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EPK Group LLC Overview  Founders average 25+ years in PM  Developed many PM systems since 1976:  Artemis Views, Innate, Premis, Cue, Prestige  Focused exclusively on MSP since 1998  Enterprise Project (acquired by Microsoft in 2000)  PGMs and Devs on Project team  EPK-Suite since December 2002  Current Microsoft relationship  Project 2003 sample database  6 chapters of Project 2003 Books Online  TAPS program  Vision Workshop development  Competitive analysis  PAC member

Project Server is an extensible “platform” “If all we did was get the current business that our competitors have in some of these high-end spaces, we would be very disappointed… …we won’t think that the Project team has succeeded unless 80 percent of the people involved in IT projects are sitting in front of tools like this one.” Bill Gates March 13, 2002 Project Leadership Conference

Design Goals  Handle ALL work  Handle range of PM maturity levels included mixed  Quick payback on investment  Value for each user role in business process  On Project Server platform in PWA  Not dependent upon assignments – performance gains  Customizable and extensible

Account for ALL work Reports from Standish, Forrester, et al on IS/IT work breakdown are consistently in this range

Implementation Roadmap Initial payback in 90 days as well as foundation for EPM

Value for Each Role  C-level, Senior Management  Align effort with business objectives  Capacity management  Business process thro stage gates  Top down planning  Resource and project managers  Resource planning  Parallel TS approval  Budgeting  Team members  Plan non-working time  Actuals and progress on one page  Collaboration  Accounting  Locked down actuals by account code  Aggregate and extract for interface

Integrated into Project Server Full system built on MS Project Server platform  Seamlessly integrated with Project Server/Project Web Access  Users have a single User Interface and single DB for all functions  EPK modules obey all PWA security  EPK objects controlled by normal PWA Administrative functions  Performance/scalability improvements

Project Managers Architecture Documents, Issues, RisksProjects, Tasks, Resources Portfolio Items, budgets, resource plans, stage-gates, workflow rules in EPK All Other Users Line of Business Systems with EPK extensions

EPK-Suite™  Portfolio - through your business process from wish list item to close out, align efforts with corp objectives, top-down planning and budgeting, benefits management, reporting  Resources - resource planning and management at item/project level, capacity management  Timesheets - full functionality timesheet for task status and billing/chargeback/project accounting  Collaborate - WSS integration across items and projects for views that can be filtered and grouped on PI/project attributes  Reporting – open database where all data, including time-phased, is accessible

Some Users  AIMCO  Barclay Capital  Carnival Cruise Lines  Classmates.com  Colonial Bank  Cox Communications  Fidelity  Gates Foundation  Harcourt  Kosan  Labor Ready  Mazda USA  Mercy Medical Center  Radisys  Raymond James  Siemens  Sunbeam  Yellow Roadway

Portfolio  Handles ALL effort  Projects with schedules  Support/Operations  Initiatives, proposals, investment opportunities  Stage-gate based workflow  Custom metadata such as alignment with corporate objectives  Roll-up of milestones and graphical indicators  Drill-down into multiple projects via http  User definable views with advanced sorting, grouping, filtering, color patterns, symbols  Create projects w/o Windows client  Top-down planning by hours/FTEs, and cost  Allocate program costs to multiple programs

Timesheets  Timesheet covers ALL effort, not just projects  Can report task status and actual hours independently  Allows charge of hours at project/phase level rather than only detail tasks  Charge time w/o task assignments = improved perf  Fiscal period reporting/interfacing of actual hours/costs  True dual approval: RM+PM for hours, PM for task status  Vacation/non-working time planner  Interface with external systems (accounting, chargeback, billing)  Lock-down of individual/department timesheets and administrative close out  Delegation of approvals

Resources  Capacity considers ALL work including non-work time, admin, operations and support projects  Request – Offer – Commitment workflow supports negotiation process of staffing work  Commitment as contract between RM and PM  Spreadsheet metaphor  RT view of candidates’ availability  Resources own planning of future non-work decrements availability  Analyzer to slice and dice resource plans  Can compare resource plans with rolled up MS Project assignments

Reporting  Open database with directly available time phased data  Accessible with SQL Server Reporting Services and other report writers  Timesheet aggregate and extract utility  Graphical indicators and gantt bars with key milestones  Print gantt views from the web browser  Present EPK pages as web-parts

Pricing  Full Suite - $150/ resource and user  Includes support and new versions for 1 year  Then support and new versions at 20% annually  Licenses based on total number of active resources and users  Minimum fees $15,000  Discount schedule  200+ $140 per  500+ $125 per  $110 per  $95 per  $80 per

Demo v4.0 Release February 06