AuraPortal Earns Global Award for Excellence in BPM & Workflow

Woburn (Boston), MA. – January 10, 2011 – AuraPortal
(www.auraportal.com), a global provider of Business Process
Management (BPM) software, today announced the company, along with
its customer, ArcelorMittal Foundation has been named the Silver
Winners for the 2010 Global Awards for Excellence in Business Process
Management and Workflow. Now in their 18th year, the prestigious
industry award recognizes end-user organizations that have
demonstrated excellence in implementing innovative business process
solutions to meet strategic business objectives. There were five
geographical regions in which the awards were presented. The
ArcelorMittal Foundation, located in Brazil, received the silver
award for the South American region.

Nathaniel Palmer, WfMC Executive Director and Industry Analyst noted,
“This year, we saw that the scope of implementations has increased to
more non-financial case studies, like healthcare, with greater
government adoption, addressing social and environmental issues.
Additionally, we noticed that the BPM Center of Excellence plays a
more significant role in start-up and success than in previous years
of awards.”

The ArcelorMittal Foundation, located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was
founded in 1988 to develop Cultural, Health, Education, and Social
Promotion programs benefiting around 800,000 citizens. Due to its
systematic approach to its BPM initiative, the AMF has achieved a
high level of integration of all information related to individual
cultural projects, and is now able to manage its projects more
efficiently and collaboratively across the organization. Some of the
benefits achieved by the AMF with their BPM initiative include: a
significant reduction (50%) in the analysis of projects submitted,
and 100% of the proposals generated in electronic format, allowing
the evaluation and response times to be reduced significantly. The
organization has been able to increase the number of proposals
analyzed without increasing the number of employees. “After
implementing AuraPortal BPMS we are now able to know which projects
best fit with our requirements and financing. We have incorporated a
process centric culture since we decided to implement our solution
using the AuraPortal BPMS platform,” according to Marcelo Santos, Art
and Culture Manager at the ArcelorMittal Foundation.