Press Release
LOMBARDI SOFTWARE SELECTED AS BUSINESS ALLIANCE PARTNER BY BEARINGPOINT
AUSTIN, Texas – June 26, 2006 – Lombardi®, the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that it has been selected as a Business Alliance Partner by BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms. As a member of BearingPoint's alliance program, Lombardi's TeamWorks® BPM software platform may be used in BearingPoint's global management and technology consulting solutions and services to customers across its Commercial, Public, and Financial Services business units.
Lombardi also announced that BearingPoint has joined Lombardi's new Premier Certified Partner program – a tier of select partners that have consultants certified in the TeamWorks platform, and that have delivered numerous successful large-scale customer implementations with the software. BearingPoint has completed TeamWorks implementations at customers spanning a variety of industries including insurance, mortgage, telecommunications, life sciences and retail banking companies. As a requirement of the program, more than 150 BearingPoint personnel have been trained by Lombardi on TeamWorks across the USA, Europe and India.
"BearingPoint is teaming with Lombardi and its exceptional BPM software technology to further enhance our offerings as we continue to develop high value-add solutions that produce tangible returns for clients," said Greg Reh, Managing Director at BearingPoint. "Our two companies have already developed vertical solution sets in Oil and Gas and Life Sciences, and we are actively working in other verticals to generate go-to-market solutions for our clients and prospects."
Lombardi and BearingPoint have been collaborating for more than two years. During that time, Lombardi has been a part of BearingPoint methodologies such as ProvenCourse®, which are designed for efficient project asset orchestration. Lombardi was selected to assist with these methodologies out of more than 20 BPM software vendors after an extensive evaluation.
Lombardi and BearingPoint are also co-developing Business Transformation Project approaches which include the TeamWorks BPM platform as a core technology, coupled with a variety of specialized resources and best practices for process reengineering, strategic planning, organizational change management, Business Process Competency Centers (BPCC) and architectural alignment projects.
"We are excited to build upon the joint successes Lombardi and BearingPoint have had together in the market," said Rod Favaron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lombardi Software. "The combination of our industry-leading BPM platform with BearingPoint's extensive vertical and horizontal process experience delivers tremendous value to our customers."
TeamWorks is the leading BPM software platform for designing, executing, and improving business processes. The product is built on open standards and provides ongoing process visibility and control, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage process activity and decision-making. TeamWorks includes a rich, cohesive Eclipse-based modeling environment for building all aspects of a business process, a highly collaborative web-based work portal for process participants, and provides industry-leading optimization technologies for analyzing and improving business processes.
About Lombardi Software
Lombardi Software is the leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies as recognized by Forrester Research in their report Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006. Lombardi has both the award-winning technology and implementation best practices to bring process excellence to the enterprise. 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 process activity and decision-making. Lombardi customers include Dell, Hasbro, Pfizer, Sprint, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. The company is also noted as a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. For more information visit www.lombardisoftware.com.
Lombardi Software and TeamWorks are registered trademarks and TeamWorks Process Optimizer, TeamWorks Portal, TeamWorks Rule Service and Lombardi for Office 2003 are trademarks of Lombardi Software, Inc. BearingPoint and ProvenCourse are registered trademarks of BearingPoint, Inc., or its affiliates, in the United States and other countries. 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


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