QPR Software - Company Announcement

THE U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE HAS GRANTED QPR SOFTWARE A PATENT

QPR SOFTWARE PLC         STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE    13 APRIL, 2015   10:00 A.M.

THE U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE HAS GRANTED QPR SOFTWARE A PATENT

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to a technology
developed by QPR Software. The patented technology utilizes event instance data
obtained from information management systems, and helps organizations to
analyze and develop their business processes. The patent supports the sales of
QPR ProcessAnalyzer software and QPR process intelligence consulting as well as
opens a new opportunity to OEM business. 

“This patent is a recognition to our innovativeness and profound know-how in
operational development. It creates a stronger base for us to continue to
deliver process analysis software and services to our customers and opens an
opportunity to a new kind of partnership business. We actively investigate
possibilities to expand our business by selling this new technology to other
vendors' platforms. This would substantially speed up building the customer
base and achieving the customer benefits”, says Mr. Jari Jaakkola, the Chief
Executive Officer at QPR Software. 

The QPR ProcessAnalyzer software automatically generates real-life process
flowcharts based on event instance data extracted from IT systems, instead of
manually modeling them. QPR has developed the technology since 2009 and
launched the QPR ProcessAnalyzer software based on it in 2011. 

The business owners and process developers can target development initiatives
precisely by knowing the true performance and bottlenecks of their processes
which leads to substantial cost savings.  The technology has been used with
great success for developing e.g. our customers' production, logistics, sales,
customer care and human resource processes. 

“The global automated process analysis market is a new, rapidly growing market.
This patent strengthens our position as one of its key players. We expect the
market to develop first in Europe and in the United Sates. As the largest
software market in the world, the United States is also important for selling
technology to other vendors' platforms. Due to this we have applied and will
continue to apply patents in the United States”, Mr. Jaakkola continues. 

QPR Software continues to invest in developing new innovations and the policy
of actively protecting them. In addition to the now obtained patent, QPR
Software has several active patent applications in the United States concerning
technologies developed by the Company and relating to the use of event instance
data in the automated process data analysis. 

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. 

QPR - Quality. Processes. Results. www.qpr.com

For further information in QPR Software, please contact:

Mr. Jari Jaakkola, Chief Executive Officer
Tel. + 35 40 5026 397
email: jari.jaakkola(at)qpr.com

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distributed in the United States of America or its territories or possessions. 

For additional information on the QPR ProcessAnalyzer software, please visit:
http://www.qpr.com/content/qpr-processanalyzer

The leading information technology research and advisory company Gartner Inc.
has recognized QPR ProcessAnalyzer in its three latest Hype Cycle for Business
Process Management and in the two latest  Enterprise Business Process Analysis
reports. 

For additional information on how process mining delivers true process insight,
please visit: 
http://www.qpr.com/content/process-mining-0