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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 244,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Accenture Business Process Management (BPM) helps organizations develop and operate scalable, efficient and agile business processes to deliver corporate and competitive value.

The Cordys Business Operations Platform stands out from other BPM offerings because it is a fully fledged platform, offering Business Process Management along with SOA Integration and a Composite Applications framework in one single platform (not independent pieces of software that are stacked together). With Cordys, there is no need to "rip and replace"; instead, Cordys integrates within your current IT environment, and can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

EffectiveUI is a full-service user experience agency that simplifies complex experiences, bringing value to people's lives. By researching and articulating user needs, our team of customer insight, design and development experts create custom applications that improve digital interactions and enhance emotional engagement with a company and brand. EffectiveUI works with some of today's top companies -- including AAA, American Greetings, Boeing, CenturyLink, Discovery Channel, eBay, GE Health, National Geographic, Navy Federal Credit Union and TIAA-CREF.

K2 software is for automating business processes, creating forms, building SharePoint workflows, and integrating Microsoft solutions into SAP and other line-of-business systems. K2 eliminates the complexity of traditional application development, and enables collaboration between technical and non-technical users. Everything is visual, everything is declarative and everything is reusable.

Appian delivers everything needed to drive better business decisions, actions and results. All the data, all the processes, all the documents and all the collaborations – in one environment, on any device, through a simple social interface. More than 3.5 million users trust Appian to power their critical business processes.

Fujitsu is a global information and communication technology company and the world's 3^rd largest IT services provider. Fujitsu Interstage Business Operations Platform offers Business Process Management, SOA Integration and Composite Applications Framework in one unified platform deployed on-premise or in cloud, helping organizations adapt to changing markets and achieve excellent performance.

As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, from the individual consumer to the largest enterprise.

Rally Software is a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for managing Agile software development. Rally's enterprise-class platform transforms the way organizations manage the software development lifecycle by enabling close alignment of software development and strategic business objectives, facilitating collaboration, increasing transparency and automating manual processes.

Sitecore redefines how organizations engage with their customers online, powering experiences that can sense and adapt to a customer’s needs to increase revenue and customer lifetime value and satisfaction. Sitecore’s powerful development platform, integrated marketing automation tools and intuitive editing workspace have enabled thousands of organizations to create and manage more than 32,000 dynamic websites.

Teradata Corporation As the global leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies, Teradata solutions make smart companies smarter. Teradata gives companies the people, technology, innovation and a world-class network of customers and partners enabling them to gain competitive advantage to master their markets. With Teradata, the smartest wins.

A company wholly devoted to the art and science of custom software. We make it, and we make our clients better at it. Our bottom line is to design and deliver software fast and predictably. ThoughtWorks employs 1,800 professionals to serve clients from more than 25 offices in 10 countries. Clients include Channel Four, The Guardian, Lonely Planet and thetrainline.com.

For over 8 years, BPM.com has been the Internet's leading destination for articles, news, research and white papers on Business Process Management, Process Modeling, Business Rules, and Case Management. Our registered user group of 40,000 practitioners and process professionals represents over $1 Billion of identified annual investment in BPM.

Today with the advent of sophisticated process engines and management infrastructure, BPM is now viable enterprise-wide and one of the most exciting opportunities for business today. The entire life cycle of a business process can now be managed through BPM, creating one of the most rapidly growing market sectors for both services and technology. Never before have business and information technology converged to such a far-reaching extent. Properly implemented, BPM technology becomes part of the fabric of the corporation, the beating electronic heart of its operations.

Business Process Incubator is an online resource sparking to life the promises of Business Process Management (BPM). Free registration provides access to a wealth of BPM related resources such as free BPMN modelers, best practice presentations, verification and conversion web-services to-and-from various BPM standards, and a complete BPM eLearning curriculum.

The Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG's modeling standards include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA).

Founded in 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM. The only standards organization focused purely on process, WfMC is the creator of XPDL, used in over 80 BPM solutions, as well as Wf-XML, Workcast, and Business Process Analytics Format (BPAF). The Business Process Simulation Working Group (BPSWG) is the most recent standardization effort from the WfMC.

WfMC publishes process thought-leadership books through Future Strategies Inc., including the annual BPM Handbook and Excellence in Practice series. WfMC sponsors two prestigious annual awards programs; Adaptive Case Management and Excellence in BPM and Workflow.