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IDS Scheer and Grupo ASSA Collaboration Delivers Significant BPM Inroads in Latin America in 2005; Major Customer Wins with Petrobras and OSDE Ignite IDS Scheer in Region
MIAMI --(Business Wire)-- Feb. 14, 2006 -- IDS Scheer, the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence, today announced at ProcessWorld 2006 that its IDS Scheer South America business unit has seen major growth in the region through its collaborative partnership with Grupo ASSA. Grupo ASSA is one of the leading business process management consulting firms in Latin America and was selected by IDS Scheer to become its partner in the region in 2005.
The growth in the region is due to the increase in ARIS Platform sales. License sales for the six-month period ending December 31, 2005 exceeded full Fiscal Year targets by 50%, and included the first ARIS UML Designer project to be sold in Latin America. IDS Scheer recently announced major enhancements to its award-winning ARIS Platform. This breakthrough release features unsurpassed levels in usability with a newly redesigned graphical user interface (GUI) that offers existing users the functionality they need while extending ARIS to a broader universe of end users that are increasingly becoming more involved in business process management initiatives. ARIS Platform provides support for the entire business process lifecycle and delivers the capability to design more efficient, standards-based enterprise architectures. In addition, the ARIS Platform provides tighter integration with SAP NetWeaver for extending the ARIS process reference models to SAP supported functionality.
In 2005, Grupo ASSA-led ARIS projects included Petrobras, the largest oil company in South America, and OSDE, one of the leading healthcare service providers in Argentina.
"We are delighted with the immediate success of our partnership with Grupo ASSA in Latin America. In such a short time span, we have made a major impact with BPM implementations for large organizations in the region," said Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, CEO of IDS Scheer for the Americas. "This is a validation of our proven ARIS Platform and testament to the international acceptance of BPM within this tech-savvy region of the world. We look forward to jointly expanding our BPM leadership position in the market during 2006."
According to Luis Alberto Piemonte, IDS Scheer South America managing director, this new partnership with Grupo ASSA will expand IDS Scheer's BPM footprint within Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. "Based on this dynamic collaboration of our BPM tools and SAP expertise with Grupo ASSA's consulting know how in these countries, we look forward to major growth opportunities in 2006 and beyond."
Grupo ASSA, founded in 1992 with more than 500 consultants and offices in Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, is a consulting and outsourcing firm that helps its customers improve their business processes using Information Technology across Latin America. During 2005, Grupo ASSA was also selected by SAP as one of its preferred partners in Latin America for the SAP ESA Adoption Program due to its BPM expertise and leadership in the integration of multiple platforms and technologies.
"Through our partnership with IDS Scheer, we will become one of the leading consulting firms for the SAP Business Process Platform (BPP) in 2006. ARIS for SAP NetWeaver will emerge as the enabler and the starting point for large corporations in Latin America to migrate towards the SAP Business Process Platform," said Roberto Wagmaister, CEO of Grupo ASSA.
About Grupo ASSA
Founded in 1992 with over 500 consultants and offices in Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, Grupo ASSA is a Consulting and Outsourcing firm that has been helping its customers improve their business processes using Information Technology across the whole of Latin America. Grupo ASSA has customers throughout this region, such as: Shell, Electrolux, Petrobras, Johnson & Johnson, Arcor, Gerdau, Andrade Gutierrez, Cargill, British American Tobacco, Danone, Kraft Foods and Pfizer, among others.
About IDS Scheer in the Americas
With the ARIS Platform, IDS Scheer is the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence. The company's ARIS-based solutions offer a complete portfolio for "Business Process Excellence," including the software, services and methods to address all phases of the business process lifecycle: strategy, design, implementation, controlling, documentation, and continuous improvement. From small/medium enterprises to Global 1000 organizations, IDS Scheer provides solutions to help customers optimize their investments in Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Architecture (EA), Corporate Performance Management (CPM), and Compliance Management. As a Global SAP Service Partner and strategic SAP development partner, IDS Scheer has unmatched domain expertise in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and SAP NetWeaver. As part of an organization of more than 2,500 employees worldwide in more than 70 countries with more than 6,000 customers, IDS Scheer's 2005 revenues reached $386.4 million USD/318 million Euro. IDS Scheer was established in 1984 by August-Wilhelm Scheer, widely recognized as a founding father of Business Process Management.
For more information on IDS Scheer in the Americas, visit http://www.ids-scheer.com/us.
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