Centrica Energy Upstream Contracts Further With 4Projects As It Expands Its Activities

Sept. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- The integrated energy company has entered into an enterprise agreement with the SaaS (Software as a Service) specialist for upstream gas and oil developments.
An enterprise agreement means that instead of using 4Projects software on a project-by-project basis, Centrica will, for one fixed fee, use it on any upstream project within its business.
Centrica is currently expanding its upstream development activities and 4Projects management software has proved to be an ideal tool for project documentation management, allowing secure access by and transmission between Centrica and its contractors.  
Centrica senior project administrator, Sharon Nott, said: “As we increase our upstream activities we need a reliable and secure system for documentation handling and storage.
“The business has been impressed with the 4Projects solution and the level of customer support offered by the company. It is for this reason that the decision was taken to further develop our working relationship. Like all businesses we are very conscious about the need to make efficiencies and to be more cost effective. With the increased levels of activity now taking place we felt the 4Projects enterprise agreement was right for us.”
Richard Vertigan, CEO at 4Projects said:  “I would like to personally thank both our energy sales team for cultivating such an excellent relationship with Centrica and our support team for ensuring that our client received the best possible support to make certain its experiences of using 4Projects was very positive.
“Once again we have shown that our SaaS (Software as a Service) solution works well under the pressure of real world application. The system can be used from ‘cradle to grave’, from project inception, through all parts of the ‘stage gate process’ to the ongoing management over the lifetime of an asset.”
The energy sector as a whole is looking to embracing the use of collaborative software as a means to streamline complex management procedures saving both time and money as well as mitigating risk. Collaboration software solutions are ideally suited to this kind of business model which brings together so many disparate stakeholders and project requirements.

4Projects delivers a solution which allows clients to respond quickly and effectively to last minute project or business changes, thus helping to ensure the project can be completed on time and on budget.

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Established in 2000, 4Projects connects people, information and processes, saving clients time and money and mitigating risk. A secure, 24/7, on-demand SaaS environment allows disparate teams and suppliers to collaborate seamlessly.