Honoured winners included:
-- China Vanke Co., Ltd. (ShenZhen, GuangZhou) won a Primavera Global Excellence Award in the AEC* Developer category for its successful enterprise project portfolio management. Using Primavera, China Vanke gained significant increases in productivity by cutting administrative time by 50% and was able to deliver a major project $1M under budget.
-- MBDA (London, England) won a Primavera Global Excellence Award in the Aerospace & Defence category. Primavera's advanced scheduling and collaboration capabilities helped MBDA increase productivity by a credible margin.
-- Northern Gateway Alliance (Auckland, New Zealand) won a Primavera Global Excellence Award in the AEC Owner category for implementing an innovative integrated schedule and risk mitigation platform. Primavera solutions are helping the NGA to deliver Auckland's motorway extension months ahead of schedule and under budget.
The awards were presented by Richard K. Faris, Primavera executive vice president, and Dean Forbes, vice president, international sales. These successful organisations join a prestigious list of former award winners, including:
-- CH2MHILL (United Kingdom)
-- Essar Constructions, Ltd, (India)
-- ALSTOM Power (Switzerland)
-- Thales UK's aerospace business (United Kingdom)
-- ComputerLand S. A. (Poland).
-- London Underground (United Kingdom)
-- National Health Service (United Kingdom)
"The Primavera Excellence Awards recognise organisations with innovative processes and technology that lead the way in project, programme, resource and portfolio management," said Faris. "Too often, it is high-profile projects in trouble that hit the headlines. These winning organisations exemplify best practices that serve as guidelines for others to model."
Attendees to the UK User Meeting updated their product knowledge and learned the latest project, programme, resource, and portfolio management techniques, strategies and technologies to make their organisations more efficient, profitable and competitive.
About Primavera
Primavera is a software company who provides business solutions for a project-driven world. The company helps organisations identify which projects are most important, and makes it easy for people to work collaboratively on those projects and deliver them successfully. Primavera solutions are industry-specific and highly scalable, with the power to support global enterprises. Primavera solutions have ensured the success of projects collectively worth more than $5.5 trillion, including the management of IT projects that span the globe, the construction of the world's tallest buildings, ongoing multi-billion dollar oil discovery projects, space exploration, and the efficient use of personnel at professional services organisations. For more information, visit www.primavera.com or call +44 (0) 20 8563 5500.
* Note: AEC - Aerospace, Engineering & Construction
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