SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 15, 2009 — In today’s rapidly-shifting business environment, business process management has proven to be a powerful tool for managing change. However, as Brett Champlin, President of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP) notes “businesses have just scraped the surface of what BPM can do to transform operations and dramatically reduce cost. The opportunities to leverage this powerful approach can be found everywhere, representing as-yet-untapped savings for most companies.”

To meet these challenges directly, Savvion, the trailblazing business process management company, today announced the launch of its Business Transformation Practice. The new practice is designed to help business and IT executives maximize the benefits of their investment in business process management (BPM) software both now and in the future.

The Business Transformation Practice is comprised of two elements:

• The Best Practices Program draws upon BPM best practices Savvion has derived from over a decade serving a broad array of industries, tailoring them to help each customer improve the ROI on their current BPM investment.
  Central to the program is the Center of Excellence (COE) that Savvion creates for each customer to manage, operate, and govern all BPM services throughout the company. The COE works to more cost-effectively deploy BPM throughout the enterprise and make the company more agile in responding to business changes. It is the most comprehensive efficiency program of any BPM company in the market, examining all opportunities for implementation of cost and resource-saving best practices across 10 key business areas
  The program is headed by Tim Dooley, who recently joined Savvion after having spent the past seven years as vice president and Technology Manager of Bank of America’s Enterprise BPM Center of Excellence.
• The Business Transformation Program is a joint effort with Operational Improvement Consulting Alliance (OICA), the leading executive management consulting firm focused on business operations transformation, to research, develop and improve business process management tools and processes that will help companies respond better to business changes and lower operational costs.
  The program will work to improve five key areas of concern to business:
  1. VISIBILITY. The ability to gain insight into fast-changing business challenges in order to develop properly-responsive processes.
  2. AGILITY. The ability to respond to business changes as quickly as possible.
  3. EFFICIENCY. The ability to obtain the greatest productivity from business operations.
  4. BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT. The ability to empower business user to describe, analyze and optimize the business processes and take quick and informed decisions.
  5. ECONOMY. The ability to identify investments in business operations and technology, and assess the probable returns on these investments, helping companies achieve the highest ROI for the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).

Through the new Business Transformation Practice, Savvion and OICAlliance anticipate finding and institutionalizing creative new ways to use BPM, such as automating the management of change projects and using BPM as a lower-cost, higher-quality alternative for building business process solutions. The practice has already found new ways to deliver more flexible, cost-effective methods for companies to make changes more quickly.

More information about the Savvion Business Transformation program can be found at http://www.savvion.com/business_transformation.

“We chose to ally with Savvion over its competitors because its BPM software offers the best foundation for both management support and lowering the cost of business processes,” said Daniel Morris, Partner, OICAlliance.

“We believe the speed to effect change will be a key factor in the long-term ability of companies to compete,” said Dr. Ketabchi President, CEO & Founder Savvion. “Our Business Transformation Practice will help executives identify and leapfrog competitive business initiatives, giving them a distinct business edge.”

About OICAlliance

OICAlliance is a management consulting firm providing business operations transformation support and services. All OICAlliance Partners have been senior executives or partners in a variety of industries. OICAlliance Partners are leaders in business operations improvement, have been published widely, and have spoken internationally on business process topics. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, OICAlliance can be reached at www.OICAlliance.com or 630-964-5286

About Savvion

More than 300 of the world’s top-performing companies, including 24 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably. As the business process management trailblazer, Savvion moves enterprises beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software solutions and services that make them more competitive and cost-efficient, including a return on investment as high as 300%. Savvion has a proven track record for turning process improvement ideas into real world solutions within 30 days, providing the highest ROI for the lowest total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at www.savvion.com or 888-544-5511

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Ajay Khanna
Savvion
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Steve Kleine
Spiralgroup
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stevek@spiralgroup.com

Daniel Morris
OICAlliance
630-964-5286
Daniel-Morris@OICAlliance.com