Welsh Water Selects Primavera(R) for Project and Portfolio Management

LONDON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Utility's 915 million Sterling pounds capital expenditure programme to 
be managed via Primavera software solutions

Primavera Systems, Inc., today announced that Dwr Cymru Welsh Water in
the United Kingdom has mandated the use of Primavera for project and
portfolio management (PPM) across its operations to help ensure the success
of its capital investment programme, set at 915 million pounds for the period
2008-2010.

At Welsh Water, virtually all new construction, civil engineering, asset
capital maintenance, and IT infrastructure work is outsourced in terms of
both development and operation. More than 10 primary delivery partners are
engaged and a range of PPM solutions were previously in use -- including
Primavera, desktop solutions, spreadsheets and custom-built solutions. Welsh
Water and its contract partners struggled to gain a full view of each
project's schedule, resource requirements and costs in one dedicated system.
And it was extremely difficult to assess true progress towards target at the
overall programme level. By standardising on Primavera, these issues will be
alleviated.

"Recognising that we needed a consistent planning environment to improve
programme certainty, we ran a consultative process with the project managers
from across all of our outsourcing partners," said Ian Davies, programme
manager at Welsh Water. "We selected Primavera for many reasons, but
especially for its superior support for managing large numbers of multi-team
projects and because it integrates with SAP, our financial and asset
management environment."

Primavera will provide a platform for Welsh Water to standardise project
processes, procedures and data. This consistent approach will help improve
managers' visibility, planning efforts, and informed decision making
abilities. As a result, Welsh Water will be able to better manage water
quality, leakage reduction, environmental, service and efficiency targets as
required by customers, the industry regulator OFWAT(1) and the regional Welsh
Assembly government and other bodies.

"Welsh Water is a great example of a company taking steps to ensure
common and effective programme management enterprise-wide and across multiple
contracting partners," said Dean Forbes, vice president, international
business, Primavera. "This investment demonstrates Welsh Water's commitment
to excellence, and we are working together to ensure a smooth roll-out, which
includes a training programme."

About Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

For more information about Dwr Cymru Welsh Water see:
http://www.dwrcymru.co.uk/

About Primavera

Primavera is a software company that provides business solutions for a
project-driven world. The company helps organizations 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 US$6 trillion, ranging from small to large
projects as well as public and private projects. Primavera solutions have
successfully managed IT projects that span the globe, the complex
manufacturing of high tech products, construction of the world's tallest
buildings, ongoing multi-billion dollar oil discovery projects, and space 
exploration.

For more information, visit www.primavera.com or call +44-20-8563-5500.

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countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their
respective owners.

(1) The Water Services Regulation Authority (OFWAT) is the economic
        regulator of the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales. 
        Its role is to seek value for consumers.

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