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 intellectual property suite now includes patents, trademarks, and several pending patents, all within the project portfolio management field. Métier's patent portfolio covers advanced technology for planning, predicting, monitoring and illustrating the project portfolio.

Broadly, this patent covers Métier's ability to create a portfolio lexicon as the foundation for past performance data to automatically create new project plans.

"With our Version 5.0 product, we have a suite of functionality to capture all of the relevant data needed for almost any type of project portfolio," said Douglas Clark, CEO and author of Métier's patent portfolio. "This patent is part of our work currently underway to move from static chart views of portfolio data, to software-derived delivery of trusted intelligence to the portfolio's decision-makers."

About Métier, Ltd.
A 2004 and 2005 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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