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EMC Snaps Up ProActivity

EMC has acquired Newton, Massachusetts-based ProActivity Software Solutions Ltd., a privately held provider of content management software for business process management (BPM). The acquisition is complete and is not expected to have a material impact on EMC revenue and EPS for 2006. ProActivity will be integrated immediately into the EMC Software Group. With its R&D operations in Netanya, Israel, ProActivity joins recently acquired Kashya and nLayers to form a foundation of EMC R&D in Israel, which EMC will continue to enhance over time.

Dave DeWalt, President, EMC Software Group, said, “Almost daily, customers stress to me their strategic need to optimize their business processes such as invoice processing, claims processing and loan origination. Manual process design and requirements definition is expensive, tedious, slow, error prone and widely recognized as the root cause of project failure. ProActivity brings to EMC a critical content management technology set to augment and enhance EMC’s ability to address these needs through the industry-leading EMC Documentum business process management (BPM) software suite.”

EMC expects the EMC Documentum and ProActivity product suite to now give EMC the most complete BPM software offering in the market. ProActivity provides tools to monitor, analyze and optimize business processes. ProActivity offers a solution that treats business processes as data, not simply as pictures or models. This patented design automates the detailed capture and validation of “as is” business processes, generates graphical process maps on the fly, provides dynamic multidimensional analysis and creates a strategic process knowledge base that can be reused and extended across the enterprise.


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