Invensys Skelta Honored in Eighth Annual International Business Awards

Online, August 23, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Invensys Skelta has earned a Distinguished Honoree medal in The 2011 International Business Awards. The company's flagship product, Skelta Business Process Management (BPM), was nominated for the category Best New Product or Service of the Year - Computer Software. The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business.

Nicknamed the Stevie®for the Greek word "crowned," the awards will be presented to honorees at a gala event on Tuesday, 11 October in the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Honorees were selected from more than 3,000 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 40 nations.

Skelta BPM provides enterprises with a rich collaborative platform to automate their sequence of human, system and document centric processes. Skelta BPM is also utilized to build rich composite applications such as Accounts Payable Solution, Document Management system, Corporate Governance, and Human Resource Information System for various industries ranging from Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Finance and many more.

With the acquisition of Skelta by Invensys Operations Management in April 2010, manufacturing industries across the globe are now using Skelta BPM technology to realize an integrated enterprise. Further extending the integrated application capabilities of the company's ArchestrA® System Platform software, ArchestrA Workflow software captures and enforces operational processes across business and production systems to automate the response to process exceptions. The software synchronizes human and system activity by enforcing standard operating procedures, as well as standard responses to abnormal events, such as downtime, quality breaches or yield decreases. In short, it extends and improves collaboration across the manufacturing enterprise by coordinating people, processes and systems to accomplish specific business objectives.

Honorees were determined through two rounds of judging by close to 200 professionals worldwide.

"Entries to The International Business Awards grew by more than 80% this year, and that illustrates the increasing importance of the IBAs worldwide," said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards, presenters of the IBAs. "We congratulate all of the honorees, and we look forward to recognizing them for their achievements at our gala event in Abu Dhabi on 11 October."

Speaking on this occasion, Sanjay Shah, Managing Director, Invensys Skelta, said, "We are proud to be recognized as a 'Distinguished Honoree' by Stevies International Business Awards. This recognition is not restricted to just honoring our product, but also recognizes the people behind it, and it is dedicated to the efforts of our employees to bring about a revolutionary product for the manufacturing industry."

"We at Invensys Skelta subscribe to the highest standards of ethics, corporate responsibility, and customer service and this accolade is a very critical recognition of our commitment to excellence," he added.

Organizations all over the world are eligible to compete in The International Business Awards, and can enter in any of more than 40 categories from Company of the Year and Best New Product of the Year to Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year and Executive of the Year. Complete lists of honorees and other details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.

About Invensys Operations Management
Invensys Operations Management, a division of Invensys, is a leading provider of automation and information technology, systems, software solutions, services and consulting to the global manufacturing and infrastructure industries. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, its solutions are used by more than 40,000 clients around the world in more than 200,000 plants and facilities.

Invensys Operations Management's offerings are delivered under several prominent industry brands, including Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, IMServ, InFusion, SimSci-Esscor, Skelta, Triconex and Wonderware. The company's approximately 9,000 employees and its global partner ecosystem integrate these products and services to help clients collaborate across systems and enterprises in real time, extracting critical data to make faster, better decisions and synchronize their operations from the plant floor to the executive offices, aligning production goals with business objectives. To learn more about Invensys Operations Management, visit iom.invensys.com.

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Invensys plc (www.invensys.com) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ISYS.L), with approximately 20,000 employees working in 50 countries.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.