Enterprise Community® Model Patent Award Proves ProjectvillageT Web Leadership

MAUMEE, Ohio--(E-RELEASES)--Feb. 1, 2005

ProjectVillage, LLC, an Ohio software company and Application Service Provider (ASP), now claims its place amongst the shortlist of innovators such as Amazon, Yahoo and Priceline that have left their mark on the World Wide Web. ProjectVillageT has received a business method patent for its Enterprise Community® model. This information exchange architecture protects the confidentiality and maintains exclusive ownership of a company's information and its processes while collaborating with project partners, suppliers and subcontractors over the Internet. Companies interact electronically with their supply chain in the "real world" manner with which they are accustomed - and not under the artificial constraints of the "project website" or "enterprise extranet" for on-line project management.

This patented business method protects information and process integrity through a high resolution, role based security approach that controls information at any level including project, user, role, folder, document, milestone, file and workflow. Internal business processes are seamlessly integrated with on-going projects without disrupting the business or the project. The Enterprise Community® model ensures complete and correct project information flow by delivering access to one original set of documents or files rather than multiple sets of potentially out of date or incomplete copies. Furthermore, it engenders a sense of community and interchange that respects the boundaries of the business and the project while providing the opportunity for each individual business to grow from each exchange.

When compared with competitive approaches, the Enterprise Community® difference becomes evident. Project specific websites create distinct, disparate and disconnected containers for specific projects, and if you're lucky, corporate information. ProjectVillage, on the other hand, provides a single place, with a single login and a consistent look and feel where any permitted user can find any project or piece of corporate information. The enterprise extranet provides a single corporate container capable of managing all projects as well as corporate practices and data.

Project collaborators outside the corporate veil, though, do not share that same level of information transparency or process effectiveness as the host. They are, at best, guests in someone else's system for the duration of a specific project or two. The Enterprise Community® breaks down that organization-centric barrier and delivers a set of supply chain management tools that fits the scale and budget of any size business. Consequently, any size business can leverage the Internet for connecting with its business partners and customers. Business expands while the boundaries of their internal business workings are fully guarded.

In spite of the enormity of the construction industry, construction projects have run in the same antiquated manner for years. Traditional enterprise software products were too monolithic and, usually, too expensive to provide broad impact to any given construction project. Driven by the needs of the construction industry, founder and president, Mark Bostleman, knew there was a better way to manage the construction project and fill this gap. "The Enterprise Community® model provides the architecture that propels the project driven supply chain. With it, every construction player can apply their own business rules, processes and business know how while collaborating on projects of any size."

About the Product

ProjectVillageT is a web-based project management solution for project communication and collaboration between any number of organizations in the construction supply chain. ProjectVillageT does not simply expand a customer's corporate network making it more available. It additionally connects and intertwines the business processes between organizations. While competitive services are simply tools for remote access to a corporate network, ProjectVillageT enables true supply-chain integration.

About the Company

ProjectVillageT, based in Maumee, Ohio, is an ASP that manages the construction project supply chain with a project management solution that helps customers manage all project information and workflow quickly, completely and correctly. ProjectVillageT serves almost 800 member companies. For more information, contact Mitch Slater by e-mail at mitch@visinno.com or by phone at 216.225.0589.