Ultimus Earns Microsoft's Solution Launch Partner Status.

Microsoft Corporation Recognizes Company's Commitment to Office System

CARY, N.C. -- Ultimus, the #1 provider of Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow software and solutions, with more than 1,600 customers worldwide, announced that it has been awarded Solution Launch Partner status for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. As a member of this select community of Microsoft partners, Ultimus was recognized for its continuous support of the Microsoft Office System.

Microsoft awarded this elite status to Ultimus for taking the extra step to design and develop a leading BPM solution using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. New technical capabilities in the 2007 Microsoft Office system include open XML formats, a user interface extensibility model, and new servers and services.

Ultimus has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies time and again and has a proven ability to meet customers' needs. Ultimus helps companies automate thousands of processes, resulting in reduced cycle times, lower costs, improved productivity and higher customer satisfaction. Powered by Adaptive Discovery([R]), the Ultimus BPM Suite is the only BPM suite with "self-discovering processes." The patented Adaptive Discovery technology learns and adapts when changes require new rules to processes.

The Microsoft Office system can help organizations automate internal and external business processes and better integrate the familiar user experience of Microsoft Office programs with data from key business systems. It builds directly on the content creation experience in core desktop programs such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. With Ultimus, organizations can take documents and worksheets and integrate them into business processes and workflows.

Now in its seventh generation, the Ultimus BPM Suite is the most feature rich product on the market, with enhancements driven from real experience gained from working with more than 1600 organizations, 2.2 million active users, and tens of thousands of processes worldwide.

"We have embraced Microsoft's vision of 'people-ready' software, and are excited to bring complementary, value-added products to our mutual customers," said Rashid Khan, CEO and co-founder of Ultimus. "The ability to extend the Microsoft Office System to optimize business processes will serve our customers well."

About Ultimus

Ultimus is the worldwide leader in human-centric Business Process Management (BPM) software, providing the industry's most complete and scalable platform for modeling, automating, managing and optimizing business processes. Powered by Adaptive Discovery, the Ultimus BPM Suite is the only BPM suite that enables automated business processes to be deployed without completely defined process maps. Its Microsoft-based platform is quick to deploy and easy to administer, and its integration capabilities provide seamless information transfer between applications and outside organizations. Long recognized as a BPM pioneer, Ultimus has automated more processes than any BPM vendor, resulting in reduced cycle times, lower costs, improved productivity and higher customer satisfaction for its clients. Ultimus' award-winning BPM Suite is available in 20 languages and is deployed by more than 1,600 customers across every industry, including 100 of the world's largest enterprises. Headquartered in Cary, NC, Ultimus has offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia and supports a network of 80 worldwide partners. For more information, visit www.ultimus.com.