Safety-Kleen Selects Lombardi Business Process Management (BPM) Suite
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Leading cleaning and environmental service provider to drive efficiency gains with TeamWorks BPM Software.
Austin, Texas, February 27, 2007 -- Lombardi®, the leader in business process management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. is deploying its award-winning TeamWorks® BPM platform to support its core business processes throughout the organization.
"We selected Lombardi after a competitive review because the products give us the flexibility to rapidly implement and change processes as our business requires," said Magnus Borg, CIO at Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. "The scalability of the product coupled with Lombardi's strong process expertise was an important factor during our evaluation process."
Safety-Kleen is the leading provider of cleaning, environmental and re-refining solutions. The company provides a host of cleaning and environmental services for companies of all sizes, including collecting and re-refining more than 200 million gallons of used oil annually. Safety-Kleen selected Lombardi's TeamWorks and Lombardi for Office(TM) products for their ability to coordinate numerous enterprise-scale business processes.
Safety-Kleen is utilizing the Lombardi process platform as its BPM standard because of the products' ability to rapidly create and iterate processes, its adherence to standards, and the rich analysis, optimization and collaboration functionality. An important factor in Safety-Kleen's decision to select Lombardi was the scalability of its single, shared-model architecture.
"We are proud that Safety-Kleen selected Lombardi to help them improve and manage their processes across the enterprise," said Rod Favaron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lombardi. "Customers such as Safety-Kleen and others place their trust in Lombardi because our software and people deliver the confidence they need to become -- and remain -- process-driven."
The initial implementation is focused on automating and improving the "Customer to Cash" process. This process will involve thousands of users, including more than 2,000 employees who will be participating through Lombardi's innovative Lombardi for Office interface, which leverages the familiar and powerful capabilities of the Microsoft Office desktop software to simplify adoption and participation in enterprise-level BPM deployments. It will also integrate with numerous systems within the Safety-Kleen architecture, including SAP. Lombardi dashboards will monitor and track process results and provide management with automatic status change information in real-time as required.
Lombardi TeamWorks is the leading BPM software for designing, executing and improving business processes. Lombardi for Office(TM) makes it easy for anyone to participate in business process management using the familiar Microsoft® Office System products. Lombardi Blueprint(TM) is the only on-demand process improvement tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities.
About Safety-Kleen
Safety-Kleen, a privately held company, is the leading oil recycling and re-refining, parts cleaner and industrial waste management services company in North America, with approximately 4,500 employees serving hundreds of thousands of customers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Please visit www.safety-kleen.com for more information.
About Lombardi
Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies as recognized by both Gartner and Forrester Research, in the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2006, and Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006 research reports respectively. Lombardi offers award-winning BPM technology, know-how and services to help its customers become Process-Driven. Lombardi Blueprint is the only on-demand process improvement tool that enables companies to map processes, identify problems and prioritize improvement opportunities. Lombardi's TeamWorks® is built on open standards and provides ongoing visibility and control of business processes, increasing the speed and flexibility with which organizations can manage their business process activity and decision-making. Lombardi for Office(TM) makes it easy for anyone to participate in BPM using the familiar Microsoft® Office System products. The company is a Gold-Certified Microsoft partner, with an "Information Worker Productivity Solutions" Competency.
Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include Allianz Life, Aflac, Dell, Hasbro, ING Direct, Maritz Travel, Reuters, Renault F1 Team, Sprint, T-Mobile, The UK Insolvency Service, Universal Music Group and the U.S. Government. For more information, visit www.lombardisoftware.com.
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