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Seven months of intense competition has seen Virgin Blue Airlines select Bluenova to provide a streamlined interactive business solution for its future project portfolio management needs. 

Bluenova won the bid over six other providers and will implement Daptiv PPM - the leading on-demand project portfolio and collaborative management solution - across Virgin Blue's commercial, corporate, operations and special project portfolios.

"A large number of people at Virgin Blue Airlines will need to use the system so we looked for a solution that would be easy to use and was flexible without compromising on functionality," said David Harvey, General Manager, IT.

Daptiv's on-demand (a.k.a. software-as-a-service) environment adapts to the work management needs of any organisation or department and offers integrated tools to manage project in-take, portfolio analysis, capacity planning and resource management as well as flexible project management tools such as scheduling, issue tracking, risk management, document control and timesheeting. In addition, Daptiv's flexible Dynamic Applications capability enables business people to easily create custom applications and features that function within their overall collaborative project management environment, all without any additional development or technical know-how. Using Daptiv, companies can also centralise the disparate project lists, spreadsheets, documents and databases floating around the organisation. All this data can then be rolled-up and reported upon effortlessly using Daptiv's leading Work Intelligence platform. These reports can be visualized and consumed in various formats, sent to stakeholders within or outside of the organization and also displayed directly on a user's dashboard.

"Project portfolio management is a grey area for most organisations with spreadsheets, email and basic Gantt charts the norm," says Charl Morkel, CEO of Bluenova. "Although useful as individual productivity tools, they are just not effective at an enterprise level. To gain an integrated enterprise capability, companies would traditionally try to implement expensive client/server solutions which require a busload of consultants, a lot of customisation of code and are incredibly costly to support and maintain. They are also notoriously difficult to use and many ultimately fail due to a lack of adoption by end-users. Daptiv PPM is an on-demand solution that is easy to use, fast to deploy and has significantly lower total cost of ownership."

The expansion over eight years of Virgin Blue Airlines from a carrier with two aircraft and 200 staff to operating over 2,200 flights a week and employing more than 4,200 team members meant a solution able to contend with the complexities of a dynamic and growing company was crucial.

"Virgin Blue Airlines is a highly innovative organisation that has been growing at a steady rate," continues Charl. "They were looking for a program that was highly flexible to meet the expanding needs as well as being able to adapt to the differing project management maturity levels across the organisation. Daptiv PPM was the obvious choice".

Previously known as eProject, Daptiv is used by over 700 companies and 100,000 individuals worldwide in a multitude of industries and at global leaders such as BP, Merrill Lynch, Nestle, Chanel and Honeywell. Unlike the stagnant nature of traditional software, Daptiv is ever-evolving to meet industry needs. New value is driven into the product on a quarterly basis through seasonal updates and upgrades at no additional cost to the customer.

"On-demand software-as-as-service is not just a futuristic concept but here today and delivering real benefits," say Charl. "Virgin Blue Airlines is a market leader because it is quick to embrace the newest and most innovative technologies. We look forward to a long and successful partnership."

About Bluenova

Bluenova is the sales and implementation partner for Daptiv in Australia and New Zealand. Bluenova delivers PPM capability to its customers via a holistic approach that combines people, process, technology, and business intelligence. Solutions on offer cover the disciplines of portfolio management, program management, resource management, project management, innovation management and collaboration. www.bluenova.com.au

About Daptiv Inc.

Founded in 1997, Daptiv is the on-demand leader in collaborative business software that enables companies of all sizes to transform their mid-office business operations. From new product development to operations and service delivery, Daptiv's on-demand solutions streamline employees' day-to-day interaction and collaboration while dramatically reducing the complexity of managing multiple teams, projects and tasks. Daptiv also gives executives unparalleled visibility into project, program and portfolio execution, as well as the ability to measure progress against key business priorities. Daptiv's flexible environment easily adapts to the work management needs of any department - from IT and finance to marketing and human resources - with an intuitive user interface, point-and-click system configuration and fast creation of forms, reports and alerts. Based in Seattle, Washington, Daptiv has already transformed the mid-office for more than 700 customers and 100,000 individuals at companies such as BASF, BP, Cushman and Wakefield, Chase Paymentech, Honeywell, Merrill Lynch, Sprint/Nextel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and RealNetworks. www.daptiv.com