Project management shows growth

Hamilton Project Management, a Gulf project management company, recently announced it has achieved 400% growth in operations over the last two years, reports Al Bawaba.

The company attributes this growth to the increasing demand for managed property and project services in a real estate market characterised by refined investor demands and unanticipated price escalation.

"Project management has become an essential part of real estate transactions, as price, timing and quality are three central tenets that determine the success of a project. While investors are mainly concerned with buying the best quality projects on the promised date, developers want to gain investor trust through a low budget and maximum returns. It is our job to optimise this combination," says Namir Shaffu, MD of Hamilton.

The Liberty Alliance Project has started developing technical specifications for how companies can protect sensitive personal data within their IT systems and securely share that data with other organisations, reports PC World.

The consortium, which develops identity management standards, completed a market requirements phase where it asked businesses, for example, how they use customer data when a person consents to give up the data, such as a credit card number.

Those market requirements will be used to develop technical specifications for the Identity Governance Framework (IGF), a set of standard protocols that can be widely used in applications that handle identity information, said Amit Jasuja, VP of product development for identity management at Oracle, one of Liberty's members. Those technical specifications should be finalised next year.

Portfolio and project management software company Primavera released new versions of its portfolio management suite and its recently-acquired Pertmaster project risk management toolset, reports vnunet.

The Primavera 6.0 (P6) features a new user interface, enhanced analytics and what-if modelling capabilities for working out how to help managers optimise allocation of resources across different projects, and improved integration between SAP apps and Primavera's own Pertmaster suite.

Richard Faris, co-founder of Primavera, said the updated version also boasted new Web-based capabilities designed to make the suite's functionality accessible across the enterprise, and make it easier for executives to gain visibility over project status.