QPR announces QPR 8 - fast, easy and efficient way to take control of business
process management
Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday November 26, 2008. QPR Software Plc today released
a new generation of its integrated management system QPR 8. This new product
generation of the Business Process Management platform more efficiently supports
Risk Management and Quality Compliance, integrates easily with Microsoft Office
and Sharepoint, and offers new licensing options for site licenses.
“QPR 8 integrated management system is the fastest, easiest and most efficient
way for organizations all around the world to take control of their
human-centric business processes. As a ready-to-use Business Process Management
solution QPR 8 is fast to implement. QPR 8 covers Process, Performance, Risk and
Quality management. It also adapts quickly to business changes and improves
customer's ability to adapt to changes. Customers have indicated that easiness
to use is a key strength of QPR products and we are proud to deliver QPR 8 with
highly visual and intuitive user interface for business people,” QPR Software
President and CEO Jari Jaakkola comments and continues:
“QPR has strong business expectations for the version 8. As the global economy
is slowing down, we have already seen growing interest from organizations
looking for tools to take more control of their businesses. With QPR 8 we now
provide the best business process management platform for managing processes,
performance, risk and quality compliance.”
Since the launch of QPR 7 generation in 2003, QPR has implemented more than
2,800 new features and functionalities to its' QPR ScoreCard and QPR
ProcessGuide products as well as introduced the QPR FactView and QPR WorkFlow
products.
“QPR 8 is the integrated management system that covers all business needs
related to Process, Performance, Risk and Quality Management. Some highlights of
8.0 new functionality include new QPR Web Services Foundation and QPR Add-In for
Microsoft® Office for more effective reporting capabilities and out of the box
integration with Microsoft® Office SharePoint for document management with
version control”, says Tony Virtanen, Vice President, Products & Support at QPR.
In QPR 8, the process modeling capabilities have been extended to easier
capture, maintain, extract and audit process, risk and quality related
information. QPR 8 also includes easy to use performance visualization and dash
boarding capabilities with risk heat maps, pie and donut charts to complement
its' extensive selection of chart templates. This makes business process
management faster, easier and more efficient.
New licensing options for QPR 8 make it easy to start the project as a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) project and gradually roll-out the implementation
to corporate level site license. QPR works together with strategic customers and
partners to develop products and to obtain innovate new ideas to continuously
make products faster, easier to use and more efficient. As research analyst
Simon Holloway from Bloor research (www.bloor-research.com/) stated in a recent
QPR Webinar:
“The QPR's Integrated Management System provides an impressive portfolio with an
innovative approach based around flexibility, whilst at the same time providing
the necessary IT controls and business user ease of use requirements that are
needed.”
QPR 8 is available through QPR partners globally (please see www.qpr.com). The
new generation of QPR Software's integrated management system includes and
combines QPR ScoreCard performance management software and QPR ProcessGuide
process modeling and analysis software. QPR provides easy to use tools for
existing QPR customers to upgrade to new QPR 8.
About QPR Software Plc
QPR Software Plc is an international, highly recognized specialist providing
software and solutions for process development and for risk management and
compliance. QPR's mission is to help people and organizations to take control of
their business processes and achieve their goals. QPR software has been
implemented in more than 1,500 organizations across the globe and is provided in
more than 20 languages. QPR was founded in 1991, has its headquarters in
Helsinki, Finland and co-operates with an extensive network of talented partners
in over 50 countries worldwide. QPR Software's share is listed on NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki Ltd. (ticker: QPR1V).
QPR - Quality. Processes. Results. www.qpr.com
For more information, please contact:
QPR Software Plc
Jari Jaakkola, CEO
Tel. +358 (0) 4050 26397
jari.jaakkola(at)qpr.com
Tony Virtanen, Vice President, Products & Support
Tel. +358 (0) 40 7724 022
tony.virtanen(at)qpr.com
QPR announces QPR 8 - fast, easy and efficient way to take control of business process management
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