BWise Signs Partnership Agreement With Link LISBON

LISBON, Portugal and DEN BOSCH, Netherlands, July 30, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BWise, a NASDAQ OMX company and the leading provider of Enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (eGRC) software, announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Link Consulting, a leading IT Solutions & Services Company in Portugal. This partnership agreement offers (prospective) clients in Portugal local support and implementation resources for the BWise^® GRC platform.

Link has developed world-class Information and Communications Technologies as well as planning and management control systems for industries like Telecommunications, Banking and Insurance, Logistics and Distribution and Passenger Transportation. Link and BWise will join forces in selling, implementing and supporting the BWise^® integrated GRC platform, enabling clients to significantly improve business performance, effectively manage their financial and reputational risks and ensure compliance in a cost efficient way.

João Gonçalves, Link Financial Services Director said, "We are excited about this new partnership. BWise solutions are recognized worldwide by customers and analysts; however, what pleased us most was the flexibility and the business know-how demonstrated both by BWise colleagues and embedded in the solution. The BWise^® eGRC platform will complement our current BPM, IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture offer, since we understand those are disciplines that make sense together and integrated. We feel this is the right moment for GRC solutions in the Portuguese marketplace."

Stéphane Dorchin, BWise Director of Sales in Southern Europe said, "We are very pleased with this partnership with Link. Link has an extensive background in Business Process Management and an excellent knowledge of the GRC challenges in the Portuguese marketplace. By establishing this strategic partnership, BWise is able to support our growing customer base locally and meet the high demand for our leading GRC software solutions."

BWise, which was acquired by NASDAQ OMX in 2012, supports organizations to track, measure and manage key organizational risks with its BWise^® GRC Platform. For more information about, please visit www.bwise.com.

About Link

Link's key mission is to generate value to its customers offering technology innovation in the areas of Information and Communication Technologies. Link was founded in the end of 1999, when INESC's Centers of Technology Transfer became independent companies. Its primary shareholder is Aitec SG PS, a holding of technology-based companies which, over the last 20 years, have excelled in the National scenario by creating more than 60 Information Technology companies. Aitec stockholders structure consists mainly of boards of the different companies.

Link is the group brand for Information Technology and adds three innovative companies, with approximately 300 employees who have extensive knowledge of the marketplace. Link holds a market position as a Consulting, Solutions Development and System Integration company, serving large companies and Government agencies.

We believe in the National innovation capability, with this being, as definition, the combination of engineering excellence combined with the willingness of customers with complex challenges that allow us to develop innovative and functionally appropriate solutions to the problems requiring solution.

Some of Link's main customers are most of the national large companies, mainly in Telecommunications, Bank and Insurance, Logistics and Distribution, Passengers Transportation, as well as important entities in the Central Government Administration and Municipalities.

Internationally we are present in Brazil, Spain and Angola with our own offices and we develop different activities in countries such as Belgium, Cape Verde, Canada, Spain, France, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Morocco, Mozambique, Malta, Portugal, S. Tomé and Principe and Switzerland.

For more information, visit www.linkconsulting.com

About BWise

BWise, a NASDAQ OMX company, is a global leader in Enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) software. Based on a strong heritage in business process management, the BWise® GRC platform provides companies with highly-rated, proven software solutions for Risk Management, Internal Control, Internal Audit, Compliance & Policy Management, IT GRC and Sustainability Performance Management.

BWise's end-to-end solutions support an organization's ability to understand, track, measure, and manage key organizational risks. BWise helps companies truly be in control by balancing performance with their financial and reputational risks, improving corporate accountability, increasing financial, strategic and operating efficiencies. Using BWise, organizations are able to efficiently comply with anti-corruption regulations like FCPA and the UK Bribery Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, European Corporate Governance Codes, ISAE3402/SAS-70, PCI-DSS, Solvency II, Basel II and III, Dodd-Frank, ISO-standards, and many more.

BWise sales, service and support offices around the globe provide for the GRC needs of hundreds of clients, including: adidas, AEGON, Ahold, AngloGold Ashanti, Connexxion, Health Alliance Plan (HAP) of Michigan, LeapFrog, Liebherr, Marathon Oil, Southern Company, Swiss Life, and Transcontinental. For more information, visit www.bwise.com.

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