Métier, Ltd., an innovator in predictive project portfolio management software and services, today announced that CEO Douglas Clark has been selected by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to present at its Rule Languages for Interoperability Workshop. Clark will outline current technologies and standards for the project and portfolio management environment. This workshop, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and hosted by ILOG, will be held in Washington, D.C. April 27-28.

"With the advent of portfolio management software, project management became a core competency in the enterprise," said Clark. "The confluence of standards sophistication, coupled with the W3C's work in rule language development, may portend a rather quick implementation of a very useful ontology-based system for the profession."

Rule languages and systems are becoming widely used across the commercial market. Examples include business process management, database integration, production systems and a variety of other applications. Coupled with web technologies that make it possible to share and link documents and information across the world, rules offer the opportunity for advanced knowledge sharing, process execution, and policy enforcement. According to the W3C, this workshop is intended to garner new rule applications and address how a standard rule framework might be developed to address user challenges.

As co-founder and CEO of Métier, Clark is the inventor of the patented concepts behind the predictive technology of WorkLenz. This market-leading portfolio management software analyzes and predicts project performance for government agencies and Global 2000 companies. Clark was a founding board member of the Project Management Institute's (PMI) College of Scheduling, and currently leads development of the organization's first practice standard for scheduling. He is also a member of the Standards Consensus Body for PMI.

About Métier, Ltd.
A 2004 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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