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Thursday, May 14, 2009
EPM Live is Presented with the Microsoft's Southwest District Best Practice Award for 2009
Microsoft recognized EPM Live for their innovative and effective best practices associated with Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
California, San Diego May 5 2009: Microsoft presented EPM Live with their prestigious Best Practices Award in the Southwest District for 2009. EPM Live was selected for this award based on their excellence in best practices and innovation in EPM. Their award winning EPM Live product and online services are cutting edge and cost effective.
EPM Live is honored to be recognized for their Microsoft Best Practices from among thousands of solution providers in the Southwest District. Through a solid partnership with Microsoft and a passion for excellence in innovation, EPM Live has been able to significantly grow its business and prestigious client list over the past several years, and looks forward to continued cutting edge innovation and growth.
EPM Live products and services are cutting edge, revolutionizing how organizations manage their work.
EPM Live enables organizations to take a unique approach to managing projects and work; applying proven project management principles to all the work around a project. Too often, there are real gaps between the information that a project manager has access to and what team members and stakeholders can tangibly grasp. By centralizing all information regarding a project in one location, project teams can have a powerful insight into the real health of a project.
EPM Live reduces time, cost and risk by providing pre-configured out-of-the-box Enterprise Project Management Solutions. These solutions support specific industry standards and best practices and can be built-to-order. The Build-to-Order (BTO) service enables organizations to fully configure their solutions in a quarter of the time and cost, virtually risk free.
EPM Live is the fastest and most cost efficient way to get organizations up and running on EPM.
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Friday, March 06, 2009
EPM Live Offers an Unbeatable Promotion for Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
Carlsbad, CA, USA — March 6, 2009 — EPM Live, the leading Enterprise SharePoint Project and Work Management solution, announced today that it is offering an unbeatable promotion for Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007. Extend the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 to be a complete collaborative project and work management solution for FREE. Buy Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 from EPM Live for only $750 (Retail Value $999) and receive a FREE – EPM Live Solution, Deployment, and Training. For more detailed information, go to http://www.buyprojectpro.com.
The economy is shaping the way businesses make software investments and how they deploy new solutions. In light of the economic climate, EPM Live is rethinking its services’ model to be more agile and meet the financial constraints of businesses worldwide. By providing more cost effective solutions, helping businesses leverage what they already own, and giving businesses what they really need to be successful today, EPM Live is providing a solution that is low-investment/high-value.
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, while keeping project teams aligned. Be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools. *source Microsoft
If you already own Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, EPM Live enhances your implementation:
· Seamlessly publish Project .mpp file data into SharePoint Workspaces and across site collections
· Share your Project .mpp file data with all of your team resources and give them the ability to edit their information in SharePoint without the need for a Project license
· Executive level views, roll-ups, and dashboards that turn your Project .mpp file data into usable information for every level of your organization
· Manage your structured and unstructured work in SharePoint
· EPM Live comes with pre-built Project, Resource, My Work, Issue, Risk, and Change Request Views in SharePoint
· The ability to select different SharePoint Workspace templates – we also offer a PMI PMBOK best practice template
· EPM Live comes with a pre-built notifications engine for unlimited custom notifications and process workflows
· EPM Live has a complete online Work Planner for Agile methodology implementations that allow multiple resource task assignments, unlimited task lines, duration and work based scheduling and task custom field definitions, dependencies, Gantt views, save commonly used projects as templates, custom views, and full task status updates (open and accept in Microsoft Project desktop client)
When you purchase a Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 license from EPM Live, we give you the opportunity to see first-hand how EPM Live seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and extends the business value of the application with powerful collaboration and management tools.
EPM Live empowers organizations to manage their work, how they work. By allowing groups to work in multiple environments at the same time, EPM Live provides complete flexibility by integrating different processes, requirements, and methodologies. EPM Live gives executive level visibility across these sites through enterprise level dashboards, extending the reach of Project Management to provide a complete solution for your entire organization.
EPM Live is an easy to use and affordable software and services solution that helps organizations manage work more efficiently. EPM Live is an easy solution to implement. We offer pre-built "best practice" templates to get you started today. EPM Live is lower in risk than other software implementations because we give you the power to choose how you will deploy EPM Live; online or onsite. EPM Live is also 100% built on Microsoft SharePoint-Based Software, which is proven to facilitate ease of use and implementation in any environment.
EPM Live (http://www.epmlive.com) is a leading provider of project and work management solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. EPM Live’s mission is to provide cost-effective, collaborative tools that help teams work together effectively, increase their efficiency, achieve higher levels of ROI, and drive success. EPM Live is privately owned and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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For additional information: Please contact Kourtney Kennedy at 866-391-3700 x419 or kkennedy@epmlive.com
Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Special Olympics Selects EPM Live to Manage and Organize their 2009 World Winter Games
EPM Live, the leading Enterprise SharePoint Project Management solution, announced today that it has been selected as the software solution for the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
The Special Olympics World Winter Games Committee needed a project management tool that would allow each venue to manage their tasks independently and have the ability to report their project status to one enterprise site. The Special Olympics World Winter Games Committee chose EPM Live because the solution provided the highest level of capability and flexibility, with the greatest ease of use in functionality and deployment. With EPM Live’s online Software + Services environment, the solution gave the committee the ability to be up and running within a few business days.
EPM Live empowers organizations to manage their work, how they work. By allowing groups to work in multiple environments at the same time, EPM Live provides complete flexibility by integrating different processes, requirements, and methodologies. EPM Live gives executive level visibility across these sites through enterprise level dashboards, extending the reach of Project Management to provide a complete solution for your entire organization.
J.P. Benlian, Special Olympics World Winter Games Committee Member, said, “The solution came highly recommended from the team we were working with on our technology infrastructure. We are a sunset organization and did not have much time to implement and configure a complicated EPM solution. EPM Live allowed us to add as many users as needed and tailor the solution to our unique needs.”
EPM Live is an easy to use and affordable software and services solution that helps organizations manage work more efficiently. EPM Live is an easy solution to implement. We offer pre-built "best practice" templates to get you started today. EPM Live is lower in risk than other software implementations because we give you the power to choose how you will deploy EPM Live; online or onsite. EPM Live is also 100% built on Microsoft-Based Software, which is proven to facilitate ease of use and implementation in any environment.
EPM Live (http://www.epmlive.com) is a leading provider of project and work management solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. EPM Live’s mission is to provide cost-effective, collaborative tools that help teams work together effectively, increase their efficiency, achieve higher levels of ROI, and drive success. EPM Live is privately owned and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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For additional information: Please contact Kourtney Kennedy at 866-391-3700 x419 or kkennedy@epmlive.com
Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
EPM Live Partners with Innovative-e, Inc. Project Management Thought Leader Dux Raymond Sy, PMP
Carlsbad, CA, USA — November 21, 2008 — EPM Live, the leading Enterprise SharePoint Project Management solution, announced today that it has partnered with Innovative-e, Inc. managing partner Dux Raymond Sy, PMP as one of EPM Live’s Project Management Thought Leaders. EPM Live strives to stay at the forefront of the project and work management conversation. By partnering with Dux Raymond Sy, EPM Live is continuing to initiate thought leadership throughout the industry.
EPM Live CEO, Joe Larscheid says, “Dux Raymond Sy gives another voice to the industry leaders that created EPM Live. In addition to offering SharePoint consulting services through Innovative-e, Dux is on the front lines teaching SharePoint and Project Management skills through Learning Tree International. His feedback is invaluable.”
“By participating as a Project Management Thought Leader for EPM Live, I am connecting with an advanced community that shares my passion for finding new ways to make project management a more effective tool within an organization," said Dux Raymond Sy, managing partner of Innovative-e, Inc. "Ultimately, a more effective project management strategy means better bottom line results.”
Built on a Microsoft SharePoint platform, EPM Live gives you the ability to manage all your work with one solution by leveraging what you already own, in a familiar Microsoft environment. EPM Live allows you to view project investments and monitor overall project portfolio performance and health to ensure that you are achieving your investment.
“No matter how complicated a project might be, the tools used to manage the project should be simple and efficient,” said Dux Raymond Sy, managing partner of Innovative-e, Inc. “EPM Live excels at finding effective solutions to help companies facilitate efficient collaboration without burdening the team or project managers. EPM Live makes it easy for team members to quickly accomplish routine tasks, such as reporting, without using overly complicated tools.”
With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology, Dux Raymond Sy has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of collaborative tools with quantifiable goals such as increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies, and streamlining electronic communications. A sought after trainer for Learning Tree International, he has developed and facilitated management and technology training to government organizations, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit institutions in the United States, Bahamas, Barbados, China , the United Kingdom and the Philippines, and regularly writes about project management, SharePoint, and globalization at MeetDux.com. Look for Dux Raymond Sy’s latest book SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint.
About Innovative-e, Inc.
Innovative-e is a business technology consulting and services company that helps clients gain competitive advantage by transforming high-performance strategies into reality. Services include consulting, project management, application development, training, and systems integration with specialized expertise in Project Management Information System (PMIS) capabilities using Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Clients range from startups to the Global 50, including Siemens (E&A), Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Gold Center, BlueLinx, Merrill Lynch, NASA, and Morgan Franklin. Innovative-e is headquartered in Atlanta with offices in D.C. and Central Florida, and technology delivery centers in Sri Lanka and the Philippines. For more information, visit www.innovative-e.com.
About EPM Live
EPM Live is a leading provider of project and work management solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. EPM Live’s mission is to provide cost-effective, collaborative tools that help teams work together effectively, increase their efficiency, achieve higher levels of ROI, and drive success. EPM Live is privately owned and headquartered in Carlsbad, California. For more information, visit www.epmlive.com.
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For additional information: Please contact Kourtney Kennedy at 866-391-3700 x419 or kkennedy@epmlive.com
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Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Avery Dennison selects EPM Live to extend their Microsoft Project Server 2007 environment to scale across the entire organization
Avery Dennison identified a need for increased Enterprise Project Management standardization and automation within the organization. Project Management within Avery was originally accomplished using a variety of methodologies, processes, and tools.
Challenges
· Varying processes and procedures without tool standardization
· Different levels of program management maturity across the organization
Benefits
· Increased program performance by having reliable Schedule/Cost information for program reviews
· Increased collaboration and accountability among teams
· Automated financial interfaces and workflows to reduce duplication of effort
· Ability to perform “what-if” scenarios to determine workforce and schedule impacts
Results
Avery Dennison selected Microsoft Project Server 2007, connected with EPM Live to leverage a flexible EPM platform that could scale across the entire organization; Avery Dennison’s Enterprise Program Office is now supporting all users managing projects. Avery Dennison is now capable of planning and executing both small and large projects on a shared platform, while ensuring adherence to their project management standards. The scalability and flexibility of the solution allows each division to build on corporate standards and customize their solution to meet their group’s needs.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
EPM Live Releases New Enterprise SharePoint Project Management Capabilities
Carlsbad, CA, USA — November 4, 2008 — EPM Live, the leading Enterprise SharePoint Project Management solution announced today that it has released new SharePoint-based Enterprise Productivity Management capabilities in their award winning software solution. The new capabilities in EPM Live will allow more efficient and effective project and work management with dynamic controls that extend the current capability of Microsoft Office SharePoint.
EPM Live CEO, Joe Larscheid says, “By applying the proven methodologies of project management to most work, you create a solution that goes beyond software; we create a business mindset. We wanted to offer a solution instead of ad-hoc web parts because there is method and process in the real work of business. Businesses should have a strategic solution not a tactical ‘fix’ to their problem. EPM Live offers two methods of deployment: online or onsite. This makes EPM Live the perfect implementation model for any growing company.”
Built on a Microsoft SharePoint platform, EPM Live gives you the ability to manage all your work with one solution by leveraging what you already own, in a familiar Microsoft environment.
EPM Live’s Capabilities:
• View project investments and monitor overall project portfolio performance to ensure that you are achieving your investment objectives
• Control your schedules and prevent schedule variances to optimize successful delivery
• Plan and coordinate resource workload to ensure proper placement, expertise, and efficiency
• View and update all "my" tasks and responsibilities across all project work items from a single view
• EPM Live provides best practices configurations and templates to get your solution up and running quickly
EPM Live is an easy to use and affordable software and services solution that helps organizations manage work more efficiently.
"The EPM Live solution is allowing us to provide a scalable project management tool set for use throughout the IT community. Coupled with the Microsoft Project Server 2007, Project Professional 2007, and SharePoint tools, we are now capable of planning and executing both small and large projects on a shared platform, while ensuring adherence to our project management standards," said, Avery Dennison.
EPM Live delivers market-leading customer solutions that are 100% built on Microsoft technology.
EPM Live is a leading provider of project and work management solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. EPM Live’s mission is to provide cost-effective, collaborative tools that help teams work together effectively, increase their efficiency, achieve higher levels of ROI, and drive success. EPM Live is privately owned and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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Monday, November 03, 2008
Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Uses EPM Live to Manage Programs Averaging in Size $400-500 Million Dollars
The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program is using EPM Live with Microsoft Project Server 2007 to manage programs averaging in size of 400-500 million dollars. In a compete scenario, NNPP chose the EPM Live platform to manage their small and large programs specifically to meet the following requirements:
1) Program Management Metrics and Reporting, managing all components of the NNPP internal Work Plan process (not just the schedule)
2) Business Process Automation / Workflows, for example Supplier Requests and Document Approval
3) Complex collaboration among varying entities – government, contractors, suppliers, etc.
4) Manage and report on varying levels of Integrated and Program Master Schedules
5) Strict security requirements for highly secure projects
The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP) comprises the military and civilian personnel who design, build, operate, maintain, and manage the nuclear-powered ships and the many facilities that support the U.S. nuclear-powered naval fleet. The Program has cradle-to-grave responsibility for all naval nuclear propulsion matters.
Program elements include the following:
· Research, development, and support laboratories
· Contractors responsible for designing, procuring, and building propulsion plant equipment
· Shipyards that build, overhaul, and service the propulsion plants of nuclear-powered vessels
· Navy support facilities and tenders
· Nuclear power schools and Naval Reactors training facilities
· Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Headquarters and field offices
The Program involves collaboration among several key areas:
· Research, Development, and Support Laboratories: Bettis and Knolls Atomic Laboratories
· Nuclear Component Procurement Organization: Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.
· Nuclear Equipment Suppliers
· Support Facilities and Tenders: Worldwide
· Schools and Training Facilities
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
EPM Live Awarded Microsoft's 2008 Partner of the Year!
EPM Live is honored to be Microsoft’s Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Project Management Partner of the Year. Partners worldwide submitted more than 2,000 entries! Microsoft selected award winners based on their dedicated use of Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for their customers’ needs.
“EPM Live offers solutions that support the underpinnings of successful businesses of every size and distinction,” said Robert Deshaies, Vice President, U.S. Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “We are pleased to recognize EPM Live on their ability to target business customers stemming from the midmarket all the way to the enterprise.”
EPM Live provides innovative solutions for work management needs. Leading the market with full integration between Microsoft Office Project Server, Microsoft Office Project, Microsoft Office SharePoint, EPM Live is a versatile and scalable solution.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Project Management Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
EPM Live, a leading provider of SharePoint-based project collaboration solutions, announced today shipment of EPM Workgroup Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The EPM Workgroup Toolkit allows users to leverage pre-built sites that incorporate PM collaboration best practices for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) environments. The EPM Workgroup Toolkit in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Project 2007 add-in, Project Publisher, allows any organization to deploy EPM Live in house using any existing SharePoint instance.
The EPM Workgroup Toolkit and Project Publisher allows project managers to use the world’s leading project management software, Microsoft Office Project 2007, and the fastest growing collaboration software on the market today, Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007, to create plans on their desktops and manage their projects in online collaborative environments. The EPM Live Workgroup Toolkit delivers SharePoint-based Enterprise Project Management (EPM) tools, templates, web parts and views that empower project teams to more effectively work together.
The EPM Workgroup Toolkit utilizes a centralized pre-built SharePoint solution so teams can publish and share Microsoft Project schedules, documents, identify issues, risks, manage changes and create dynamic reports for informed decision making on all business and project critical activities. The EPM Workgroup Toolkit comes with complete with custom dashboards and web parts, reports, and even custom notifications.
Utilizing SharePoint’s web based interface, team members can update their own tasks and access key project information. They can sort and group their assigned tasks and easily find the information they need. Project managers maintain control by requesting, reviewing and approving all task updates through Microsoft Office Project.
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Monday, November 05, 2007
PRESS RELEASE - EPM Live Launches Online Microsoft-Based Project Management Software Plus Service
EPM Live’s online solutions transform Microsoft Office Project 2007 into an affordable collaboration powerhouse.
Seattle, WA Oct 31, 2007
EPM Live, a Microsoft partner and leading provider of project management solutions, unveiled three new services at the 4th annual Microsoft Office Project Conference in Seattle, WA. EPM Live is the first 100% Microsoft-based online project management Software + Service to serve every level of the organization from individuals, teams, departments to executives. EPM Live’s suite of solutions includes the EPM Live Workgroup solution as the leading Microsoft Office Project 2007 collaboration tool available as a low cost, low risk subscription service. EPM Live Workgroup connects desktop Microsoft Office Project 2007 with online Windows SharePoint Services by utilizing the Project Publisher to share tasks and schedules directly with project teams.
“The EPM Live Workgroup solution brings the world’s leading project management software to the entire work team. Microsoft is excited that EPM Live Workgroup’s straightforward solution brings the benefits of Microsoft Office Project 2007, to a wider range of customers” said Mike Angiulo, General Manager of Microsoft Project Business Unit. “An increasing number of customers are attracted to Software + Services for its usability, price, and fast deployment. This solution combines the best of Office Project 2007 with the flexibility of online services empowering everyone on the work team to collaborate more effectively. Whether they call themselves project managers or not, this tool helps leaders get their teams collaborating toward a common goal.”
Typically project managers utilize Microsoft Office Project to plan and manage projects but rely on email and spreadsheets to collaborate with their teams. Now, Workgroup empowers everyone on the team to update the status of individual contributions giving project managers real time data to keep their projects on course to success.
EPM Live’s two other solutions: Workspace and Enterprise deliver online Microsoft technology ranging from straightforward collaboration workspaces in Windows SharePoint Services to full featured online Microsoft Project Server-based EPM solutions.
EPM Live adds to the growing list of Microsoft-based Software-Plus-Service offerings. Instead of simply selling software licenses, EPM Live offers a range of online collaboration services with flexible pricing options. These full-featured out-of-the box solutions take pressure off in-house IT resources while placing tools in the hands of project managers to successfully manage projects.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Microsoft is excited about EPM Live
"The EPM Live Workgroup solution brings the world’s leading project management software to the entire work team. Microsoft is excited that EPM Live Workgroup’s straightforward solution brings the benefits of Microsoft Office Project 2007, to a wider range of customers. An increasing number of customers are attracted to Software + Services for its usability, price, and fast deployment. This solution combines the best of Office Project 2007 with the flexibility of online services empowering everyone on the work team to collaborate more effectively. Whether they call themselves project managers or not, this tool helps leaders get their teams collaborating toward a common goal.”
Mike Angiulo Former General Manager of Microsoft Project Business Unit
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"This tool is providing me an excellent method for managing the prioritization process and resource management process for over 150 projects. Thanks for creating this product, its awesome."
Patrick Selvy J.B. Hunt
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