Metastorm BPM™ Integration to SAP Gets Easier

EPO Consulting Achieves Certification from SAP for Metastorm BPM Connector

COLUMBIA, MD – January 24, 2006 – Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software for modeling, automating, integrating, and improving both human and system-based processes, and EPO Consulting, a leading consulting company committed to helping companies identify, analyze and optimize business processes today announced their partnership has resulted in the successful development of a Metastorm BPM Connector for SAP, also known as the e-Work Connector for SAP. With a core competence in delivering IT solutions with a focus on SAP, EPO Consulting saw the demand for linking Metastorm’s market-leading BPM solution directly to SAP and applied its extensive skills to developing a packaged connector to link the two systems.

EPO Consulting also announced the certification of its Metastorm BPM Connector for SAP by the Interface Certification Centre of SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. This certification provides added creditability to the robustness of the solution and to EPO Consulting's commitment to delivering the best SAP integration product for Metastorm.

"By using EPO´s Connector for the SAP integration on our initial Metastorm BPM project for our client Insel Spital in Bern, Switzerland, we were able to reduce the challenge of the SAP integration to a standard task. All questions regarding the Metastorm BPM integration to SAP were solved just by using this packaged product,” stated Andrea Mutter, General Manager Systems Integration, T-Systems Schweiz AG. “We are very pleased with the in-depth knowledge of EPO Consulting and the outstanding technical solution provided. T-Systems Switzerland and our client are very happy with Metastorm´s BPM approach and the integration capabilities."

EPO Consulting provides solutions that allow organizations to share data between applications in real time and to automate core business processes. EPO’s Connector for SAP gives Metastorm BPM access to core SAP functions without extensive programming. All SAP functionality can now be called and executed directly from anywhere in a Metastorm BPM process flow and there are absolutely no restrictions. The connector supports BAPIs, Function Modules (rfc and normal), Batch Inputs, Call Transactions, LSMW and IDOCs. In addition, all messages can be stored in SAP and can be processed synchronously or asynchronously.

The Metastorm BPM Connector provides enterprise service integration between Metastorm BPM and any SAP system with no middleware or other software requirements. Benefits of using Metastorm BPM together with the SAP Connector include:

• The Metastorm BPM Connector is as flexible as the BPM system itself; interfaces are extremely flexible, transparent and preconfigured;
• It makes the use of Metastorm BPM more efficient and extends its application scope;
• All SAP functions can be accessed easily from Metastorm BPM making implementation time for processes much shorter and ongoing changes much easier to complete;
• Metastorm BPM can be used as complementary software to existing SAP systems – allowing organizations to get more value out of their investment in SAP.