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HRW Consulting Factory AG provides world-leading products and consultancy for the most efficient implementation of business process management. Based in Saarbrucken, Germany, HRW has established a Competence Network of over 300 associates and consultants worldwide.

Its partners include SAP AG, Microsoft, Accenture and Cap Gemini.

HRW Consulting is officially represented in the UK by Enterprise Change Limited.

Portfolio:

• Process Modelling Conversion: BPM-Xchange
• SAP Process Analysis and Documentation: SAP Redocumentation
• Management and Methodology Consulting
• ARIS Reseller and Development Services

Partners:

For more information, please visit www.hrw-consulting.com

                      

HRW Consulting Factory AG provides world-leading products and consultancy for the most efficient implementation of business process management. Based in Saarbrucken, Germany, HRW has established a Competence Network of over 300 associates and consultants worldwide.

Its partners include SAP AG, Microsoft, Accenture and Cap Gemini.

HRW Consulting is officially represented in the UK by Enterprise Change Limited.

Portfolio:

• Process Modelling Conversion: BPM-Xchange
• SAP Process Analysis and Documentation: SAP Redocumentation
• Management and Methodology Consulting
• ARIS Reseller and Development Services

Partners:

For more information, please visit www.hrw-consulting.com

Communicate Clearly and Effectively
Visualise and communicate ideas, information and systems.

"ECL are an important Visio partner for Microsoft in the UK. With their extensive SAP knowledge and complementary products they are ideally placed to address the needs of the SAP community."     Microsoft UK

Microsoft Office Visio® gives you the power to visualise and communicate ideas, information and systems. You can use simple, flexible tools to easily create business and technical charts and graphs that present your ideas with dramatic impact.

Document and Analyse Business Processes

Design, document and analyse business processes by using templates and shapes that support business process management (BPM) projects.

Easily Understand Concepts, Processes and Relationships

Use Visio to easily create business and technical diagrams to organise and better understand complex ideas, processes and systems.

• Easily assemble diagrams by dragging predefined Microsoft SmartShapes® symbols.
• Use tools designed for specific professional disciplines for business and technical diagramming requirements throughout your organisation.

Communicate Clearly and Effectively
Visualise and communicate ideas, information and systems.

• Create visually rich diagrams for maximum impact on your audience.
• Share diagrams in workspace files on your team's Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services site.
• Track reviewers' comments and changes to shapes and digital ink using the new review mode.
• Import and export diagrams in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, a new Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard for Web graphics.

www.microsoft.com/uk/

Established in 1989, Casewise provides software to over 3,000 major global organisations for Business Process Modeling and Enterprise Architecture purposes.

Every day, Casewise software helps thousands of organisations worldwide improve business processes, align IT systems to business goals and deliver successful business change.

Our enterprise modeling products enable organisations to visualise, understand, analyse, improve, audit and continually enhance complex operating processes and IT infrastructures.

With offices in London, New Jersey, Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt - and a network of global resellers - Casewise provides the right knowledge and support to help organisations of all kinds make informed decisions and achieve success by design.

www.casewise.com

The software and consulting company IDS Scheer is the worldwide leading provider of Business Process Management and IT solutions. With the ARIS Platform for process Excellence, IDS Scheer offers a complete tool portfolio for "Business Process Excellence", which is highly integrated both technologically and from the content aspect. This encompasses methods, software and solutions for all phases of the process lifecycle - from strategy and design through to implementation and controlling. ARIS Platform is thus a clear unique selling point for IDS Scheer and provides customers in corporations and public authorities with software support for their whole process lifecycles.

Within the ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, ARIS Toolset is the world's most frequently purchased tool for process optimisation. Under a strategic cooperation with SAP, the ARIS tools and methods will in future be standard in the NetWeaver platform. ARIS SmartPath is a tool that will make rapid SAP introduction a reality for medium-sized companies as well. Thanks to the integrated approach of ARIS Value Engineering (AVE), IDS Scheer consultants view their customers' organisations holistically. AVE means building bridges between corporate strategy, the processes derived from it, the IT solutions needed to support it and also the controlling of running processes. Moreover, customers profit from complete global services for outsourcing and support.

IDS Scheer was founded in 1984 by Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, who today is Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chief Technology Advisor. The company now serves about 6,000 customers in over 70 countries through a network of its own branch offices and partners. In 2005, the company earned revenues of about 318 million Euro. About 2,500 people are working for IDS Scheer worldwide. The company is listed in the TecDAX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

For further information please visit www.ids-scheer.com/uk

Since its inception in 1997, Nimbus has helped over 700 organisations drive transformational change through process management. Nimbus delivers software and service solutions which enable the consistent adoption of strategic initiatives throughout organisations, from the CEO to the shop floor, making strategy reality.

Nimbus can help deliver around initiatives such as: Business Transformation; Process Improvement; Integrated Compliance Management (FDA, Sarbanes Oxley, FSA, ISO); Performance Management (process mapping, scorecarding, metrics); Software implementation (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel); Business Process Outsourcing & Shared Services; and Business Continuity Management.

Headquartered in Hampshire, UK, with offices in mainland Europe, USA, Middle East and China, Nimbus is one of the UK's fastest-growing companies, regularly featuring in the Deloitte Fast 500 and has been instrumental in the successful adoption of strategic initiatives at blue-chip clients in 15 countries, across all industry sectors.

For more information contact Nimbus on +44 (0) 2392 410 350 or visit www.nimbuspartners.com

iServer for Microsoft Visio developed by Orbus Software, allows familiar Microsoft Office products: Visio, Word, Excel & Powerpoint to be shared and managed in a multi-user modelling environment. Unlike traditional document management systems, iServer stores and manages Visio shapes and Word bookmarks alongside diagrams and documents in the collaborative SQL based repository. The comprehensive management services and interactive HTML Publishing facilities provided by iServer help our clients achieve rapid results, whatever their requirements - SAP® Upgrade Planning, Business Process Modelling, Enterprise Architecture and Quality Management.

iServer Benefits:

• Ease of use
• Reuse of existing Microsoft Office work (Visio, PowerPoint, Word & Excel)
• Share information (artefact / process repository)
• Find information quickly and easily
• Phased approach to the adoption of an EA system - Implement EA standards over time
• Flexibility to adopt your own flavour of EA
• Propagation of change saves time & helps ensure consistency
• Fast generation of management reports to help with analysis and planning
• Views of the information to suit different audiences help aid communication & speed acceptance
• Free of charge access for read-only users
• Wider audience involvement in the development of the EA model (helping improve acceptance)
• Task circulation & management
• Understand the impact of change
• Track business goals & requirements back to processes, systems and technology
• Collect information to help manage 'current' to 'future state' migration

www.orbussoftware.com
iServer for Visio: Business Modelling Made Simple

Founded in 2004, DUPLEX Consulting Services Ltd (DUPLEX) has rapidly built an exceptional reputation for delivering high quality SAP implementation, consulting and support services in the UK, Europe and America. All the DUPLEX consulting team are highly experienced and have an average of 10 years' experience in the SAP Technology arena; they are also all SAP Certified and provide the highest quality of expertise. The core team has primarily worked at SAP before joining DUPLEX and as a result we have strong links into SAP. Duplex is a privately held, independent and profitable company.

DUPLEX specialises in the delivery of complex SAP technology and Integration solutions. Our key focus is to offer expertise and know-how in SAP NetWeaver and other SAP Components and Solutions like AIO, APO, CRM and SRM as well as services that cover:

• Solution design, architecture and Installation services
• Project Implementation services
• Support
• Off-shore development

DUPLEX has core offerings like technical landscape review, health checks, daily checks, upgrade, migration, performance monitoring and analysis, optimisation, disaster recovery, testing and others; all having been geared towards ensuring that your SAP Solutions are installed, optimised, managed and enhanced correctly and in a cost effective manner.

DUPLEX have experience in most industry sectors and have worked extensively with some of SAP's premier logo partners, providing them with highly skilled NetWeaver resources for their customer projects, and providing resources to fortune 100 and the SME organisations alike.

To find out more about DUPLEX go to www.duplex-cs.com or email info@duplex-cs.com

SEVEN Collaborative Solutions are specialists in helping business address the challenges of developing integrated supply chain solutions using SAP's suite of software tools. They collaboratively develop short, medium and long term roadmaps of continuous improvement with their clients to restructure their people, processes, technology and data in order to provide the tools, visibility and information necessary to enable cost minimisation and service maximisation.

Each SEVEN consultant has over 10 years' experience in globally implementing SAP solutions, across multiple industries and routes to markets, including R/3, APO, CRM, SRM, EBP and BI / BW. They also have extensive knowledge of accepted "best practices", how best to implement them in organisations, and how to overcome the change management implications of these changes.

SEVEN have developed a 5-level Maturity Profile that allows them to compare and map their customer's business. This allows them to establish the current baseline maturity profile, and a staggered, structured approach to implementing integrated solutions to their business challenges.

SEVEN are also experts in business modelling, process re-engineering and change management. Although SEVEN are capable and willing to use whatever modelling tool the customer has, they are in partnership with IDS Scheer and Enterprise Change Ltd (ECL) who have developed, respectively, the ARIS toolset and SAP Redocumentation tools.

For more information, please see: www.sevencs.co.uk

Lanner is transforming the way managers and service owners in large, complex organisations improve delivery and process performance. Lanner is organised to add value at each stage of a customer's journey offering consulting that provides guided discovery and expert analysis of the problem, applications that empower process users and increase an organisation's ability to improve and save money, and automated simulation components embedded in leading software suites.

Lanner's proven simulation and planning technology is supplied to simulation professionals through its WITNESS® brand and as embedded components to software developers under its L-SIM™ brand. Based in the UK with subsidiaries and partners in Europe, The Americas and the Far East, Lanner applications are used by more than 3,500 companies globally and its services group has delivered projects to over 1,000 customers.

www.lanner.com

The Confiance Group, Ltd. is a niche global professional services firm and trusted ARIS Solutions Partner that provides cost effective high quality consulting, enablement and e-Learning services focused on business transformation through Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Service Oriented Architecture. We architect and implement innovative solutions for complete realization of value to meet today's business drivers.

Business Transformation Solutions

Effective and sustained transformation requires a combination of strong methodology, reference frameworks, and industry and technology expertise that has been applied to deliver results. Our transformation solutions are delivered leveraging methods such as Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, Rummler Brache, UML and frameworks such as ARIS, SCOR, VCOR, and ITIL. Technologies that we specialize in include ARIS, SAP, Oracle, BMC, IBM, Lanner, Corticon, PEGA, BEA, and EMC.

The transformation services are broken into three categories: BPM, EA, and SOA.

e-Learning Enablement

Corporate training has consistently been a large focus for many organizations however; it is now becoming a key differentiator in improving business performance in today's competitive marketplace. e-Learning enablement can be leveraged to increase the effectiveness of corporate training by targeting the design, development, packaging and delivery of any training program towards a specialized target audience. The Confiance Group believes that successful organizations understand people are their most valuable asset and training investments are critical investments in human capital.

The Confiance Group partners with you to create innovative e-Learning programs that incorporate your unique standards and guidelines to create customized and out of the box interactive multimedia modules that include self-assessment and certifications. In this process, we aggregate and repurpose BPM, EA, and SOA content with the application of tools to support your organizational strategies and business objectives.

BPM-X GmbH has developed the product suite BPM-Xchange for integrated business process modelling. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, BPM-X has partners worldwide, including Enterprise Change Ltd in the UK.

Mission:	Development and sales of solutions for BPM implementations by
	linking tools and mapping methodologies.

The first release of BPM-Xchange™ was developed in 2003, based on .NET and MS Office technology. This platform bi-directionally connects the leading process tools such as ARISTM, Microsoft Office VisioTM, SAPTM NetweaverTM, Casewise Corporate ModelerTM, MegaTM, System ArchitectTM and Nimbus Control 2007TM. Standard Microsoft Office is enhanced by BPM-Xchange and utilised for process management and SAP implementation. Microsoft Office VisioTM and ExcelTM are enabled to be methods-based, user-friendly and cost-effective tools for capturing business process models.