ProVision 6.0 Goes “Beyond Modeling” to Accelerate Process Change, Support Alignment Initiatives and Enable Enterprise Agility

New Capabilities in Proforma's Next Generation Enterprise Modeling Solution Deliver Unprecedented Breadth and Depth for Business Process Analysis and Enterprise Architecture

SOUTHFIELD, MICH. -- April 19, 2007 -- Delivering capabilities that go "beyond modeling" to accelerate process change, support alignment and enable agility, Proforma Corporation has rolled out ProVision 6.0, the next-generation release of its world-leading enterprise modeling solution.

"Engaged business professionals drive innovation into operational systems," said Jerry Huchzermeier, chief technical officer, Proforma. "ProVision 6.0 goes beyond modeling to deliver a competitive advantage -- it is the most effective platform for understanding and managing change, inspiring innovation and realizing agility."

ProVision 6.0 boasts unprecedented depth and breadth for business process analysis, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture and other critical business initiatives. It takes modeling to the next level with new tools and capabilities that:

• Drive and innovate process change for continuous improvement - ProVision provides an effective platform for understanding and managing change, innovation and transformation. It enables organizations to analyze the impact of change and design new processes and solutions. ProVision 6.0 provides new features for improved reporting, impact analysis, and modeling various 'dimensions' of an enterprise's strategy, processes and systems.
• Align business and IT for greater agility - Business and IT strategies must be aligned and focused on providing timely, coordinated solutions. Business architecture, enterprise architecture, and service-oriented architecture enable IT to better understand the strategy and operation of the business and integrate IT resources in support of business processes and IT services. By increasing the formality of models while keeping a strict business-orientation, ProVision 6.0 translates business objects into equivalent technical representations--thus leveraging business models to drive formal requirements and reduce the gap between the business and IT.
• Transform intellectual capital into corporate assets - Intellectual capital is often called the "new wealth" of organizations. The new ProVision Knowledge Exchange, released in conjunction with ProVision 6.0, extends the availability and usefulness of ProVision models via web-centric repository access (thin and rich client). This enables organizations to modify, manage and communicate critical corporate knowledge in a web-based, collaborative environment.

Building on Best in Class Usability

ProVision 6.0 also builds on its best-in-class usability, making it even easier to use, install and widely deploy. The version 6.0 redesign and usability features enable organizations to maximize their use of ProVision -- helping them deliver better results faster.

"ProVision 6.0 features a much improved tool user interface as well as more graphically appealing and meaningful content," said John Clark, solution architect, Americas ITSM Team, Hewlett-Packard Consulting & Integration.

"Our team of enterprise process analysts effectively uses ProVision as a powerful, flexible, and easy to use modeling and publishing tool," said Dave Curry, director, Process Management, Vertex Inc. "We look forward to new features and functions of version 6.0 such as dimensions for versioning objects, the style portfolio allowing creativity, impact and gap analysis, and additional reporting capabilities."

ProVision 6.0 is available immediately. To learn more about Proforma’s solutions and services, 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.