Planview Announces Agenda for Horizons Virtual User Conference, October 6-8, 2009

Guy Kawasaki to keynote interactive user conference featuring global customer presentations, best practices, and industry discussions

Austin, TX — September 15, 2009 — Planview®, the leading independent provider of enterprise-wide portfolio management solutions, today announced the agenda for the 2009 Planview Horizons User Conference on October 6-8. The lineup of featured speakers for the 2009 conference includes prominent keynote speaker Guy Kawasaki and an extensive list of Planview customers, including The University of Utah, Shure, Crédit Agricole Belgium and Carestream Health.

Horizons 2009 will deliver the high-quality content attendees have come to expect from the annual user conference via an innovative, convenient and fully interactive virtual platform. This information-rich conference will offer attendees:

• Horizons Live and On-Demand sessions, showcasing presentations from Planview customers and executives
• Horizons Interactive, including roundtables and one-to-one Meet the Expert sessions
• Horizons Community, featuring networking lounges for interacting with peers and Planview personnel
• Horizons Expo, with more opportunities to meet Planview experts, see demos, and learn about exciting offerings from Planview partners, including Microsoft, Blue Star Infotech America and Pervasive

Renowned keynote speaker Guy Kawasaki will present on "The Art of Innovation," an especially relevant topic for the portfolio management community as organizations increasingly turn to PPM solutions to support innovation initiatives with strategic guidance based on transparency into project costs, resources and assets. In 2009, organizations around the globe and across all markets have been forced to tighten their belts while also finding ways to stay relevant and competitive by driving innovation more vigorously than ever before. As such, Kawasaki's keynote presentation will provide attendees with actionable advice based on his deep experience fostering innovation within countless startups and enterprises.

Sessions at this year's conference will cover topics ranging from unique applications of portfolio management to solve challenges, implementation success stories, dashboards and reporting, and organizational adoption of PPM methodologies. Given the distinctive challenges facing businesses this year, Horizons will also offer new tracks on ideation and product development, as well as sessions covering agile development within a PPM framework and strategies to improve transparency of service costs.

Representative customer presentations include:

• The University of Utah: "Parallel Strategy: The Right People, the Right Time, the Right Things"
• Crédit Agricole Belgium: "Aligning and Prioritizing IT with Business Strategies"
• Discount Tire Company: "Using Planview Enterprise For Release Management With Agile"
• Carphone Warehouse: "Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics: A Case Study"
• Compassion International: "Gaining Transparency Into Asset And Service Costs Using Planview Enterprise SPM"

The virtual, Web-based format will enable Planview's global customer base to network, interact, and share insights from across the globe in real-time. The format will also make it possible for Planview to offer customers a wider breadth of sessions, content and best practices, while also extending the availability of the information far beyond the three days of the conference. Customers registered for Horizons 2009 will have access to all of the presentations and materials until the end of the year so they can reference the content at their convenience.