Van Ameyde International Announced as Winner of Business Agility and Process Optimization Enabled by BPM and SOA Case Study Competition

Runner-up Winner is AmerisourceBergen Corporation

NEEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- OMG's™ BPM/SOA Community of Practice (CoP), in partnership with BPTrends, ebizQ, SearchSOA.com, and SearchCIO.com, are pleased to announce that Van Ameyde International is the winner of the "Business Agility and Process Optimization Enabled by Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)" Case Study Competition. Runner-up winner is AmerisourceBergen Corporation. The competition was open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have successfully delivered business or mission value using a BPM, SOA or combined BPM-SOA approach.

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Winner Profile: Van Ameyde International

Van Ameyde International specializes in international claims and risk management for major international insurance companies, captives and brokers, government agencies, and corporate and industrial clients including the energy sector, the shipping industry, ports and terminals. Van Ameyde recognized the need to optimize their claims handling process in order to grow the business. Key objectives of the project, dubbed ECHO – European Claims Handling Optimization, were Business Agility, Cost Reduction, Information Access, Flexibility and Speed. Using agile methods and model driven development the team was able to deliver a system that produced a 30% reduction in the time required to resolve a claim, enabled customized claims processing for new customers, in 16 different countries each with unique claims handling requirements. For more on the methodologies, team structure and lessons learned on the road to success, visit http://www.bpmsoa-communityofpractice.org/2010winners for the full case study.

Runner-up Winner: AmerisourceBergen Corporation

AmerisourceBergen Corporation is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical services companies with a focus on the pharmaceutical supply chain. AmerisourceBergen has a mature Process Center of Excellence in place to govern BPM projects corporate-wide and maintain a constant focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It is this focus on KPIs and its emphasis on applying BPM to mission-critical, core business processes that has enabled AmerisourceBergen to track millions of dollars in recurring savings across several of its BPM projects. The company estimates a cost saving of at least $40 million per year by using BPM. View the complete profile at http://www.bpmsoa-communityofpractice.org/2010winners.

About the Case Study Competition

The goal of the BPM/SOA Case Study Competition was to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and insights for other organizations considering or pursuing BPM, SOA or combined BPM-SOA adoption.

Entries were judged on the complexity of the business problem addressed, the ROI/Business Value achieved (Agility/Innovation/Flexibility/Optimization/Resilience/Service Delivery), the level and sophistication of the cross-organizational collaboration (Business/Technical) and the usage of BPM/SOA approaches and supporting technology.

About the BPM/SOA Community of Practice

The BPM/SOA Community of Practice (CoP) is a practice area community of the Business Ecology^® Initiative (BEI). BEI provides education, advocacy and member programs to enable organizations to achieve Business Ecology success, employ Actionable Architecture™, and carve a path to business- IT integration. For more information on the Business Ecology Initiative visit http://www.business-ecology.org.

For more information on the BPM/SOA CoP, visit http://www.bpmsoa-communityofpractice.org.

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