Enterprise management.

PM Solutions, a Microsoft Office Project Premier services Partner, has introduced its enterprise project management (EPM) solution for IT organizations, to be used in conjunction with Microsoft Office Project 2003. The Havertown, Pa.-based company's EPM solution is an integrated approach to the execution of IT projects that provides IT organizations with a complete project management platform.

"The Project 2003 EPM solution, as part of the Microsoft Office System, enables customers to more efficiently manage their projects and the resources associated with those projects," said Mike Gelon, director, information Worker Product Management Group, at Microsoft. "PM Solutions' EPM solution helps our mutual customers to home in on the best practices involved with managing their portfolio of projects."

"With PM Solution's EPM solution and the Microsoft Office System, IT organizations can establish business processes and project priorities, mapping them against corporate objectives," the company says. "Through project portfolio management and analysis, managers can maximize resource utilization, eliminate duplicate projects, collect organizational knowledge, and institute best practices."

Web: www.pmsolutions.com/epm.

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