Lombardi Software Announces Center for Process Excellence; Expanded Education and Certification Programs Further Enable Successful Enterprise BPM Deployments.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi Software(R), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced the Lombardi Center for Process Excellence, enabling BPM customers to expand both the technical knowledge and real-world experience required for successful BPM implementation. The Center for Process Excellence(TM) formalizes Lombardi's extensive education and certification programs which have trained over 500 business and technical professionals to date. It further demonstrates Lombardi's commitment to a complete, end-to-end BPM solution, enabling customers to successfully design, implement and continuously improve their enterprise processes.

"Organizations are witnessing transformational change through process management and improvement initiatives," said Toby Cappello, Vice-President of Professional Services at Lombardi Software. "But for that change to be effective at the enterprise level, companies must have the knowledge capital to understand the impact and dynamics of process adoption in an organization. Lombardi's Center for Process Excellence provides all the capabilities necessary for an organization to deliver the expertise needed for a successful BPM deployment."

Lombardi's Center for Process Excellence combines education and certification for both business leaders and technical professionals. The education curriculum -- BPM skills, BPM implementation methodology and TeamWorks training -- covers a wide variety of BPM fundamentals, including modeling, authoring, operations and administration, and project implementation. In addition to this product training, the Center for Process Excellence provides the next level of BPM education: BPM best practices, company readiness, process analysis, prioritization and measurement, and delivery mechanisms.

Recognizing the need to leverage existing analysis and development methods and practices, Lombardi's education offerings incorporate concepts from Six Sigma, IBM's Rational Unified Process (RUP) and SEI's CMM. Designed for process leaders, these education offerings provide a comprehensive framework for BPM deployment that explains when and how to leverage these proven methods in the course of the deployment lifecycle. Combined with the best-in-class capabilities of the TeamWorks Business Process Management Software (BPMS), process leaders can now learn how to harness the power and flexibility of BPM while delivering a proven, predictable method for delivery to the organization.

As part of the Center for Process Excellence, the Lombardi Certification Program is offered to qualified individuals, companies or partners who have successfully deployed Lombardi Software's TeamWorks in a real-world environment. Unlike other certification programs that only require individuals to pass a written test or lab-simulated deployment, Lombardi Certified BPM specialists have also successfully completed a BPM implementation to provide a more qualified and thorough level of real-world experience to their customers. The Certification Program gives customers and partners the benefit of an objective, knowledgeable, cross-company standard for delivery expertise -- resulting in more predictable BPM deployment results.

About Lombardi Software

Lombardi Software(R) is the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies. Lombardi has both the award-winning technology and implementation best practices to bring process excellence to the enterprise. 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 Aflac, Allianz Life, Boeing, Dell, Hasbro, Pfizer, Sprint, T-Mobile, Universal Music Group, Wells Fargo and Whole Foods. The company is noted as a Leader in the 2004 Forrester Wave and a Visionary in Gartner's 2004 Magic Quadrant. For more information visit www.lombardisoftware.com.