Seagull Software Presents LegaSuite® at Gartner’s London Business Process Management Summit

LONDON, UK – 27 June 2006 – Seagull Software (AEX: SEAGULL), a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, will sponsor and exhibit at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit on June 27-28 at the Hilton Metropole in London, UK. At the event, Seagull Software will demonstrate its LegaSuite BPM with its embeddable J2EE workflow engine.  

"BPM is a perfect complement to Service Oriented Architecture and LegaSuite BPM provides our customers with the building blocks to easily incorporate their legacy applications into successful BPM projects," said Kim Addington, EVP and CMO. According to Gartner’s CIO Survey published earlier this year, BPM is the number one business priority for CIOs. "Our BPM solution is designed to speed up application development so our customers can quickly achieve the productivity, efficiency and compliance benefits that drive their BPM projects."  

This year’s conference theme is 'Embracing a Fundamental Operational Change'. IT executives and project managers planning or managing BPM projects will be in attendance. Some of the topics covered during the event include:

  •     Reasons for organisations to use BPM: Business Agility, Quality of Processes, Cost & Time Savings (Productivity), Compliance
  •     Defining a BPM strategy, evaluating the organisational impact and making the business case for BPM
  •     Creating a true business and IT partnership around processes
  •     Key BPM technologies in use today: process monitoring, business modelling, business rules, process sequencing, business process platforms
  •     BPM and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  •     Change Management and BPM


For more information, go to: http://www.seagullsoftware.com/events/promo/gartner-bpm-summit280606.html


About Seagull Software
Seagull Software specialises in technology that transforms “legacy” applications into SOA-compliant Web services, helping enterprises achieve exponentially faster IT support for business change, governance and compliance. Our LegaSuite® software platform includes integration, GUI, BPM and terminal emulation technology. With LegaSuite, customers connect legacy applications on IBM mainframe, ICL mainframe, iSeries, UNIX/VT and Windows client/server platforms to the Web, to other middleware and to newer-generations of applications such as portals, CRM and SCM. LegaSuite is based on open standards including Web services, XML, J2EE and .NET. Powerful and innovative tools require no coding, which means rapid results, reduced risk and no maintenance burden. Committed to providing the best customer experience in the industry, Seagull Software’s technology is in use in more than 8,000 business and government organisations worldwide, and by millions of end users. Seagull Software has direct operations in the United States, the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany and Australia, supplemented by distributors serving approximately 30 additional countries. For more information, visit www.seagullsoftware.com or contact:    

Dianne Edwards   
Seagull Software       
Tel: +1 404.760.1560 x2312   
dedwards@seagullsoftware.com   

Duncan Burford
UK PR for Seagull Software
Tel: 01780 721433
dburford@iba-europe.com


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