Ninth Wave Secures Contract for SmartCore with Phoenix Group

Online, July 23, 2010 (Newswire.com) - SmartCore will provide consistent project management, time recording, reporting and governance processes for the Phoenix Group programme and project portfolio, for all companies within the
group. Ninth Wave is providing a complete and tailored solution across the organisation.

"The Phoenix Group has well defined project management processes and SmartCore provides us with a solution to enforce their use in a consistent, efficient and effective manner. SmartCore will facilitate strategic alignment, improve project delivery and provide more timely and accurate information both in-house and for our service providers. SmartCore will provide operational benefits to company executives, project sponsors, project managers, project teams and the Change Management Office. SmartCore will help support the current and evolving needs of the company, providing a fflexible and scalable software solution that will meet our on-going requirements."

Neil Campbell, Head of Change at Phoenix Group

"Ninth Wave recognise that each of our customers have unique business processes and are looking to evolve and refine these over time. SmartCore has been specifically designed to meet the project and resource management needs of large and complex organisations. It is very exciting for Ninth Wave to be working with the Phoenix team to implement a leading edge solution for such a market leading and respected business.

Jon Lewis, Director, Ninth Wave

About Phoenix Group:
Phoenix Group Holdings is the UK's largest consolidator of closed life funds with approximately 6.5 million policyholders and £69 billion of assets under management, as at 31 March 2010.

About Ninth Wave:
Ninth Wave is a UK-based software and consultancy company, established in 1995 and specialising in providing programme, project, resource and IT management products and services.

Ninth Wave's SmartCore solution is a proven web-based management support system. It is used for a range of applications, including programme, portfolio, project, risk, resource, asset, fault, change and document management. SmartCore is entirely configurable via the web browser to meet a wide range of organisational and individual management information needs. SmartCore provides a shared environment for thousands of users over the internet,
integrates with a range of other applications and offers powerful and flexible dashboards and reports. SmartCore provides a tried and tested solution that can rapidly be configured by business users, without programming, to meet current and future requirements, delivered and supported by a skilled and experienced Ninth Wave team. SmartCore may be installed in house, or hosted from Ninth Wave's own secure servers.

Ninth Wave's customers include many sector-leading organisations worldwide, including Avis, the BBC, Chordiant Software, Centrica, Clifford Chance, E.On, KPMG, Kiln, Lloyds Banking Group, PRS for Music, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board, Richmond Borough Council, Reality Telecom, the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program and Wincor Nixdorf.

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