Lombardi to Share Best Practices on Assembling Project Teams At Brainstorm BPM Conference; Leading BPM Suite Vendor to Highlight How to Create and Staff Successful Process Project Teams at Washington DC Conference.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Lombardi(R) (www.lombardisoftware.com), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that Rachael Hawkins, the company's Senior Product Marketing Manager, will be discussing best practices for assembling successful BPM project teams as part of an industry debate panel at the Brainstorm BPM Conference. Lombardi is a co-sponsor of the conference. The two-day event will be held on September 19 - 20, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA.

Mrs. Hawkins will present during the conference panel session entitled "Assembling A BPM Project Team," on September 19 at 4:00-4:45 p.m., and moderated by Elliott King, Editorial Director of BPM Strategies Magazine. During the session, Mrs. Hawkins and other BPM software executives will describe the structure of a BPM project team, the various skills and responsibilities that should be represented on the team, and the key elements that must be present for the team to succeed. Mrs. Hawkins will also highlight customer examples of how they combined the best mix of roles and responsibilities to make their process project teams successful. The session is open to all conference attendees.

As a conference sponsor, Lombardi will showcase TeamWorks(R) -- the award-winning BPM software platform, and demonstrate its capabilities to support a wide variety of high-impact, enterprise process improvement efforts. Lombardi staff will be available throughout the conference to demonstrate TeamWorks at booth # 34 in the Solutions Showcase.

Lombardi TeamWorks (www.lombardisoftware.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 organizations 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 optimization technologies for analyzing and improving business processes.

To schedule a meeting or view a live, hands-on demonstration, please visit Lombardi in the Solutions Showcase or contact [e-mail].

About Lombardi

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies as recognized 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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