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Citadon BPD™ Gives Businesses The Flexibility To Define And Automate Business Processes That Match The Way They Do Business.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 11, 2003 - Citadon Inc., the leading provider of project collaboration software announced today the introduction of Citadon BPD™, a business process design tool that gives companies the flexibility to define custom business processes that reflect their proven best practices. Forms and workflows that are created using Citadon BPD™ are imported into Citadon CW™ as automated business processes aimed at streamlining critical business initiatives to achieve increased efficiency, lower costs, and reduce time and effort. Citadon CW™ is Citadon's Web-based enterprise application that provides online document management, team communication, and business process management through secure, hosted collaboration workspaces for owners, operators, and other key participants in the design, construction, and operation of capital projects.
With Citadon BPD™, customers now have an easy to use, graphical design tool that puts the power of customization into the hands of business users and project managers, allowing them to quickly create and deploy proprietary processes in Citadon CW.
Citadon BPD gives businesses the ability to:
- Build custom business processes that reflect the way they do business, both internally and with their business partners.
- Easily create custom forms and workflows using a graphical interface that is designed for business users with no programming experience.
- Quickly modify the business process templates included with Citadon CW to reflect their own work practices and company terminology.
- Design workflows that automatically exchange data between Citadon CW and their enterprise systems using XML.
- Document their business process to provide support for their ISO 9000 and Six Sigma initiatives.
"The key driver behind the development of Citadon BPD was to give customers the flexibility to automate any business process in Citadon CW", describes Bobby Jadhav, Citadon's VP of Engineering and Product Management. "Citadon BPD allows users with no IT experience to quickly build custom business processes, including forms and workflows, through an easy to use graphical interface, much as they would draw out their processes on a white board. Since Citadon CW already includes a number of commonly used business process templates, customers can use Citadon BPD to modify those processes to match their own, or they can create entirely new, custom processes from scratch."
Customers, such as Transport for London, are already using the flexibility of Citadon BPD in conjunction with Citadon CW for automating their own business processes. Says Mr. Mike Clarke, Project Director of the Thames Gateway Bridge Project for Transport for London: "We are using Citadon BPD to model our own change control process and after importing our procedures and forms, Citadon CW now automatically forwards a request to review and approve a change based on the cost and schedule impact of the change. The system also sends a notification to the recipient by email that their action is required to sign off on the approval thus additionally saving us cycle time. Since Citadon BPD gives us the ability to capture our existing best work practices, we will automate more of our mission critical business processes in Citadon CW which provides us with the opportunity to use this on other major projects."
Bernard Fried, Citadon's President and CEO, says: "Since introducing our first product in 1997, Citadon has focused on leveraging the Internet to help our customers increase efficiency, reduce risk, and drive standardization across all of their capital works programs. Now, with the introduction of Citadon BPD, customers can bring virtually any process online, providing improved speed, control, and accountability on all of their business processes, including those that extend beyond the enterprise to include their clients, consultants, contractors, and vendors."
The introduction of Citadon BPD™ capitalizes on Citadon's experience in delivering collaboration based Web services. Citadon's suite of robust solutions, a blue-chip customer list, and a profitable business model attracted recent funding from a group of investors led by Insight Venture Partners.
About Citadon Inc.
Citadon Inc. provides the $3.9 trillion global engineering and building industry with Internet based project collaboration software that is designed to reduce financial and legal risk, improve profitability, and create accountability and predictability across global projects. Citadon's fully integrated Web services help customers to manage and share documents, automate and propagate core business processes, collaborate and communicate seamlessly, and capture and leverage knowledge across the extended enterprise.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Citadon's services are currently being utilized in over 60 countries, by more than 40,000 active subscribers on projects with a construction value in excess of $130 billion. Current Citadon customers include Shell Oil Products, the Bechtel Group, The Chicago Transit Authority, Mustang Engineering, EC Harris, Wates, Transport for London, and Novo Nordisk Engineering.
Citadon CW and Citadon BPD are trademarks of Citadon, Inc. More information is available at www.citadon.com.
Media Contact:
Citadon, Inc.
Ian Howell
VP Marketing
ihowell@citadon.com
(415) 216 2365
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