Today UMT Consulting Group announced the release of UMT Project Financial Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Project Financial Server 2010 SP1 offers support for global deployments, includes French, German and Spanish language packs and provides important customer requested stability and performance improvements.
Mike Gruia - Chairman of UMT - said that “The availability of Service Pack 1 marks the global release of UMT Project Financial Server 2010. Our solution seamlessly extends Microsoft Project Server 2010 to help customers quickly integrate financial controls across the life cycle, effectively plan and track portfolio expenditure and measure benefits. We all know that ultimately organizations need to do a better job of managing project and portfolio financials and Project Financial Server 2010 helps capture robust and accurate data to drive Project Financial Intelligence.”
Driven by challenging economic times and enhanced compliance requirements, financial management has become a priority for organizations investing in project and portfolio management (PPM) best practices. Project Financial Server 2010 brings together the leading PPM capabilities of Microsoft Project Server 2010 with comprehensive cost and benefit management techniques to provide financial transparency and control.
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“UMT Project Financial Server 2010 brings rich financial management capabilities to Microsoft Project Server 2010. Designed as a strong complement to Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM), UMT’s product takes full advantage of Project Server 2010’s open and extensible platform to deliver an integrated experience to end-users,” said Ludovic Hauduc, general manager of Microsoft Project. “Project Financial Server 2010 is a solid example of the value that can be achieved by bringing together our partners’ expertise and domain knowledge with Microsoft Project’s powerful and open platform.”
Project Financial Server 2010’s familiar SharePoint Server interface, coupled with UMT’s and their global partners best practice implementation services, helps organizations quickly gain visibility across project financials and realize a return on investment.
Gil Makleff – Founding Partner & CEO of UMT - said that “Today we are seeing more and more organizations adopting PPM best practices to select and effectively deliver the right projects, enhance governance processes, better manage finances and drive collaboration. The combination of Microsoft Project Server 2010 and UMT Project Financial Server 2010 provides organizations with a familiar, integrated and scalable end to end Enterprise PPM platform. UMT continues to grow and fine tune our change management capabilities through regional presence across North America and global PPM thought leadership. At the recent Microsoft Project Momentum conference in Barcelona, it was great to hear the excitement from Project partners and customers around the availability of Project Financial Server 2010. This enthusiasm has resulted in many Microsoft Project partners joining the UMT Global Partner Alliance to become Project Financial Server 2010 Service Providers and Resellers”.
About UMT
UMT is the thought leader in Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) and provides comprehensive EPM services, solutions and training to Global 1000 customers. In addition to our consulting expertise, UMT has been responsible for creating software products that have transformed the PPM industry. UMT Portfolio Manager, a top down portfolio management solution, was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 and its portfolio optimization methodology and techniques are now an integral part of Microsoft Project Server 2010. UMT was proud to be awarded the Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Project Management Partner of the Year at the 2010 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington DC.