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NEW iGRAFX® ENTERPRISE MODELING SOLUTION ENABLES ORGANIZATIONS TO ALIGN IT WITH BUSINESS OBJECTIVES

iGrafx® Enterprise Central® delivers a comprehensive frameworkto enable definition and implementation of strategy, alignment to organizational and regulatory objectives and control of processes, information and knowledge

Tualatin , OR . - October 24, 2005 - iGrafx®, a leading provider of Business Process Analysis solutions, announced iGrafx® Enterprise Central™, a strategic enterprise modeling solution that helps companies gain control of their processes, resources and systems. With iGrafx Enterprise Central, organizations gain control of their business using a centralized, collaborative tool to define strategy, identify risk and interdependencies, and track requirements. iGrafx Enterprise Central fully enables organizations for compliance management, risk management, business continuity, enterprise architecture, change management, and quality improvement initiatives.

Many organizations today are undertaking initiatives to increase efficiency, achieve compliance, and improve financial or service success. Each initiative is often driven by the organizational department in charge. IT may deploy IT Service Management or Enterprise Architecture, the office of the CFO may institute Compliance and Risk Management, and corporate or manufacturing departments may pursue Lean or Six Sigma. Often these programs are concurrently active within the organization. Each of them can achieve localized goals but at the same time the lack of a cohesive picture creates serious inefficiencies and major obstacles to long term sustainability.

In order to sustain competitiveness, the need to take a comprehensive approach to process-oriented initiatives is required. Organizations need to align their strategy with IT to optimize and manage their strategies and processes with implementation. To apply such a comprehensive approach requires an enterprise-wide view of the organization in which goals and dependencies are defined, measurements can be monitored and controlled, and analysis can be performed is needed. At the same time it is imperative not to lose the ability for project and functional units to effectively manage and enhance their localized requirements.

iGrafx Enterprise Central 2006 is the perfect solution to help organizations take this enterprise approach to process excellence. Enterprise Central enables the creation of multi-dimensional views of an organization to ensure compliance, consistency and alignment of corporate strategy between business and IT, functional initiatives, and domain specific requirements. By creating a model of the entire organization and capturing dependencies between processes, resources and systems, the organization can measure and evaluate quality, costs and risks, monitor and control organizational performance, and conduct impact and gap analysis. Utilizing a central database of enterprise knowledge, organizations can validate and cross reference distinct models, analyze and predict impact from change and plan for efficient process and system changes. The enterprise model information can be shared and used by the whole suite of iGrafx process excellence tools maintaining the flexibility to match variations in organizational use and requirements while still getting the benefits of having the big picture.

"Over the years, increasing complexity, compliance requirements and competitive pressures have forced our customers to transition their process improvement efforts from a departmental or project focus to an enterprise or program view to ensure success in a global economy,” said Ken Carraher, president, iGrafx. “As a result, these customers are demanding a solution that helps them gain control and visibility over their operations and enables them to easily perform impact and gap analysis and respond to change across their entire business. iGrafx Enterprise Central meets this requirement by giving customers visibility and control of their organizational strategies, processes and interdependencies; maximizing efficiency and the ability to deal with change across the board.”

iGrafx Enterprise Central is shipping in November. For pricing or additional information on this new iGrafx offering contact your local sales representative, visit www.igrafx.com, or phone 503.404.6050.

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. 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 of technology assets. Through targeted deployment of its components, iGrafx helps organizations deliver process excellence in a controlled, centralized and collaborative manner. iGrafx is a division of Corel Corporation.

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