Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), today announced that the company is cited as a leader by Forrester Research, Inc. in the October 2008 Forrester Wave™: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2008. Cordys was among 10 select companies that Forrester invited to participate in the report.

According to the report, “Cordys achieved a leadership position based on its strong scores across all of the major functional areas: enterprise application integration (EAI), business-to-business interactions (B2B), business process management (BPM), and service-oriented architecture (SOA).”

“We are proud to be named a leader in the independent evaluation of the IC-BPMS market–a strong growing market segment that promises game-changing business value. This is no small feat in a category of software that is one of the more comprehensive collections of middleware tools available on the market today,” said Jan Baan, Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO for Cordys. “Furthermore, Cordys Business Operations Platform goes well beyond IC-BPMS to create a total human-centric and integration-centric solution in a single product capable of handling complex integration and activity, including orchestration between people, applications, back-end systems, and external business partners, empowering organizations to increase the speed of change and achieve faster innovation. We applaud Forrester for assembling one of the most in-depth reviews of IC-BPMS products and helping enterprise architects more quickly chart and evaluate the path to business process innovation.”

Forrester evaluated leading software vendors across 109 criteria through extensive product demonstrations and customer interviews. The criteria were grouped into three categories: Current Offering, Strategy and Market presence.

According to the report, “IC-BPMS products have captured a central role as the foundational middleware component in many leading enterprises, and firms are using them with increasing frequency to deliver game-changing solutions… It is becoming increasingly clear that the availability of these types of tools is enabling enterprises to simultaneously improve operational efficiency and support business innovation.” Forrester predicts strong product growth going forward as enterprises expand their internal usage of IC-BPMS.

About Cordys Business Operations Platform
The Cordys Business Operations Platform enables organizations to dramatically improve their business agility, enabling rapid changes and allowing them to fundamentally alter the way they innovate their business operations to embrace a true customer-centric philosophy. Customers across the globe are achieving significant business performance improvements including increased productivity, reduced time to market and faster response times to ever-changing market demands.

About Cordys
Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation. The industry-leading Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP) consists of a complete Suite for next generation Business Process Management (BPMS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and an open, integrated set of Tools & Technologies including Composite Application framework (CAF), Master Data Management (MDM) and a SOA Grid. The Cordys platform empowers customers to dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way they innovate their Business Operations to achieve a true customer-centric philosophy. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected Cordys to achieve business performance improvements such as increased productivity, reduced time to market, higher security and faster response to ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China, India and Israel.