Progress Software Chief Strategist Confirmed as Featured Speaker at PEX Network Business Process Excellence for Financial Services 2011 Conference
Bedford, MA
24-Mar-2011
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading independent enterprise software provider that enables companies to be operationally responsive, has announced that the company’s Chief Strategist, Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, will speak at PEX Network's Business Process Excellence for Financial Services conference taking place in New York City, March 28th - 30th 2011.
- Who: Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, Chief Strategist, Progress Software
- What: During his presentation, Dr. Ketabchi will discuss how financial services companies can leverage technology solutions to gain real-time comprehensive insight into business processes, business events, and business transactions as they occur; understand how events reveal opportunities, threats or inefficiencies and take action and easily modify your processes to continuously meet or exceed key business objectives. Topics addressed include:
- What is Responsive Process Management (RPM)?
- Why RPM is the next phase in BPM and enables operational responsiveness
- Real-life successes illustrating how financial services companies improve bottom line using BPM
- When: Tuesday, March 29, 2011- 10:00-11:00 AM
- Where: Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Register here.
- Why: With increasing pressures to consistently drive revenue across the business, companies must ask – how are our current business processes affecting our ability to adapt to an increasingly volatile global business climate? Business Process Management (BPM) has proven to be an effective method for reducing cost, improving quality and increasing efficiency of business operations. But, how can technology drive both the top and bottom line?
Dr. M.A. Ketabchi founded Savvion, Inc. in 1994 and was President and CEO when Progress Software acquired the company in January 2010. Under Dr. Ketabchi’s leadership Savvion launched the first business process management (BPM) product in the market in 1999 and built a strong customer base consisting of leading enterprises around the world. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Ketabchi has been engaged with many Savvion customers and partners, helping them improve their business through BPM and BPM-enabled solutions. Dr. Ketabchi is well known for his pioneering research in business process management technologies and methods, including business rule and event management; process-centric, domain-oriented business solutions; object-oriented database management systems; and application development technologies. He has published and presented extensively in these areas and has made significant contributions to advancing the state of the art and technologies in BPM and process-centric, domain-oriented business solutions. Dr. Ketabchi received his Pd.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.
