Bill Gates, Microsoft Endorse PNMSoft Business Process Management BPM Software
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Tel Aviv ----- July 15, 2008 ....... Shortly before Bill Gates stepped down from his full time position at Microsoft, Gates attended a software developers conference in the US. Gates spent time articulating about a few elite and rapidly growing applications including PNMSOFT Sequence BPM and its workflow platform.
"PNMsoft have done a great job on fast deployments," said Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Business process management (BPM) is an efficient system for aligning an organization with the wants and needs of their clients. It is a practical and time, cost effective management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility and integration with technology. As organizations strive for attainment of their objectives, BPM attempts to continuously improve processes to define, measure and improve HR and financial processes - a ‘process optimization' process.
BPM Software Suites (BPMS) market, for products like SEQUENCE, are estimated by leading research companies such as IDS, Forrester and Gartner at about 1.5 to 2 billion dollars at present, with very rapid growth rate, is estimated to reach 5 - 6 billion dollars in 2011. BPM is one of the fastest growing software markets.
In addition, BPM Software has become very popular where one can find related groups at both LinkedIn and Facebook.
"We were very proud of the fact that Bill Gates, in his last days working full time at Microsoft and before dedicating more time to philanthropy, took the time and effort to mention PNMSoft," said Gal Horvitz, of the UK headquarted with offices in Israel and the US.
"Gates chose his words very carefully as he spoke about the contributions and financial impact that PNMSoft has made within the business world. PNMsoft’s Sequence is intuitive BPM software, based on a graphical flowchart-based platform and developed primarily for business users. This BPM software suite leverages Window’s Workflow Foundation and focuses on human workflow and systems integration. It interacts with people through Outlook, Windows SharePoint and in other ways."
Horvitz added: "The Sequence BPM software has powerful options to enable users the maximum flexibility in taking an existing business process and converting it from a manual flow to an automated flow. As users gain proficiency in this BPM software, they are guided by day-to-day forms, task lists, automated integration into systems, emails and more. Sequence has many predefined wizards that help users to enable and reuse elements within the BPM software - a key factor in making customer applications easy to deploy."
"It allowed SwiftTrade, a leading company involved with Financial Services, to grow from 27 to 65 offices within one year," said Horvitz.
"Without an effective and easy BPM software package, that would not have been possible. A global telecom, a world leader in customer management solutions, used PNMsoft’s BPM software suite to respond quicker to new customer projects in the Teleco industry and as a result increase the value of each project. Tnuva, one of Europe's largest food corporations, was wasting a great deal of money in setting up new customer accounts and running promotions. Sequence BPM software allowed their dairy division to rapidly identify production problems, speed handling time for quality assurance issues and enhance customer service processes. We have so many more examples - stock exchange that speeds up the process of filling to an IPO, defense and homeland security organizations that practices better decision management processes and operations room tasks prioritization, a world leading engineering company using SEQUENCE BPM Software for project management and compliance , the list goes on and on. From our experience our BPM Software has proven its return on investment (ROI) again and again. It's always about revenue acceleration, cost reduction and organization governance."
In addition to the above industries, education, energy, travel and transportation are benefiting from the use of BPM software.
"BPM software from PNMsoft offers users a highly flexible and convenient approach into Business Process Management software. It incorporates a set of integrated BPM software modules that are 100 percent web - based which make it perfect for software as a service (SaaS) and which require minimal or no coding or programming. This enables everyone in an organization to apply BPM software in their daily tasks and contribute towards greater corporate efficiency."
Enjoying international success and rapid growth,
the staff of PNMSoft have much to smile about.
Bill Gates described PNMSoft BPM software as follows: "I have selected to describe PNMSoft, a Microsoft company partner in Israel. They have a business process management solution called Sequence. And they connect to Microsoft Biztalk server. If you have workflows that relate to transactions or analysis, you get rich visualization on the information and they get much of their information from Oracle applications which work with HR, purchasing and finance."
"We have a huge amount of innovation relating to workflow and business intelligence," says Gates as he points to colorful presentation of PNMSoft BPM software. "The data that you want to perform business intelligence on comes from many sources. It comes from ERP, internal, external sources, it comes from things that were done bottoms-up in an Excel type analysis. Being able to pull that all together into a horizontal platform that is very simple to use and yet has all of this data - it makes a very big difference. Microsoft has had a lot of customers take PNMSoft Sequence into their Oracle environment."
Gates continued: "They have done a great job on fast deployment, so after 3 months working with a global telco company they were able to connect up over 30 processes inside this company being used by over 15,000 employees. And these processes without the connection to the ERP from this workflow environment could not have been done without Sequence. It could not have been done by workflow alone or by ERP alone. It was by bringing these processes together that they could be made digital and simple for this large number of employees. PNMSoft Sequence is a great example of how BPM can work."
Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft 33 years ago will now turn his full-time attention to philanthropy. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world.
Gates recently spent more than an hour in an open, emotional reminiscence with his friend, business partner and successor, Steve Ballmer.
"My life's work really is about software and working with incredible people," Gates said with tears in his eyes at a gathering on the company's Redmond campus. "And I love working with smart people. I love working with Steve. I love working with all the incredible people here."
Earlier in the week, Gates learned that the company's software development tools business had passed $1 billion in sales for the year.
In the fiscal year that ends last week, Microsoft is expected to have total sales of more than $60 billion. As of last week, Microsoft employed over 91,192 employees worldwide.
Founded in 1996, PNMsoft. develops and markets BPM and workflow software platforms and solutions. Combining innovative process integration with field-proven tools and applications, PNMSoft BPM software offers flexible business - user oriented solutions: from end-user organizations, through horizontal and vertical solutions for various industries, to OEM integration of the platform into software products.
PNMsoft, which has been growing at over 500 percent in the last 5 years, specializes in the establishment of dynamic web-based applications that operate as logistic nerve centers and provide tools for improving organizational business processes. The company’s main product, Sequence, is used to build, run, and manage Workflow and BPM applications in a web environment.
PNMSoft BPM Software integrates with several hardware and software giants including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, EMC, Symantec and Intel."
In recognition of its innovative technology and solutions, Microsoft has accepted PNMsoft as a Gold Certified Partner and participant in the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Microsoft Technologies. PNMsoft is a Microsoft Information Worker (IW) Solutions Partner and has a .NET-certified product that seamlessly integrates with the Microsoft Office system and BizTalk. PNMsoft is a member of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance which consists of only 10 members worldwide.
PNMsoft has vertical expertise and an abundance of experience and customers in industries including: defense, telecom, local government, high tech, manufacturing and financial services. Among horizontal applications used are Sarbanes Oxley (SOX).
The company's headquarters which is located in the United Kingdom are dedicated to the company's business developments and partnership ventures, while the R&D offices are located in Israel.
PNMsoft is working in West Europe, the UK, Israel, Canada and the United States. In the last few months PNMsoft and its business partners have closed deals in various locations including South Africa, Japan, India, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and Australia.
It was recently published that the Goldman Investment Group, by one of its funds Goldrock Capital, has invested in PNMsoft over 3.3 million dollars. The same group has built a giant company such as SAGE which is listed in the London Stock Exchange, one of Europe's largest software companies with a market cap of over 5 billion dollars.
PNMsoft has helped Homegroup PLC, UK leading providers of affordable and supported housing for people in the UK, to automate its critical business processes and drive efficiency.
PNMsoft BPM Software covers the full cycle of Business Process Management, from modeling and exploring process, through simulation, build, execution, integration and monitoring with the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI), optimization.
Combining innovative process integration with field-proven tools and applications, PNMsoft Business Management software offers flexible business-user oriented solutions: from end-user organizations, through horizontal and vertical solutions for various industries, to VARs and OEMs.
PNMsoft is sponsoring and show casing its solutions in computer and business related trade shows such as the last Microsoft World Partners Conference (WPC) and Gartner's BPM Summit in London, England.
PNMsoft offers free information and consulting about BPM value. Requests for information about BPM can be submitted via their web site.
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