New Version of ProcessMaker Turns the Tables on BPM

BROOKLYN, NY, Oct 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
Colosa, developer of open source business process management (BPM)
software, ProcessMaker (www.processmaker.com), has announced that the new
version of ProcessMaker, known as "PM Tables" (version 1.2-2740), is now
available for download from SourceForge.

PM Tables is an update to Colosa's popular ProcessMaker open source BPM
software suite. It includes several new features to improve functionality
and enhance the user experience. Organizations in a wide variety of
vertical industries currently use ProcessMaker to automate their key
business processes across multiple internal departments and systems and to
integrate channel partners and supply chains.

The software, recently a finalist for two SourceForge community choice
awards, is 100% web-based, and integrates with popular ERP, CRM, and DMS
software applications to provide a complete solution for an organization
to manage its processes.

A key feature of the new release is the "PM Tables" feature which adds to
the overall usability of ProcessMaker. This new feature allows
administrators to quickly create, edit, and manage new database tables
within ProcessMaker. Custom tables can be defined directly in ProcessMaker
and then the fields that have been created in the tables can be used
across multiple processes.

With the new table functionality in ProcessMaker Tables version, a user
can manage processes that have common or related data. For example,
employee data, such as leave of absence; personal time requests or
vacation days, need to be recorded accurately and synch up with
contractual allowances, length of service and any anniversary processes,
such as additional days accrued. Using ProcessMaker, the underlying data
for each of these processes is written to the same data tables, and
information and data across different processes can be shared and
connected. This provides the business with a common data set, synched-up
workflows, and reliable processes.

In the new version, database tables are easy to manipulate as they
automatically appear in the workflow database for the related workspace.

A number of Colosa clients are currently developing systems on top of
ProcessMaker. One customer is a hospital which is taking advantage of the
new tables feature to create a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act) compliant patient record management system inside
ProcessMaker. Another client is a real estate company that is using the
new tables feature to build a custom property management system.

Additional features in this release include an enhanced Alerts Builder
which greatly simplifies the task of building custom alerts and applying
them to activities inside the ProcessMaker Process Map. This new feature
allows users to create and maintain alert templates which can be called
into action in any task based on timers and different combinations of
custom alert criteria.

Brian Reale, CEO of ProcessMaker, said, "The new release of ProcessMaker
is designed with the user in mind. After hearing input from our
community, we saw a demand for ways to make it easier to manipulate data.
PM Tables and Dynaforms are two ways that will make it easier for our
users to manage their data. SMEs can use ProcessMaker for a total system
design, with a suite of processes that is connected to a single data
repository with full audit control. Our software has been growing fast,
and so have the developers that have joined in our efforts to improve it."

"Now more than ever, we are hearing business users tell us that
ProcessMaker is the easiest way they've found to rapidly build workflow
based applications. With it now deployed in thousands of companies around
the world, more and more businesses are seeing this as a simple to use and
easy to understand framework for meeting their workflow and BPM needs."

About Colosa/ProcessMaker

Colosa is a developer of software solutions that enable companies to
automate approval based workflow processes by interconnecting people and
systems seamlessly across the organization.

The company's flagship product, ProcessMaker(R) is available as a free
open source application. Enterprise clients can purchase ProcessMaker's
Enterprise support plan which includes SLAs, IP indemnification, upgrade
support and more.

ProcessMaker is an AJAX enabled, SOA, web-based application that allows
users across single and multiple sites to create and share workflows,
create custom forms, route processes, and improve management control.
ProcessMaker OSS is available for download at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker/.

Colosa was founded in 2000 and has customers in local and central
government, telecom, oil and gas, insurance, banking, and other
industries. Colosa has offices in Brooklyn, NY; La Paz, Bolivia; and
Lima, Peru.

For more information visit www.processmaker.com

Prompt Communications on behalf of Colosa
Hazel Butters or James Gerber
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