Primavera Systems

Infobox company
company_name = Primavera Systems, Inc
company_
company_type = Public
foundation = 1983
location_city = Philadelphia, PA
location_country = USA
industry = Computer software
Project Portfolio Management
Project Management
products = Primavera P6
Primavera ProSight
Primavera Contract Manager
Primavera Pertmaster
Primavera Cost Manager
revenue = profit $127,7 Million USD (+13% FY '06 to '07) [ [http://www.primavera.com/newsroom/articles/PrimaveraPosts_032007.pdf Primavera's financial report for 2006] ]
num_employees = 403 (2006)
company_slogan = Project management software for business succes
homepage = [http://www.primavera.com/ www.primavera.com]

Primavera Systems, Inc, which was founded in May 1983 [ [http://company.monster.com/primavera Primavera company profile] ] , is a private company based in Pennsylvania(USA) which develops best of breed software solutions for the Project Portfolio Management market [ [http://www.primavera.com/newsroom/articles/PrimaveraIsTheMarketLeader_032006.pdf The Forrester Wave™: Vendor Summary, Q1 2006] ] .

Primavera has been called one of the technology leaders in the Project Portfolio Management market by a recent research document created by Forrester [ [http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/ent_apps/ppm/ppm-wave-q407.pdf The Forrester Wave™: Project Portfolio Management Tools, Q4 2007] ] . With more than 450.000 users in more than 60.000 companies it has been stated to be the current global market leader by market share, mainly due to its recent acquisition of Pertmaster and Prosight in December 2006 ^{[Verification needed]}

Timeline

* 1983 Company founded
* 1999 Acquired Eagle Ray Software Systems
* 2003 Acquired Evolve Technologies, an professional services automation vendor.
* 2006 Acquired ProSight, an IT portfolio management software vendor [http://www.cpmsolutions.ca/s-News/News%20Articles/12%20Dec%202006%20Primavera%20Acquires%20Prosight%20and%20Pertmaster.pdf Primavera announces it acquired Pertmaster and ProSight] ] [http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=145442&ref=g_rss Gartner analysis on the takeover of ProSight and pertmaster] ]
* 2006 Acquired Pertmaster, a portfolio management software (portfolio and project risk management) vendor

Partnerships

* AGC
* BEA Systems
* BearingPoint
* Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
* OpenText
* Oracle Corporation
* Peoplesoft
* SAP AG
* Telelogic

See also

*Best of Breed Software
*Project Portfolio Management
*Enterprise application integration

References