[April 29, 2015]

UMT360 Enterprise Portfolio Management Solution for Microsoft Project Online & Project Server Now Available as a FedRAMP Compliant Cloud Service

UMT360 announced today that it has partnered with Project Hosts, a Cloud Service Provider (CSP (News - Alert)), to deliver its industry-leading Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions in a FedRAMP SaaS-level compliant cloud. U.S. government agencies in need of an Enterprise Portfolio Management solution to improve business and financial decision making can immediately gain access to the UMT360 cloud service deployed on a SharePoint system that complies with all FedRAMP rev4 Moderate security controls.

"Having UMT360 solutions available in a FedRAMP compliant cloud is another significant milestone for UMT360," said Mike Gruia, co-founder and CEO of UMT360. "UMT360 already delivers the only EPM solution that seamlessly integrates critical financial controls with Microsoft (News - Alert) Project Online and Project Server. Now that our powerful EPM solutions for federal agencies comply with the U.S. Government's Cloud First initiative and FedRAMP program mandate, it's even easier than ever for finance, IT and PMO leaders within federal agencies to align their project, program and application portfolios and investments with strategy, while extending their Microsoft platform investment to gain the insight they need to maximize ROI from every dollar invested."

The U.S. government's Cloud First policy mandates that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cst. This policy is intended to accelerate the pace at which the government will realize the value of cloud computing by requiring agencies to evaluate safe, secure cloud computing options before making any new investments.

UMT360's EPM solutions digitalize investment planning and controls across business capability, program, IT asset and project portfolios. Digitalization is key to transforming and mastering enterprise investment management. Leading organizations understand that connecting portfolios and integrating critical financial intelligence across the enterprise delivers the transparency needed to improve decision-making and drive top and bottom line performance. Visit UMT360 to learn more about how UMT360's seamless integration with Microsoft Project Online and Project Server helps organizations quickly and easily digitalize investment planning and controls across the PPM (News - Alert) lifecycle.

About UMT360

UMT360 is transforming how companies manage their enterprise investments. Our Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions help leaders in business, finance, IT and the PMO collaborate to effectively bridge the gap between execution and strategy. By digitalizing investment planning and controls across siloed product, program, project and IT asset portfolios, UMT360 clients gain the transparency and insight needed to improve decision making, rationalize operational costs and fuel and deliver innovation to maximize ROI. The only EPM solution built on Microsoft SharePoint, UMT360 delivers seamless integration with Microsoft Project Server, helping companies quickly realize even more value from their platform investment. The company has twice been named a Gartner (News - Alert) Cool Vendor in Program and Portfolio Management and is recognized by Gartner as a Visionary in the Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Magic Quadrant.

About FedRAMP

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. This approach uses a "do once, use many times" framework that saves an estimated 30-40% of government costs, as well as both time and staff required to conduct redundant agency security assessments. FedRAMP is the result of close collaboration with cybersecurity and cloud experts from the General Services Administration (GSA (News - Alert)), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DOD), National Security Agency (NSA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Council and its working groups, as well as private industry.

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