Veterans of Business Performance Management Help Companies Reap the Benefits of BPM

BPM Partners Provides Vendor-Independent Selection and Implementation Services

STAMFORD, Conn., May 13, 2003 -- BPM Partners, a vendor-independent professional services firm, has launched to provide clients with expertise in defining their performance management needs, guidance in selection from the ever-growing list of technology choices, and implementation. Founded by Craig Schiff, co-founder of OutlookSoft and Hyperion Solutions, BPM Partners addresses a critical and growing need -- impartial assistance for companies to select the performance management solution that best aligns with their particular business needs and to guide the timely, cost-effective and successful implementation of the technology.

Navigating through the complexities of Business Performance Management (BPM) has become increasingly challenging. A growing population of companies that purchased CRM and ERP solutions in recent years now seeks to leverage those investments, and avoid common implementation and rollout mistakes. They also aim to maximize the advantages of BPM that are now becoming more widely recognized -- and causing an explosion in marketing hype and competing vendor claims.

"BPM Partners fills an important gap -- one that exists between the vendor-aligned implementation consultants and the more business process-oriented management consulting firms," said Craig Schiff, CEO of BPM Partners. "Our clients value the vendor-independent perspective of our team, as well as its unique depth and breadth of experience in deploying BPM solutions for a variety of industries."

BPM Partners typically assists clients who have an existing ERP system that holds the company's data, but this transactional solution does not address their performance management needs. By analyzing and then matching the client's requirements with the appropriate vendor, BPM Partners helps companies narrow the selection of vendors from a lengthy industry list that includes Applix, Cartesis, Cognos, Computer Associates, Comshare, FRx Software, Hyperion, Longview Solutions, OutlookSoft, PeopleSoft, SAP, SAS, SRC Software and many others.

"BPM Partners' objectivity, analysis capabilities and ability to quickly grasp our business helped ensure we made an informed vendor decision based on our unique business requirements." reported Scott May, Assistant Controller at The Schwan Food Company. "Benefiting from their domain expertise, vendor experience, and decision process templates clearly put us on the right track."

"As business leaders pursue best-in-class performance with renewed vigor, they are looking to enterprise information technology systems to help them establish repeatable and predictable processes for managing performance. With enterprises around the world adopting corporate performance management, we will continue to direct our products, support, and services toward helping our customers deliver on its promise," said Michael Morrison, vice president of North American Enterprise Planning and Financial Applications, Cognos. "Through this relationship, we will look to BPM Partners to play a critical role in helping companies articulate their requirements, evaluate, and select the appropriate performance management solution to achieve their corporate- wide goals."

"Comshare is pleased that an unbiased resource like BPM Partners is now available to help enterprises select, implement and leverage business performance management (BPM) solutions," said Rod Radojevic, Director, Product Management, Comshare. "Like Comshare, BPM Partners concentrates exclusively on the performance management space and is dedicated to helping customers realize the full value of their BPM investments for planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, management reporting, and analysis."

About BPM Partners

BPM Partners is a privately held professional services firm with an exclusive focus on business performance management (BPM) solutions. The firm's BPM experts help companies understand the value of business performance management, provide insight on how to collect and analyze the right information to address specific business goals and lead clients through the evaluation and implementation of departmental or enterprise-wide BPM systems. Specific services offered by BPM Partners include on-site business needs analysis, vendor evaluation programs, hands-on project management, and detailed implementation and rollout services. For further details, go to http://www.bpmpartners.com, call 203-359-5677 or email info@bpmpartners.com.

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