“This launch marks a critical milestone for businesses looking to maximize return on their SharePoint investment by adding a Project and Work Management Solution to their platform.  WorkEngine is now a true end-to-end Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) system for SharePoint,” said Joe Larscheid, CEO of EPM Live.   

EPM Live has also released a new application, PPM WorkEngine, to align the new capabilities with the business.  “Apps are the future; our vision is to not only provide a wide variety of applications that will apply our powerful capabilities to various work such as projects, products and services, but we want our customers to have them at their fingertips, at no additional cost,” said Joe.  The WorkEngine product combined with numerous work apps will not only give businesses the tools they need to manage all projects and all work across their organizations, but will do so by accommodating all user maturities and all processes, making the WorkEngine SharePoint platform relevant to any business, simple to deploy and one of the most cost effective systems on the market.  

WorkEngine continues to be on the forefront of market demand.   The industry needs for PPM will continue to change as well.  Gartner's Analyst Daniel B. Stang wrote in the June 7, 2010 release of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, “An appropriate PPM application should match some immediate functional needs and also support a successive road map toward improving PPM maturity. PPM applications are aimed at automating elements of good organizational processes. Where no good organizational process exists, these applications can do one of two things: "dictate" what organizations should do, or support what they already do or want to do well.”  The WorkEngine product helps organizations meet their current business needs as well as plan for the future, improving processes and promoting maturity growth.  Dan also stated, “PPM application value is often initially achieved and increased through the definition and tracking of specific key initiatives. With maturity and a few years of use, integration of a PPM application to appropriate data sources, such as IT service management (ITSM), application life cycle management (ALM) and ERP systems, can expand an application's reach and value even further over time.”  The WorkEngine work apps are intended to meet this need now, protecting IT investments such as SharePoint and eliminating the need for additional IT systems such as IT service management and application life cycle management.