Press Release

Talisen Technologies and Lombardi Partner to Offer Business Process Management Solutions

Companies Focused on Delivering Business and IT Alignment through BPM Technology

AUSTIN, TX - April 24, 2007 - Lombardi®, the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies, and Talisen Technologies today announced that they have signed a partnership to jointly market and sell the strategic advisory and consulting services from Talisen combined with Lombardi's award-winning Teamworks® and Blueprint BPM products.

"Like Talisen, Lombardi is focused on helping companies drive bottom-line results through business and IT alignment around their processes," said George Van Antwerp, Vice President, BPM, Talisen Technologies. "We partnered with them because of their strong qualifications, analyst reviews, and customer success stories."

Talisen Technologies is a consulting firm that teams with IT and business leaders to deliver "business-minded" BPM solutions with demonstrated business value. Encompassing the full solution lifecycle, Talisen's services include planning, RFP development, implementation, and management. Talisen offers its specialized process solutions to companies in the Financial Services and Healthcare verticals among others. Talisen's strengths include its ability to deliver a complete solution for customers from BPM strategy consulting, to BPM software implementations and hosted solutions.

As part of the agreement, Talisen has joined Lombardi's Certified Partner program. The program assists Lombardi partners in developing their BPM skills and revenue opportunities. Talisen consultants have been trained and certified in the use of Lombardi's BPM software, and actively working on customer process implementations; including those with KBM and others.

"Talisen has a strong reputation of offering experienced staff, capable of delivering customer solutions quickly," said Alan Godfrey, Executive Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, Lombardi. "Like Lombardi, they strive to help customers transform their businesses and to be more process driven."

Lombardi Teamworks is the leading BPM software for designing, executing, and improving business processes. Lombardi for Office™ makes it easy for anyone to participate in business process management using the familiar Microsoft® Office System products. Lombardi Blueprint™ is the only on-demand process improvement tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities.

About Talisen Technologies

Founded in 1991, Talisen Technologies provides IT and business process management solutions, high–grade security solutions and managed infrastructure services for large organizations in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, government and aerospace & defense. Talisen has been recognized on the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 Program for seven consecutive years. Its core competencies include expert utilization of ITIL disciplines, deployment of best–practice IT service management solutions and the management of efficient, mission–critical systems. The Talisen Gateway is a platform for supply chain collaboration that includes identity management for all employee and non-employees users. More than 80,000 users worldwide across Talisen client organizations and their partners, including 11 of the Fortune 100, rely on The Talisen Gateway for secure access to files and application systems. Based in St. Louis, Talisen has grown into a multi–national presence, with offices in the U.K.

About Lombardi

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) 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 BPM technology, know-how and services to help its customers become Process-Driven. Lombardi Blueprint is the only on-demand process improvement tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities. Lombardi's Teamworks® 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 business process activity and decision-making. Lombardi for Office™ makes it easy for anyone to participate in BPM using the familiar Microsoft® Office System products. The company is a Gold-Certified Microsoft partner, with an "Information Worker Productivity Solutions" Competency.

Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Life, Aflac, Dell, Hasbro, ING Direct, Maritz Travel, Reuters, Renault F1 Team, Sprint, T-Mobile, The UK Insolvency Service, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. For more information, visit www.lombardisoftware.com.

Lombardi, Teamworks are registered trademarks and Teamworks Process Optimizer, Teamworks Portal, Teamworks Rule Service, Lombardi for Office 2003 and Lombardi Blueprint are trademarks of Lombardi Software, Inc. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

For more information:
Wayne Snell
Sr. Director of Marketing
+1.512.382.8200 ext. 377
Wayne.Snell@lombardi.com