Press Release

"The Rise of the Project Workforce” Book Chapter Featured in the 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook

Pasadena, California - July 28, 2008

Tenrox, the leading provider of workflow-driven project workforce management solutions, today announced that an excerpt from Rudolf Melik’s most recent book, “The Rise of the Project Workforce” has been included in the 2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook: Spotlight on Human-Centric BPM, by Jon Pyke, WfMC Chair and Chief Strategy Officer, Cordys.

The 2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook describes how human-centric business process management (BPM) has become an essential element of BPM offerings. This topic now captures substantial mindshare in the BPM space, as leading vendors have strengthened their human-centric business processes.

"BPM and workflow initiatives are highly visible projects that can have a major impact on a company's core operations and business critical processes. The BPM and Workflow handbook is an excellent resource that needs to be on every project manager's and BPM practitioner's reading list," explains Rudolf Melik, CEO Tenrox.

Moreover, the book examines challenges in human-driven workflow and its integration across the enterprise. Important chapters include:

• System Automation vs. Human Facilitation
• MyBPM: Social Networking for Business Process Management
• Services: Integrating User Interfaces into a Service-Oriented Architecture
• Impact of Organizational Changes on Running Processes: a Challenge for Achieving Business Agility
• Human-Driven BPM: the Missing Piece is People
• The Rise of Project Workforce: managing a dispersed project-based workforce

Ordering Information:

The “2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook” (hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-9777527-6-8) is available for purchase on Amazon.com. “The Rise of the Project Workforce, Managing People and Projects in a Flat World” (Wiley hardcover, ISBN 978-0-470-12430-7), is available for purchase on Amazon.com.

About Tenrox

Tenrox empowers client companies to meet the challenges of globalization, enterprise fragmentation and increased regulatory scrutiny. Available on-demand or on-premise, Tenrox solutions have served more than 800 organizations in
50 countries, maximizing efficiency, data security and reliability. Since 1995, Tenrox has served organizations such as: GE Infrastructure -GE Fanuc, Rio Tinto Alcan, E*TRADE Financial Corp, Blue Cross Blue Shield NC. Alstom, IBM, SNC Lavalin, Hydro Quebec, Pioneer Natural Resources, Westinghouse Rail Systems, SAS, Thales, US Army, The Pentagon, Talisman Energy, Northrop Grumman, Oxfam, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Estee Lauder and Wyeth. Tenrox project management software is available through direct sales channels and a network of worldwide partners. For more information about the company or its award-winning family of products, go to www.tenrox.com.

Media Contact:
Marie Melchiorre
Tenrox Public Relations
877-483-6769 Ext. 4603
publicrelations@tenrox.com

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