Métier, Ltd., an innovator in project portfolio management software and services, today announced that it has been granted another patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Métier's newest patent uses project data - such as cost, effort, variance analysis, and lexicon mapping - to provide a real-time resource management system. This patent extends the reach of the Métier patent portfolio from project portfolio management to advanced resource models and metrics.

Portfolio managers can accurately and scientifically predict future performance of resources in their portfolio by using existing past performance data, such as project plans, metadata, taxonomy information, activities sequencing, the portfolio lexicon and risk data.

Métier's suite of intellectual property includes advanced technology for predicting, planning, monitoring and illustrating the project portfolio. With this patent, Métier furthers its unique position in the project portfolio management industry.

"Next year, the analysis represented by this patent, along with the others granted and pending, will be delivered as part of the WorkLenz Analysis Server," said Douglas Clark, chief executive officer of Métier. "We will continue to spend a large percentage of our profits on research and development in supporting our customer's desire to make better decisions via intelligent analysis of the data they produce."

About Métier, Ltd.
A two-time Inc. 500 software company headquartered in Washington, D.C., Métier delivers project portfolio management solutions that empower the modern project enterprise to work forward™. Since 1998, Métier's suite of software and services analyzes and predicts work for government agencies and Global 2000 corporations. It transforms existing data into valuable information, delivering trusted intelligence for better decisions. For more information about how your organization can work forward, please visit www.metier.com or call 1-877-965-9501.

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