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Customer Overview

Terremark Worldwide Inc. ("Terremark"), is a leading operator of integrated internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions, which delivers a portfolio of services from seven locations across the U.S., Europe and Latin America, supporting customers' mission-critical operations. Terremark's flagship facility, the NAP of the Americas, is the model for carrier-neutral internet exchanges and datacenter operations.  The six-story, 750,000 square foot fortress-style facility was planned, designed and developed by Terremark to house the world's most advanced Network Access Point (NAP).  Terremark customers benefit from a myriad of services, including Facility Services, Managed Services, Professional Services, Managed Hosting and access to the world's leading carrier networks.

Business Problem

Some of the issues Terremark face as a young, rapidly-growing worldwide company:

• One Unified Goal with Multiple Segregated Projects: Larger multiple project manager implementations that support a new facility build out. Each project manager has custom needs for their project but senior management need a quick daily overview of all the projects and deliverables. Terremark found MS Project was too complicated, not allowing the segregated PM's to co-ordinate their data on a consistent reporting basis.
• Customized Business Process Project: Tracking a new managed service idea through an approval process from conception to inception, allowing both the senior management team and finance group authorization privileges throughout the process. After an idea is approved, Terremark need to track all implementation tasks with a project management tool.
• Daily Application Requests and Tracking: Managing and tracking a large amount of application requests for multiple platforms that allow the applications development group to prioritize, track and plan short and long term development. Terremark require a dashboard management view that allows them to view and adjust the group's workload accordingly.
  
• Process and Procedure Uniformity: Creating project templates and procedures for repetitive implementations to reduce project management time and training expenses.
• Tight Budget: Keeping cost of implementing and training for the project management product low but flexible to deploy as well as able to migrate and upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint 2007.

Business Solution

Terremark use Microsoft SharePoint as their intranet portal, to share department and project information, and wanted a project management solution that was integrated with Microsoft Office and Outlook (their previous project management tools). Terremark selected BrightWork Solutions for project management in SharePoint, knowing it would seamlessly add functionality to their customized intranet without a large investment in training or administrative upkeep. Terremark also wanted an enterprise reporting capability that would allow multiple project managers to have segregated project data that collaborated into one major project, and could easily be reported back up to senior management. The BrightWork Solutions package allows Terremark to customize project solutions that can then be turned into templates for future like projects. Within a short time span Terremark were able to create customized project sites with hands on training and deployment consultation, including:

• Multiple Department Business Process Request Site
• Business Process Request Site
• 2 Project Sites
• Large Project Rollup Site with multiple project sites
• 2 Task Sites for quick 30-60 day projects
• BrightWork Project Request and Tracking site (for BrightWork administrators)

For more information on Terremark Worldwide Inc. visit: www.terremark.com.

BrightWork, the leading global provider of standards-based solutions for managing work and projects on the Microsoft SharePoint platform today announced that the BrightWork beta for SharePoint 2007 will be released in early December.

Two key highlights of the BrightWork for SharePoint 2007 beta include:

1. Complete re-engineering and rewriting of both BrightWork Solutions and BrightWork Reporter to take advantage of new core features in SharePoint 2007
2. Comprehensive integration of BrightWork utilities into the SharePoint user interface

BrightWork for SharePoint 2007 will be generally available for purchase soon after the release of SharePoint 2007 in Q1 2007.

BrightWork Reporter and BrightWork Solutions improve organizational performance through cross-project reporting and the use of industry-standard methodologies

Redmond, WA — October 20, 2006 — BrightWork, the first and leading global provider of standards-based collaborative project management and enterprise reporting solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint platform, announces that the next release of its flagship products - BrightWork Reporter and BrightWork Solutions - will enhance the collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Office Project Server 2007 enables broader and faster adoption through improved collaboration by delivering an out-of-box Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 site with each project. For visibility into the work going on across multiple sites, BrightWork Reporter delivers the only tool for roll -up reports on the tasks, i ssues, and other project-related information. In addition, these SharePoint sites can be upgraded to BrightWork Solutions, which ships with four pre-built templates and a fully customizable framework, to bake-in more process to an organization’s project management discipline.

“Organizations of all sizes are pushing harder than ever to create and execute winning strategies for growth and innovation. Managing work and projects is a critical component to deliver on those strategies,” said Eamonn McGuinness, CEO, BrightWork. “A project management solution based on Office Project Server 2007, BrightWork Reporter and BrightWork Solutions that supports best practice processes, reporting, and collaboration can significantly increase success in delivering projects on-time, on-budget, and with high impact.”

Add Multi-Project Reporting with BrightWork Reporter: Project sponsors, managers, and participants are typically engaged in multiple projects at any given time. As such, they are challenged to manage their work items which are distributed across the Office Project Server 2007-installed WSS sites. BrightWork Reporter brings their critical information together in one place from any number of sites. For example, project managers can look across their projects and quickly identify immediate actions such as overdue work items or projects in danger. BrightWork Reporter ships with over 50 pre-built reports which can be easily customized, sent to a distribution list, exported to Microsoft Office Excel, or printed in a user-friendly format. Furthermore, report ed data can be publishe d to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for more sophisticated reporting and analysis.

Bake-in process using BrightWork Solutions: Some organizations follow an industry-standard process to run their projects; others have their own; but, many would actually benefit from implementing some degree of process. BrightWork is the only vendor licensed for the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), based on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) standards. BrightWork Solutions ships with four pre-built templates based on MSF: Issue Manager, Business Project Manager, IT Project Manager, and Agile Software Manager. In addition, BrightWork Solutions delivers a customizable project management framework to meet each customer’s unique process requirements. Office Project 2007 customers can upgrade the out-of-the-box Windows ShareP oint Services 3. 0 sites to one of BrightWork’s pre-built templates or create their own. Customers can also add BrightWork Reporter for roll-up reporting across all sites.

Import BrightWork Solutions into Office Project Server 2007: Organizations can use BrightWork Solutions as a launching point to use Office Project Server 2007. As organizations increase their project management discipline and maturity, they can import BrightWork Solutions project data into Office Project Server 2007. They can then take advantage of the advanced resource, cost, time, and portfolio management available with the enterprise project management solution provided with Office Project Server 2007, while continuing to benefit from the collaborative environment and best practice methodology built into BrightWork Solutions.

“We’re excited and gratified that BrightWork is one of our ‘First-to-Market’ solution partners for Microsoft Office Project 2007,” said Michael Angiulo, General Manager Microsoft Project Division. “This great achievement and distinction recognizes their solid commitment to lead the market by participating in quality development practices as part of our Technology Adoption Program (TAP). Microsoft’s success depends heavily on leading companies like BrightWork to build specialized solutions on our platform that meet the most demanding customer needs across a broad range of markets.”

The upcoming release of BrightWork Reporter and BrightWork Solutions supporting the Microsoft Office System 2007 will enter beta in Q4 2006 and be generally available in Q1 2007. Today, current Office System 2003 customers can purchase BrightWork v3.5 and receive free upgrade rights to the next release.

Many customers have told us that they currently run a Project Management Office, or are in the process of setting up a PMO. These customers have also invested in SharePoint and in most cases have already deployed or plan to deploy it as their chosen collaborative platform.

That is why, this month, BrightWork is releasing a PMO solution for SharePoint that enables organizations to connect and manage all of their project information in one enterprise application. With the new BrightWork PMO, customers can gain needed visibility across their range of projects. In doing so, project directors and managers can get an early warning if projects are off-course, ensure valuable team members are appropriately assigned to projects, and provide important visibility to upper management on project progress and impact.

Key BrightWork PMO capabilities include:

• Centralized View of Projects: Based on the BrightWork Project Management Framework, this site provides a centralized location to manage all of your projects, whether those projects span your department, division or entire organization.
• Role-Based Portfolios: Project Managers can now easily create an area to manage their own collection of projects.
• Project Requests and creation: Simple processes to submit new project requests and to create new project workspaces.
• Templates: Four pre-built solutions make it easy to establish different types of projects depending on project complexity and function, e.g. IT project management
• Flexible Reporting: Ability to report across multiple projects and lists
• Project Archiving: Store important historical information and results within easy reach and easily apply successful project workspaces to new projects.

BrightWork PMO will be available for purchase (and/or download to existing customers) by the end of October.

• Click here for more information on BrightWork PMO
• Click here to register for access to BrightWork PMO

BrightWork's newest partner, Spinnaker New Technologies, recently announced their successful deployment of BrightWork Reporter in the Government of Montenegro's SharePoint Installation.  Spinnaker is a software and system integrator operating within the ComTrade Group, the leading ICT firm in Southeast Europe. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Belgrade, Spinnaker currently operate across Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia.

Problem:

In June 2006, Montenegro split from Serbia to become the world's newest state. One of the newly formed administrative divisions - the Committee for Economic Policy (KEP) - was assigned responsibility for overseeing the preparation of Cabinet meetings for the Government of Montenegro. The Committee's primary tasks included research into topics for discussion, preparation of meeting agendas and it was also charged with recording meeting conclusions, follow-up tasks and project assignments. One critical requirement was that all reports from each meeting be computerized and retained for future reference. Considering the importance of many of these documents, combined with the quantity of tasks managed by the Committee, a solution was urgently required that would enable the committee's management team to securely store, manage and report across these confidential documents.

In order to keep track of agendas, conclusions and follow-up assignments from each Cabinet meeting, the Committee for Economic Policy installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server. Using customized sites and lists, the Committee was easily able to store the required meeting documentation however, while standard WSS web parts met their collaborative requirements, they lacked the ability to:

• Gather and rollup data from different WSS sites and/or lists
• Report across thousands of SharePoint sites
• Set up reports to run and be emailed on a scheduled basis

Solution:

Supported by Spinnaker, the Committee for Economic Policy deployed BrightWork Reporter on top of their existing SharePoint installation. BrightWork Reporter extends SharePoint from a foundation for collaboration into a highly structured reporting environment and delivers the only SharePoint web part that enables customized rollup reporting across multiple SharePoint sites, lists and fields.

BrightWork Reporter enabled the Committee's management team to co-ordinate high quantities of projects, assign work items and set timelines all in one place. The latest version of BrightWork for SharePoint also includes the ability to schedule reports that are automatically emailed at specified times, which was vital to departmental managers in their preparation for upcoming meetings.

For more information on Spinnaker New Technologies, visit www.spinnaker-nt.com/

Following on from the successful release of BrightWork Reporter v3.5 in August, BrightWork are pleased to announce the availability of a new BrightWork Reporter v3.5 evaluation guide. Structured to provide a step by step walkthrough, this guide will further enable users to benefit from the exclusive enterprise reporting features supplied by BrightWork Reporter v3.5, including:

• Cross list, cross site roll-up reporting capability
• Reports can be emailed, printed, exported to a formatted excel document or scheduled to email at specified times
• 50+ pre built and ready to use reports which are easily customizable, without programming, through a simple user interface
• Ability to easily create new custom reports with our user friendly XML structure
• Facility to feed list data to an SQL Reporting Services cube for Enterprise analysis

The BrightWork Reporter v3.5 evaluation guide is scenario focused and combines all of the resources needed to evaluate BrightWork Reporter, including a v3.5 overview, installation instructions, comprehensive user configuration, customer support contacts and pricing details. Designed specifically to help users get the most out of their free trial of BrightWork Reporter this guide is available in two formats.

The Tetley Group have been manufacturing and distributing tea for 160 years.  Along with their parent company, Tata Tea, they are the world's second largest tea company.  Based in the UK, with operations spanning the globe, they now have a variety of products for sale in over 40 countries worldwide. Tetley have a long tradition of innovation, as the organization that first introduced tea bags to the UK over 50 years ago and also developed the first round tea bag. They now have a wide range of products, from the original Tetley black tea in teabags to fruit teas, spicy tea lattes and chilled ice teas.

In the face of increased global competition, Tetley continue to maintain their pacesetting trend by placing high priority on New Product Development. This process is managed by the Planning and Projects Department, which recently identified that their reliance on spreadsheets and word documents was becoming an increasingly inefficient way to manage new product development. Tetley therefore needed a more effective way to collaborate on projects, track project progress and facilitate communication between its globally diversified workforce.

To solve its project management and collaboration challenges, Tetley deployed BrightWork Solutions for Project Management on the SharePoint platform, which includes 4 SharePoint solutions for managing work and projects. Tetley then selected BrightWork's Business Project Manager, an out of the box SharePoint solution designed to empower organizations to manage business projects effectively and built around the best practice guidelines of the Microsoft Solutions Framework. Implementing BrightWork Solutions for SharePoint enabled Tetley's project managers to co-ordinate high quantities of projects, assign work items and set timelines all in one place. Critically, visibility into overall project status has been vastly increased, with top level management now able to push project information from across the entire department into a single report that can be scheduled to arrive at specified times.

For more information on Tetley Tea Group visit www.tetley.com

To see how BrightWork Solutions for SharePoint can increase efficiency in your organization visit http://www.brightwork.com/solutions/index.htm

New Version 3.5 Enables more Efficient Distribution, Management and Reporting of Business Information across the Enterprise

[Seattle, WA] — [August 8th 2006] — BrightWork Inc., the leading global provider of project management and enterprise reporting solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint platform today released v3.5 of its two flagship products, BrightWork Solutions for Project Management and BrightWork Reporter for Enterprise Reporting in SharePoint. This release represents a major update and is set to transform the way organizations manage projects within their SharePoint environment and how they report on SharePoint list data across the entire enterprise.

BrightWork Reporter v3.5 delivers the only SharePoint web part that enables customized rollup reporting across multiple SharePoint sites, lists and fields and the ability to publish to SQL Reporting Services for enterprise level reporting. This new version also includes the ability to schedule reports that are automatically emailed at specified times.

BrightWork Solutions v3.5 provides the first project management framework and solutions catalog in SharePoint that is based on a defacto project management standard, ie. the Microsoft Solutions Framework. With phenomenal growth in the adoption of SharePoint worldwide, organizations are seeking more advanced and deeper solutions to manage business processes and the work of dispersed teams. This release of BrightWork Solutions v3.5 makes project management in SharePoint possible and includes a suite of pre-built project management solutions for robust Issue Tracking, Business Project Management, IT Project Management, and Agile Software Development Management. BrightWork Solutions also contains the enterprise reporting capabilities foun d in BrightWork Reporter 3.5.

Highlights of BrightWork Reporter v3.5 include:

• Cross list, cross site roll-up reporting capability
• Reports can be emailed, printed, exported to a formatted excel document or scheduled to email at specified times
• 50+ pre built and ready to use reports which are easily customizable, without programming, through a simple user interface
• Ability to easily create new custom reports with our user friendly XML structure
• Facility to feed list data to an SQL Reporting Services cube for Enterprise analysis and comparison with non SharePoint data

New capabilities in BrightWork Solutions v3.5 include:

• Owner Role Update
  The ‘Owner Role Update’ web part enables users to assign and reassign work items based on the Owner Role that the work item belongs to. Once the user assigns an Owner Role to a holder, all the work items belonging to the Owner Role in question will be automatically assigned to the holder. This is particularly useful in MSF led projects where the work items assigned to each Owner Role tend to remain static from project to project.
• Project Summary Propagation
  The ‘Project Summary Propagation’ web part enables users to automatically update the % Complete column in the Project Summary and to also automatically update the Status Indicator column, if a project is late or in danger.

“This release is significant in that it delivers the first Enterprise Reporting tool and Project Management Framework for an organization’s SharePoint environment,” said Eamonn McGuinness, CEO, BrightWork. “Organizations can use BrightWork to quickly create and manage business projects using best practice guidelines provided by the Microsoft Solutions Framework without the need for custom programming. We are proud of the progress this release enables in the achievement of our goal to deliver the next generation of SharePoint based project management solutions.”

Version 3.5 is available free of charge to all BrightWork customers. Customers interested in upgrading to BrightWork Solutions v3.5 or BrightWork Reporter v3.5 can do so by accessing the customer support site at http://www.brightworksupport.com or emailing support@brightwork.com.

Visitors interested in trying out v3.5 of BrightWork Solutions today will receive unlimited access to the online demo site at http://www.brightwork.com/solutions/try_solutions.htm.
Visitors interested in trying out v3.5 of BrightWork Reporter today can download a 30 day free trial at http://www.brightwork.com/reporter/brightwork_reporter_try.htm.

Headquartered in Ontario, California, Thermal Dynamics Corporation is an automotive parts manufacturer specialising in transmissions, power steering, hydraulic fluid and Engine Oil Coolers. Founded in 1957, as one of six operating divisions of Dunham-Bush (est. 1903), Thermal Dynamics' expertise in cooling technology has kept them at the forefront of the industry for nearly five decades, supplying top automotive producers such as Ford, GM and Harley Davidson.

Since 1996, when Thermal Dynamics International established its first manufacturing joint venture in mainland China, the organization continued to expand its global production and distribution capability. This extra capability resulted in a vastly increased number of orders being received, each of which required the creation of an individual production quotation. However, underlying inefficiencies in the quote generation process meant that Thermal Dynamics' IT Management team were assigned the task of automating the entire process, from conception through to approval or rejection. Top level management also stipulated that they needed to be able to quickly and easily view status reports as well as roll up all quotes and production tasks into one report. Security was another crucial factor with emphasis placed on a solution that could provide a secure area to manage highly confidential documents.

Thermal Dynamics selected BrightWork Solutions for Project Management in SharePoint to manage their quotation process. Specifically they deployed 'IT Work Manager', one of the six business solutions included in the BrightWork Suite and built around the best practice guidelines of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). Without any programming effort Thermal Dynamics were able to tailor this solution to their specific needs. Production quotes are now generated using a highly customized project template, containing pre set entry fields for each stage of the process, that has saved time and eliminated duplication. BrightWork has also helped Thermal Dynamics automate their quote to production process, so that when quotes are approved, the Engineering Department is automatically notified and production initiated. With BrightWork's powerful rollup reporting, management now has much greater visibility into the project status for each quote while related documents are more organized and easily accessible so that project members can quickly find the information they need. These benefits have helped to significantly improve Thermal Dynamics' production efficiency and reduce costs.

Click here for more information on BrightWork's Solutions for Project Management

Van Aarsen International has selected BrightWork Solutions to facilitate the implementation of a new SharePoint based task management system. Headquartered in Panheel, Holland, Van Aarsen International is a global leading company with nearly 60 years of experience in process technology & turnkey-solutions. These distinctive competencies are the crux of their tire recycling & animal feed manufacturing equipment businesses.

In an increasingly competitive environment coupled with strategic market expansion and product diversification plans, Van Aarsen's management team identified the need to migrate from their highly customized MS Outlook based task management structure to a custom built solution. Their search criteria were a collaborative platform that would not only standardize the task delegation & management process but also enable management to easily extract information from the system.

After evaluating the BrightWork Solutions Suite, Van Aarsen opted to deploy BrightWork on top of their existing SharePoint implementation. BrightWork's advanced task management solution is a consolidated SharePoint based task management system designed to increase organizational flexibility & improve operating efficiency and comes pre loaded with features such as email notification, child taskers and an enterprise wide reporting capability.

Click here for more information on BrightWork's advanced task management solution for SharePoint

here are many advances in each of the products in the 2007 Microsoft Office system that make it a compelling platform on which to build applications and products. Enhancements in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Portal Server, and Office Project Server in particular have enabled faster application development. Presented by Eamonn McGuinness, CEO of BrightWork, a recorded webcast detailing these changes and how they can be used is now available from Microsoft's MSDN site.

Click here to view the complete webcast.

Exporting reports from BrightWork Reporter to SQL Reporting Services

One of the ongoing limitations with SharePoint (including SharePoint 2007) is its performance when reporting across hundreds of sites and lists and/or reporting on thousands of items.

Irrespective of whether the reports are generated via a third party tool or an internally developed web part, reporting on large volumes of SharePoint data has finite limits in terms of performance. Today, it is suggested users export the information to database environments designed for reporting, such as OLAP Cube databases using SQL Server Reporting Services to generate the reports/views.

In the upcoming release of BrightWork Reporter 3.5, we address this reporting performance issue by enabling our reporting engine to source and roll-up data across multiple SharePoint Lists and Sites and then export these reports to SQL Reporting Services. The result is high performance reporting on SharePoint data.

BrightWork Reporter customers will also be able to schedule these reports to run at pre-determined times ensuring the data is current when the reports are requested.

BrightWork Reporter 3.5 will release week 4 July, 2006. Contact info@brightwork.com for evaluation details.

At the recent Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Bellevue, WA, BrightWork announced that its two flagship products will be available on the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 platform. BrightWork will deliver BrightWork Reporter and BrightWork Solutions for project management on both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
“BrightWork Reporter provides a unique set of enterprise reporting capabilities across lists, sites and servers for customers using SharePoint Server 2007. With the advances in SharePoint Server 2007 we see more and more customers using SharePoint to manage projects, and a product like BrightWork Solutions that is rich in project management functionality and based on the Microsoft Solutions Framework will provide significant business value to customers.” said Kurt DelBene, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office Server Group.
Check out the official press release now.

The next release of BrightWork Solutions (v3.5) will ship in July 2006.
Highlights of this new release include:

• The ability to schedule project and work reports that are automatically emailed at specified times.
• The facility to publish information from BrightWork to an SQL Reporting Services cube for Enterprise level reporting.
• Significant performance enhancements using server side caching.

New web parts will include:

• Owner Role Update
  The Owner Role Update web part enables users to assign and reassign work items based on the Owner Role that the work item belongs to. Once the user assigns an Owner Role to a holder, all the work items belonging to the Owner Role in question will be automatically assigned to the holder. This is particularly useful in MSF led projects where the work items assigned to each Owner Role tend to remain static from project to project.
• Project Summary Propagation
  The Project Summary Propagation web part enables users to automatically update the % Complete column in the Project Summary and to also automatically update the Status Indicator column, if a project is late or in danger.

For further information on BrightWork Solutions v3.5 please contact your BrightWork representative or email sales@brightwork.com.

Bellevue, Washington - May 15th 2006: BrightWork Inc., the leading global provider of standards-based solutions for managing work and projects on the Microsoft SharePoint platform today announced that its two flagship products will be available on the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 platform.  BrightWork will deliver BrightWork Reporter and BrightWork Solutions on both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.  BrightWork Reporter is a highly configurable SharePoint Web Part reporting engine that enables rollup reporting across multiple Microsoft SharePoint fields, lists, sites and servers.  BrightWork Solutions are a standards-based set of solutions for managing work and projects built specifically for the SharePoint platform.

Review a Press Release with more information.

Scheduled for release in early Summer 2006, BrightWork Reporter v3.5 will continue to be the first and only enterprise reporting tool for SharePoint that can roll up data from multiple SharePoint sites, lists and fields. Highlights of this release will include:

• The ability to schedule reports that are automatically emailed at specified times.
• The facility to publish information from BrightWork Reporter to an SQL Reporting Services cube for Enterprise level reporting.
• Performance enhancements using server side caching

To test drive BrightWork Reporter today click here.

Want to learn how purchasing BrightWork Reporter can save you $$ on in-house development? Check out the BrightWork Reporter Return on Investment Calculator.

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sant Corporation is the leader in sales effectiveness software for businesses that require flexible, easy to use solutions to create sales proposals, RFP responses, presentations, and other sales documents.

Sant incorporated BrightWork Solutions into their product range in order to move forward in a rapidly evolving industry and enable them to provide a wider range of services to their customers. As a partner, Sant used BrightWork Solutions to develop Sant TeamWorks. This new solution integrates BrightWork Solutions with Sant’s existing enterprise application, Sant SuiteTM, and provides a portal for sales and marketing professionals to manage unique processes and finished documents.

"For years we have helped businesses improve proposal win rates and our success in this industry is unrivaled. We foresee Sant TeamWorks increasing business effectiveness by providing a comprehensive solution to manage entire projects associated with proposals, RFPs, and other sales documents" said Lewis Miller, President of Sant Corporation.

Headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Harsco Corporation is a diversified, global company that provides market leading industrial services and products in sectors such as mill and access services, gas technologies and engineered products. Harsco currently employs over 21,000 people with operations in 45 countries worldwide.

Harsco opted to implement BrightWork to help standardize their project management lifecycle. This standardization will ease the management of IT compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Under this legislation IT departments are increasingly faced with the challenge of creating and maintaining an IT corporate records archive in a cost-effective fashion that satisfies legislative requirements. Deployment of the BrightWork Business Project Manager Solution enables Harsco to effectively store the relevant electronic records required by law as well as maintain high level control over ongoing Information Technology projects.

This month sees the first of a new weekly webcast series that will provide BrightWork customers with free online product training. These sessions will be delivered by a BrightWork Solutions Consultant and will include live training and Q&A. The first webcast will focus on ‘Customizing the List Item Report in BrightWork’ and will run on Wednesday April 5th at 12PM EST, 9AM PT. Invitations to all customers will be sent via email.

To submit additional training topics please send your suggestions to support@brightwork.com.

BrightWork has just introduced a new “Fast Start” package to enable organizations to deploy BrightWork solutions faster, with low cost and no risk. The Fast Start package costs $/€ 2,920 and includes the following products and services:

• 5 User Licenses of BrightWork
• Support and Maintenance for 1 year including all product upgrades
• 1 Day online training that includes:
  • 1 Hour Project Set-up
  • 1 Hour Install Support
  • 2 Hours Features Training
  • 2 Hours Design Support / First Site Set-up
  • 2 Hours Pilot Usage Support

For more information contact your BrightWork representative or send an email to sales@brightwork.com

In addition to the 50 configurable reports available out of the box in BrightWork Reporter, you can now submit requests to BrightWork to create custom reports tailored to your specifications. These new reports will be added to the online gallery of reports in the BrightWork Reporter Support area and made available to download for free. To submit a custom report request email support@brightwork.com, and to get access to the free online support area click here.

The BrightWork solutions suite includes an add-on product that enables advanced Tasker, Task and sub-Task Management in your SharePoint (SPS/WSS) environment. Much work in organizations is managed as a series of tasks and sub-tasks, but this work is not quite a project. In fact, in Government circles this process of managing work is labeled “Taskers”. The BrightWork Tasker Manager product for SharePoint delivers the capabilities you need to allow for advanced Tasker, Task, and sub-Task management in your SharePoint operations.

Jan 2006, Seattle: BrightWork is pleased to announce the release of BrightWork Reporter, a highly configurable SharePoint web part that allows users to query multiple Microsoft SharePoint sites, sub-sites, lists, and fields, and display the results in a single report. Highlights of this new product include:

• 14 highly configurable reports delivered right out of the box
• Ability to configure shipped reports without any programming effort and to easily create new custom reports
• Facility to email, print and export the generated reports to Excel
• Low server-based pricing with unlimited users

To learn more about BrightWork Reporter why not try it out for 30 days for free? Click here to access the free trial.

To download a press release announcing the launch of BrightWork Reporter, click here.

Jan 2006, Seattle: Vectren Corporation have selected BrightWork to manage their business & IT projects. Headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, Vectren Corporation is an energy and applied technology holding company with over 1 million customers and $3.4 billion in assets. In an effort to streamline their operations and adopt the most efficient work practices, Vectren implemented the BrightWork IT Work Manager Solution to solve the problem of increasing fragmentation within the IT department.

"BrightWork will bring five previously disconnected groups within IT into one work management solution, streamlining their processes and how the rest of the corporation interacts with IT"

Mike Chambliss, IT Department, Vectren.