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16 May 2006

New partner for Procession

Procession brings on board a new partner - Digital Document UK Limited (d2uk) - as Procession launches its TOA software at C-View conference in Madrid.

David Chassels CEO of Procession has announced that he and Tim Bovy, CEO of Digital Document UK, have reached agreement that d2uk is to become a Procession partner. This formalises a relationship that has evolved over recent months, with the two organisations working together looking at compliance issues at some of d2uk customers.

They are using Procession's Task Orientated Application (TOA) - a paradigm shift in business software and the latest revolutionary technology to come from a British company. TOA is being explained by the software's champion, Chassels, at the C-View Madrid Conference, being held at The Park Hyatt, Madrid on 16th and 17th May.

Chassels' presentation outlines Procession's new approach to building business software that addresses one of the biggest issues of the gap between IT and business. According to Chassels: "TOA is a generic application that removes the interpretation gap between the business and IT functions, allowing business 'knowledge' to be digitised to provide business control, agility and competitive advantage."

Chassels added: "Working with partners such as d2uk illustrates that delivering business solutions is about knowledge and no longer about technology."

Tim Bovy commented: "Our customers include demanding multi-national corporations that look to us for the rapid design and implementation of strategic knowledge management applications. Procession's TOA enables us to move from specification through to complete testing and roll-out of complex, business-critical applications within three months, at a fraction of the cost of our competitors."

According to Chassels: "Procession's technology has been some years ahead of its time, with Microsoft, IBM and SAP only now beginning to recognise the need for human interaction as the key driver for next generation software - with many others, such as Oracle and SUN, not yet at that stage.

"So it's unsurprising that the larger international consultancies, who often depend on these large suppliers, are being slow of the mark while, with a more focused TOA-based approach, suppliers with direct relationships are spotting opportunities to take their existing relationships to a new level."

"It's encouraging that buyers are recognising that projects are now smaller and more focused on people and their processes," agreed Bovy.

Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, commented: "Moving to process-centric architectures should be the top priority for business and IT. Organisations which do not strategically shift to this approach will have increased costs and take the risk of not achieving their performance targets."


This exactly what the new partnership between Procession and d2uk aims to encourage and implement.

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Notes for Editors:

About Procession's recent order from UK Sport:
The Potential programme is currently administered by Sport England and focuses on funding younger athletes who could have the potential to compete at an Olympic/World Championship level. The Potential programme sits below the World Class Performance Programme, which is currently run by UK Sport.

In September 2005, the Secretary of State announced that UK Sport would take responsibility for managing the Performance Pathway with affect from 1st April 2006. The Performance Pathway consists of the World Class Potential Programme, which is currently run by Sport England and the World Class Performance Programme, which is already managed by UK Sport.


About Procession
Procession is a UK-based and owned company that has developed original and innovative software in Task Orientated Applications (TOA). This TOA approach represents a dynamic alternative to pre-built and/or custom hard-coded applications and represents a paradigm shift in Business Software Development. 

In effect, Procession has created a highly customisable ‘generic’ application and has, in one single technology, moved beyond the beyond the concepts of BPM and SOA to a new enabling ‘platform’ technology to build solutions in its Process Application Platform. 

Procession is a complete and comprehensive application platform. In a single technology, it combines data-centricity, BPM, workflow, rules, state, data manipulation, business intelligence and application platform. Procession has it own presentation layer and built-in message queue for external systems. The recent completion of an extension to Dreamweaver, linking to Procession’s tag library in its presentation layer, now deskills and speeds up the build of working web forms as the user interface. 

In the words of market analysts the Butler Group, Procession's unique, user-friendly technology “removes the disconnect between requirement and implementation”. It also enables strategic processes to be built as working applications at 20 to 30 per cent of the cost of traditional methods. 

These systems can be added to or modified easily, giving unrivalled ‘agility’. They can also provide management information in real-time to support dynamic Performance Management with guaranteed compliance, as required. 

Procession’s TOA uses an RDBMS (Oracle), along with Java and J2EE application servers and maintains a runtime repository of process data, process state and reference data. The Procession Process Engine uses declarative process definition. There is no code generation and no custom coding. This unique feature means that business analysts and operational managers who understand the vital operational processes can implement and modify those processes. In practice, Procession has cracked the code for the closed loop linking business and IT - a still sought-after goal by some of the world’s largest software technology companies.

About C--View
C-View is the Corporate Performance Management Summit for Europe. Industry-leading speakers, formal and informal networking sessions, and executive roundtable discussions will all address the key issue of competitive strategy.

Extensive discussion and roundtable activity - for and between Europe's business managers - an exclusive exhibition area and boardroom-style delegate-sponsor meetings combine with a two-day, two-track conference programme. 

C-View is where Europe's senior management meet to discuss their business and IT strategies, how to implement and drive successful strategy, and to learn performance measures and metrics that will exceed organisational goals. 

C-View is organised by GDS International and Ventana Research.

GDS International is a leading multinational media company specialising in business management events and publishing for the world's most exciting markets. 

For more information visit www.gdsinternational.com

Ventana Research, the leading research and advisory services firm, helps companies align technology investments with business goals.

For more information visit www.ventanaresearch.com

Further information from:

David Chassels, Procession: 01494 781 444 ; 07774 681773 (mobile)
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR: 01727 860405