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Metastorm Announces 2004 Enterprise Process Advantage(R) Award Winners

Recognizing Outstanding Customer Achievements in Business Process Management

COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 29 -- Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software for automating, managing and controlling processes today announced the recipients of its 2004 Enterprise Process Advantage Awards, which were presented at the company's global BPM Forum and User Conference on October 28th in Baltimore, Maryland.

With the creation of the Enterprise Process Advantage Award in 2003, Metastorm was the first company to recognize the outstanding results in business process management achieved by its customers through a formal award program. The awards program is run annually in conjunction with Metastorm's BPM Forum & User Conference.

For 2004, the awards recognize the best Business Process Management solution in three categories: Innovative Use of BPM Technology, Highest ROI from BPM Technology, and Mission Critical Use of BPM Technology in the areas of customer service, supply chain operations, risk management, or internal operations. Nominations for the awards are accepted from Metastorm's customer base, employees and partners.

Metastorm would like to congratulate the following organizations as the recipients of this year's awards:

  *  Innovative Use of BPM Technology -- Hogan & Hartson LLP, this global
     law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys has implemented Metastorm for a
     mission-critical new business intake process.  Recognizing the need to
     enable highly mobile legal professionals to participate in key, time
     sensitive client matter and legal conflict reviews while away from the
     office, the team built a Metastorm e-Work BPM application for the
     Blackberry wireless device and has deployed it to more than 900 of the
     firm's partners, attorneys and other key employees.

  *  Highest ROI from BPM Technology -- AMTI, a premier provider of
     comprehensive technical solutions to public and private sector clients.
     AMTI is both a Metastorm customer, using e-Work internally, and a
     Metastorm Partner, offering the product to its customers. AMTI has
     experienced an outstanding Return on Investment from Metastorm e-Work
     -- for both its customers and its own company. AMTI was able to save
     one of its Federal Government customers $400,000 by leveraging its e-
     Work Purchase Request process.

  *  Mission Critical Use of BPM Technology -- Brembo, a supplier of
     traditional and ceramic brake disks for cars, motorcycles, commercial,
     and high-performance vehicles including Ferrari, Porsche, and BMW.
     Recognizing that its reputation depends on the safety, quality and
     performance of its brakes, Brembo invested in Metastorm e-Work to bring
     the quality of its new product design and development process in line
     with the quality of its physical manufacturing processes. Using
     Metastorm e-Work, Brembo has streamlined, automated and deployed its
     full life-cycle product design and development process to everyone
     involved in the product design cycle. With this system, Brembo has been
     able to reduce its risk of errors, improve product quality, lower
     costs, and increase its time to market for new products.

"Metastorm applauds Hogan & Hartson, AMTI, and Brembo for their outstanding achievements in BPM, and we are thrilled to be able to formally recognize them through the presentation of these awards. We were impressed with the exceptional quality of all of the nominations that we received and are extremely pleased by the results our clients are reporting from their Metastorm BPM implementations," stated Robert Farrell, president and CEO of Metastorm. "The level of commitment our customers have put into their projects is truly remarkable, and this effort and innovation clearly validates that Metastorm e-Work can deliver significant improvements in efficiency, control and agility -- and most importantly can enable organizations to achieve Enterprise Process Advantage from their most mission-critical processes."

About Metastorm, Inc.

As the leading provider of business process management software for automating, managing, and controlling processes, Metastorm is the only company helping organizations achieve Enterprise Process Advantage(R) -- a heightened level of business performance resulting from increased process efficiency, control, and agility. With a focus on complex, human-centric processes that are unique to their organizations, Metastorm's 700+ global client base in manufacturing, financial services, business services, healthcare and government are achieving rapid ROI and unique process advantage in customer service, supply chain operations, risk management, and internal operations. For more information visit http://www.metastorm.com/.

Enterprise Process Advantage and e-Work are registered trademarks of Metastorm Inc. Other product, service and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.