Interoute will present lessons learned from evaluating two dozen projectportfolio management vendors in order to find a solution that would allowits distributed team to collaborate more efficiently. Usability, rapidimplementation and Web delivery were all crucial requirements forInteroute, with time savings in project coordination as the primary driver.

"We were looking for an easy-to-use, easy-to-implement, on-demand solution.Daptiv satisfied all of those requirements with significant additionalbenefits," said Madonna Swanson, PMO program manager at Interoute. "We useDynamic Applications within Daptiv PPM to instantly create custom apps tocapture virtually any type of information, without needing to know anythingabout IT or coding. Daptiv's Work Intelligence capabilities have beeninvaluable, allowing us to easily schedule automated, real-time reports onany information within the Daptiv system in a fraction of the time it tookwith previous methods. Collaborating with people in Germany, Sweden, Londonand Prague is now so simple with Daptiv, it's like we're all in the sameroom."

"We have learned so much, I'm sure the Interoute experience will be helpfulfor other organizations going through the vendor selection process," saidSwanson. "I've developed and managed many business integration programsbefore and never has it been so easy to coordinate all the crossdependencies between the projects as it has with Daptiv. I only wish I hadDaptiv five years ago."

The Project & Portfolio Summit 2008 brings executive-level IT and corporatedecision makers together with a dynamic range of vendors to discuss PPMproduct and service solutions and hear presentations led by Gartneranalysts and other industry experts. During the three-day event, the focuswill be on strategic business interaction between vendors and decisionmakers via private boardroom appointments, the insight and expertise ofindustry-leading Gartner analysts, and a host of networking events.

About Daptiv, Inc.

Founded in 1997, Daptiv is the on-demand leader in collaborative businesssoftware that enables companies of all sizes to transform their mid-officebusiness operations. From new product development to operations and servicedelivery, Daptiv's on-demand solutions streamline employees' day-to-dayinteraction and collaboration while dramatically reducing the complexity ofmanaging multiple teams, projects and tasks. Daptiv also gives executivesunparalleled visibility into project, program and portfolio execution, as well as theability to measure progress against key business priorities. Daptiv'sflexible environment easily adapts to the work management needs of anydepartment -- from IT and finance to marketing and human resources -- withan intuitive user interface, point-and-click system configuration and fastcreation of forms, reports and alerts. Based in Seattle, Washington, Daptivhas already transformed the mid-office for more than 700 customers and100,000 individuals at companies such as BASF, BP, Cushman and Wakefield,Honeywell, Merrill Lynch, Sprint/Nextel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield ofKansas City and Virgin Blue. For more information visit www.daptiv.com.

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