Released on: August 18, 2008, 4:08 am

Press Release Author: Emma McGinley

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Singularity, the Business Process Management software vendor,
today announced that it has been successfully appraised at level 3 under the
software industry's most respected standard, the Capability Maturity Model
Integration (CMMI). CMMI is the international 'gold standard' for process
excellence in software engineering. Singularity's certification is for a SCAMPI
Level 3 assessment against the CMMI maturity model staged representation v1.2. The
company is the only one in its market sector to have achieved this level of
accreditation. The achievement is particularly notable because it included
assessment of the company's in-house ASAP methodology which is based on the latest
'Agile' techniques. The appraisal was won by Singularity's Hyderabad Software
Development Centre. The processes that were assessed are used in all of
Singularity's software development centers worldwide. Today's announcement follows
on from the previous level 2 CMMI accreditation won by the company's worldwide
software development centers in 2006.

Press Release Body: Hyderabad, 18 August 2008
Singularity, the Business Process Management software vendor, today announced that
it has been successfully appraised at level 3 under the software industry's most
respected standard, the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). CMMI is the
international 'gold standard' for process excellence in software engineering.
Singularity's certification is for a SCAMPI Level 3 assessment against the CMMI
maturity model staged representation v1.2. The company is the only one in its market
sector to have achieved this level of accreditation. The achievement is particularly
notable because it included assessment of the company's in-house ASAP methodology
which is based on the latest 'Agile' techniques. The appraisal was won by
Singularity's Hyderabad Software Development Centre. The processes that were
assessed are used in all of Singularity's software development centers worldwide.
Today's announcement follows on from the previous level 2 CMMI accreditation won by
the company's worldwide software development centers in 2006.
"This accreditation recognizes our ASAP processes as being best in class at a global
level", said Sean Canavan, Singularity Director of Process Improvement. "It's a
huge achievement and a great reflection on our people in Hyderabad".
"We're delighted with the certification" said Srinivas Reddy, head of Singularity's
Hyderabad subsidiary. "It recognizes the work and dedication to process excellence
of the Hyderabad team and of the company as a whole".
To obtain CMMI Level 3 Singularity formed teams of experts familiar both with the
company's internal software development processes and the requirements of the CMMi
model. These teams used the ASAP approach to prioritize, select and reengineer each
process in a series of iterations, with lessons from one iteration being carried
over to the next. This incremental approach reduced the time to standardize on
improved processes and ensured easier adoption of the new processes by staff.
Processes were modeled and partially or fully automated using Singularity's Business
Process Management system, the Singularity Process Platform.
Some of the processes that helped win the certification included the Project
On-boarding process, which made it easier for measures of productivity and
utilization to be captured throughout the project lifecycle, enabling better
analysis and decision making. The automated system used for Project On-boarding was
developed using the Singularity Process Platform, and was showcased at the Best
Practices Session of the Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) in Hyderabad.

About Singularity
Singularity is a global leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow
Software, with 220 staff and offices in Derry, Belfast, New York, London, Singapore
and Hyderabad. Singularity's award-winning BPM platform helps our customers automate
complex business processes, threading human and system activities seamlessly
together to achieve greater efficiency and agility. Singularity also provides a
range of pre-built solutions the Telecommunications, Government and Capital Markets
sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.singularity.us.com or
http://www.singularity.co.uk. Singularity's CMMI appraisal is listed on
http://sas.sei.cmu.edu/pars/pars.aspx

About CMMi
The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi) from the Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University promotes organizational maturity by
helping organizations improve quality, timeliness and predictability of their
software development processes, as well as equipment and developed systems. The
CMMi® appraisal offers an internationally respected assessment method via which a
company's maturity level and reliability may be assessed, based on a list of
objectives to be attained and practices to be implemented per business process. To
learn more about CMMI visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/general/index.html.


Web Site: http://www.singularity.co.uk

Contact Details: For further press information please contact Emma McGinley at
Singularity Email: emma.mcginley@singularity.co.uk, or telephone: + 44 28 7126 7767

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