Metastorm Leadership in UK Legal Industry Continues

Law Firms Continue to Standardize on Metastorm’s Business Process Management Software Suite

LONDON, UK – October 16, 2007 – Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced its continued legal industry dominance in the UK. Over 170 law firms around the world are leveraging the Metastorm BPM® software to help maintain and acquire clients, maximize billable work, lower risk and liability, achieve process consistency, and tie together silo processes and systems.

“Metastorm is a solid company that has proven its commitment and success in the legal industry. It also has wide business experience, which was important to us when selecting a BPM vendor,” stated Nathan Hayes, Head of Infrastructure and Technology at Osborne Clarke. “Metastorm BPM enables us to create more streamlined business processes that improve efficiency and billable productivity. It also allows our processes to flow continuously by feeding into our other key systems and applications. We already have a list of over 25 processes to automate.”

The Metastorm BPM suite has proven to be the solution of choice for the top law firms in the world, including Osborne Clarke, one of Europe's most respected and dynamic law firms. Osborne Clarke selected Metastorm earlier this year and is currently implementing Metastorm BPM as the standard across the firm for automating the critical processes that run its business.

Osborne Clarke is building automation that will be repeatable and enforceable firm-wide. In addition, it will be extending the value of Metastorm BPM with wireless connectivity to Blackberry handheld devices to maximize the productivity of its fee earners while at the same time ensuring timely response to critical matter reviews. Metastorm BPM will also be tightly integrated with the firm’s Thomson Elite practice management system and Interwoven for document management.

Metastorm’s accomplishments have been proven time and again in numerous UK law firms, including Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Martineau Johnson, Pannone, Shoosmiths, and Wragge & Co. New firms added to Metastorm’s growing legal portfolio this year include Addleshaws Goddard, Cameron McKenna, Osborne Clarke, and SJ Berwin. Results reported by existing customers include improved response times, better client relations, easier workload management, uniform processes, lower costs, less risk, increased lawyer productivity, faster time to revenue and centralized, reuse of existing data, systems and technologies through seamless integration.

“Metastorm has maintained its leadership in the legal market as our BPM technology is steadily in demand. We have already achieved successful deployments around the world and are extremely proud of our customer’s accomplishments,” stated Robin Martin, vice president of International Operations for Metastorm. “It is these successes that validate our ability to solve firm-wide BPM problems for legal organizations both large and small. Metastorm is pleased to be the solution of choice for so many firms and we look forward to many more successes.”

Metastorm BPM remains the top choice for law firms undertaking business process management initiatives, due to its:

• Large law firm customer base and regional user communities for networking;
• Proven effectiveness and results (see law firm success stories online at www.metastorm.com/customers);
• Packaged Process Pod™ framework to accelerate the deployment of a firm’s New Client Matter Intake processes;
• Extensive global partnerships with legal industry leaders such as Thomson Elite and Tikit;
• Packaged Process Pod™ connectors for easy integration to all of the top document and records management systems, including Interwoven, OpenText/Hummingbird, Meridio, CA/MDY, and Documentum;
• Complete BPM Suite including modeling, automation, integration, analysis, and simulation software for ongoing process improvement. The Metastorm BPM Suite is recognized as one of the top BPM suites in the world by Gartner, Forrester, and Butler.