Afidence Partners with EPM Live Bringing Powerful Project Management Platform to SharePoint Customers

CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EPM Live, a global leader in Enterprise SharePoint Project, Portfolio and Work Management applications, announced today it has entered into a referral partnership agreement with Afidence, Cincinnati's only consulting firm focusing on the delivery of real business solutions on the SharePoint platform.  EPM Live's integrated SharePoint-integrated solution provides a variety of user-friendly, preconfigured applications that allow companies to manage different types of projects — and their various processes and methodologies — within a common framework.  EPM Live's project software portfolio includes WorkEngine, a project and work management tool that helps businesses execute all projects and all work more efficiently and PortfolioEngine, a project portfolio tool that aligns projects and work to business objectives, to make sure the right investment decisions are executed.

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"The business acumen and IT expertise of Afidence has propelled them to the top of their competition.  Afidence approaches every client with the prevailing lens of aligning IT with Business before choosing or deploying a solution," explains Matt Wilson, Director Partner Strategy of EPM Live.  "Having the goal of being the most trusted IT partner and provider in the industry is achieved through 'expertise you can believe in' and that's what makes Afidence an ideal partner for the EPM Live platform."

Deploying EPM Live, transforms the Microsoft SharePoint stack into a more comprehensive and integrated Enterprise Project Management platform. EPM Live includes Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Project Management, Operations Management and Business Intelligence components to support the entire SharePoint Project and Work Management lifecycle.

"In our research of potential SharePoint-based Project Management tools, we found WorkEngine to be a powerful, yet practical tool that enables our clients to implement sophisticated project and work management capabilities, at a price-point they can afford," says Hogan, President of Afidence.  "Perhaps more importantly, because the solution is based in SharePoint, a collaboration platform utilized by many of our clients, end-user satisfaction and adoption rates are extremely high."

About EPM Live
EPM Live provides SharePoint-based Enterprise Project, Portfolio and Work management solutions to help your business improve productivity.  EPM Live's product offerings are helping over 5,000 organizations simplify and become more effective at delivering projects successfully, optimizing resource utilization, and selecting the right work for the most profitable portfolio. EPM Live offers online and on premise work collaboration tools for everyone in your organization from individual contributors to executive management.  Designed with usability in mind, EPM Live creates efficiencies and empowers resources to work smart and get more work done.

About Afidence, Inc.
Afidence is a Business Advocate and IT Consulting Company focused on aligning IT to the business needs of their clients through unbiased real time business solutions.  A Microsoft Partner since 2001, Afidence has fast gained the reputation as the premiere "go to" business and IT consulting company in Southwest Ohio.  An award winning professional services company, Afidence has been delivering transforming advice and people for over a decade.

For more information about Afidence, Inc., visit www.afidence.com or to schedule an informative meeting with Bryan Hogan, President, contact us at (513) 234-5822 or e-mail us at [email protected].

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