CAMBRIDGE, MA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/27/15

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering the world's leading enterprises with strategic business applications, today announced PegaWORLD 2015 will take place on June 7-9 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Pega's fast-growing annual user conference is expected to draw more than 3,500 business and technical visionaries from some of the world's leading companies, who will gather to discuss the role that strategic applications play in a rapidly evolving business environment.

More than 80 sessions will highlight how 50 global organizations have used Pega's strategic applications to optimize each customer interaction across channels and devices to deliver personalized customer experiences. These sessions will highlight strategies for using technology to develop rapid responses to accelerating changes in highly competitive marketplaces as well as best practices for delivering next generation CRM and BPM.

Keynote speakers at PegaWORLD 2015 include:

• Dr. Mark Boxer - Executive Vice President and Global CIO, Cigna Healthcare
• Christian Nielssen - Head of Data and Analytics, Design and Services, RBS
• Robert Noddin - President and Chief Executive Officer, AIG Japan Holdings KK
• Brian Solis - Principal Analyst, Altimeter Group
• Alan Trefler - Founder and CEO, Pegasystems
• Kerim Akgonul - Senior Vice President, Product Management BPM and Case Management, Pegasystems
• Dr. Rob Walker - Vice President, Decision Management and Analytics, Pegasystems
• Don Schuerman, CTO, Pegasystems

The conference is expected to be the largest-ever gathering of Pega's customers, partners, and industry thought leaders, who will share insights on transforming organizations to advance their market leadership with the help of Pega applications.

Alan Trefler, Founder and CEO of Pegasystems, will kick off PegaWORLD with his keynote address at 8:00 a.m. Eastern on Monday, June 8, followed by a two-day agenda comprising other keynote speeches and presentations, as well as customer and partner-led sessions. Workshops and hands-on training classes to help attendees increase their knowledge of Pega software will be held on the days before and after the conference. These include Pega-led workshops as well as customer-led sessions by AIG, Allianz, RBS, General Motors, Vodafone, and Cisco, among others. Many Pegasystems partners and sponsors, which include major systems integrators, management consulting firms, technology providers, and application developers are also expected to attend.

Further details including registration information can be found on the PegaWORLD event page. To join the conversation on Twitter, please use #PegaWORLD.

Supporting Quotes

"PegaWORLD is designed to help enterprises better prepare to thrive in this rapidly changing world," said Alan Trefler, Founder and CEO of Pegasystems. "In today's digital age, strategic business applications play a central role in enabling global organizations to engage with customers, simplify their operations, and adapt to change. There's never been a more critical need to build long-term, sustainable relationships with customers. We are honored to have some of the world's sharpest business minds share how they have transformed their organizations by leveraging Pega applications to make every customer feel as valued as the first."

 Supporting Resources:

• For access to the agenda, visit: PegaWORLD agenda
• For more information on registering, visit: PegaWORLD registration
• For insight on sponsors, visit: PegaWORLD sponsors
• To join the conversation on Twitter, please use #PegaWORLD

About Pegasystems

Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA) develops strategic applications for sales, marketing, service and operations. Pega's applications streamline critical business operations, connect enterprises to their customers seamlessly in real-time across channels, and adapt to meet rapidly changing requirements. Pega's Global 2000 customers include many of world's most sophisticated and successful enterprises. Pega's applications, available in the cloud or on-premises, are built on its unified Pega 7 platform, which uses visual tools to easily extend and change applications to meet clients' strategic business needs. Pega's clients report that Pega gives them the fastest time to value, extremely rapid deployment, efficient re-use and global scale. For more information, please visit us at www.pega.com.

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Press Contacts:
Lisa Silver
Pegasystems Inc.
Lisa.Silver@pega.com
(617) 498-8848
Twitter: @pega (https://twitter.com/pega)