Oct 4 — Netherlands-based Cordys, a business process management suite (BPMS) provider, released an upgrade of its BPMS software. Introduced at the company’s 4th annual Cordial Europe 2007 Conference this week, the new C3 release of the Cordys BPMS adds significant improvements in the areas of BPM modeling and execution, platform and integration support, security and governance, as well as Case Management.

“Until today, many Cordys customers across a broad range of industries have experienced up to an 80% reduction in implementation time, being able to automate critical business processes in days versus months.” said Erik Frieberg, chief marketing officer for Cordys. “With this new C3 release Cordys strengthens its collaborative process modeling and execution and increases support of standards and interoperability–additions which we strongly believe will even further improve customer ROI. And with the newly added Case Management solution we will be able to more effectively automate the more complex and less structured case-centric processes at our customers.”

Cordys BPMS release C3 introduces these new features and benefits:

• On Collaborative Process Modeling, C3 introduces: Swim lanes for cross-organization and cross-silo modeling; improved Business Rules modeling; improvements to the XForms-based studio for building Composite Applications and many more improvements that greatly improve developer productivity
• For improved Process Execution C3 introduces: PageFlow support for streamlined workflow execution and many improvements on end-user productivity such as customizable Inbox and email templates; XGrid technology for a rich and responsive user interface experience with large amounts of data; and GZIP to further reduce network load and latencies
• On Process Monitoring and Improvement: Advanced management of Priorities, Due Dates, Duration and Time Registration of processes and workflow tasks so business analysts can more accurately measure and manage process quality; new Process Instance Manager features include stop/start of multiple instances and more process drill down capabilities
• Case Manager: The process management solution for collaborative case centric processes with document indexing and matching, case management and monitoring and event-driven activity management
• Expanded Platform and Integration Support: Platform-wide implementation of WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and UDDI integration to third party UDDI registries; Generic XSLT-based BPM import/export framework and XPDL process model standard support as well as support of Linux 4, JDBC - Oracle Linux, IE7 and Microsoft Vista Client
• Improved Security & Governance: XML Security for end-to-end confidentiality and transmission integrity of every XML message; SAML-based implementation of Single Sign On (SSO); and extended auditing and authorization of BPM Model and Rules changes

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