MEGA Releases New Version Of Software Suite.

SHARON, Mass. -- MEGA 2005 Delivers More Powerful Business Process And Enterprise Architecture Modeling Capabilities

MEGA International Ltd., a leading independent provider of Modeling Solutions for Process Excellence & Enterprise Architecture (EA), today announced the release of MEGA 2005, the latest version of its flagship software suite.

Aimed at IT directors, operations directors, project managers and risk managers, MEGA 2005 has the flexibility to handle a wide variety of modeling-based projects including EA, corporate governance compliance, and information systems management.

"Combining ease-of-use with enhanced flexibility and functionality, including the new MEGA Business Data module, MEGA 2005 represents a real leap forward for customers," said Antoine Lonjon, Product Marketing Director, MEGA International. "With MEGA 2005 we have responded to the needs of our customers by providing integrated modeling methodology and project management support. The improved power and flexibility of the new solution enables customers to use modeling for projects designed to transform processes and company architecture with greater confidence than ever."

The integrated modeling environment provided by MEGA 2005 allows for the easy construction of fully integrated Business Process and Enterprise Architecture models within a single user interface. All model information is captured within MEGA's object oriented repository. New productivity enhancements in this version include preferences management, user specific work histories, favorites tracking, and the ability to recover deleted material from the recycle bin. A new diagram preview tool further facilitates access to objects within the modeling environment.

"MEGA has responded to the needs of our customers. MEGA 2005 is even easier to use," said Michelle Miakos, MEGA Vice President of North and Latin American Operations. "It is very intuitive, and enables users to better describe and document their business processes, whether for internal use or regulatory compliance."

MEGA 2005 also offers enhanced graphics functionality to improve the quality of diagrams created. A new intuitive and flexible search wizard guides users through the repository with ease.

Graphics wizards have been introduced into MEGA 2005 to ease the creation of diagrams as well as improve the links between various diagrams. A new control system that can be turned on and off ensures that models are compliant with predefined rules. An icon underlines objects not following rules - a simple click provides access to the rules that have been broken, and to the objects that need to be corrected.

A new module in MEGA 2005, MEGA Business Data, enables users to model business specific enterprise data, independent of its possible implementation in a database. When used with MEGA Process, MEGA Business Data allows you describe where business entities are used or required by business activities and business rules. When used with MEGA Architecture, MEGA Business Data allows you to describe which parts of the IT system are responsible for managing enterprise data assets.

MEGA Designer offers enhanced database specification tools, so that conceptual models can be linked with ease to physical models, ensuring true traceability between the two. All important market notations such as IE, IDEF1X, UML and more are supported simultaneously making it possible to adapt to various team cultures while facilitating information sharing and alignment.

The MEGA 2005 administration module has been entirely reworked with flexibility in mind. A new option controls meta-model visibility, so that only object types and attributes relevant to a user's tasks are presented to them.

MEGA 2005 Software Suite - Summary

MEGA 2005 consists of three main products: MEGA Process, MEGA Architecture and MEGA Designer, all sharing a common architecture.

--MEGA Process - analyses and documents strategy, value chains and organizational processes

--MEGA Architecture - models and describes IT systems

--MEGA Designer - Produces detailed architecture and specifications for applications, services, data and databases

--Modules for Personalization - making it possible to customize the tool for individual environments

--MEGA Simulation - for process optimization 

--MEGA Business Data - defines business objects and data dictionaries

About MEGA International

With North and Latin American headquarters in Sharon, MA, MEGA International (www.mega.com), is the global leader in Process Excellence and Enterprise Architecture Modeling Solutions. The MEGA value-driven approach combines proven methods, modeling software and consulting to deliver an enterprise repository to the client. This repository provides executives and operational managers with the ability to understand, discover, align and control information at the enterprise level.

MEGA is an active contributing member to the OMG and BPMI, and provides solutions for Fortune 2000 companies, several of which are in the Fortune 100, with over 1,000 customers and 30,000 licenses worldwide. MEGA delivers more than 15,000 consulting engagement days per year.

MEGA, headquartered in Paris, France and founded in 1991, does business in Europe and North America through operations and affiliates in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, and recently in Central and Eastern Europe. MEGA International clients include Alitalia, Allianz, British American Tobacco, Credit Lyonnais, DirecTV, Morgan Stanley, Nissan, Novartis, Renault, Societe Generale, Target, Vitro and Wyeth.