KPISTEP: Gold Standard for Business Decision Management

(Beyond Traditional Business Rules Aproaches)

FirstSTEP: Accelerating and Perfecting of Requirements

(Combining a Solid Framework, New Model and Software Visualization)

STEPment: Effective Knowledge Transfer and Mentoring

(Enabling You to Become Proficient in Applying KPI's Methodologies)

KPI and eDev to offer automated approach to Decision Modeling and Requirements Definition

Knowledge Partners International, LLC (KPI) and eDev Technologies, Inc. (eDev) announced today that they have created an alliance which will present an automated approach to Decision Modeling and Requirements Definition. KPI, a thought leader in the field of Business Decision Management and Requirements elicitation recognizes eDev as an important innovator and software provider in the requirements market space. Their collaboration will enable KPI and eDev clients to extend their current requirements definition practices with an integration of The Decision Model into the powerful inteGREAT requirements definition and simulation software.

The Decision Model represents business logic and rules in a rigorous, atomic, normalized structure. For the first time, a business's logic is explicit, with inconsistencies, gaps and redundancies becoming obvious.

	Asif Sharif, CEO and President of eDev believes that "our collaboration with KPI will help us to extend the benefit of inteGREAT for our clients especially in the area of rules elaboration as decision models." .
	"We are excited about the prospect of having a leading software provider such as eDev embrace The Decision Model as an important part of their offering" mentioned Larry Goldberg, Managing Partner, KPI.

eDev will join a workshop hosted by KPI to demonstrate how inteGREAT supports The Decision Model at the upcoming BrainStorm Business Process Management conferences in Washington, DC (September 15, 2010) and New York City (November 03, 2010).

Workshop: Using Business Decision Management to Revolutionize Business Requirements and Processes

Larry Goldberg will moderate a workshop focusing on how The Decision Model impacts Business Requirements and Processes at the upcoming BrainStorm event in Washington, DC on September 15, 2010. For more information on how to register for this event -> click here. To inquire for preferred rates please call (919) 606-6711.

Presenters:

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Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, eDev Technologies is an established requirements definition, technology and consulting company which provides high quality and cost-effective requirements definition solutions to a wide range of leading public and private companies. inteGREAT, the flagship product of eDev technologies, enables software engineering organizations to produce higher quality software through a knowledge management approach there by resulting in a faster time to market. www.edevtech.com.

Knowledge Partners International, LLC (KPI) is the thought leader and innovator in the field of Business Decision Modelling and Requirements.We empower many of the Global 1,000 companies to discover, organize and manage their business decisions. Our KPI STEP methodology uses fewer resources, and is faster, more reliable, and more transparent than any other business rules approach. It enables lower cost system development and transformation and ensures the shortest time to market, compared to any other approach.We have added a new focus on Requirements, using our evolutionary framework and methodology called First STEP.Our Clients now solve the critical problems that plague many projects: incomplete or inaccurate requirements, and the resulting poor communication between business and IT.KPI's methodologies are independent of technology, and work in both waterfall, iterative, and agile approaches.Many of our clients see their adaptation of KPI's methodologies as one of their key competitive advantages in a market place driven by increasingly complex and fast moving business decisions and challenging IT projects. KPI provides project leadership to help organizations implement KPI STEP and First STEP; we also provide training, certification, mentorship and knowledge transfer to ensure that our clients become quickly self sufficient in their capabilities.