SteelTrace Launches Catalyze Process Solo Beta Program.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002

SteelTrace, an acclaimed provider of business process and requirements capture products, announces Catalyze(TM) Process Solo is now available for beta use.

Catalyze Process Solo provides a comprehensive environment for the capture, viewing and management of business processes. Catalyze Process Solo provides a graphical interface for easily capturing business processes in a graphical and textual format and automatically generates Microsoft Word based business process documentation.

The Process Solo Beta Program commences on November 1, 2002. Beta Program members will have the opportunity to influence the feature set and usability of Catalyze Process Solo.

"For a process review to succeed, it is crucial that the relevant stakeholders are involved at every stage of process mapping," said Sheldon Porter of Plant-Wide Research. "Documentation is vital to achieving this involvement and traditionally, generating such documents has been difficult and time-consuming. Catalyze Process Solo's automatic document generation and round-tripping system turns this into a simple task. Not only does Catalyze increase stakeholders' involvement, it deepens their commitment to the project."

"Many process capture tools on the market are overly complicated, require too much training and do not directly assist with system analysis activities. Catalyze Process Solo's ease of use and document generation are unequalled in the market place," said Santo Algeri, Senior Project Manager at netdecisions. "netdecisions is delighted to be involved in the beta program and looks forward to working with SteelTrace to further develop the feature set." "In many organisations business process engineering has been considered separate from the subsequent stages of systems analysis and design, causing a disjoint between a business process and the systems that support these processes," said Mark Melville, SteelTrace CEO. "Catalyze Process Solo provides a point of contact between the stakeholders, maximising the likelihood that the processes will map to accurate systems."

Catalyze Process Solo Benefits:

-- Simple to use - accessible to non-technical users

-- Easy to learn

-- Increases accuracy of process capture by providing a clear picture of the people involved in a process, the inputs, outputs, objectives and issues

-- Enhances communication - easier end-user involvement

-- Improves customer relationships - better understanding of what the issues to be solved are

-- Immediate ROI - 40% faster process capture

-- Delivers and interacts with content in a variety of ways - reporting in a variety of ways depending on the audience

-- Combines textual and graphical models - enables better understanding of the key elements of an existing process.

For more information about the Catalyze Process Beta Program email [e-mail]. For more information on SteelTrace, the Catalyze product suite or business process and requirements capture tools visit www.steeltrace.com.

About SteelTrace

SteelTrace develops business process and requirement tools that increase the accuracy between customer requirements and system delivery. SteelTrace's Catalyze(TM) Solo and Catalyze(TM) Collaborate tools help Business Process Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Systems Analysts capture, view and manage customer requirements and system specifications. SteelTrace was founded in February 2001 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices in London, UK and Washington, DC and San Francisco. SteelTrace is a netdecisions group company.