Leading Global Provider of Corporate Portfolio Management Solutions Announces Its 2009 Ideation Campaign at the Company's 8^th Annual Life Sciences User Conference in North Carolina (Article Courtesy: Businesswire.com)

Planisware™, the leading global provider of world-class corporate portfolio management (CPM) solutions for companies across myriad industries – including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, energy, aerospace and defense, automotive, and high-tech – today announced the company's 2009 ideation campaign. The campaign – Planisware's second thus far – will provide the company's employees, partners and customers worldwide with the opportunity to contribute input into the direction of Planisware's product development pipeline. With participation extended to nearly 15,000 of Planisware's customers, employees and partners worldwide, the company expects that the campaign will drive new product innovation and enhance its advanced, user-friendly Planisware 5 solution. Much like the company's first campaign, participants can post comments and suggestions through a Web portal that is powered by Planisware solutions. Contributors can endorse or negate these comments, thereby increasing or decreasing the popularity of suggestions. Additionally, users can choose to sort ideas according to popularity or time published, create "watch lists" to follow particular topics, and access the portal in a variety of languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Data collected will be reviewed and evaluated by a panel comprised of top Planisware executives, employees and industry leaders who will use the results of the campaign to decide which new features and functionalities should be added to the existing – as well as future – products.

Planisware expects the 2009 ideation campaign to be met with the same success as its drive in late 2008. As the first ideation campaign not only for Planisware but for the entire project and portfolio management software industry, it yielded great interest from the company's customers and partners, including Airbus, Eurocopter and BioMerieux, and – on average – each participant submitted three unique suggestions. Of the strong ideas generated from the campaign, 10 were immediately implemented into Planisware 5 and several were integrated into the overall development roadmap. The winning suggestion from the 2008 drive – the ability to easily design and edit decision trees with analysis of outcome probabilities – was submitted by Joachim Rademacher of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

"With the advent of social media and other technologies, companies worldwide are communicating with their customers more than ever before, subsequently receiving important feedback into how products and services can be improved," said Pierre Demonsant, CEO and founder of Planisware. "Planisware has always stayed ahead of the curve in understanding customers' needs and executing solutions – through both our fully configurable solutions and our Flexpace methodology. An ideation campaign is another means through which we are able to obtain users' points-of-view on our solutions and enhance them to ensure that we are consistently meeting our customers' needs."

Planisware is the global leader in developing unique, best-in-class CPM products and solutions for companies across myriad industries worldwide. Featuring full-scale integrated portfolio management, financial analysis, resource allocation, scheduling and cost management, and risk and simulation analysis, the Planisware system has been cited by several esteemed analysts as a leader and innovator among CPM vendors worldwide. The only fully configurable, Web-based project and portfolio management solution available, Planisware is Stage-Gate® Ready, SAP®-certified, and has been adopted by several organizations for its superior research & development, IT PPM, CPM, enterprise CPM and earned value management capabilities.

Planisware's 2009 ideation campaign will begin May 15, 2009 and last until July 15, 2009. For more information, please contact ideation@planisware.com.

About Planisware™

Planisware is the leading global provider of world-class corporate portfolio management solutions for companies managing complex R&D investments. Planisware's acclaimed configurability accommodates the company's global customers across a variety of industries – including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, aerospace and defense, automotive, and high-tech – and empowers users to align the solution with key business programs and portfolio management processes. With more than 150,000 users worldwide and a 99% customer retention rate, Planisware has been recognized as an industry leader by several esteemed analysts, as well as has achieved Stage-Gate Ready© and SAP® integration certifications. To learn more about Planisware, please visit www.planisware.com or call 888-752-6479.