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QPR enters Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools

QPR SOFTWARE PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 2 OCTOBER, 2014  AT 12:15 P.M.

QPR enters Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools

Helsinki - Gartner Inc. the world's leading information technology research and
advisory company includes QPR Software in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise
Architecture Tools (published on 30 September, 2014). QPR Software Plc was
added, as a new vendor, to the Magic Quadrant this year evaluated for its
flagship product, QPR EnterpriseArchitect. In total the Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Architecture Tools report evaluates 13 different providers. 

“QPR Software is very proud to have been included in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
for Enterprise Architecture Tools. Our approach to Enterprise Architecture is
very much business outcome driven, and we believe there are no reasons to
change this course. Increasingly, agility is required from organizations to
adapt to constantly changing business environments - and yet they face
increasing pressures to be efficient in execution. This is the challenge that
we are helping our customers to solve with our tools and services”, says Mr.
Jari Jaakkola, CEO at QPR Software Plc. 

“We believe our entrance to Gartner's 2014 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise
Architecture Tools shows that our decision to combine pragmatic methodology
with our open metamodel based tool in our enterprise architecture offering has
been a correct one. Our offering is continuously receiving a positive feedback
from our customers and partners in both public and private organizations”, says
Mr. Jaakko Riihinen, Senior Vice President, Products and Technology at QPR
Software Plc. 

QPR's offering for enterprise architecture work is composed of QPR Suite
including software for modeling and analysis (QPR EnterpriseArchitect),
automated business process discovery and process mining (QPR ProcessAnalyzer)
and performance management (QPR Metrics). QPR has also introduced QPR ODM
methodology (Operational Development Methodology) which is based on extensive
practical enterprise architecture experience and Gartner's requirements for
business-outcome driven enterprise architecture. The methodology is aligned
with the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®) and ArchiMate. 

Supporting Resources

  -- QPR Enterprise Architecture offering: www.qpr.com/ea
  -- QPR Operational Development Methodology: www.qpr.com/odm

About QPR Software

QPR Software provides insight to business operations for successful strategy
execution and operations improvement. QPR offers a comprehensive software suite
and consulting services for modeling, analyzing, designing and measuring
operations, supporting agile business transformation. We are a global thought
leader in business driven enterprise architecture and in process intelligence.
QPR Software Plc was founded in 1991 and has its headquarters in Helsinki,
Finland. As a publicly listed company, our shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki Ltd. www.qpr.com 

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QPR SOFTWARE PLC
Jari Jaakkola
CEO

For further information in QPR Software, please contact:

Mr. Jari Jaakkola, CEO
Tel: +358 40 502 6397
Email: jari.jaakkola(at)qpr.com

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