Wildflower & VCSonline Team to Deploy VirtualEyes SaaS Project Management Software to Federal Market

PRLog (Press Release) - Jan 31, 2012 - Santa Fe, New Mexico – Wildflower International, a leading provider of information technology to the U.S. Federal Government and VCSonline, creators of the VPMi for web-based project portfolio management, today announced a teaming agreement that gives Wildflower exclusive access to the Federal project management market, offering VirtualEyes, a Federal Government specific version of the VPMi tool. This enterprise will offer both Federal customers and prime contractors the opportunity to purchase the previously unreleased VirtualEyes tool.

Under terms of the agreement Wildflower will continue to enhance, market, and sell VirtualEyes to U.S. Federal customers looking to effectively manage the billions of dollars in contract, program and project management budgets that are expected to get tighter and receive more scrutiny in the months ahead.

“While many will believe we entered this agreement overnight, the truth is VirtualEyes was over four years in the making.  Wildflower started using VPMi in 2008 as the third contractor in three years on a billion dollar Federal IT contract.  We knew if we wanted to satisfy the customer and keep the business we had to take a radically different approach to contract management and customer satisfaction than those before us.  After an exhaustive search of commercial web-based project management tools, we deployed VPMi and started to track every customer order as a repeatable project with workplans, workflow, teams, documents, and issue management,” stated Wildflower CEO Kimberly DeCastro.   “Then we did the unthinkable in our industry and gave our Federal customers login accounts with uncensored access.”

“VirtualEyes first materialized in the form of a modestly enhanced VPMi web-based project management tool which Wildflower continued to tailor in order to best serve our principal customer, the Federal Government.” explained Cameron Haight, Wildflower’s Chief of Business Operations.  ”VirtualEyes now gives us a unique advantage over our competitors who still use spreadsheets, phone mail, and project managers sweeping things under the carpet.  VirtualEyes has already started to revolutionize the way Federal contracts are managed and this teaming agreement with VCSonline solidifies our commitment to this emerging market for years to come.”

“We couldn’t be more proud of our partnership with Wildflower or the power of VirtualEyes to change the way the U.S. Federal Government manages contracts and projects,” states VCSonline co-founder Nick Matteucci. “Since launching VPMi in 1998, the single goal for VPMi has always been to help customers reach their full potential through simple, sensible, and supportable project management solutions, and VirtualEyes does exactly that.”  Matteucci continued, “By combining our expertise in building web-based project management software with Wildflower’s knowledge of U.S. Government contract management, we knew we had the best combination since chocolate met peanut butter.”

“SaaS adoption is highest in applications that support simplified, common business processes or large, distributed virtual workforce teams. Ease of use, rapid deployment, limited upfront investment in capital and staffing, plus a reduction in software management responsibility all make SaaS a desirable alternative to many on-premises solutions, and they will continue to act as drivers of growth,” said Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner.

More information on Wildflower’s latest project management solutions can be found athttp://wildflowerintl.com/wildflowerinternational_Projec …

About Wildflower International

For 21 years, Wildflower International, Ltd. has focused its multi-million dollar resource base on serving the evolving and multi-faceted needs of its primary customer, the United States Federal Government. Wildflower is New Mexico’s largest woman-owned business,. As a competitive and integral provider of information technology to the U.S. Federal Government and its prime contractors, Wildflower is deeply committed to the issues of security and confidentiality. Through effective communications, the company provides synchronization of systems and personnel, top-rate IT infrastructure and support.

Wildflower Contact Info:

Alisson Safir
Wildflower International
1500 South St. Francis Dr.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone:             (505) 466-9111
E-mail: asafir@wildflowerintl.com
www.wildflowerintl.com

VCSonline provides the VPMi (http://vcsonline.com) as a robust web-based project and resource management suite for companies that believe project management shouldn’t be another complex project.

Since 1998, the VPMi has been internationally recognized as a business productivity solution for organizations looking to plan projects, balance resources, manage workflow, allocate resources, collaborate with stakeholders, and measure performance without the inefficiencies of meetings, emails, and spreadsheets. Enterprise clients include the US Army, Scottrade, Express Scripts, Footlocker, and the NBA.

VPMi can be installed on-site (Enterprise) or on-demand (SaaS) where prices range from $5 to $35/user/month. There are no contracts to sign or minimum user counts to maintain.

VPMi core features include projects, portfolios, programs, timesheets, documents, issues, changes, risks, Earned Value, resource management, dashboards, MS Project integration, Gantt views, and financials.