Metastorm Releases Enhanced Version of Process Discovery Software

Baltimore, MD – July 15, 2008

• 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 version 6.4 of Metastorm Discovery™.
  
  
• Metastorm Discovery is an interactive process discovery software tool designed to enable faster and more accurate collection of data, process understanding, and process metrics that can be used to drive business process modeling, improvement, and optimization efforts. Version 6.4 introduces enhanced capabilities for wireless data collection, improved reporting capabilities, and tighter integration with Metastorm ProVision® for process modeling and optimization.
  
  
• An example of how organizations can use Metastorm Discovery: To quickly engineer a process metric study, organizations provide process participants with a hand-held PDA interface to self-record their activities and related events, generate standard process analysis reports, and then directly use the new data in Metastorm ProVision for advanced modeling and further statistical analysis.
  
  
• Process discovery is becoming increasingly critical as organizations try to better understand their human-centric processes prior to undertaking business process improvement and automation efforts. Metastorm Discovery eliminates the need for scarce, high-cost business analysts or consultants to sit, observe, and time workers and manually aggregate and analyze the collected data – instead all of it can be automated and participant-driven through Metastorm Discovery.

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“Metastorm Discovery provides a unique approach for organizations looking to collect and analyze process data and performance metrics on critical human-centric business activities. The software’s PDA interfaces allows users to capture data on activities as they happen, greatly improving the accuracy and timeliness of the information. The software’s integration to Metastorm ProVision, Microsoft Excel, and other analysis and reporting tools allows customers to make meaningful business decisions based on the information gathered during the discovery process.”
                                                      - Mark Bateman, management consultant, Mutual of Omaha

“Major organizations are realizing the value of using Metastorm Discovery as a core component of their process initiatives. The product gives customers the framework needed to address the Process Discovery phase of the business process improvement lifecycle and further increases the value that Metastorm brings to its customers.”
                           - Greg Carter, CTO and executive vice president of development for Metastorm