ProActivity's Business Process Analysis and Design Platform Chosen by Kodak's Commercial & Government Systems Unit for Their Contract Change Management Initiative.Business/Technology Editors NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2002 ProActivity, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation Business Process Analysis (BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. ) and design solutions for the Global 2000 today announced that Eastman Kodak (company) Kodak - The photographic company responsible for Photo CD. http://kodak.com/. Company's Commercial & Government Systems unit (C&GS) has selected ProActivity's BPA platform to help improve standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting of their business processes for contract change management. The ProActivity platform allows Kodak to more easily discover and map their existing contract processes in order to redesign re·de·sign tr.v. re·de·signed, re·de·sign·ing, re·de·signs To make a revision in the appearance or function of. re , streamline, and standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. the process flow for greater operational efficiency. Kodak's C&GS unit, a provider of innovative infoimaging solutions for business and government markets, will utilize ProActivity to help document their business processes for contract change management with the intent of streamlining them in order to manage their contract work more cost effectively. They are currently using ProActivity to analyze their Cost/Schedule change management processes with the intent of standardizing them as well as integrating them with other C&GS business processes to remove redundancies. "We evaluated a number of software solutions to help us better understand our enterprise business processes before eventually selecting ProActivity," said Gary Klebes, manager of program excellence, Eastman Kodak Company, Commercial & Government Systems unit. "With ProActivity, we expect to more easily create an accurate picture of our business process - what the process flow is, how people interact and what technology is being used - in order to better understand how to work more effectively. This picture of our `as is' contract change management process will allow us to maximize our business support resources to deliver greater overall efficiency and cost savings to our customers." "Today, companies are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to do more with less and to maximize efficiencies in their IT-supported operational infrastructure," said Dave Champagne, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for ProActivity. "To do this, companies need a clear understanding of their underlying business processes. Kodak's C&GS unit is an example of how companies are using the ProActivity platform to capture, analyze and optimize optimize - optimisation their fundamental business processes." About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures -- for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in "infoimaging" -- a $225 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and Personal Digital Assistants), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images and services & media (the software, film and paper that enable people to access and print images). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with sales last year of almost $14 billion, is organized into five major businesses: Photography, providing consumers and professionals with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, analysis, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering flat-panel displays flat-pan·el display n. A thin lightweight video display used in laptop and notebook computers and employing liquid crystals, electroluminescence, or a similar alternative to cathode-ray tubes. Also called flat screen. , optics and sensors
About ProActivity ProActivity Inc., headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, is an important residential suburb of Boston, which abuts it on the east. According to the 2000 census, the population of the Newton was 83,829, making it the tenth largest city in the state. , is a leading provider of next-generation Business Process Analysis (BPA) and design solutions for the Global 2000. ProActivity develops, sells, and supports, the first and only scalable software platform and related products for capturing, analyzing, sharing and optimizing business process knowledge across the enterprise. The heart of ProActivity is its exclusive Process Knowledge Base TM, which enables ProActivity's customers to improve operational efficiency, accelerate IT initiatives, and create collaborative processes that reach beyond the enterprise. For further information, please call (617) 332-0095 or visit our Web site at www.proactivityinc.com. 2002 Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : For additional information about Kodak's Commercial and Government Systems unit, visit their Web site at: http://www.kodak.com/go/globalimaging. |
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