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Ancud IT, solution provider for open source enterprise portals, today announced a strategic partnership with Intalio, the leading open source business process management company. The goal of the alliance is the joint development of open source based portals for business process management. Being Intalio's first German partner for system integration, Ancud IT will combine its enterprise portals with Intalio's BPM

capabilities, providing companies with a complete set of tools for optimizing their processes and achieving their business goals.

'The partnership with Intalio allows Ancud IT to add a valuable component to our portal applications,- said Konstantin Boehm, Ancud IT CEO. 'Our customers have identified business processes management as a critical element to their ultimate success. The integration of Intalio | BPMS with our enterprise portal frameworks enables Ancud IT to deliver enhanced process portals completely based on open source that help organizations to better adapt their processes to future market challenges.-

Intalio is the leading provider of open source business process management. Intalio | BPMS is the only BPMS to natively support the BPMN and BPEL industry standards. Its graphical design tool enables business analysts to develop and deploy business processes without having to deal with code. "Ancud IT provides the knowledge and expertise to integrate Intalio|BPMS with Liferay and Pentaho. We are really pleased to partner with them", said Arnaud Blandin, Intalio EMEA Director. 'I believe we have a great future together on the German market which is ready to adopt Intalio|BPMS."

Ancud IT and Intalio will also share a booth together with open source portal provider Liferay at the upcoming Open Source Meets Business conference to take place on January 23-26, 2007 in Nuremberg, Germany. Arnaud Blandin will speak at the conference and give a preview of Intalio | BPMS v.5, which will be formally launched at the Gartner BPM Summit at the end of February.

About Intalio:
Intalio, Inc. is the leading vendor of Open Source BPMS and helps over 5,000 organizations of all sizes get the most return on investment from their Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) by developing and deploying new business processes without having to write code. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Redwood City, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

About Ancud IT:
Ancud IT-Beratung GmbH provides solutions for enterprise portals, business process management, business intelligence, collaboration and e-commerce based on open source and proprietary software. As a consulting, systems integration and software company, Ancud IT offers conceptual design and technical implementation from one source. Based in Nuremberg, Germany, Ancud IT uses open source software as well as proprietary applications to implement enterprise portals. If existing products are insufficient, Ancud IT develops its own software solutions. This innovative approach leads to portals that meet the customer's individual needs. Ancud IT was founded in 2002. Among its customers are companies like Siemens, Bosch, Customer Advantage Program GmbH, memo and others. For further information about Ancud IT, please visit www.ancud.de.