PM Solutions Expands Relationship with SAP to Advance Global Project Management Maturity.

HAVERTOWN, Pa. -- PM Solutions, a project management, consulting, training, and research provider, has extended its business relationship with SAP AG, the world's leading provider of business software solutions, to raise project management maturity across its global enterprise. Together, the companies are enhancing responsiveness to customer needs and strengthening its ability to deliver products and corresponding services on a consistent and repeatable basis.

The relationship, which originated in 1999, builds upon the foundation that PM Solutions helped SAP establish through education, methodology enhancement, project portfolio management, maturity benchmarking, value measurement, and the establishment of a Global Project Management Office (PMO). Under the direction of SAP's Global Project Management Office, PM Solutions is now supporting SAP Consulting Services by providing knowledge management services, global project management maturity assessments, and additional training programs.

Currently, PM Solutions is working with SAP Consulting Services to develop a global Project Management Knowledge Management Process (PM KM Process), which will help the company more efficiently use the knowledge gained from each implementation to expand its product offering and better meet its customers' business needs. This initiative will help enable SAP to:

--Reuse expertise and assets across the enterprise;

--Realize higher profitability;

--Exercise better risk management;

--Increase business from both new and existing customers; and

--Improve employee satisfaction and retention.

In addition, PM Solutions will continue its project management maturity assessments in SAP subsidiaries in South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Benchmarking against original maturity assessments performed by PM Solutions in 2004 using PM Solutions' Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM(SM)), these assessments will provide an understanding of the level of project management advancement made by each region, and identify areas for short, medium, and long-term process improvement actions.

"Recent research that definitively links project management maturity with organizational success reinforces SAP's place as a proactive industry leader," said J. Kent Crawford, PMP, CEO of PM Solutions. "SAP's GPMO is to be commended for its continued leadership in improving the practices and tools it makes available to the organization's consulting teams."

About PM Solutions

PM Solutions is a management consulting, training, and research firm dedicated to helping companies optimize business performance and successfully execute their strategies through project management improvement initiatives. Core services include on-demand project and program staffing, remote project controls support, project portfolio management, organizational project management maturity assessments, process and methodology development, project office deployment and enhancement, value measurement, and corporate training delivered through the PM College(R) (www.pmcollege.com). Headquartered near Philadelphia, Pa., USA, PM Solutions' diverse client roster includes some of the world's leading organizations. For more information, visit www.pmsolutions.com.

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