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Under the terms of the multiple-award contract, as the U.

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The combination targets larger enterprises, where business rules and
business processes are often managed by different groups . BPM market growth reflects a need for
consistency, control and quality within frequent or complex processes. A team of
15 multilingual professionals with extensive practical experience, help large
and mid-size companies in designing, improving and implementing business
processes.

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By effectively
managing the complete, end-to-end process, the expected results can be
achieved and C-level executives can gain visibility into the mission
critical operational aspects of their business never before available. Jandegian, President, URS
Division, said: "This is another important win for our URS Division ,
which underscores our leading position in the environmental services
market and our competitive strength in helping key government agencies
and private sector companies comply with increasingly tough air
quality regulations.

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Both BRE and BPM tools provide a
common language for business users and technology staff. www. Navy
issues specific task orders, URS will compete to provide support
services such as field investigations, permitting, emission source
testing, health risk assessments , reporting, database development, GIS
mapping and other air quality services.

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"BPM/BRE integration can
ease maintenance costs, and it allows subject matter experts to take
responsibility for business rules and processes."

The growth of the BRE market is driven by the need for business agility,
allowing organizations to respond to volatile business policies with easy
rule capture and change. Processes like approval management,
order fulfillment and exception management are often complicated manual
activities involving many people and a variety of systems. Through this alliance Pivotal Resources and Ideas@Work
will closely partner to offer Six Sigma consulting, training and project
coaching services across Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
Ideas@Work specializes in Process and Project Management, helping mid to
large sized companies in designing, improving and implementing their business
processes.
In 2004, the Qfor quality label was granted for delivering maximum
customer satisfaction, for both consulting and training services.

About Pivotal Resources
Pivotal Resources is a global consulting and training firm that focuses on
organizational improvement through the implementation of Six Sigma, Lean and
related methodologies. With operations in North
America, Europe and Asia, the company is headquartered in Walnut Creek,
California.

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InRule 's evolving "rules console" approach utilizes a rules catalog that
provides visibility into core logic and will facilitate sharing that logic
across applications. CRM, SFA and ERP
applications all launch critical processes that are largely ignored from
automation and management standpoints.urscorp .com

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InRule Technology, innovative provider of
Business Rule Engine (BRE) technology for implementing and managing
business rules, and Bluespring Software, the business process management
(BPM) company that adds back-end execution to front-end applications,
announced today a strategic alliance to integrate their technology.

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The
partnership between InRule Technology and Bluespring Software addresses a
growing need for technology that spans rules, policies, and processes
across an enterprise.S. We look forward to working with the Navy on this
assignment and extending our twelve -year relationship with the
Southwest Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

Pivotal Resources and Ideas@Work Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Lean Six Sigma Capabilities in Benelux

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About Bluespring Software

Bluespring Software, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, brings a business
execution capability to the enterprise. Navy,
Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest Division, to provide
comprehensive air quality services to the Navy and Marine Corps in
California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

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URS Corporation offers a comprehensive range of professional
planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance,
program and construction management, and operations and maintenance
services for transportation, commercial/industrial, facilities,
environmental, water/wastewater , homeland security, installations and
logistics, and defense systems. Pivotal Resources has published three highly respected
books on Six Sigma Deployment -- The Six Sigma Way, The Six Sigma Way Team
Fieldbook and What is Six Sigma? In addition, it has recently published What
is Six Sigma Process Management?, and What is Design for Six Sigma? The
company offers a range of process management solutions, serving Fortune 500
companies in diverse industries across the world.

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The five -year
contract has a maximum potential value to URS of $15 million.

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Leading research and analysis firms are hearing customer demand for
integration between business rule engines and business process management. InRule's declarative development approach captures
business intent by allowing users to encode rules without the overhead of
custom programming, which results in highly adaptive business processes.

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SAN FRANCISCO----URS Corporation
(NYSE: URS) today announced that it was one of three companies awarded
indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contracts by the U.

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PRESS RELEASE InRule Technology and Bluespring Software Form Strategic Alliance to Integrate Business Rules Engine (BRE) and Business Process Management (BPM)

InRule and Bluespring offer
best in class solutions that put technology in the hands of the business
user. There are also significant financial benefits to
externalizing rules for business users to author and update, without the
overhead of custom programming.

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InRule users gain a process modeling
capability with embedded rule authoring , a process-oriented runtime
infrastructure to support rule evaluation, and a simplified authoring
rollout with Bluespring's process management procedures.
"The market is starting to demand the combination of business rules and
BPM, and in a couple of years it will be the norm," said Jim Sinur , vice
president and distinguished analyst of Gartner.inrule.

URS to Provide Air Quality Services to the U.S. Navy; Contract Has Maximum Potential Value to URS of $15 Million

"Both our organizations share the same level of commitment to deliver
industry leading process improvement training, making this partnership a
perfect fit," said Eddy December 12-16, 2005

About Ideas@Work
Ideas@Work was founded in 2000 and specializes in Business Process
Management methodologies, techniques and related topics.

organizational solutions

"For larger enterprises with myriad of complex processes, the ability to
externalize rules management from process management is key," said Rob
Daly, President and CEO of Bluespring Software.

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Joint customers
will gain complete management of their enterprise policies , rules and
processes by the right subject matter experts in each field.

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Bluespring
users gain additional flexibility and granularity in routing decision
logic, advanced mapping and transformation operations, and sophisticated
calculation and analytics capability.
Commenting on the contract win, Gary V. The company's approach to Process Management focuses on results
rather than strictly theoretical methods.

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"Our partnership with Bluespring puts us out in front of where the market
is ultimately heading. Other potential services
include support of the Navy's air quality compliance activities
related to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act , the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the
Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Act.

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BPM
provides value to organizations with high volume processes or processes
that involve external participants. Headquartered in San Francisco, the
Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 27,500
employees providing engineering and technical services to federal,
state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in
the chemical, pharmaceutical , oil and gas, power, manufacturing,
mining and forest products industries (www.

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Enterprises must centralize control of the rules
that define their business and the processes that drive organizational
effectiveness," said Paul Hessinger, CEO of InRule Technology.

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NET platform.

About InRule Technology

InRule provides technology for the authoring, management and verification
of application decision logic that involves rules, calculations and dynamic
user interfaces. LONDON and BRUSSELS, Belgium , Pivotal Resources,
a global leader in Lean Six Sigma strategy and implementation, today announced
a partnership with Ideas@Work, a leading Process Management consultancy based
in Brussels, Belgium .

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"Coupling our two
technologies places the management and administration of processes and
rules into the hands of the appropriate business users and process owners. Bluespring's BPM Suite enables
enterprise applications to be all they can be. Beside its project and consulting
activities, Ideas@Work develops training programs and workshops that vary from
a general introduction to in-depth workshops on specific topics, such as
process measurement and process modeling. Their customers include leading companies and organizations in the
finance, utilities, telecom, health care and public services sectors, often
operating in a multinational and cross-border environment.

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