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	Is It SOA's Reason for Being? Application Development Trends Magazine listens to IBM Expert Peter Jenkin's take on why BPM & SOA go together:
	IBM Flight Simulator Video Game, BPM-Today
	Report: IBM Named a Leader in Human-Centric Business Process Management for Insurance
	Members Approve Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) as OASIS Standard , IBM leading the way
	IBM's NEW BPM Flight Simulator Game
	Business Week, June 14, 2007 Innov8, IBM's new video game designed to bridge the gap in understanding between IT teams and business leaders in an organization, is featured in this BusinessWeek article. The game, which was announced at Impact 2007, is described by the reporter as a tool to "help tech managers better understand the roles of businesspeople, and vice versa, players go into a virtual business unit to test their hand at ventures such as redesigning a call center, opening a brokerage account, or processing an insurance claim."
	IBM Named Leader in Human-Centric Business Process Management for Insurance
	A new, independent research report by Forrester named IBM as a leader in Human Centric Business Process Management (BPM). "The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPMS for Insurance, Q3 2006" found that IBM's insurance specific attributes and strategies, and its overall BPMS functionality helped IBM achieve its leadership position.

	IBM Aquires FileNet
	October 12, 2006: IBM® completed the acquisition of FileNet, a publicly held company based in Costa Mesa, California. FileNet operations will be combined with IBM content management operations into one business to deliver the richest portfolio of capabilities to all clients and to support the IBM Information On Demand Strategy.

Fireman's Fund Chooses Modeler

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company® has taken a third major step in its total IT transformation by awarding IBM a ten-year $94 million contract to modernize a major portion of the property casualty insurer's application, development and maintenance software into an On Demand infrastructure that could reduce the number of major applications by 70 percent while improving customer service. When completed, the work could save Fireman's Fund $200 million, more than double the project's actual cost.

IBM Contributes Business Process Content to ACORD Insurance Industry Standards

IBM and ACORD, the nonprofit insurance standards organization, announced today that IBM is contributing more than 100 business-process models, model definitions and other industry content to ACORD. The models come from IBM's Insurance Application Architecture (IAA), the company's insurance business and IT architecture framework. The donation will accelerate the development and adoption of business-process standards that in turn will help address some of the global insurance industry's greatest challenges.

IBM Partners with ACORD for BPM

Insurance industry standards body ACORD (Pearl River, N.Y.) will expand its standards framework to include business processes, owing to a contribution by IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) of elements of the vendor's Insurance Application Architecture that define common industry business process services. The contribution consists of business process models for more than 100 specific processes, standard terminology and software code drawn from the vendor's Insurance Application Architecture.