News Release

IGRAFX ESTABLISHES ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy is the first to take advantage of iGrafx business process analysis tools under the DoD blanket purchase agreement

Tualatin, Ore . — October 2 , 2006 — iGrafx®, a leading provider of Business Process Analysis tools, announced it has established a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the Department of Defense (DoD), the world’s largest purchasing organization, as part of its Enterprise Software Initiative ( ESI). The ESI is a joint project designed to implement an enterprise software management process within the DoD. By pooling software requirements and presenting a single negotiating point for leading software vendors, ESI provides pricing discounts lower than the General Services Administration schedule pricing.

Under the terms of the ESI agreement, the Department of the Navy has recently deployed iGrafx software. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) AIRSpeed initiative, an integral part of the Navy’s overall rollout, is designed to drive process efficiencies and embed a culture of continuous process improvement throughout their enterprise of over 37,000 military, civilian and contractor support personnel.

“NAVAIR is driving the deployment of an integrated Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints construct for continuous process improvement as we strive to create a fundamental cultural transformation that will enable our workforce to become more efficient and productive” said Dale L. Moore, Deputy Corporate Deployment Champion for NAVAIR AIRSpeed. “Leveraging the DMAICV methodology, the iGrafx software tools are improving our ability to Define, Measure, and Analyze our current-state process value streams while increasing the effectiveness of our future-state value stream definition and Improvements, subsequent process Controls, and realization of real results through Validation. We can now rapidly codify our processes and visualize them dynamically, conduct what-if scenario simulations, and make well informed improvements in our continuous pursuit of perfection - resulting in remarkable cost savings, improved quality, and reduced cycle time.”

“The Navy has joined other defense agencies in choosing iGrafx solutions to assist them in uncovering inefficiencies in their organizational processes”, said Ken Carraher, iGrafx President. “Bottlenecks and poorly understood processes plague every organization and drain their ability to execute. Our industry leading process excellence tools are essential for anyone wanting to eliminate inefficiencies and improve quality.”

The BPA establishes three authorized DoD contractors – SoftChoice, Softmart and SHI - to provide software licenses, maintenance, and media for iGrafx® FlowCharter™, iGrafx® Process™ for Six Sigma, iGrafx® BPEL™ Generator, iGrafx® Enterprise Modeler™, and iGrafx® Enterprise Central™. . For more information on purchasing iGrafx products through the ESI program, please visit the ESI Website - http://www.esi.mil/main.asp , the Department of the Navy IT Umbrella Website - http://www.it-umbrella.navy.mil/index.shtml , or the ESI ITEC site which hosts the approved BPA’s - http://www.itec-direct.navy.mil/ .

For more information :

iGrafx
Kevin Hurst
503-404-6030
www.iGrafx.com

 About iGrafx

iGrafx provides a comprehensive family of business process analysis tools that help organizations model, improve and manage processes and technologies that support, simplify, and automate their operations (www.igrafx.com/products/). Whether aligning business objectives with IT systems, complying with mandatory regulations, deploying Business Process Management, or undertaking initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lean, iGrafx provides the ability to leverage results, improvements and controls across these efforts, resulting in increased return on investment. iGrafx helps organizations deliver process excellence in a controlled, centralized and collaborative manner. iGrafx is a division of Corel Corporation. www.iGrafx.com

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