GTECH Ireland Software Development
Achieves SW-CMMLevel 2 Maturity Rating
Using SYSTEMS processMax®

Reston, Virginia (January 30, 2002) -- pragma SYSTEMS CORPORATION today announced that GTECH Ireland (NYSE:GTK) has achieved Level 2 of the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model^â for Software (SW-CMM^â) with processMax². GTECH is a leading global information technology company providing software, networks, and professional services that power high-performance, transaction-processing solutions. The independent Level 2  appraisal was conducted by the Software Productivity Consortium.

“GTECH Ireland’s success in achieving Level 2 of the SW-CMM is an acknowledgement of the power of processMax to strengthen organizations’ positioning in the software development arena,” said Rebecca Bowerman, President and CEO of pragma SYSTEMS CORPORATION. “We are pleased to have GTECH join our growing list of successful companies reaching SW-CMM compliance with processMax.”

“Using processMax, we achieved compliance with the SW-CMM much faster than with traditional methods,” explained Jacinta Kielty, the GTECH Ireland Account General Manager.  “Rather than spend our time developing new processes and procedures, we were able to easily integrate processMax with our existing processes to manage our software projects from the outset using guaranteed SW-CMM compliant procedures.” 

With processMax, software organizations manage software development and maintenance projects with the power of their intranet web. Using a role-based approach to the management of software development, processMax provides managers and developers with step-by-step procedures, integrated document management, and automated workflow. processMax enables increased productivity, fewer defects, and reduced risk.

GTECH, a leading global information technology company with over $1 billion in revenues and 4,700 people in 44 countries, provides software, networks, and professional services that power high-performance, transaction processing solutions.  Headquartered in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, the company’s core market is the lottery industry, with a growing presence in financial services and related segments.  For more information about the company, please visit GTECH’s web site at www.gtech.com.

pragma SYSTEMS CORPORATION (www.pragmasystems.com) has been in the CMM-based assessment and improvement business since 1990, and is the market leader in CMM-compliant software project management products. 

pragma Systems guarantees that organizations using processMax² and processMax³ will be found compliant with Level 2/Level 3 of the SW-CMM by an independent CMM-Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement (CBA IPI) or Software Capability Evaluation. pragma SYSTEMS CORPORATION’s headquarters are located in Reston, Virginia.