Insolvency Service Selects Lombardi's Business Process Management Software; U.K. Government Agency Implementing TeamWorks BPM Suite.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi(R), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that The Insolvency Service, a U.K. government agency, has selected the award-winning TeamWorks(R) BPM platform to manage various core business processes across its many offices throughout the U.K. The initial pilot implementation is focused on automating and improving the Insolvency Practitioners' processes.

"We selected TeamWorks after a competitive procurement process of BPM technologies," said Allan Cook, Change Programme Manager at The Insolvency Service. "Lombardi's product and BPM implementation methodologies best suited our needs as we look to improve our internal and customer-facing business processes."

The aim of The Insolvency Service is to deal fairly and effectively with financial failure and corporate and individual malpractice. The Insolvency Service is a division of the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) that supports the DTI's objective to "create the conditions for business success; and helping the U.K. to respond to the challenge of globalisation."

"Government agencies are quickly becoming process-driven," said Greg Pope, Vice President of European Operations at Lombardi. "We are proud to be selected by The Insolvency Service as the foundation of its efforts to modernise the way it conducts business through better process efficiency."

TeamWorks 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 modeling environment for building all aspects of a business process, a highly collaborative Web-based work portal for process participants, and provides industry-leading optimisation technologies for analysing and improving business processes.

About The Insolvency Service

The Insolvency Service is an executive agency of the Department of Trade and Industry. The Service administers the insolvency regime investigating all compulsory liquidations and individual insolvencies (bankruptcies) through the official receiver, to establish why they became insolvent. The Insolvency Service also authorises and regulates the insolvency profession; deals with disqualification of directors in corporate failures; assesses and pays statutory redundancy payments when an employer cannot or will not pay employees; provides banking and investment services for bankruptcy and liquidation estate funds; and advises ministers and other government departments on insolvency law and practice. Further details about the work of the Insolvency Service can be found on the website: www.insolvency.gov.uk.

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 organisations 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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