Pegasystems joins IBM initiative for Business Performance Management
Expands Pegasystems' presence in rules-based BPM market
CAMBRIDGE, MA (PRWEB) March 25, 2004 -
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), a leading provider of smart, rules-based business process management software, recently announced at IBM’s PartnerWorld 2004 that it has joined IBM’s new Business Performance Management (BPM) Business Partner Program. The news follows closely on Pegasystems’ announcement earlier this month that it has joined IBM’s ISV Advantage Initiative to help deliver ‘smart’ business process management for on-demand computing needs, and that it has entered into an agreement with IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS).
Pegasystems will complement IBM’s BPM initiative by continuing to develop and enhance its rules-based solutions for key vertical markets such as financial services and healthcare. IBM’s new initiative offers Business Partners a set of BPM ‘frameworks’ for information, processes, events, business rules and workplace and business systems. The frameworks include tools for software developers, core IBM middleware technology, and technical education and support to enable Business Partners to provide customers with solutions unique to their industry.
“BPM combines business intelligence, integration, business service management and intelligent orchestration – all areas where IBM has demonstrated clear technology leadership in the industry,” said Marie Wieck, general manager of Industry Solutions and Business Integration, IBM. “We believe that our new BPM open standards framework and supporting partner program will help accelerate the market for these capabilities and on demand benefit that our combined solutions can deliver. We look forward to working with Pegasystems to address the needs of our mutual customers.”
“We’re not just maintaining our position as a business process management leader, but extending it into new and dynamic arenas,” said Alan Trefler, chairman and CEO, Pegasystems. “Not only have we recently been recognized as a leading BPM vendor by Forrester Research in their BPM TechRankings™ , but we are also positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in both Gartner Inc.’s Pure Play BPM and Business Rules Engine Magic Quadrants. ”
PegasystemsÂ’ smart BPM solutions utilise the companyÂ’s 20 years of expertise with many of the worldÂ’s largest financial services organisations, including eight of the top 15 card issuers, three-quarters of the nationÂ’s top 12 banks, such as Bank of America, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase, and all 12 U. S. Federal Reserve Banks. The company provides a comprehensive suite of both horizontal and vertical, industry-specific BPM applications, for full, front-to-back-office integration of critical business processes.
Pegasystems applications support a number of IBM technologies including IBM WebSphere* Application Server, IBM WebSphere MQ, and IBM DB2* Universal Database software and run on the Linux and AIX platforms.
About Pegasystems
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA) provides rules-based, smart business process management (BPM) software to large organisations, helping to deliver significant ROI and providing them with the flexibility and agility to respond to changing business needs. With annualised revenues of approximately $100 million and a blue-chip customer base, the company offers applications for the financial services, healthcare, insurance and government markets, as well as a cross-industry BPM application. Pegasystems is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., and has regional offices in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. For more information, visit www. pega. com.
For information, contact:
Jeremy Payne
Pegasystems Europe
+44 118 965 1641
Jeremy. payne@pega. com
Alex Crawshaw
Pirate Communications
+44 (0)20 7760 7050
Alex@piratecomms. com
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