United Kingdom - July 3, 2008 - Atos Origin, an international IT services company, and Cordys, a Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) provider, have signed a worldwide alliance to jointly offer BPM solutions. The companies will collaborate on the implementation of joint market offerings; using the Cordys Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), in conjunction with a range of consulting, systems integration, application management and managed operation services from Atos Origin.
Atos Origin will support Cordys worldwide in offering a Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), which enables companies to design, execute, monitor and improve business processes spanning multiple systems and applications. The Cordys solution allows clients to efficiently create process-centric composite applications and maintain them throughout their lifecycle, regardless of underlying workflow, semantics, user rules and applications.
Jan Baan, CEO Cordys, stated: "Cordys is excited with Atos Origin as a global services partner. Atos Origin is one of the few companies that can offer the full range of business consulting, system integration and outsourcing services on a global scale. For Cordys, the business relationship is a natural extension, further enabling us to offer our leading BPM suite to a far broader market."
Pieter Buijs, Chief Technology Officer, Atos Origin, added: "Atos Origin is a firm believer in the unique value that Cordys BPMS offers in today’s competitive marketplace, where the ability to quickly design and adapt business processes in concert with their underlying information systems is crucial to achieve operational effectiveness, based on lower IT cost. Cordys BPMS will help us optimise time to answer bids, reduce the costs of supporting several applications in multiple countries, and provide worldwide organisations with one single platform to distribute policies, procedures, presentations, and documents. By combining our BPM expertise with Cordys state-of-the-art solutions, we will continue to offer our clients significant added value for their business improvement initiatives."
BPM is a key initiative of Atos Origin and the company has already deployed BPM solutions with customers worldwide; its revenue in this domain increased by more than 30% last year. The solution offers an effective tool for international organisations to share the right information, quickly and efficiently. Atos Origin implements Cordys BPMS as a full-range service, providing the overall spectrum of services and skills required.
About CORDYS :
Cordys was founded in 2001 by Mr. Jan Baan (also founder of Baan), headquartered in Putten, The Netherlands, Cordys has offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia with key R&D operations in The Netherlands and India. Cordys is a software product which offers a unified platform for solution development based on SOA, BPM and other tools.