Intalio, Inc., a leading open source BPMS company, and IT Frontier Corporation, a Japan-based systems integrator, today announced the creation of the Intalio Japanese Community (http://oss-bpms.jp/). The community is designed to bring together experts to share best practices in building business process management systems, supply documentation, and training.

Intalio also announced the launch of its Asia-Pacific offices in Singapore . The recent trend of increased customer demand for Intalio|BPMS in Asia prompted the move into providing local support and training services to customers, not only in Southeast Asia, but in China , India , and Australia  as well thanks to the growing network of system integration partners.

Intalio released the English version of its community site, the Intalio Community (http://bpms.intalio.com) in April 2006. With more than 30,000 members today, the site has provided an essential resource for BPMS professionals worldwide. The partnership with IT Frontier gives the Japanese community a local company with extensive experience in IT services combined with the open source BPMS vendor. The next training session in Japan will be hosted in Tokyo on March 4-5. For more information visit http://www.intalio.com/training/Tokyo.

"Working with IT Frontier gives us a partner that understands the needs of the local community," notes Ismael Ghalimi, Intalio founder and CEO. "Moreover, IT Frontier has spent the last seven years at the forefront of helping major companies in key industries realize increases in production, while reducing costs through better management of their IT services-a goal that aligns well with the values on which Intalio was founded."

Intalio|BPMS Community Edition supports the BPMN and BPEL industry standards, while Intalio|BPMS Enterprise Edition embeds a Document Management System (DMS), an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Portal, and a Business Rules Engine (BRE) to provide the most complete open source BPMS solution available. Now, over 25,000 individual organizations are using Intalio|BPMS Community Edition, and more than 300 companies are subscribing to Intalio's training and support services.

"Intalio is the pioneer in BPMS," commented Yoshiki Yamaguchi, BPM/SOA team manager at IT Frontier. "Its business model has great potential to be widely accepted in the Japanese marketplace. We at IT Frontier saw that setting up an Intalio community for exchanging information would be an effective way to promote BPMS in Japan. We expect that BPMS professionals will be very excited, and the community will grow exponentially over the next year."

Intalio announced the launch of its Asia-Pacific offices in Singapore spurred by a recent trend of increased customer demand for Intalio|BPMS in Asia. The activitiy prompted Intalio to provide local support and training services to customers, not only in Southeast Asia, but also China , India , and Australia , thanks to the growing network of system integration partners.

The next training session is scheduled for February 26-27 in Singapore ; registration is still open. "Many companies located in Asia-Pacific contacted us recently as they are already starting to deploy Intalio|BPMS in their environment," said Arnaud Blandin, business development director for Intalio. "It was key for them to see commitment from Intalio to support them as their projects mature. Asia is adopting our product at an incredible pace, and it is simply a region that we must invest in to fully capitalize on the momentum."

Customers will have access to support personnel knowledgeable about the region. Companies in Asia are pushing to adopt new technologies to help control and maximize the efficiency of their processes in order to compete in an increasingly automated global environment. Particularly with organizations looking to Asia to outsource part of their process automation, the need for training and support in the area has become a top priority.

"As our customers are embracing our offering based on Intalio|BPMS and some of the best proven open source solutions, we welcome the Intalio initiative to open an office in Singapore," stated Neville Bradbury, managing director for OpenSoft, an Intalio System Integrator partner. "We look forward to working closely with them to provide the professional services, software and support needed for Asia-Pacific for the Intalio|BPMS platform."

The new offices have already had a positive impact on customers. Dennis Fung, CTO of Genoko, an Intalio Systems Integration partner that manages IT project implementation for Fuji Xerox in Singapore , commented that his company "was somewhat tentative in implementing an Intalio|BPMS solution until the recent setup in Asia. The commitment shown assures us that there will be direct support and a response time that will allow us to get answers as fast as possible."

About IT Frontier Corporation

IT Frontier supports clients' IT assets with our wide range of services, including IT design, development, implementation and operation. The key value that we offer is the ability to develop, implement and operate their Enterprise Resource Planning system and their IT infrastructure with high credibility and long experiences.

The corporate vision is to become a "Value-Creating Company that brings out the best of our staff and technology" and we are dedicated to creating maximum value for clients' successes. Its sales for FY2006 totaled 61 billion yen and the company has 1,572 employees (as of October 1, 2007). Please refer to http://www.itfrontier.co.jp/701/index.html for further details.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPM and SOA software. The Intalio Business Process Platform empowers organizations of all sizes to develop process-driven applications faster, better, and cheaper. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit http://www.intalio.com/.