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"We are delighted that Lombardi Software has joined the Eclipse Foundation," said Web Services Edge 2005 keynote speaker Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse, as Lombardi Software, the developer of TeamWorks, the industry award-winning business process management (BPM) platform, this week joined the Eclipse Foundation as a provider member.

"Lombardi's BPM architecture is a natural fit with Eclipse and their innovative use of the platform will not only make it more productive for the IT community, but business users as well. We look forward to their contributions in our growing eco-system," Milinkovich added. 

Lombardi's TeamWorks integrates Eclipse with its Shared Model architecture, giving organizations the ability to model, simulate, execute, monitor and change business processes in a configurable, extensible environment.

"Eclipse is a great step forward for the J2EE software community and it's emerging as the development platform of choice for the Java and open-source community," said Phil Gilbert, executive vice president and CTO of Lombardi. "We believe BPM has a unique role to play in the advancement of SOA, and that demands a continual adoption of all standards. In the end, our customers are the real beneficiaries as we rapidly innovate new BPM plug-ins and leverage the thousands of plug-ins already built for Eclipse."

Lombardi also announced the delivery of its Coach Designer for Eclipse, simplifying the graphical design of user interfaces for BPM. The plug-in is driven from TeamWorks' unique Shared Model architecture, the industry's only non-proprietary, model-driven execution environment. Coach Designer provides the unique ability to interactively design a form using a business-facing graphical perspective or a technical-facing perspective. It creates the first standards-based "round-trip" collaboration between business and IT, letting multiple designers work from a common perspective without limitations or rework.