Brand produces Red Herring!

Invensys Operations Management has announced that its Skelta™ software offerings have won the Red Herring 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from across North America, Europe and Asia.

Skelta, a brand offering of Invensys Operations Management, provides business process management (BPM) and advanced workflow solutions. Its flagship Skelta BPM software empowers teams of people by linking them with work processes and systems to achieve specific business goals. The software allows users to create new BPM-enabled applications using powerful features such as an embeddable, web-based process designer; forms designer; process monitoring and optimisation capabilities; multi-tenancy; multiple communication channels; and strong integration with Microsoft technologies. In addition, the software offers online access to the operating environment, thus enabling a SaaS or cloud version that reduces barriers to access and use.

“Choosing the best out of the previous three years was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, chairman, Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed down our list from 1,200 potential companies to 200 finalists. Trying to get it down to 100 companies was a task upon itself. The Invensys Skelta team should be extremely proud of its achievement because the competition was difficult.”

The Red Herring Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Its editorial staff evaluated the entrants on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy and market penetration. This assessment is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers.

“Being recognised as a winner of this year's Red Herring Global 100 Award endorses our culture of continuous innovation, and perfectly complements the recent launched of our new Skelta BPM 2011 software,” said Vinay Moorthy, vice president, Invensys Operations Management. “Our software provides a unique, agile and scalable platform for enterprise-wide collaboration, while at the same time leveraging existing systems to achieve operational excellence and great ROI. The latest version has many new productivity features, including the ability to collaborate from within web-based forms, extending advanced BPM functionality to Microsoft SharePoint 2010; document management enhancements; customisable user-friendly business dashboards and web parts; and support for custom controls. Because of its embeddable capabilities and ability provide visibility into end-to-end business processes, we believe our Skelta BPM 2011 software will bring a radical change in the way mission-critical enterprises collaborate. We are extremely honored to have been recognised as the winner of the coveted Red Herring Global 100 award."

Enterprise-wide collaboration made easier

Invensys Operations Management has announced the release of Skelta™ BPM 2011, a robust  business process management solution.

Skelta, a brand offering of Invensys Operations Management, provides business process management (BPM) and advanced workflow solutions for enterprises worldwide. Its flagship product, Skelta BPM software, provides a strong and collaborative platform that automates the sequence of human and system activities that are required to complete specific business goals.

A next-generation business application platform, Skelta BPM software provides users with the ability to create new BPM-enabled applications rapidly by making use of powerful features such as an embeddable, web-based process designer; forms designer; process monitoring and optimisation capabilities; multi-tenancy; multiple communication channels; and strong integration with Microsoft®  technologies. In addition, the software offers online access to the operating environment, thus enabling a SaaS or cloud version that reduces barriers to access and use.

This new release of the Skelta BPM software has many new productivity enhancements, including the ability to collaborate from within web-based forms, extending advanced BPM functionality to Microsoft SharePoint® 2010; document management enhancements; customisable user-friendly business dashboards and web parts; and support for custom controls.

Skelta BPM software is used by approximately 700 customers across many industry verticals. It is used by financial institutions, government organisations, educational institutions, business process outsourcers and other organisations to build horizontal solutions such as accounts payable, document management, compliance management, HRIS and other business processes.

Sanjay Shah

Sanjay Shah, Skelta managing director for Invensys, said, “The Skelta BPM 2011 software has matured and evolved. We strongly believe it will provide businesses across the world a better platform for enterprise-wide collaboration, while at the same time leverage existing systems to achieve operational excellence and high returns on our clients’ BPM investments. We also thank our customers and partners for giving us their valuable suggestions to help us evolve this product over the time."

To mark the launch of the Skelta BPM 2011 software, Sandy Kemsley, a leading independent BPM analyst and systems architect specialising in business process management and Enterprise 2.0, will deliver a webinar titled BPM and Application Composition. The webinar will be hosted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, explaining how BPM-enabled composite applications ensure rapid ROI. Attendees will also have free access to a complementary whitepaper on the topic.

Information worker solution

Company among top in Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application category -
Invensys Operations Management has announced that Invensys Skelta has been selected a 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards Finalist in the Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application category.

According to Microsoft, the Partner of the Year Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners and finalists chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application Partner of the Year Award recognises partners who have excelled in offering a breakthrough solution by integrating with the Office client or an Office SharePoint interface to a line-of-business application. The award recognises Invensys Skelta for helping its customers connect people, applications and partners while delivering excellent total cost of ownership. Invensys Skelta has uniquely and positively affected its customers' business challenges through its expertise in the Information Worker Solutions competency.
"I congratulate Invensys Skelta on this fantastic accolade. It acknowledges long-standing commitment to providing business process management and advanced workflow solutions-built on common, easy-to-use Microsoft technologies-that help our clients achieve productivity excellence," said Sudipta Bhattacharya, president and chief executive officer, Invensys Operations Management. "Integrating our Invensys Skelta solutions with Microsoft Office, SharePoint and other Microsoft programs allows us to extend our open Wonderware® System Platform and InFusion™ Enterprise Control System offerings."

"Congratulations to the 2010 Partner Award finalists for delivering such creative and superior Microsoft solutions and services," said Allison Watson, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "It's incredible to see the level of expertise our partners continue to exhibit as they create and deliver innovative solutions and services to grow their businesses, meet customer needs and drive down costs."

Sanjay Shah, managing director, Invensys Skelta, said, "We are extremely pleased to have been selected a finalist for the 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, and the fact that we were chosen from more than 3,000 candidates is an additional honour."