Proforma Achieves Managed Partner Status with Microsoft

Integrated Enterprise Modeling Company Also Invited to Demonstrate Robust BPEL Interface with BizTalk Server at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006

SOUTHFIELD, MICH. -- July 12, 2006 -- Proforma, a leading provider of enterprise modeling solutions, announced today it has been elevated to the status of Managed Partner for Microsoft. Managed Partner status recognizes a partner's ability to provide valuable product integration or implementation services to their customers. This makes Proforma part of a distinguished group of approximately 300 other software and service companies that engage very closely with Microsoft on key customer or product initiatives.

Proforma was nominated for Managed Partner status in the Business Process and Integration competency area, focusing primarily on Microsoft BizTalk Server technologies.

BizTalk Server is a business process server that enables companies to automate and optimize business processes. ProVision, Proforma's flagship enterprise modeling solution, provides robust process modeling capabilities along with a highly functional BPEL interface. Through this BPEL interface, ProVision models can be imported seamlessly and easily into the BizTalk Server platform for process automation. As a result, organizations can model and design optimal business processes in ProVision, and then execute them quickly and accurately with BizTalk Server. This integration will provide a process-driven environment for organizations to model, analyze, implement, and continuously improve their business processes.

"We are pleased to have Proforma as a Microsoft Managed Partner," said Burley Kawasaki, group product manager of the BizTalk Server Group at Microsoft Corp. "Proforma's BPEL interface will make it easy for customers to import the ProVision models into the BizTalk Server platform, enabling both information workers and IT to manage core business processes."

"We are honored to be recognized for our superior product and continued commitment to the Microsoft development platform," said Jerry Huchzermeier, Proforma's CTO. "As a Managed Partner with a special connection to Microsoft, Proforma will deliver a powerful and sophisticated integration between ProVision and BizTalk Server that will thus enable our customers to secure a competitive advantage with a best-of-breed approach and end-to-end support of their business process improvement and BPM programs."

Proforma Invited to Demonstrate Enhanced Integration with BizTalk Server and Microsoft Office Visio 2003 at Worldwide Partner Conference

In related news, Microsoft officials also invited Proforma to participate in the Worldwide Partner Conference 2006. The two companies will demonstrate tighter integration between ProVision and BizTalk Server and Office Visio 2003. More than 7,000 Microsoft partners will be attending the event, which will be held July 11-13 in Boston. For more information on the conference, go to http://www.microsoft.com/Partner/events/wwpartnerconference/.

To learn more about Proforma and ProVision, individuals can 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.www.proformacorp.com