IBM®
and Systemcorp® announce strategic alliance to deliver
Enterprise Project-portfolio Management software applications
and services
PMOffice™
Enterprise Aligns People, Projects and Priorities
to Make Organizations More Efficient
San
Francisco, May 9, 2002 -- IBM® (NYSE: IBM) and Systemcorp®
today announced a strategic alliance to market, sell and
deliver comprehensive Enterprise Project-portfolio Management
(EPM) web solutions to global organizations across all industries.
Bridging the gap between the front and back office, IBM®
and Systemcorp® are implementing PMOffice™ Enterprise
in organizations seeking to improve their core business
areas and strategically align people, projects and priorities.
Under
the terms of the agreement, Systemcorp® and IBM®
have joined forces to set a new standard in Enterprise Project-portfolio
Management by delivering best-of-breed technologies with
industry-leading EPM consulting, customization, and integration
services. Systemcorp's PMOffice™ EPM solution leverages
the power of IBM's WebSphere™, MQ Series™ and
DB2™ database software, and is deployed in some of
the largest financial, pharmaceutical and high tech organizations
around the world.
IBM®
brings to the alliance its vast expertise in project management.
"Based on our experience delivering hundreds of
successful projects, we recognize that success falls heavily
on the execution of world-class project management principles,
techniques, and processes," said Kathleen Colyar
Piontek, midmarket practice executive of IBM® Global
Services (IGS). "Leveraging PMOffice™ Enterprise
as the cornerstone of our offering, we can further assist
our customers in assessing, applying and deploying project
management disciplines across core business areas, processes
and systems. The breadth and depth of knowledge and experience
provided by IBM® combined with PMOffice™ Enterprise
software enables our customers to define their priorities,
align their projects, and then rigorously manage critical
activities across their entire workforce."
According
to Murray Schwartz, Systemcorp's director of Strategic Alliances,
companies have previously focused on the automation of front
and back office processes, neglecting the automation of
their internal departments. "Depending on the industry,
internal organizations such as IT, R&D, consulting services,
marketing and corporate governance departments, together
can represent anywhere from 16% to 54% of a company's business
costs," he said (Systemcorp® internal research,
2002). "More importantly, the bulk of these costs
are incurred by work performed in the context of a project.
But with 28% of projects failing before completion, (StandishGroup
Chaos Report, 1999) and 51% of projects exceeding costs
by more than twice their budgets (excerpt from various Gartner
Advisories, from Sep-Dec 2000), organizations have painfully
recognized that the lack of an automated enterprise project
system is a critical liability affecting their delivery
process."
PMOffice™
Enterprise assigns all resources from within a central automated
system. It facilitates a dynamic decision process which
evaluates, selects and prioritizes an organization's list
of new projects. Active projects may be accelerated, rescued,
killed or de-prioritized. Resources are constantly reallocated
to all remaining initiatives, aligning people, projects,
and organizational priorities with a company's business
strategy. By implementing PMOffice™, Systemcorp's
customers have experienced a 25% decline in project failures,
slashed their budget overruns by as much as 28%, and substantially
optimized their resource management processes. Companies
managing a typical $60 million project-portfolio are saving
over $12 million per year (Systemcorp® internal research
2002).
The
Systemcorp® strategic alliance is another example of
IBM's commitment to go-to-market with leading independent
software vendors through the PartnerWorld for Developers
program (www.developer.ibm.com).
Under this initiative, IBM® has signed agreements with
companies such as Siebel Systems, Vignette, PeopleSoft,
i2 and Ariba. These alliances target industries such as
financial services, retail, and manufacturing, and solution
segments including enterprise resource planning, supply
chain management, customer relationship management and with
the addition of Systemcorp®, enterprise project and
portfolio management.
A
History Of Working Together
Systemcorp has had formal relationships with IBM® pSeries™
and xSeries™. Today's announcement enhances the key
relationship allowing IBM® and Systemcorp® the ability
to jointly deliver complete solutions, including hardware,
software and services to customers.
PartnerWorld
for Developers also offers the IBM® e-business Software
Strategy, a technology roadmap based on industry standards
that helps developers integrate Internet technologies with
traditional information technology.
About
IBM® PartnerWorld for Developers
PartnerWorld for Developers is the developer resource for
IBM® Business Partners. It is a worldwide program designed
to help software developers reach broader markets, lower
their costs of doing business, and take their products to
market faster. For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/developer,
or call 1-800-627-8363 in North America, 1-770-835-9902
outside North America.
About
IBM®
IBM® is the world's largest information technology company,
with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate.
IBM® works with companies of all sizes around the world
to deploy the full range of IBM® technologies. The fastest
way to get more information about IBM® is through the
IBM® home page at http://www.ibm.com.
About
Systemcorp®
Systemcorp®, a privately held corporation, is a recognized
leading developer and provider of real-time web-centric
solutions for Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management
(EPM). Whether it's New Product Development, Software Development,
managing IT or the Project Office, PMOffice™ is the
preferred software application to qualify and organize all
projects into portfolios and align people, projects, and
priorities across all programs.
About
MDEX Corporation
MDEX provides mobile and wireless solutions which allow
businesses and individuals to increase their productivity
and efficiency. MDEX products and solutions provide organizations
with the ability to extend any corporate legacy application
to any mobile device, and access relevant information anywhere
at any time. Additional information can be found at www.mdexcorp.com
About
PMOffice™
Systemcorp's PMOffice™ is the Enterprise Project Portfolio
Management solution to automate all your projects, people
and methodologies across the entire Organization. Companies
can organize all projects into portfolios, and instantly
track all project deliverables, budgets, tasks, changes,
risks and issues from one central location. The capacity
and resource-planning module optimizes skill usage and ensures
that all critical resources are productively aligned with
high priority projects. By integrating all project areas
in one software solution, PMOffice™ enables your globally
dispersed teams to communicate, collaborate, report on and
track project time, costs, progress and team performance
over a secure web connection.
By
leveraging PMOffice's powerful Portfolio Viewer, Project
Executives and Managers can generate real-time multi-dimensional
views, graphs and reports to optimize the performance of
their investments. Using PMOffice™, organizations
can finally think and run their departments like a successful
business.
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