Virgin Blue Airlines Group and Daptiv Present 'A Real World Approach to PPM' at PMI Global Congress 2010 - Asia Pacific

Virgin Blue Airlines Group to Present Its Approach to Project and Portfolio Management Maturity Improvements at Melbourne Event


MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - February 21, 2010) -  Daptiv, the on-demand leader in collaborative business software, will co-present an educational session with customer Virgin Blue Airlines Group at the PMI® Global Congress 2010 - Asia Pacific. The session will demonstrate a 'real world' approach to project and portfolio management maturity improvements using Daptiv PPM. PMI Global Congress 2010 - Asia Pacific will take place from February 22-24, 2010 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia. 

Virgin Blue Airlines Group's Åsa Lyall-Wilson, project services manager, and Andrew Mason, manager, commercial portfolio, will present along with Charl Morkel, CEO of Bluenova, Daptiv's partner serving the Asia-Pacific region. The Virgin Blue Airlines Group includes award-winning Virgin Blue, Pacific Blue, Polynesian Blue and V Australia, Australia's newest international airline. Virgin Blue Airlines Group provides domestic and international services to 45 destinations across 13 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

The case study session will showcase Virgin Blue Airlines Group's approach to PPM maturity improvements and how Daptiv PPM assisted with the process. The session will delve into the importance of being able to accommodate changes and improvements in methodology with a flexible technology solution. The Virgin Blue Airlines Group now directs, manages and executes approximately 300 projects in Daptiv across four major organisational groups: commercial, corporate, operations and its subsidiary airline, V Australia.

A Real World Approach to PPM - A Case Study Presented by Daptiv:
Virgin Blue's approach to PPM maturity improvements
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
10:45-noon

Daptiv PPM is an on-demand collaborative business solution that provides a single source of truth and delivers an easy way of planning, executing, tracking and reporting on work across organisations. Daptiv PPM has earned numerous accolades for its ease-of-use, flexibility and quick time-to-value. Daptiv is dedicated to providing focus and insight into the difficult-to-track initiatives and processes across departments, from marketing and HR to IT and finance. 

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's leading professional membership organisation for project managers with nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in more than 185 countries.

About Daptiv Inc.
Founded in 1997, Daptiv is the on-demand leader in collaborative business software that enables companies of all sizes to transform their mid-office business operations. Based in Seattle, Washington, Daptiv has already transformed the mid-office of companies such as Amgen, Assurant, BASF, BP, Chase Paymentech, FiServ, Harvard University, Honeywell, La Poste and Virgin Blue.

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