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Santa
Clara, CA - October 10, 2006 - Savvion®, the leading business
process management (BPM) company, today announced that Grandi Stazioni
, a leading railway management and revitalization company, has successfully
implemented Savvion BusinessManager to achieve operational efficiency,
streamlined workflow, and improved processes around station management
and repair. Savvion BusinessManager is the easiest way for people
to collaborate, control, and improve business processes across the
enterprise.
Grandi
Stazioni is chartered by the Italian government to manage Italy's
13 most important railway stations, including terminals in Rome,
Milan, Florence, and Venice. Prior to Savvion, Grandi Stazioni was
unable to effectively track the myriad processes around station
maintenance, together with the orders and service agreements the
company had with its suppliers. Of the BPM vendors reviewed by Grandi
Stazioni, only Savvion provided the web-based interface, rapid implementation
timeline, and ability to easily model processes and extend them
across multiple business silos.
Since
implementing Savvion six years ago, Grandi Stazioni has dramatically
streamlined corporate operations, improved budget forecasting and
management, cut the time to process order requests by 30 percent,
and improved internal auditing for Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
In
addition, Savvion now enables Grandi Stazioni to monitor contractual
agreements they have in place with their service providers and suppliers,
ensuring that supplies are shipped in a timely manner and under
existing service agreements. If agreements are not met, the company
can now successfully leverage fines against their suppliers for
breach of contract.
"Over
the years Grandi Stazioni has established a reputation of excellence
in Italy and beyond for managing the infrastructure maintenance
of some of Europe's premiere railway stations," said Nicola Gazzaneo,
CTO of Grandi Stazioni. "Managing railway stations is often encumbered
by the number of processes required. Savvion BusinessManager has
enabled us to improve multiple key processes around the maintenance
of our railway stations, cutting repair time, improving financial
transparency, more effectively managing supplier relationships and
enhancing the overall customer experience."
"Savvion
is pleased to see our software being used to manage and improve
the extraordinarily complex processes that surround railway stations,"
said Patrick Morrissey, senior vice president of marketing and business
development for Savvion. "Companies like Grandi Stazioni are leveraging
the power of BPM across multiple business units to improve productivity,
streamline operations, and drive business success."
In
the future, Grandi Stazioni plans to extend its Savvion deployment
to manage processes in human resources. Additionally, the company
will use Savvion in a clustered environment to control processes
around railway station security as well as integrating Savvion's
BPM solution into the mobile devices of personnel for easier access
to process management and improvement.
About
Grandi Stazioni
Grandi
Stazioni S.p.A. was established in 1998 with the goal of upgrading
and managing the 13 most important Italian railway stations, representing
a real estate patrimony of over 900,000 square meters visited every
year by over 600 million users, an enormous potential of human and
financial resources. Grandi Stazioni is owned 60% by Italian Railways
and 40% by EuroStazioni, which includes Benetton, Pirelli, Caltagirone,
and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer. For more information,
visit www.grandistazioni.it.
About
Savvion
Savvion
is the leading provider of business process management (BPM) software
that improves business performance and reduces costs. Savvion has
a proven track record of turning process improvement ideas into
real-world solutions quickly, often in as few as 30 days, and delivering
a return on investment as high as 300%. More than 200 global business
enterprises, public service agencies, and systems integration firms,
including 20 of the Fortune 100, use Savvion systems to manage their
business. Savvion is recognized by Intelligent Enterprise as one
of the most influential companies in information technology today,
and is a Leader in the Forrester Wave for BPM. To start down the
path of process improvement, download the Savvion Process Modeler
available for free at www.savvion.com/startnow. Or visit
the Savvion ProcessXchange, where people can connect with a community
of interest devoted to business process management, at www.processxchange.com.
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