and improving business processes. The product is built on open standards and provides ongoing process visibility and control, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organisations can manage process activity and decision-making. TeamWorks includes a rich, cohesive Eclipse-based modelling 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 analysing and improving business processes.

About Hasbro

Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) is a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment products and services, including the design, manufacture and marketing of games and toys ranging from traditional to high-tech. Both internationally and in the U.S., its PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER BROTHERS, TIGER and WIZARDS OF THE COAST brands and products provide the highest quality and most recognizable play experiences in the world.

About Lombardi

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies as recognised by both Gartner and Forrester Research, in the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2006, and Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006 research reports respectively. Lombardi offers award-winning technology, know-how and services to help its customers become Process-Driven. 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 Allianz Life, Applied Materials, Dell, Hasbro, Renault F1 Team, Sprint, T-Mobile, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

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