3 Olive Solutions Adds Email Notification to On-Demand Project Portfolio Management Solution.

CHICAGO -- 3 Olive Solutions, LLC announces the latest release of Portfolio Intelligence[R], its flagship on-demand project portfolio management (PPM) tool. Release 3.11 incorporates functionality that allows email notifications to be sent to select individuals.

For customers, such as Orbus, a Chicago wholesale provider of display products for tradeshows and exhibits, email notifications increase efficiency and resource utilization. "We use Portfolio Intelligence to coordinate activities between our offices in Chicago, the U.K and Canada and a production facility in China," said Steve Westcott, product development manager at Orbus.

Email notifications allow Portfolio Intelligence customers to send out project-specific information that can be triggered by events that include:

* Life-cycle changes, such as approval, initiation or completion.

* Milestone status changes.

* Plan imports.

* Document uploads.

"In designing this new capability, we worked directly with our customers and paid particular attention to how to provide the right amount of flexibility without adding complexity to the administration," said Bob McMurray, 3 Olive Solutions' chief technology officer. "Improperly designed email notifications can place a huge maintenance burden on an organization as well as inundate recipients with dozens of useless emails."

Portfolio Intelligence has a full decision support workflow and methodology with a project database that helps department mangers and project management offices with project alignment and prioritization, resource management, risk/reward analysis, project health status tracking and project reporting.

About 3 Olive Solutions

Chicago-based 3 Olive Solutions, LLC provides affordable, non-complex solutions to help executives and managers improve operations and reduce costs. Its flagship service, Portfolio Intelligence, is an on-demand project portfolio management product designed for organizations ready to make the leap from tracking projects via spreadsheets to a single, process-oriented solution. The firm has a nationwide clientele in industries that include business and financial services, manufacturing, distribution, construction, education, government and not-for-profit. For more information, call 800 753-5821 or visit www.3olivesolutions.com.