Corporate FAQ

The main benefits are time and cost savings due to:

• Complete and continuous alignment of business processes and applications
• Accurate and quick capture of business needs using blueprinting approach
• Maintenance of control, visibility and the ability to collaborate during every stage of the application creation and management process
• Leveraging large catalog of business components (over 1,000) for consistent reuse of assets
• Easy reuse of legacy assets from packaged, custom, mainframe and client/server applications to create new ones
• Ongoing impact analysis of change across the enterprise to helps to ensure full Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance
• Reducing IT dependence on any one technology stack
• Easy collaboration across the virtual enterprise and with multiple vendors to create enterprise class solutions
• Uniform methodology and architecture across the entire enterprise, based on SOA standards
• Reduction of dependence on programmers dramatically through automation for a higher level of quality in delivery.

Ramco VirtualWorks^® is a suite of products that help enterprise customers rapidly transform their business applications. It includes: A model-driven platform that: - Models businesses processes - Creates new business services - Assembles applications A library of business services repository - More than 1,000 pre-configured - Spanning multiple vertical industries An enterprise information management platform that tracks and manages goals Consulting and implementation services

Ramco’s complete platform approach to transformation delivers applications faster and ensures business-to-software compliance. Alternatively, IT service providers address BPM and SOA requirements with inflexible software packages or build monolithic custom applications crafted with many discrete tools and hundreds of programmers. BPM products only reconfigure existing processes instead of re-architecting new ones. Other enterprise application platforms are proprietary and the solutions are incomplete. These alternative approaches bind customers to technologies and vendors while business processes and software remain misaligned. Ramco’s key differentiators, at a glance, are: Combining of a repository of business services and a platform to assemble applications Model-based, automated process delivery Monolithic applications just aren’t flexible Ramco’s content – 1000+ business services Ability to deploy on any platform – both J2EE and .Net Easy extension to current ERP systems

Ramco provides software and services for large enterprises to rapidly transform their business applications and for small and medium companies that: Want to respond quicker to rapidly changing business needs - Demand flexibility - Accelerated time to market - Reuse of critical business services - Ongoing change management Want Better applications - Leverage exisiting infrastructure assets - Deliver the highest quality software - Lower application development time and cost

Ramco helps customers rethink their business processes to keep pace with today’s customer-driven business environment by helping businesses to quickly and cost-effectively create enterprise applications that adapt to their unique needs. The key areas where Ramco helps business are: Addressing competitive pressures by: Enabling companies to move quickly as market windows shrink Speeding time to revenue Supporting dynamic business relationships Increasing IT systems efficiency Helping to make IT a competitive differentiator Unlocking value that has historically been trapped in silos Reducing cost and complexity of business processes changes Delivering highest quality software Lowering application development time and cost Responding to changing business needs by: Accelerating time to market Delivering flexible business systems Reusing critical business services Streamlining change management Leveraging existing infrastructure assets Transforming business applications to: Change to business process driven model Enable change on demand Support incremental legacy migration Enable software reuse Automate processest Meet compliance and governance requirements

Ramco Professional Services offer consulting, implementation, training and support services. Under the consulting umbrella, Ramco is helping enterprises with packaged programs to help companies transform their business applications. These programs include: Master Data Management Application Portfolio Analysis Legacy Migration