During the closing ceremony of the 5th Process Solutions Day in Frankfurt, health insurance company AOK and Signavio were awarded the 2nd prize of the Process Solution Award for their project "introduction of a shared business process platform for the AOK".

Sven Schnägelberger, organizer of the Process Solutions Day and initiator of the BPM-Club, praised the strategic importance of the project. He underlined that the project demonstrated how business process management can help organizations reach their strategic goals. It fascinated him that a big array of large organizations could be brought together under the umbrella of the joint platform.

Norbert Sandau, division manager at AOK Berlin-Brandenburg, briefly presented the project just before the award ceremony. With its 27% market share, AOK belongs to the big insurance companies in Germany. Prof. Binner, the head of the German Society for Organization (gfo), handed the certificates to the winners.

In the context of this year's founders congress, the "Multimedia Startup of the Year" was awarded today. Eckhard Schwarzer, board member of DATEV eG, was fascinated by Signavio's product and praised the collaborative approach to Business Process Management.

CAVI VideoShopping GmbH was also nominated. The Hamburg-based software company enables online shopping directly from Internet videos (http://cavi.tv).

Artificial Technology GmbH was the winner in the end, a Munich-based provider for "emotional artificial intelligence" for characters in computer games (http://www.artificial-technology.com). Hans-Joachim Otto, Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology, announced the winner and handed over a 50,000€ cheque to Artificial Technology.

As part of the first user group "Organization of Health Insurance Companies", AOK Berlin-Brandenburg and Signavio will give a joint presentation on "Process Management and HR Planning at AOK". The user group is part of the Leipzig Health Forums and will take place at the Graduate Management School Leipzig (HHL).

Stefan Lewinski, member of the organizational development team at AOK Berlin-Brandenburg, and Dr. Gero Decker, Managing Director of Signavio, will discuss the intersection between business process design and forecasting HR demands.

As a sponsor of the biggest conference for BPM solutions in Germany, Signavio will be present in Frankfurt on May 17th with a booth and a presentation. The conference is hosted by the German Society for Organization (gfo).

Get informed about the newest developments regarding the Signavio Process Editor. Some highlights:

• Support for the camunda methodology (known from the "Praxishandbuch BPMN")
• "Social BPM" - collaborative modeling in a public community
• Definition of your own modeling guidelines for your individual BPM scenario
• Integration with SAPERION's workflow engine

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you be interested in registering for the conference.

You can find more details at http://www.gfo-kongress.de/.