NEW ORLEANS – Harrah’s New Orleans Casino & Hotel and PMOLink Inc. received the top honors today at CityBusiness’ 2008 Best Places to Work luncheon at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.

A CityBusiness panel, with assistance from members of the Human Resources Management Association’s New Orleans chapter, ranked Harrah’s No. 1 among large companies and PMOLink No. 1 among small companies. The event, which is in its sixth year, recognizes 50 honorees: 35 large companies and 15 small companies.
Also ranked among the top three large companies is North Oaks Health System at No. 2 and West Jefferson Medical Center at No. 3. Rounding out the top three small companies is Wolfe Law Group at No. 2 and Chopin, Wagar, Richard & Kutcher at No.3.

The complete list of honorees will be featured in a special publication inside the December 15 issue of CityBusiness.

The other honorees are:

LARGE COMPANIES:
Adams and Reese
Booz Allen Hamilton
Broadpoint
Coventry Health Care of Louisiana
Cox New Orleans
Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles
Diamond Data Systems
Dickie Brennan & Co.
Durr Heavy Construction
Eagan Insurance Agency
East Jefferson General Hospital
Gilsbar
Gregory C. Rigamer & Associates
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Jones Walker
Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co.
LaPorte Sehrt Romig Hand
McGlinchey Stafford
Ochsner Health System
Omni Royal Orleans Hotel
Peoples Health
Phelps Dunbar
Planet Beach Franchising
Pool Corp.
The Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group
ReadSoft
Slidell Memorial Hospital & Medical Center
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Superior Energy Services
Touro Infirmary
Tulane University
Walton Construction Co.

SMALL COMPANIES:
Creative Engineering Group
Deveney Communication
Gauthier, Houghtaling & Williams
Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency
Heller Draper Hayden Patrick & Horn
I-Assure
Loubat Equipment Co.
Louisiana Restaurant Association
Morgan + Co.
Rimkus Consulting Group
Schafer Group
Zehnder Communications

Model Driven Integration (MDI) is a radically new approach to integrating, migrating and consolidating prior software investments. It raises the level of abstraction from non-transparent, mostly undocumented code to unambiguous executable models which serve simultaneously as documentation and production runtime. The resulting development speed, quality, transparency and control induce a decisive shift from a dependency on individuals to an exclusive – and desired – dependency on architecture and process. This is a critical factor in restoring a functioning dialog between business and IT.

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla., ProcessWorld 2007 — IDS Scheer, the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence, today announced that four companies have been awarded the Business Process Excellence “Verve” award for their innovative application of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. The four awardees were:

♦ Estée Lauder – for Business Process Strategy

♦ Atlantic Methanol Production Company – for Business Process Implementation

♦ Molson Coors Brewing Company – for Business Process Lifecycle

♦ PMOLink, Inc. – for Business Process Partnership

The meaning of Verve is “Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas.” said Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, IDS Scheer’s Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer. “It encompasses Vitality; liveliness; aptitude; and talent.” added Dr. Kirchmer.

IDS Scheer also announced a channel revenue growth increase of over 300 percent compared to 2005 resulting from strengthened partnerships with resellers and system integrators such as SAP, PMOLink, AXXIS Consulting and Grupo Assa.

“In my new role leading ARIS sales in the Americas, I have been charged with aggressive, exponential license revenue growth for our ARIS Platform offerings. We will accomplish these goals with our strategic partner network of resellers and key system integrators. We will expand our network with partners who complement and enhance our BPM footprint. Our goal is to continue to maintain our BPM leadership position and achieve market share that will secure the ARIS Platform as the BPM industry standard,” said Charles Doucot, Managing Director & Senior Vice President, IDS Scheer Americas.

“In 2006, the SAP channel was a driving force for ARIS, with PMOLink, AXXIS Consulting, and Grupo Assa exceeding ARIS license projections as well,” added Dr. Kirchmer. “I am especially delighted with the success of our collaboration with SAP in the sales of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions based on SAP NetWeaver(R) based on enterprise SOA. In addition, our strategic partnership with Oracle is already gaining traction after only six months. In 2006, we validated that our partner and channel approach to growing and sustaining market share in the Americas was the right strategy for IDS Scheer.”

According to Randy Surratt, CEO of PMOLink, Inc.: “The capabilities of the ARIS Platform are a perfect fit with our Project Management offerings. When customers understand that effective Business Process Management is a primary key to success for most types of projects, they are adopting a philosophy that will serve them well time and time again. Many of our clients have leveraged the investment they made in ARIS in support of a specific project to spread business process improvement into far-reaching process areas across their companies.”

About IDS Scheer

With the ARIS Platform, IDS Scheer is the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence. The company’s ARIS-based solutions offer a complete portfolio of software, services and methods to address all phases of the business process lifecycle: strategy, design, implementation, controlling, documentation, and continuous improvement. From small/medium enterprises to Global 1000 organizations, IDS Scheer helps companies optimize their investments in Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Architecture (EA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Performance Management (CPM), and Compliance Management. As a Global SAP Service Partner and strategic SAP development partner, IDS Scheer has unmatched domain expertise in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and SAP NetWeaver. With more than 2,500 employees worldwide and 6,000-plus customers in over 70 countries, IDS Scheer’s 2005 revenues reached $386.4 million USD/318 million Euros. IDS Scheer was established in 1984 by August-Wilhelm Scheer, widely recognized as a founding father of Business Process Management.

About PMOLink, Inc.

To leaders of business-critical initiatives, PMOLink delivers innovative solutions with the expertise, tools, and service quality that make your bottom line our business. PMOLink is a national leader in providing “best of breed” services and technological solutions designed to help organizations effectively manage project development and business process management initiatives. PMOLink was recently recognized as the number one “Best Place to Work” in New Orleans in the small business category by New Orleans City Business Magazine. We thank our incredible group of team members for the recognition and numerous successes they have brought to our enterprise and our clients. For more information, visit www.pmolink.com, or contact us at solutions@pmolink.com.

PMOLink Ranked #1 in “Best Places to Work” Survey by New Orleans CityBusiness

MANDEVILLE, LA (December 20, 2006) – PMOLink, Inc. has been ranked first in the annual “Best Places to Work” survey conducted by New Orleans CityBusiness magazine. The “Best Places to Work” survey highlights Louisiana-based companies and organizations that excel in providing a positive, productive, and rewarding atmosphere for their workers. The Mandeville-based project and process management solutions provider was chosen as the overall winner out of the 15 companies chosen from the many nominations in the small business category, which ranks companies having fewer than 50 employees.

This is the third time PMOLink has made the CityBusiness “Best Places to Work” list, but this is the highest ranking the company has earned after previously placing fourteenth and third place respectively. “This is an outstanding achievement for our company,” says PMOLink CEO Randy Surratt. “It is a great honor just to be included on this list, but to be ranked number one out of all the local small businesses is truly a significant accomplishment.”

Selections and rankings for the “Best Places to Work” survey are based on several employee-rated categories. These categories include salary, benefits, recognition programs, continued education, opportunity for internal advancement, and community service outreach. Survey rankings are calculated from confidential surveys given to a small sampling of a company’s employees to gauge their overall satisfaction with their employers.

One of the principal core values upon which PMOLink was founded is the practice of putting employees first. “This company was formed with the idea that we would invest heavily in our number one asset, which is our employees,” states PMOLink VP of Marketing and CIO Doug Kibler. “Our goal has always been to provide salaries that pay an employee what they are worth and retain these employees with the best benefit package we can possibly offer. Even as the company has grown, we have continued to remain true to our founding objectives by continuing to invest in our employees and by providing the best benefits we can.”

PMOLink employees earn a median salary which is well above the industry standard. Employees also enjoy a robust benefit package which includes paid health, dental, and vision, 401K, stock options, paid maternity leave, an employee recognition program, and education reimbursements. PMOLink also pays for employees to earn their Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and awards a generous bonus upon completion.

About PMOLink, Inc.
Headquartered in Mandeville, Louisiana, PMOLink, Inc., is a national leader in providing “best of breed” services and technology solutions to help organizations effectively manage project development and business process reengineering initiatives. PMOLink serves clients in the United States and Mexico, including six Fortune 500 companies. As a Primavera Authorized Representative (PAR), PMOLink holds the exclusive rights to distribute the industry-leading Primavera project management software solutions in Louisiana and Mississippi. Industries served by PMOLink include: Energy; Pharmaceutical; Hospitality; Media; Construction; Engineering; Space; Oil and Gas; and Insurance. PMOLink’s recent expansion includes the establishment of an office in San Antonio, Texas. On a local level, PMOLink was recently named a finalist for the “2005 Innovator of the Year” award by New Orleans City Business magazine and has been ranked in their “Best Places to Work in New Orleans” survey three times now. In 2005, Entergy Corp. recognized PMOLink’s exceptional customer service with the Supply Chain Leader Award for Operations. In 2003, PMOLink expanded its services to local, state, and federal government through its subsidiary PMOLink Government Solutions, Inc. For more information, visit www.pmolink.com.

New Orleans, La. – Entergy’s top tier suppliers were recently recognized at the Sixth Annual Entergy Supplier Conference. The conference, which was held at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans on May 18 and 19, carried the theme, “Partnering in Quality – Enterprise-Wide Planning.”
“The main purpose of Entergy’s supplier conference is to promote efficient, high-value supplier/buyer relationships with a number of critical vendors that are fully aligned with Entergy’s values and business objectives,” said Walter Rhodes, vice president of supply chain and chief procurement officer.
The supplier conference provides a formal setting for Entergy to present and discuss the most important topics to its suppliers. The conference also streamlines the voice of Entergy to the entire supplier community, while soliciting feedback from key suppliers on various areas of importance or possible areas of opportunity.
Entergy recognized winners in two award categories, the Supply Chain Leader Awards and the Entergy-Wide Awards. The SCLAs recognize vendors who visibly and consistently exhibited high-performance levels and support for Entergy accounts, provided critical commodities and/or services to Entergy business units and areas and submitted prevailing proposals for significant supply chain agreements.
The EWAs honor those suppliers who have excelled at supporting broad, long-term company initiatives that are critical to Entergy across business unit and area boundaries. These EWAs include the eProcurement Leadership Award, the Diversity Program Leadership Award and the Safety Leadership Award.

The following Entergy Supplier Award Winners were honored during the conference:

1. Supply Chain Leader – Corporate
Winner: Cushman & Wakefield

2. Supply Chain Leader – Distribution
Winner: Stuart Irby, Inc.

3. Supply Chain Leader – Fossil
Winner: Fluor Enterprises, Inc.

4. Supply Chain Leader – Nuclear Northeast
Winner: TIOGA Pipe Supply

5. Supply Chain Leader – Nuclear South
Winner: Tri Tool, Inc.

6. Supply Chain Leader – Transmission
Winner: Thomas & Betts

7. Supply Chain Leader – Operations – Other
Winner: PMO Link, Inc.

8. Diversity Program Leadership
Winner: Howard Industries

9. eProcurement Leadership
Winner: CVM Solutions Inc.

10. Safety Leadership
Winner: HIGHLINES Construction

11. Productivity Partner (2 winners)
Winner 1: WESCO Distribution
Winner 2: West Tree Service
Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $10 billion and approximately 14,000 employees.

Entergy’s online address is www.entergy.com

For the second year running, PMOLink, Inc. was rated by New Orleans CityBusiness Magazine as one of the Best Places to work. This year, PMOLink finished in third place, up from its 14th place finish last year. The ranking is based on an independent employee opinion survey conducted by New Orleans’ premiere business magazine. CityBusiness asked a random sample of each company’s workers a series of questions related to their feelings about their total work experience. The CityBusiness yearly Best Places to Work survey ranks the top 20 companies in the region out of a field of thousands of companies.

About PMOLink, Inc.
Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, PMOLink, Inc. is a national leader in providing “best of breed” services and technological solutions designed to help organizations effectively manage project development and business process reengineering initiatives. PMOLink serves clients in the United States and Mexico, including Fortune 500 energy, pharmaceutical,telecommunications and insurance companies, as well as Federal, State, and Local Government entities and Educational Institutions.

PMOLink’s landmark product: Project Management Process, is a navigable tool that graphically and comprehensively describes project management in terms of its component processes and their interactions.

For more information, visit www.pmolink.com.

Business publication ranks company in annual survey

PMOLink was named one of the best places to work in New Orleans according to recent surveys of more than 1,000 area businesses by New Orleans CityBusiness. The company was ranked #14 among the 37 that made the business newspaper’s inaugural “Best Places to Work” listing, based primarily on confidential employee surveys.

“Congratulations, and thank you to all PMOLinkers. We all share in this honor,” says Vice President and Chief Information Officer Doug Kibler. “What makes me proud of this award is that it came from the most important component of PMOLink, our employees. Without employees working to make the company better through their dedication and feedback, this honor would not have been possible.

The Best Place to Work Survey included diverse business operations with no differentiation between large and small companies. Responses from PMOLinkers, for example, were viewed on the same scale as those from large institutions, such as Ochsner Clinic Foundation.

The extensive employee survey process included a combination of telephone interviews, written questionnaires, email surveys and in-person discussions. All responses were considered confidential.

According to CityBusiness Associate Editor Michael Giusti, a highlight of the survey was its emphasis on human resources aspects of a business. Company benefits, median and starting salaries and amount of vacation time were significant factors in determining the Best Places to Work. “Making this list is no small feat,” he says. “The companies included had so much faith in the way they treat their workers that they opened their doors to the most intimate scrutiny. They chose to answer a litany of private questions and allowed CityBusiness researchers to interview their rank-and-file employees to ask how well their bosses treat them.”

The survey says …

While salary is important, CityBusiness learned, it isn’t everything. Giusti notes, “Job satisfaction is boosted by some of the small things employers do to show workers they are important. Employee recognition programs, parties and showing sensitivity to family concerns are often cited as elements that make a truly good employer.“

Giusti noted that providing access to its employees made up five percent of an employer’s final weighted score. Companies that said “no” to full access were not considered further than the first inquiry. He adds that salary and benefits comprised 20 percent of the ranking, with regional and industry medians used in calculations. “If a company paid its entry-level employees at or above the regional median pay, it scored points,” Giusti explains. “If a company’s median salary was at or above the median for its industry, it scored more points. If it offered health care, vacation or other meaningful benefits – more points.”

The most important aspect of the ranking, however, was input from employees during CityBusiness interviews.

“Making PMOLink the best place to work is simply creating an environment that allows every employee to meet their maximum potential,” Doug continues. “Focusing on our employees and their families helps ensure that they are not worrying about retirement, medical benefits, promotion and educational opportunities. They are then able to focus on exceeding our clients’ expectations.”

IDS Scheer Teams with PMOLink and the University of New Orleans to Create Business Process Competency Based on the ARIS Framework

This Partnership Reinforces the State’s Initiative to Make Louisiana a “Learning Enterprise” and Fosters Innovation in the UNO Research and Technology Park

Berwyn, PA (March 25, 2003)
IDS Scheer, Inc., the leading provider of business process excellence services and tools, today announced that it has teamed with PMOLink, Inc, and the University of New Orleans (UNO) to create a business process competency that is based on the ARIS (ARchitecture of Integrated Information Systems) framework. Additionally, the ARIS framework and ARIS process modeling software will be part of UNO’s curriculum, specifically within the Engineering Management Program.

IDS Scheer and PMOLink have been working with UNO to introduce the ARIS methodology and software tools, which are widely recognized as the leading conceptual solutions for designing, implementing and improving business processes, into a series of courses offered at the university. UNO’s faculty is currently undergoing training on ARIS and plans to roll-out curriculum for the School of Engineering in the Fall of 2003.

This partnership reinforces the Louisiana Economic Development Council’s “Louisiana: Vision 2020” initiative, which underscores the importance of creating and positioning the state as a “Learning Enterprise,” making it a rich, diverse, complex organism in which all businesses, institutions, and citizens are actively engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

“IDS Scheer understands the importance of a university’s role in fostering education and innovation,” explained Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, President and CEO of IDS Scheer, Inc. “Our company was founded on this principal and we thrive on empowering universities and educational institutions to create an organic environment for students and businesses to benefit from this process. We are pleased to team with PMOLink and the University of New Orleans and make the ARIS a catalyst for growth and enrichment.”

Dr. Kirchmer is a respected author, educator and speaker known internationally as an expert in business process management. He is the author of numerous publications, a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania, and a regular lecturer at Widener University, University of Southern California, and George Mason University.

“IDS Scheer’s products and business process methodology have traditionally come from research and development efforts coordinated with universities,” explained Geoff Hingle, CEO of PMOLink. “The UNO Research and Technology Park provides an ideal environment for such a partnership, and we believe the Greater New Orleans area can benefit from IDS Scheer’s expertise and presence in our community. For our part, PMOLink will work closely with UNO to provide support with our local ARIS practical expertise and to employ trained graduates to meet our clients’ needs.”

“This partnership will not only benefit the university community, but the business and technology community as well. With IDS Scheer and PMOLink, the University’s Research and Technology Park has partnered with business leaders that could spawn innovation in the industry, as well as help the University in its academic mission,” said University of New Orleans Chancellor Gregory M. St. L. O’Brien.

About University of New Orleans Research and Technology Park
The UNO Research and Technology Park brings the prestige of a major university to its companies. With world-class departments of naval architecture and marine engineering, business administration, communications disciplines, high performance computing, biotechnology, advanced materials, environmental and energy research, computer science, computer engineering, and management information systems, UNO is betting on the strength of its excellent faculty and students, in partnership with industry and government, to use its multi-disciplinary programs to solve problems, create new products and increase the quality of life in the New Orleans Region. The Park is the physical interface for academia and industry — ideas and people — to maximize productivity to grow the ideas and business of today’s economy.

About PMOLink, Inc.
Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, PMOLink, Inc. is a national leader in providing “best of breed” services and technological solutions designed to help organizations effectively manage project development and business process reengineering initiatives. PMOLink with its 30 employees serves clients in five states including four Fortune 500 energy, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. On a local level, PMOLink was recently recognized as a finalist for the Greater New Orleans Regional Chamber of Commerce Rising Tide Award as Small Business of the Year in 2002.

Quickly growing a base of local expertise in process management, PMOLink has recently expanded its services to local, state and federal government through its subsidiary PMOLink Government Solutions, Inc. For more information, visit www.pmolink.com.

About IDS Scheer, Inc.
IDS Scheer, Inc. is the global leader in providing consulting and software solutions to organizations to enable business process excellence. With more than 1,500 employees worldwide, IDS Scheer combines leading edge technology with a range of vertical market expertise to help organizations streamline enterprise resource planning, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, and e-business initiatives. The company’s ARIS product suite is the market leader in business process management, including the award-winning ARIS Toolset and ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM) which are used by more than 3,000 organizations worldwide, and consistently recognized by the industry’s leading analyst groups. For more information, visit http://www.ids-scheer.com/us.

IDS Scheer Contact:
Sally Egan
IDS Scheer, Inc.
610-854-6844
d.egan@ids-scheer.com

Agency Contact:
Domenick Cilea
Springboard Public Relations
732-863-1900 x. 102
dcilea@SpringboardPR.com

University of New Orleans Contact:
Kit Lipps, APR
University of New Orleans
504-280-6232
mlipps@uno.edu

PMOLink Inc. Contact:
Randy Surratt
504-286-8882
randy.surratt@pmolink.com

PMOLink Inc. and Pfizer, Inc. executed two contracts for PMOLink to provide Knowledge Management and Communications Management Solutions to the Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group in New York, NY.

The Knowledge Management contract involves enhancement and extension of the Web-Based Knowledge Management Portal that PMOLink delivered to the Information Architecture Group on July 11, 2002. The portal is a “single point of entry” for all information about the Information Architecture Group’s Data Warehouse System. Included is a “Documentum” secure document repository and “ARIS” models of the Data Warehouse processes, architecture, and data structures.

The Communications Management contract is for PMOLink to develop and execute a comprehensive internal and external communications plan for the Business Technology and Information Systems Department.

Pfizer, Inc. is a research-based, global pharmaceutical company. With a portfolio that includes five of the world’s 20 top-selling medicines, the Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group is setting the standard for our industry. Nine of Pfizer’s medicines are #1 in their therapeutic class in the U.S. market, and eight will earn revenues of more than $1 billion globally this year—an unprecedented achievement in the pharmaceutical industry.

PMOLink, Inc., headquartered in Mandeville, LA, is a national leader in providing “best of breed” services and technological solutions designed to help clients effectively manage capital project development and business process reengineering initiatives. As a contractor to large and small businesses, as well as state and federal government agencies, PMOLink is a proven partner in rapidly deploying its Project Guardian products to address the specific needs of complex, dynamic organizations. For more information, visit www.pmolink.com.

PMOLink—The Essential Link in Your Business Success

NEW ORLEANS (May 16, 2002). Today, PMOLink hosted a groundbreaking first meeting between Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Germany’s IDS Scheer, Inc., and local business, industry and education leaders. During the visit, Dr. Kirchmer also had the opportunity to meet and talk with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. The meeting was a wide-ranging forum to explore partnering and research and development opportunities in the New Orleans area, including the possible establishment of a PMOLink/IDS Scheer office at the University of New Orleans Research and Technology Park.

The day included briefings to Dr. Kirchmer on regional economic opportunities, as well as tours of various high-tech facilities in the area, including the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing at NASA Michoud. The day concluded with a Black Tie reception at UNO, hosted by UNO Chancellor Dr. Gregory O’Brien.

IDS Scheer, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of IDS Scheer AG, a $3 billion software and consulting firm headquartered in Saarbrucken, Germany. Producer of the world’s premier business process analysis and modeling software, IDS Scheer has experienced 400% growth in revenues in the last five years, and employs 1,500 people in over 50 countries.

Dr. Kirchmer is a respected author, educator and speaker known internationally as an expert in designing, implementing and improving business processes. He is the author of numerous publications, a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania, and a regular lecturer at the University of Southern California, George Mason University and New York University.

“IDS Scheer’s products have traditionally come from research and development efforts coordinated with universities,” said Geoff Hingle, PMOLink CEO. “The UNO Research and Technology Park provides an ideal environment for such a partnership, and we believe IDS Scheer and the Greater New Orleans area could both benefit greatly from an IDS Scheer presence in our community.”

PMOLink, Inc., headquartered in Mandeville, LA, is a national leader in providing “best of breed” services and technological solutions designed to help clients effectively manage capital project development and business process reengineering initiatives. As a contractor to large and small businesses, as well as state and federal government agencies, PMOLink is a proven partner in rapidly deploying its Project Guardian products to address the specific needs of complex, dynamic organizations. For more information, visit www.pmolink.com.

PMOLink—The Essential Link in Your Business Success