Primavera Systems Helps Corporate IT Organizations Improve Resource Management; Have the Right People Work On the Right Projects With Web-Enabled Primavera TeamPlay 3.5

Business Wire, Oct 7, 2002

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Corporate IT organizations can be assured that the most skilled people available are selected for projects using the latest release of Primavera TeamPlay(R). In addition, using a simple web-based view, resource managers are able to monitor the actual performance of assigned resources as projects progress. This powerful functionality in TeamPlay 3.5 from Primavera Systems, the leading provider of project management software, ensures that project team performance is meeting expectations -- eliminating wasted time and costs associated with projects that are strategically misaligned or performing poorly.

"With real-time visibility into all IT projects and resources, business decisions can now be made much more effectively and efficiently," said Joe Weider, Director, Center of Excellence, American Family Life Assurance Company (AFLAC), Inc. "AFLAC strives to minimize resource over-allocation by aligning the most strategic business initiatives to IT resources. This year, we are focusing on the improvement of our resource utilization rate using Primavera TeamPlay."

"Project/resource management applications, which feature functionality well beyond scheduling and online communications, are vital to reliable project delivery in a complex multiproject environment, especially in `projectized' organizations with semi-matrixed resourcing," said Matt Light, Gartner research director, in his "2002 Project/Resource Management Magic Quadrant" report, July 24,2002. "Many enterprises that are burdened with multiple, legacy point solutions should consider more-integrated project/resource management packages."

The key features and benefits of TeamPlay 3.5 are:

-- Resource Analysis Request and Fulfillment Process Flow

Automatically facilitate multi-project, enterprise-wide

resource management and analysis between project and resource

managers. Project managers have more criteria available with

TeamPlay 3.5 to define specific requests for resources,

enabling resource managers to automatically search for the

best-qualified person. This ensures a better match between

available assignment and individuals' skillsets. Automatic

notification is sent to team members when new work is assigned

and instant alerts are sent to the entire project team when

significant project changes occur.

-- Project Portfolio Dashboards

Create custom dashboards or use standard corporate views to

analyze the projects and resources in order to prioritize

initiatives and make critical project decisions. Executives

and program managers receive objective status reports on the

projects that matter most to them.

-- Web-enabled Deliverable Management

Manage all elements of a project, not just static performance

metrics such as percent complete or scheduled dates. Tightly

integrate the impact and progress of deliverables directly

with project performance by closely managing project documents

with project phases or activity details. TeamPlay enables team

members to assign, monitor and update deliverables and

documents using their web-browser.

-- Conditional Resource Rate Cost Projection

TeamPlay includes up to five different conditional resource

rates for internal and contracted resources for a true picture

of costs.

-- Web-enabled Issues and Risk Management

The easy-to-use interface of TeamPlay allows for the quick

capture of all issues and risks that may impact project

performance. Issues and risks can be created, viewed, and

updated by portfolio managers directly on the web.

-- Deploy on Market Leading Application Servers

TeamPlay 3.5 can be deployed on both BEA WebLogic(TM) and IBM

WebSphere(R).

"CIOs have asked for a solution that delivers an effective process for funneling resource requests to the appropriate manager and simplifying resource fulfillment," said Richard K. Faris, president of Primavera. "TeamPlay 3.5 delivers instant access to resource use across all projects, as well as an easy process for requesting, analyzing and assigning resources to projects."

Product Availability:

Primavera TeamPlay 3.5 is available directly from Primavera and through its network of Primavera Authorized Representatives. For more information, please contact Primavera at 800/423-0245 or 610/667-8600.

About Primavera TeamPlay

Primavera TeamPlay is designed to help corporate IT organizations, especially within financial services, high-tech telecommunications and government industries, manage the unique characteristics of software development and information technology projects. It is the first unified project, process and resource management software that offers the combined benefits of managing projects, building and using standard methodologies and efficiently leveraging resources to help companies minimize project life cycles and deliver project results.

About Primavera Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1983, Primavera Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of project management, control and execution software and services. Primavera's innovative solutions help more than 40,000 companies around the world achieve business success through project success. Primavera products maximize return on investment by speeding time to market, establishing best practices, assessing risk and providing project visibility to all participants, from executives to team members. The company serves a broad range of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical processing, construction, energy, engineering, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, software development, technology, telecommunications and utilities. For more information, visit: http://www.primavera.com/.