EPM Live is excited to announce that all products and services can be purchased through the GSA Advantage program, Contract number GS-35F-0511V. This provides opportunity for all government agencies to benefit from the convenience and special pricing of the GSA-Advantage program!

The GSA-Advantage procurement process accelerates the purchasing process for government agencies and provides the assurances that the prices have already been determined to be fair and reasonable. A number of government agencies are already enjoying the benefits of EPM Live, including NASA, Naval Facilities Engineering Command ATPF and INCD, Naval Sea Systems Command, the Marine Corp, Naval Reactors and many more.

EPM Live provides Microsoft SharePoint Project and Workforce Management solutions for everyone in an organization, from teams that want to work within individual Workgroups, to organizations that want to utilize Enterprise tools. And now can be purchase through GSA.

This award was presented on June 17, 2009 at the PPM Summit held in Garden Grove California.  The Project & Portfolio Management Summit brings technology providers together with over 200 of North America’s top executives.  EPM Live was nominated for Best PPM Technology.

The Project & Portfolio Management Summit brings Senior IT Executives from the PPM business community together with Gartner Analysts, and leading and emerging Vendors. The business-intensive format includes analyst-led sessions, Private Boardroom Appointments, a Showcase of Exhibits, and networking functions. The Summit examines market trends, offers advice, real and tangible strategies, and evaluation of the latest products and services that will help you make the right decisions, every day.  EPM Live was selected as one of the top three for the ‘Best PPM Technology” based on feedback from the many decision-makers participating in the 2009 Gartner Event.

"EPM Live offers solutions that support the underpinnings of successful businesses of every size and distinction."  Robert Deshaies – Vice President U.S. Partner Group Microsoft Corporate – Microsoft

The need to better prioritize, investments, align resources and strategies and effectively execute projects and work has never been moreimportant.  This unpredictable economic climate has caused even large established businesses to reevaluate investment in the traditional costly consulting EPM deployments.   EPM Live has addressed this challenge by revolutionizing how businesses deploy and consume Microsoft EPM technology.

"It is an honor to receive this prestigious award from Microsoft two years in a row. We are very pleased that Microsoft and their customers recognize EPM Live products and services as a true value. EPM Live is designed to enable organizations to take a unique approach to managing projects and applying proven project management principles to all the work.  EPM Live provides project and work teams with powerful insights into the real health of their business.” Says EPM Live CEO, Joe Larscheid

“Our partners are increasingly using Project Professional and Project Server together with SharePoint Server to provide unmatched project management, collaboration and reporting capabilities that help customers reduce costs, optimize resources and manage work more effectively.  EPM Live is a good example of a partner that demonstrates the combined value of these products and the overall advantage of the Microsoft EPM Solution,” said Seth Patton, Director of Project, Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft is excited to recognize EPM Live for offering superior project management solutions that leverage Microsoft’s software-plus-services model,” said Ross Brown, Vice President, Solution Partners and ISVs, Microsoft Corp. “Their online project management solutions are designed to meet the needs of project management professionals at every level of the enterprise. EPM Live’s Online Services allow organizations of all sizes and complexities to focus on building their business and managing projects rather than servicing and supporting an enterprise project management system.”

"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 mid-market all the way to the enterprise."

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, 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.”