DALLAS, Texas, March 3, 2004 -- The Robert E. Nolan Company has formed an alliance with Popkin Software. This alliance will allow Nolan, a management consulting firm serving insurance, health care and banking organizations, to use Popkin’s powerful modeling and design tools to enhance its process improvement methods and to develop and capture business and technical requirements in a form that can be referred to and revised over time.

Nolan has incorporated Popkin tools into its Business Process Management solution. “This use of Popkin System Architect enables us to enhance our deliverables and provide our clients with a dynamic blueprint of their business processes and the underlying enterprise data,” says Rod Travers, Nolan senior vice president of technology. “In the appropriate situations, the Popkin Software tools will enhance our ability to improve our clients’ processes and service as well as lower costs.”

The Robert E. Nolan Company is a management consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry. Since 1973, the company has been helping insurance companies achieve measurable improvements in service, quality, productivity and costs by helping them achieve an optimum blend of people, process and technology. For more information, visit http://www.renolan.com.

Popkin Software leads the market with modeling and design tools to design and deploy enterprise systems in alignment with business requirements. Since 1988, organizations throughout the world have relied on Popkin’s products and services for the capture of business needs and the development of global business critical systems. For more information, visit http://www.popkin.com.