Cordys Enables Business Process Automation for Google Apps

Innovation for the enterprise market adds workflow and process automation
forGoogle Apps Premier Edition
PUTTEN, Netherlands--(Business Wire)--
Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation, has
joined the Google Enterprise Partner program and is delivering structured
workflow capabilities to the Google Apps suite of communication and
collaboration tools. Cordys Process Factory for Google Apps supports
organizations of any size using Google Apps as part of their core business
processes and projects.

The combination of the Cordys Process Factory with Google Apps Premier Edition,
delivered in the cloud, provides a messaging and collaboration solution for less
money and with no software installation. The combination of the two increases
the speed of deployment of workflow and situational applications for less than
the price of a mobile phone.

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to
organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail
webmail service, Google Talk instant messaging service, Google Calendar
calendaring service, Google Docs program, Google Sites web application, and
Google Video for business on their own domain to work together more effectively.
Best of all, it's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to
download, install or maintain.

The Cordys solution launched today allows Google Apps users to add structured
workflow to existing unstructured collaborations and to convert unstructured
data from Google Docs spreadsheets to structured datasets and applications. It
also provides the possibility of building and using situational applications in
the cloud and integrating those with enterprise and legacy software. Examples of
situational applications include Budget Approval, Project Management, Talent
Management and Change Control.

Speaking from their corporate headquarters in Putten, the Netherlands, Jan Baan,
founder and CEO of Cordys, added: "This solution fundamentally changes the way
software will be developed and deployed. For too long now, the power user has
been excluded from the development of Web applications which has served to slow
down the uptake of the technology at the corporate level. This new service
brings together the innovative power of our vision and technology, and combines
it with innovative services in Google Apps. Organizations of any type or size
can now mix and match existing on-premise processes run on "enterprise"
applications with processes and applications made available on the Web. The
current market climate is certainly one which requires a new way to address
business challenges and we are now excited to offer this new way to our
customers."

Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise, said: "The
integration of Cordys Process Factory with Google Apps will enable our customers
to create new workflows and business processes, extending the value of our
applications. We're very excited to see our customers automate more of their
business processes with the simplicity of browser-based cloud orchestration
services."

Cordys Process Factory for Google Apps is a hosted development environment for
building business process management applications in the cloud. Based on a
Platform-as-a-Service, this process orchestration solution helps companies to
rapidly build situational applications (MashApps) to instantly meet specific
business needs. Organizations moving to these cloud based applications within a
pay-as-you-go model will be able to drive down the overall IT spending, improve
the IT effectiveness and increase the speed of innovation.

About Cordys

Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation and
Enterprise Cloud Orchestration. The industry-leading Cordys Business Operations
Platform (BOP) consists of a complete suite for next generation Business Process
Management (BPM), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and innovative SaaS
Deployment Frameworks (SDF), delivering a complete Platform as a Service (PaaS)
solution. It includes an open, integrated set of tools & technologies including
Composite Application Framework (CAF), Master Data Management (MDM) and a SOA
Grid. The Cordys platform and its cutting-edge Cloud technology empowers
customers to dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering
the way they innovate their Business Operations to achieve a true
customer-centric philosophy. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected
Cordys to achieve business performance improvements such as increased
productivity, reduced time to market, higher security and faster response to
ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a
global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China, India and
Israel. www.cordys.com

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For Cordys U.S. media inquiries:
Kesselring Communications, LLC for Cordys
Leslie Kesselring, 503-358-1012
leslie@kesselring.net

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