IDS Scheer Launches in Australia

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Thursday, 05 July 2007 15:53

IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), today announced that it has launched a direct sales operation in Australia citing robust market opportunities for its ARIS BPM software in the local market.  The expansion into Australia grows IDS Scheer’s footprint in the Asia Pacific region where the company already has sales and consulting operations in Singapore, China and Japan and partners with organisations in Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and India.
  
IDS Scheer has more than 6,000 customers in over 70 countries. The organisation’s ARIS platform, the world’s leading software solution for BPM, helps companies optimise their investments in strategic business and technology initiatives, including BPM, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), and Enterprise Architecture initiatives, for applications include CRM, supply chain management, strategic enterprise management or human capital management.  
 
Last October, Forrester Group named IDS Scheer a market leader in Business Process Modeling tools citing the organisation’s strategic partnerships with SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, and the strength of its products as key differentiators.  IDS Scheer customers include Bayer, BASF, Electrolux, Ericsson, IBM, Nestle, Pfizer, Shell, UBS, and Vodafone while its partners include BMC Software, Fujitsu, HP, Oracle, SAP, and Software AG.
 
In addition to a sales partnership with Oracle launched in mid-2006, earlier this year IDS Scheer announced that Microsoft had selected the company as its preferred partner for BPM modeling and monitoring. In Q1 2007, revenue at the IDS Scheer Group rose to €96.0 million outperforming the figure for the previous year (previous year - Q1/2006: €85.0 million) by 13 per cent.

Darren Covington Appointed Managing Director, Pacific Region
At the same time, the company has announced the appointment of Darren Covington as Managing Director, Pacific Region, based in Sydney.  Covington is charged with overall responsibility for sales and market development for IDS Scheer’s ARIS business process modelling suite among both large and mid-sized businesses.  
 
Covington joins IDS Scheer with more than ten years’ experience in the IT industry and was formerly Vice President Asia Pacific for E2E Technologies, a Swiss-headquartered company offering software for fully Model Driven Integration.   Covington launched E2E in the region in 2005 and drove the organisation’s sales, marketing and services profile and developed strategic relationships with organisations, including Leonardo Consulting, Supply Chain Consulting and SAP.
 
Previously, Covington held a variety of positions with high performance computing company, SGI, including Vice President – Channels and Strategic Technology, Director of Enterprise Sales, New South Wales Sales Manager and Northern Region Channel Manager.  During his six years with the organisation, Covington developed a global indirect go to market sales model, closed alliance agreements with the world’s leading global consulting firms, developed new markets for SGI’s Linux-based servers and storage solutions, drove long-term customer business relationships and identified new sales partner prospects for the desktop and server business.
 
Prior to joining SGI, Covington worked with IBM Australia as an Australia/New Zealand client executive.  He has also worked for Volante Group as business development manager and been a senior account manager for Dell Computer.   He has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Wollongong University.
 
Darren Covington, Managing Director Pacific Region, said, “I am thrilled to be joining IDS-Scheer at this moment in time when Australian companies are looking at how business process excellence can drive improved services, a leaner manufacturing process, customer service benefits and bottom-line profitability.  The ARIS Platform is already the backbone for many global companies delivering a demonstrable high return on investment in business processes. We will now enable Australian-based organisations to reap these benefits with an on the ground sales and support infrastructure.”

Note to editors:

IDS Scheer was established in 1984 by the current supervisory board chairman and Chief Technology Advisor, Prof. Dr. August Wilhelm Scheer, who is regarded by many as the founder of BPM. Today, IDS Scheer is the market-leader in BPM software, solutions and services — all based on the unrivaled ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes.
 
Since the inception of Gartner's Business Process Analysis Magic Quadrant in 1997, IDS Scheer has enjoyed the top leadership position.  Today, approximately 2,800 employees serve IDS Scheer’s 6,000 customers located in over 70 countries. In 2006, IDS Scheer’s revenues reached 354 million Euro / $465 million USD. IDS Scheer is listed on the TecDAX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany).