Celebrating international success with products and solutions for MS Project - TPG marks its tenth birthday

Munich, Germany. 16 June 2008 – The Project Group GmbH, the world’s leading provider of products for Microsoft Project, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Founded in 1998, TPG’s first mission was to enable its customers to integrate Microsoft Project with SAP. Today, TPG’s offering encompasses a range of products that expand Microsoft Project’s functionality, facilitate its use enterprise-wide, and support multi-project management; and consulting and implementation for Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM); and training for users, administrators and developers. TPG’s goals for the future include strengthening its international market leadership in software products for Microsoft Project. The company also plans to establish an international partner network to support and expand global product distribution.

Stavros Georgantzis, founder and managing director of TPG, has been working with Microsoft Project ever since its first version appeared in 1989. He founded TPG a little less than ten years later in July 1998, having noticed that there was an urgent customer need for a reliable integration of Project with SAP. “The demand was huge and there was an obvious and very promising gap in the market for this type of product,” says Georgantzis. “So we rolled up our sleeves and went for it. Developing a new type of product is always fraught with risks and unexpected challenges, and this product was no exception. But we stuck to our guns – and we’re really glad we did.” Today, TPG PSLink® is the world’s leading product for integrating Microsoft Project with SAP.

In 2000, Johann Strasser joined TPG as joint managing director. He brought a significant breadth and depth of technical expertise to TPG and now heads up development and product strategy. Under his leadership, TPG has launched a portfolio of tools that expand the functionality of Microsoft Project and support multi-project management as well as enterprise-wide resource planning. Commenting on one element of the company’s product strategy, Strasser says: “We always put a strong focus on including a high level of configurability in all our products. This enables fast implementation and makes it much easier for customers to adapt our products to their existing processes.”

TPG’s management team was completed in 2003 with the arrival of Dr. Thomas Henkelmann as partner and director of consulting services. Henkelmann built up a methodologically and technically highly-qualified team and introduced professional methods and processes in the consulting business. “Our staff are very highly qualified because we continually invest in systematic training and development for them,” explains Henkelmann. “We wouldn’t be able to achieve this if we were only focused on short-term profits. With this approach and with Microsoft as a strong partner behind us, we can offer our customers long-term protection of their investments.”

The majority of TPG’s customers are multinational corporations. Two years ago, TPG’s management noticed such a strong increase in demand from US-based companies wanting to integrate Microsoft Project with SAP that opening a subsidiary there became imperative. As a result, TPGAmerica was founded in Jamison, PA, USA, in May 2007 (www.tpgamerica.com). With Paul Szyarto as CEO, the company has had an extremely successful first year with several prestigious customer wins, including Bentley Systems, Harman International, AOL, LSI, Varian, and Alcoa.

TPG The Project Group’s goals for the future include strengthening its international market leadership in software products for Microsoft Project. The company also plans to establish an international partner network to support and expand global product distribution.

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About The Project Group
TPG The Project Group GmbH, based in Munich, Germany, with a US office in Jamison, PA, is a team of internationally recognized experts in IT solutions for enterprise-wide project management. TPG is the leading developer of Microsoft Project add-in products and offers implementation services for Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions to large and mid-sized enterprises. TPG places particular emphasis on the integration of EPM in the financial controlling area as well as on IT support for Project Management Offices (PMO). TPG’s range of services is complemented by seminars for Microsoft Project users and developers as well as preparation for PMI’s Project Management Professional certification exam.

TPG The Project Group is a Microsoft Gold Partner and one of the top Microsoft Premier Project Partners in Europe. The company has significant experience with Microsoft Project dating back to Version 1 Beta in 1989. The Project Group is a member of the Partner Advisory Council, which counts only twenty members worldwide. The Partner Advisory Council is an international advisory committee for the US-based Microsoft Project development team.

The Project Group’s customer base includes global enterprises like Agip, AOL, ATLAS, Audi, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bentley Systems, Bosch, British Aerospace, Cognis, Daimler, EON, General Electric, Harman International, Infineon, Irish Rail, Israel Aircraft Industries, Keiper-Recaro, LSI, MAN, MBDA, Microsoft, Miele, SAP, Schukra, Siemens, Texas Instruments and many others.

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