UMT Consulting expands its offering with K2

Johannesburg, 13 Oct 2009

Local enterprise project management (EPM) solution provider, UMT Project and Portfolio Management Services South Africa (UMT SA), has announced that it has expanded its offering by becoming a K2 value added reseller (VAR). K2 is a platform for building process-driven applications that improve business efficiency, save money and reduce risk.

According to UMT Consulting CEO Pieter Meyer, customer satisfaction continues to be among the highest priorities of UMT Consulting and a cornerstone of K2's partner programme.

“With K2, the complexity of traditional software development is eliminated and replaced with easy-to-use, visual tools. These tools enable business people and technical people to collaborate and assemble process-driven applications.”

K2 is committed to building and maintaining a high-calibre and successful global partner network and its goal is to develop a mutually beneficial, profitable and value-driven partnership. The K2 partner model is premised on effectively working with partners to resell, implement and provide consulting on K2 products and solutions.

Meyer says the decision to invite UMT Consulting to become K2 VAR is a result of its passionate approach to customer satisfaction. “Customer satisfaction is a core value we both share and a key driver of our current and future success.”

K2 South Africa business development manager Carl Townsend says 2009 has been a hugely successful year for the K2 and UMT Consulting partnership. “Moving UMT Consulting into the top tier of the K2 partner programme was an easy decision after it exceeded our VAR programme criteria. We look forward to continued success with UMT Consulting's K2 implementations and consultations at strategic K2 customers throughout the region.

“Through its simplicity and with exclusive capabilities, K2 is changing the way people use software. K2 applications can be set up to automate and manage business processes, such as document approval or inventory tracking, or pull together business processes, people, services, information and systems into a single application that helps drive business. Everything is visual, declarative, reusable and intuitive,” he concludes.

UMT Consulting SA

UMT Consulting SA is the largest project, programme and portfolio management solutions implementation partner in South Africa, and has serviced more than a 100 of the country's leading organisations with its offerings. UMT Consulting SA recently concluded a BEE transaction, whereby the Notsi Group owns a 25% shareholding in the ordinary share capital of the company. The company is equipped with sound staff values, capacity to deliver on its promise, practical knowledge and it has a BEE partner that actively participates and contributes to the company's success.

UMT Project and Portfolio Management Services South Africa (UMT Consulting SA) was formed through the merger of Fulcrum Business Solutions, South Africa's leading provider of enterprise project management solutions, and UMT Portfolio Management SA, the leading portfolio management organisation.

Since 1989, both UMT and Fulcrum Business Solutions have pioneered the field of project and portfolio management and devised unique methodologies that, when combined with effective project management, enable an integrated link between strategy formulation and execution. UMT Consulting SA contributes to its clients' success by linking business and IT strategies to execution through day-to-day activities leading to improved performance and tangible projects delivery results.

UMT Consulting SA methodology, training, mentorship and coaching approach assist organisations successfully to deploy practical and essential project, programme and portfolio management processes, templates, systems and governance solutions across its multi-disciplinary divisions or departments.

UMT Consulting SA solutions that consistently help its clients build capabilities that support effective business decision-making and enhance business delivery performance. Its objective is to assist its clients in ensuring the operational delivery of their strategy through effective project, programme and portfolio management.

UMT Consulting SA is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Portfolio Server implementation partner.

According to UMT Consulting SA CEO Pieter Meyer, the time has passed to just improve on your delivery processes, but to introduce a new way of collaborating between team members, programme and project managers, senior managers and executives. “Organisations need to enable and revive their processes by introducing a responsibility, accountability, consult and inputs (RACI) formal governance framework to their projects environments, and to use workflow that will manage the governance outputs. Role base delivery management methods will become very important in any organisation, and ensures return on investments in their project delivery space.”

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