Planview Welcomes New Services Partners: The Fountain Group and Project Corps

Consulting groups to offer additional strategic portfolio management expertise

AUSTIN, Texas — September 11, 2003 — Planview, Inc., the world leader in integrated portfolio, resource and project management software and processes, is honored to announce new consulting partnerships with The Fountain Group, based in Orange County, CA, and Project Corps, based in Seattle, WA. These partners specialize in offering expanded solutions for enterprise portfolio management and product management. The Fountain Group and Project Corps will offer workshops, best practices and content, consulting services, process facilitation, and other services support for organizations considering or implementing a Planview Portfolio Management Solution. Both partners bring a rich background in developing, communicating and executing effective strategies for project delivery and portfolio management. They will also leverage Planview's software solution and PRISMS™ for IT Governance real-time processes in their programs.

Both partners offer cost effective solutions designed to accelerate the return on investment in strategic business portfolio management. Their consulting services will be value added professional support to supplement Planview's own world-class Professional Services Group offerings. "Managing a business portfolio for true value is a key concern of today's CIOs, CEOs and CFOs," says Gregory Gilmore, Chief Operating Officer of Planview. "The proven programs these new partners add will help organizations focus on strategy, goals and objectives as evolving guides for every level of operations."

About Project Corps

Project Corps believes that business success comes from developing, communicating and driving effective strategy to execution. At the root of this challenge is the ability of an organization to directly connect its strategic plan to growth and change project delivery. Project Corps skillfully combines the disciplines of strategic management, business planning and portfolio, program and project management to establish a system that aligns and interfaces these disciplines in an organization and provides a 360-degree view of an organization's growth and change delivery system. Project Corps works with a wide range of corporations, from Global 100 to small entrepreneurial operations, in both for profit and nonprofit environments. Project Corps is committed to applying consulting services in a way that ensures sustainable solutions through collaborative knowledge transfer to customers' teams. Project Corps is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. More information is available from their website at www.projectcorps.com.

About The Fountain Group

The Fountain Group, based in Laguna Niguel, California, provides a comprehensive range of management consulting, process facilitation, and education/training services to companies in a variety of industry sectors who need to improve their internal project, project portfolio and product management business practices. The Fountain Group offers proven, pragmatic, and cost effective management process and training programs that yield tangible results quickly and efficiently. Founded by professionals each with an average of over 18 years experience in project, portfolio, and resource management software, The Fountain Group's expertise provides workable, pragmatic solutions for a range of product, project and project portfolio management needs. The collective past experiences of The Fountain Group principals include creating over 60 commercially available software products for enterprise level scalability that are currently in use by over 1,000 companies internationally. More information is available on their website at www.fountaingrp.com.

About Planview

Planview Web Software is unique in that it allows an organization to manage its work based on the availability and skills of its people, and includes a powerful just-in-time mentoring tool for immediate process improvements. Founded in 1989, Planview is the world leader in integrated portfolio, resource and project management software and processes to Global 3000 organizations. Allianz, Baltimore Life, State of Connecticut DOIT, Farmers, National City Insurance, Pfizer, Reuters, Volkswagen America, Zurich North America, and others make up the over 350 clients who have licensed more than 225,000 copies of Planview software. The company has headquarters in Austin, Texas, with field offices across the US, in Germany, the UK, Italy, Benelux and France. Planview is privately held, financially conservative, and has enjoyed ten straight years of profitability and increasing revenue. For more information, contact Planview at www.Planview.com.

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