Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has selected Primavera software solutions for project and portfolio management (PPM) across its operations to help ensure the success of its capital investment programme, set at £915 million for the period 2008-2010.

At Welsh Water, virtually all new construction, civil engineering, asset capital maintenance, and IT infrastructure work is outsourced in terms of both development and operation. More than 10 primary delivery partners are engaged and a range of PPM solutions were previously in use - including Primavera, desktop solutions, spreadsheets and custom-built solutions.  Welsh Water and its contract partners struggled to gain a full view of each project’s schedule, resource requirements and costs in one dedicated system.

“Recognising that we needed a consistent planning environment to improve programme certainty, we ran a consultative process with the project managers from across all of our outsourcing partners,” said Ian Davies, programme manager at Welsh Water. “We selected Primavera for many reasons, but especially for its superior support for managing large numbers of multi-team projects and because it integrates with SAP, our financial and asset management environment.”