Appian is the BPM pure-play expert. Appian leads the market in BPM innovation, delivering comprehensive, flexible and easy-to-use solutions customized to the unique needs of individual organizations. Businesses and governments worldwide use Appian to simplify process innovation with the real-time visibility, control and analytics needed to improve the critical processes that determine business performance. Appian allows all users across the organization to effectively collaborate and be part of the process of achieving corporate goals. Appian is headquartered in the Washington D.C. region, with professional services and partners around the globe.

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Approva® Corporation is the industry-leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software and is the industry standard at Big-4 audit firms. Approva enable business, finance, IT and audit professionals to identify, manage and prevent business exceptions in order to reduce compliance risk, increase operational efficiency and prevent inappropriate payments. Global companies such as Bayer, DirecTV, Discovery Communications, Honeywell, NASA and T-Mobile rely on Approva to deliver actionable and auditable intelligence of control breakdowns across their business systems, processes and transactions. Approva has certified integrations with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM and SAP to provide a holistic Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) solution.

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Business Rule Solutions, LLC is a recognized world leader in the advancement of the business rules approach. Its co-founders, Ronald G. Ross and Gladys S. W. Lam, are internationally acclaimed as the foremost experts and practitioners of business rule techniques and methodology. BRS has applied its methodology to solving real-life business problems in dozens of organizations in North America and Europe, and has helped pilot the explosive worldwide growth of business rules. Besides consulting and training services in the business rules approach, BRS also sponsors the Business Rule Community (www.brcommunity.com), and its flagship publication, the Business Rules Journal.

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RiskBusiness is an international risk advisory firm specializing in the design and delivery of industry-leading operational and enterprise risk management solutions. RiskBusiness content services are based on industry-leading taxonomies and integrated classification structures designed to facilitate the successful adoption of risk programs by businesses and enable the integration of governance, risk and compliance programs, through the use of a common language and structure for the organization of risk information.

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Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software. Founded in 1972, SAP (which stands for "Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing") has a rich history of innovation and growth as a true industry leader. SAP applications and services enable more than 109,000 customers worldwide to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. With revenue (IFRS) of €12.4 billion for the year 2010, SAP has more than 53,000 employees and sales and development locations in more than 75 countries worldwide.

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Stamford Risk Analytics (SRA) is a leading provider of ERM products and services. The firm offers a unique set of four software products designed to make implementing Modern ERM a practical reality. The firm also offers educational seminars and advisory and consulting services.

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Systar is the leading provider of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions for Business and IT Managers. Its BAM portfolio includes four solutions, BusinessVision, ServiceVision,WideVision and OmniVision which enable companies to achieve operational excellence through business process compliance monitoring, risk control and cost reduction. With 180 clients across the globe, including 8 of the world’s 10 leading banks, Systar is the only pure-play BAM technology investment available on the public market.

Systar is quoted on the Euronext Stock Exchange (ISIN: FR0000052854-SAR), and has offices in North America and Europe.

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TransWare develops and markets software for SAP® application lifecycle management (ALM). TransWare employs approved standards and state-of-the-art technologies and is software and service partner with SAP®, HP, Microsoft® and Oracle®. The Profiling for SAP® software product is used for the reengineering and re-documentation of SAP® solutions. It is built upon the latest SAP NetWeaver® technology and aligns with ITIL®-compliant methodologies. Profiling for SAP® can be provided as a non-invasive solution that is as a "Software as a Service" (SaaS) offering with zero-deployment in the client's IT landscape. TransWare offers related architectural consulting services for ASAP, Run SAP and business process management (BPM) methodologies as well as professional services for the implementation of SAP® Solution Manager. Moreover, TransWare assists SAP® customers with the introduction of SAP® Solution Manager and its built-in ALM support for complex SAP® landscapes to leverage this new technology for the benefits of both business and IT.

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