ProVision Enterprise Modeling Suite Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools

Proforma Also Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for BPA Tools Earlier This Year

SOUTHFIELD, MICH. -- April 18, 2006 -- Proforma Corporation has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture (EA) Tools, 1Q06. The report, which was authored by Greta James and Robert Handler and released on April 5, positions EA vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. Leaders are vendors who have a broad range of capabilities to support EA, combined with the ability to deliver this to a diverse group of stakeholders. Gartner also positioned Proforma in the leaders quadrant of the 2006 Business Process Analysis Tools Magic Quadrant(1).

"We appreciate that Gartner has recognized Proforma's market position in the enterprise architecture tools market," said Ron Pellegrino, Proforma president. "Proforma will continue to deliver innovative solutions and services that help our customers align business operations, process design decisions, and system priorities-- thus achieving enterprise agility."

According to Gartner, the EA tool market has experienced significant growth during the past year.

"Influencing this growth is an increased understanding of the importance of EA to the execution of the business strategy," the report said. "There is also a growing awareness that, for EA to support the business strategy effectively, tools are needed to support the integration and analysis of a wide range of information and to communicate this information to a variety of stakeholders."

ProVision, the Proforma EA solution, provides a complete model of the enterprise. It shows how to combine the four needed perspectives: business, application, information and technology, into a cohesive enterprise architecture plan that adapts to an organization's changing needs over time. The resulting plan includes infrastructure and applications projects as well as helps with standards, guidelines, and other activities that are needed to reach the desired state for the organization.

ProVision supports all the widely used enterprise architecture frameworks including the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) framework, and the Zachman framework. Organizations with their own frameworks can modify ProVision to represent their unique architectures. In addition, Proforma provides training and consulting services targeted at the effective development of enterprise architecture work products.

To learn more about Proforma and the ProVision enterprise architecture solution, call 888.789.6903, write to info@proformacorp.com, or visit www.proformacorp.com.

About Proforma Corporation
Proforma's enterprise modeling solutions enable effective visual collaboration for business and IT-- empowering the agile enterprise. The ProVision visual modeling environment provides modeling, analysis and simulation tools for all aspects of the enterprise, including strategy, business and technology. Using a model-driven approach, entire organizations can see and evaluate the impact of change and continually manage and deliver improved performance. With Proforma, global enterprises, government agencies, and systems integrators achieve success in business process analysis and management, service-oriented architecture, enterprise architecture, simulation, ITIL, requirements analysis, supply chain, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and Six Sigma. Know More. Do More.

About Gartner Magic Quadrants.
The Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April 5, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

The Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis, 2006 was authored by Michael Blechar and Jim Sinur and issued on February 27, 2006.