Lombardi and Innovations Software Technology have signed a partner agreement to bring together the best of breed BPM and BRM product lines on the market. Both Lombardi Teamworks and Innovations´ Visual Rules enable business people to fully graphically model and manage their business processes and decisions.

Sundeep Goal, Director of Alliances and Channel Sales at Lombardi, explains: "Visual Rules is perfectly aligned with Teamworks' business and technical concepts. We are both based upon Eclipse and believe in the visual approach to modeling processes and decisions. This partnership will allow our joint customer base to leverage the best in BPM and BRM and we are very excited to be partnered with Innovations."

Innovations Software Technology is a global IBM ValueNet partner with products that complement ECM offerings. Visual Rules fits well with the ECM value proposition of empowering the business through the use of content-centric BPM, making it very easy for business people to graphically develop, test, deploy and change business rules.

Visual Rules truly enables ECM customers to build greater agility into their process-based applications since decisions within the processes can easily be created and managed by business users with the power of a business rules system.

As an add-in provider, Innovations continues to invest considerable resources into the development of the Eclipse plug-in, Visual Rules.  Innovations is actively involved in the Eclipse community.

Innovations partners with CentraSite, the first standards-based registry/repository.  Decision services modeled in Visual Rules can be registered in CentraSite, including the available meta data.  Visual Rules and CentraSite empower the enterprise to fully manage decisions in their lifecycle, including the audit trail of execution.

Innovations is a CentraSite Community Strategic Sponsor.

With Visual Rules 1.2.6, a certified plug-in for SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (based on Eclipse 2.1.2), users can now model their business logic graphically and perform all steps of the development cycle; from sophisticated testing to automatic documentation of the business logic.  An additional BAPI interface allows for direct access to data from SAP R/3.

With the connectivity to Oracle databases, Visual Rules supports one of the world's leading database systems.  As an Oracle partner within the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), Innovations offers extensive Oracle know-how.

The combination of the Process Management Suite "BPMSuite by Pallas Athena" and the Business Rules Management System "Visual Rules" enables customers to continuously define and maintain their business logic.

The Swiss software company SORECOgroup offers an integrated BPM suite Xpert.ivy, that covers all BPM disciplines from process design over process execution, integration of roles and systems, and process controlling without any media break.  Visual Rules perfectly complements the BPM suite with the graphical modeling of the business rules that underly the processes.