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• Action Technologies & Swiss Re Win Business Process Management Award; since 1999 no company has won more of these medals.
• PeopleSoft veteran Christel Devlin promoted to VP of Sales
• Action Technologies introduces the Enhanced ActionWorks Suite, unifying knowledge work through collaboration, project-management and administrative tools
• Action Chosen as "Company to Watch in Business Execution" in the Intelligent Enterprises 2005 Editor's Choice Awards
• AIAG and Action Conclude Agreement to Serve Automotive Industry, allowing AIAG members to obtain ActionWorks® BPM software suite at beneficial terms to help manage complex standards such as APQP, ISO 16949, and TREAD

• Action Technologies celebrates 20 years of accelerating business processes.
• Swedish Solution Provider IPSUM AB to Offer ActionWorks BPM Software in Scandinavia
• Genesis Technology Partners Selects Action Technologies to Power
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• CSC chooses ActionWorks^® 5 as Person-to-Person decision management component of e4^SM enterprise architecture
• Action Technologies cited as "Visionary" in Gartner Magic Quadrant on Business Process Management for second year in a row.
• Action introduces ActionWorks Team Manager for managing work in dynamic team environments.
• Action launches ActionWorks Corporate Performance Manager to focus every employee's work on achieving corporate strategic goals.
• ActionWorks Standards Coordinator seamlessly integrates standards and regulation compliance into business processes.
• Action launches ActionWorks Contract Life Cycle Manager to automate all stages of contracts, from negotiation to enforcement and evaluation.

• USAA Licenses ActionWorks Business Process Management Software.
• Action launches ActionWorks 5, incorporating Metro^® and Coordinator^® functionality into one integrated suite.
• Action Technologies cited as "Visionary" in Gartner Magic Quadrant on Business Process Management.
• Action and Credit Suisse Private Bank win the GIGA/WfMC Global Excellence Award, European Region, for an unprecedented fourth win for Action in a row.
• Action and International Truck and Engine Corp. win the GIGA/WfMC Global Excellence Award, North American Region, an unprecedented two Gold Awards for one company in one year.
• Richard Berger to Spearhead Product Management.

• Action ships Coordinator 4.5.
• Action with MCI Worldcom win GIGA/WfMC Global Excellence Award, North American Region, for Action's third win in a row.
• Action wins GIGA/WfMC Global Excellence Award, North American Region, for third year in a row.
• Jack Arnold named Sr. Vice President of Sales
• Russell Creighton named Vice President of Professional Services
  

• Action and R. R. Donnelley win GIGA/WfMC Global Excellence Award, North American Region, for Action's second win in a row.
• Action launches Coordinator 4.0 an enterprise BPM platform for managing dynamic decision processes among knowledge workers.
• Action ships ActionWorks Metro 5.2.
• Click Commerce Allies with Action Technologies to Enhance Leading Channel Management Solution
• Action joins BPMI.

• Action and Lubrizol win GIGA/WfMC Global Excellence Award, North American Region.
• Action launches eBRM2000 3.0 for professional service firms (Matrix for the 21st century).
• Action granted patent 6,073,109 for a computerized method and system for managing business processes using linked workflows.
• Action granted patent 6,058,413 for a method and apparatus which is used to enable application developers to generate workflow enabled applications.
• Action ships ActionWorks Metro 5.1.

• Action wins 1999 Microsoft Industry Solution Award for the third time in the three years of the competition.
• Action launches ActionWorks Metro 5.0.
• Action launches ActionWorks Matrix 1.0.

• Action wins 1998 Microsoft Industry Solution Award; named "Best Structured Workflow Solution".
• Action wins Network Computing's 1998 Well-Connected Award.
• Action granted patent 5,734,837 for a method and system which provides consultants, business process analysts, and application developers with a unified tool with which to conduct business process analysis, design, documentation and to generate business process definitions and workflow-enabled applications.
• Action ships ActionWorks Metro 4.

• Action wins 1997 Editor's Choice Award from Network Computing Magazine.
• Action wins 1997 Microsoft Industry Solution Award.
• Action granted patent 5,630,069 for a method and apparatus for creating workflow maps of business processes.
• Action launches TeamAction OnTrack Reseller Program.
• Action ships ActionWorks OnTrack for Lotus Notes, "world's first personal work management software."

• Baylor Health Care System selects Metro and Netscape servers and browsers for web-based business process management applications.
• Sandia National Labs selects Metro and Netscape servers and browsers for web-based business process management applications.
• Action ships ActionWorkflow^® Enterprise Series 3.0.
• Action signs OEM agreement with Cincom.
• Action launches TeamAction Metro Reseller Program.

• Action ships ActionWorks Metro, "world's first business process management solution for the Internet."
• Action partners with PeopleSoft and Minolta.
• Action signs OEM agreements with Saros and PC DOCS.

• Action ships ActionWorkflow Manager for Lotus Notes, version 1.5.
• Action ships ActionWorkflow System for Microsoft NT,
• Action ships ActionWorkflow Analyst first desktop business process modeling software.

• Action ships complete family of ActionWorkflow products.
• Action granted patent 5,208,748 for a method and apparatus for structuring and managing human communications by explicitly defining the types of communications permitted between participants.
• Action co-founds Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC).

• Action announces ActionWorkflow products.
• MHS sold to Novell, Inc., Coordinator sold to Da Vinci.
• First license to IBM for early work management technology.
• Action and Novell team to deliver MHS (Mail Handling System); NetWare MHS ships.
• Action ships first version of Coordinator.
• Action Technologies founded by Fernando Flores, Ph.D.(UC Berkeley), and Terry Winograd, Ph.D. (Stanford), co-authors of Understanding Computers and Cognition.