Lombardi Software Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2007 Business Process Management Suites Magic Quadrant: Positioning by Leading Analyst F

AUSTIN, Texas (Business Wire EON) December 18, 2007 -- The Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007 evaluated 22 vendors and "summarizes the state of the market for business process management suites (BPMSs)." Lombardi, and its flagship product, Teamworks(R), was reviewed by Gartner in terms of ten features/functionality areas defined for this Magic Quadrant.

According to Gartner, "Leaders are distinguished by their focus on driving a paradigm shift toward increased business user participation in the entire process improvement life cycle by enabling explicit, model-driven solution deployment rather than traditional coded approaches." The report continues to point out that "they excel at enabling collaboration among business users and IT professionals, from the design and modeling phase through execution and optimization, using an iterative process improvement methodology in which the artifacts (outputs) of each phase move seamlessly into the next."

Building on Lombardi's vision for BPM, it introduced Blueprint(TM) (www.lombardi.com/bpm-blueprint-product.php), an 'on-demand' documenting tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization's business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), Blueprint is one of the first Web 2.0 applications that allows customers to immediately begin mapping their processes without having to download or install any software. To date, hundreds of companies have become Blueprint customers, encompassing thousands of users.

The company also shipped Teamworks(R) 6 (www.lombardi.com/enterprise-bpm-software.php), the next generation of Lombardi's award-winning BPM suite. Teamworks 6 delivers extensive horizontal and vertical process collaboration focused on all roles within an organization, covering the entire process lifecycle. Teamworks offers a unique, shared model architecture that is designed to be easier to use and faster to deploy than other BPM solutions, allowing customers to reduce the long-term total cost of ownership significantly.

In addition to the many new business-oriented enhancements and technical functionality introduced in Teamworks 6, Lombardi also introduced two new complementary products for the Teamworks family that further extend the reach of business process management and promote collaboration - Teamworks for Organization Management(TM), and Teamworks for SharePoint 2007(TM).

On the execution side, Lombardi continues to expand its customer base, adding dozens of new BPM clients across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, technology, and insurance. In Europe, the company opened two new subsidiaries: Lombardi Software SARL, and Lombardi Software GmbH, to meet the rapidly growing demand for its process management platform within France and Germany respectively. Additionally, the company continues to expand its global sales and support ecosystem, adding 10 additional partners and resellers located across seven countries in 2007. It also recently announced major OEM and go-to-market partnerships with Capco, Enkata Technology and Progress Software.

"We are proud that Lombardi is positioned by Gartner as a BPMS leader," said Rod Favaron, president and Chief Executive Officer of Lombardi. "We view this as further confirmation of our strategy to deliver the most innovative BPMS products and services that help drive superior business results for our customers."

Lombardi Teamworks (www.lombardi.com/bpm-software-products.php) is a leading BPM software suite for designing, executing, and improving business processes. Teamworks for Office(TM) (www.lombardi.com/bpm-microsoft-office.php) makes it easy for anyone to participate in business process management using the familiar Microsoft(R) Office System products. Lombardi Blueprint(TM) (www.lombardi.com/bpm-blueprint-product.php) is the only on-demand, collaborative process documenting tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(a) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007" by Janelle B. Hill, Michele Cantara, Eric Deitert, Marc Kerremans, December 2007."

About Lombardi

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) software for companies, systems integrators and government agencies. We offer award-winning BPM technology, know-how and services to help our customers become Process-Driven. Lombardi products are built on open standards, and provide ongoing prioritization, planning, visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage their business process activity and decision-making.

Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Life, Aflac, Banco Espirito Santo, Capital One, Dell, El Paso Corp., Hasbro, ING Direct, Maritz Travel, National Bank of Canada, National Institute of Health, Rabobank, Safety-Kleen, Sprint, T-Mobile, Universal Music Group, Xbridge, and numerous governmental agencies. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

Lombardi, Teamworks are registered trademarks and Teamworks Process Optimizer, Teamworks Portal, Teamworks 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. a leader in business process management (BPM) software, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007 report. Gartner positions vendors in the magic quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. (a)

The Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007 evaluated 22 vendors and "summarizes the state of the market for business process management suites (BPMSs)." Lombardi, and its flagship product, Teamworks(R), was reviewed by Gartner in terms of ten features/functionality areas defined for this Magic Quadrant.

According to Gartner, "Leaders are distinguished by their focus on driving a paradigm shift toward increased business user participation in the entire process improvement life cycle by enabling explicit, model-driven solution deployment rather than traditional coded approaches." The report continues to point out that "they excel at enabling collaboration among business users and IT professionals, from the design and modeling phase through execution and optimization, using an iterative process improvement methodology in which the artifacts (outputs) of each phase move seamlessly into the next."

Building on Lombardi's vision for BPM, it introduced Blueprint(TM) (www.lombardi.com/bpm-blueprint-product.php), an 'on-demand' documenting tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization's business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), Blueprint is one of the first Web 2.0 applications that allows customers to immediately begin mapping their processes without having to download or install any software. To date, hundreds of companies have become Blueprint customers, encompassing thousands of users.

The company also shipped Teamworks(R) 6 (www.lombardi.com/enterprise-bpm-software.php), the next generation of Lombardi's award-winning BPM suite. Teamworks 6 delivers extensive horizontal and vertical process collaboration focused on all roles within an organization, covering the entire process lifecycle. Teamworks offers a unique, shared model architecture that is designed to be easier to use and faster to deploy than other BPM solutions, allowing customers to reduce the long-term total cost of ownership significantly.

In addition to the many new business-oriented enhancements and technical functionality introduced in Teamworks 6, Lombardi also introduced two new complementary products for the Teamworks family that further extend the reach of business process management and promote collaboration - Teamworks for Organization Management(TM), and Teamworks for SharePoint 2007(TM).

On the execution side, Lombardi continues to expand its customer base, adding dozens of new BPM clients across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, technology, and insurance. In Europe, the company opened two new subsidiaries: Lombardi Software SARL, and Lombardi Software GmbH, to meet the rapidly growing demand for its process management platform within France and Germany respectively. Additionally, the company continues to expand its global sales and support ecosystem, adding 10 additional partners and resellers located across seven countries in 2007. It also recently announced major OEM and go-to-market partnerships with Capco, Enkata Technology and Progress Software.

"We are proud that Lombardi is positioned by Gartner as a BPMS leader," said Rod Favaron, president and Chief Executive Officer of Lombardi. "We view this as further confirmation of our strategy to deliver the most innovative BPMS products and services that help drive superior business results for our customers."

Lombardi Teamworks (www.lombardi.com/bpm-software-products.php) is a leading BPM software suite for designing, executing, and improving business processes. Teamworks for Office(TM) (www.lombardi.com/bpm-microsoft-office.php) makes it easy for anyone to participate in business process management using the familiar Microsoft(R) Office System products. Lombardi Blueprint(TM) (www.lombardi.com/bpm-blueprint-product.php) is the only on-demand, collaborative process documenting tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(a) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007" by Janelle B. Hill, Michele Cantara, Eric Deitert, Marc Kerremans, December 2007."

About Lombardi

Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) software for companies, systems integrators and government agencies. We offer award-winning BPM technology, know-how and services to help our customers become Process-Driven. Lombardi products are built on open standards, and provide ongoing prioritization, planning, visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage their business process activity and decision-making.

Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Life, Aflac, Banco Espirito Santo, Capital One, Dell, El Paso Corp., Hasbro, ING Direct, Maritz Travel, National Bank of Canada, National Institute of Health, Rabobank, Safety-Kleen, Sprint, T-Mobile, Universal Music Group, Xbridge, and numerous governmental agencies. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

Lombardi, Teamworks are registered trademarks and Teamworks Process Optimizer, Teamworks Portal, Teamworks 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.