Metastorm: Metastorm Releases New Software for SAP Customers and Integrators

Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the release of a new software product called Metastorm ProVision Connect for SAP. The solution provides a comprehensive interface between the Metastorm ProVision enterprise architecture and business process analysis suite and SAP Solution Manager. The new offering is designed to accelerate the design and deployment of solutions running on SAP and help customers gain a broader picture on how their SAP processes are interlinked to other assets in the organisation.

"As a technology consulting organisation and leading systems integrator, we are routinely faced with complex solution requirements that rely on SAP applications," stated Jens Steuer, Solution Practice Principal at Hewlett-Packard GmbH. "Now with the economy in a downturn and companies tightening IT budgets and scrutinisingevery project, our ability to accelerate the deployment of SAP solutions, minimise rework, and maximise business results is more critical than ever before. We expect Metastorm ProVision Connect for SAP to be a valuable tool in enabling us to better meet customer needs at a lower cost, faster pace and with lower risk."

Metastorm ProVision is recognised by industry analysts as a leading technology for enterprise and business architecture due to the breadth and depth of its functionality for modelling and analysing strategies and goals, human capital, IT systems, information, business processes and other critical enterprise assets, and understanding the associated costs, revenues and interrelationships of these assets. This, combined with the software's ease of use for business analysts and business architects and its central collaboration repository for large-scale deployments, has resulted in Metastorm ProVision being put in place as the enterprise architecture and modelling standard at some of world's largest retailers, financial services institutions, pharmaceutical firms, and government agencies, among others.

The new Metastorm ProVision Connect for SAP offering allows users to link Metastorm's software with SAP's Solution Manager for two-way exchange of models and associated information. With Metastorm ProVision Connect for SAP, customers of both Metastorm and SAP can realise even greater value from these technologies through extended visibility, faster process design, enhanced governance, and faster, more effective SAP solution deployments.

Key features enabling these benefits include the ability to:

Model SAP solutions in a business-friendly modelling tool and, if desired, within the broader context of the business strategy, business architecture (including end-to-end processes) and technology architecture.

Understand the broader relationships, and impact, of SAP components to people, broader processes and other systems so that solutions can be implemented with lower risk.

Implement SAP solutions in a manner that clearly considers, and complies with, any legal and regulatory requirements.

Test process designs through advanced simulation and process analysis capability to avoid poorly informed, suboptimal and costly process changes.

Allow easy reuse of, and collaboration around, process knowledge and documentation.

Deploy processes and associated updates to SAP Solution Manager quickly for execution.

Bring SAP processes and related components back into Metastorm ProVision for ongoing analysis and refinement.

"An enterprise architecture and business processes touch every IT application in an organisation," stated Greg Carter, CTO and executive vice president of Product Development for Metastorm. "As a leading provider of EA and BPM software, Metastorm is highly focused on ensuring that our software interoperates with the other core systems our customers rely on to run their business. SAP clearly has significant market share and is a dominant ERP backbone in many organisations. Our goal with Metastorm ProVision Connect for SAP is to ensure that our customers are able to achieve broad visibility into how to optimise the use of their existing assets to design and deploy more effective and efficient processes on SAP, while at the same time accelerating development, minimising cost, and providing an effective feedback loop to analyse results. Greater oversight, lower costs, a focus on metrics and extended visibility are critical for our customers to succeed, and Metastorm continues to deliver software that helps them realise these benefits."

About Metastorm Inc.

With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimisation, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organisations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution. By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organisations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value. For more information and success stories on organisations powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com.

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