Expert Choice Announces the release of EC Resource Aligner

Expert Choice of Arlington, VA today announces the launch of EC Resource Aligner (patent pending), a product that is aimed at revolutionizing how organizations direct their resources by providing them with the capability to manage their people and projects like a financial portfolio. EC Resource Aligner is targeted at Fortune 2000 companies and government agencies that want to align their investment decisions with their organizational strategy.

Arlington, Virginia, USA June 19, 2003
Expert Choice of Arlington, VA today announces the launch of EC Resource Aligner (patent pending), a product that is aimed at revolutionizing how organizations direct their resources by providing them with the capability to manage their people and projects like a financial portfolio. EC Resource Aligner is targeted at Fortune 2000 companies and government agencies that want to align their investment decisions with their organizational strategy.

Most organizations do not have sufficient resources to meet all of their obligations; and selecting which projects to fund isnt as simple as ranking projects and funding them 'top-down until resources are depleted. Organizations need to balance the benefits that project portfolios provide with their respective constraints and they need to do so in a meaningful way. They need alignment", says Dr. Ernest Forman, Founder and CTO of Expert Choice. When combined with Expert Choices 2000 2nd Edition for Groups product, ECs Resource Aligner gives organizations the power to prioritize and optimize their project portfolios in an easy, accurate and justifiable way. Through a dynamic link between the two products users can instantly and seamlessly incorporate the project benefit scores that they derived using ECs Group product into the Resource Aligners optimization engine.

Strategically, EC Resource Aligner will help organizations to dramatically increase return on investment and improve their competitiveness. Tactically, the product will help them select the optimal project mix to maximize the collective benefit, while balancing other factors such as risk, budget constraints and political considerations", says Rich Dougherty, CEO of Expert Choice. Patricia Dinger, VP of Finance for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), is using the EC Resource Aligner to link their multi-million dollar operating budget with NAHB's strategic plan. According to Patricia, "using Expert Choice and their new Resource Aligner product, we are relating more than 300 products and services with our strategic plan and I believe this will lead to a broader organizational buy-in and a quality allocation of our resources in a more efficient manner."

EC Resource Aligner is available immediately as an add-on to EC 2000 2nd Edition for Groups. Contact Expert Choice at 703-243-5595 or 888-259-6400 or email: info@expertchoice.com for more information.

Headquartered in Arlington, VA, Expert Choice, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced decision support software and services. Founded in 1983, Expert Choice helps business and government organizations around the world with their strategic planning, IT portfolio management, resource allocation, vendor selection, risk assessment and human resources management challenges. Expert Choices solutions are based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) developed by Dr. Thomas Saaty, an original founder of Expert Choice, and Dr. Ernest Forman, an original founder and holder of one of the first computer software patents. Expert Choices proprietary, advanced decision making software has guided leaders through a variety of critical decisions ranging from the turnaround of IBM to the resolution of the SALT nuclear weapons treaty. Today, more than 15,000 individuals in 60 countries, including twenty five percent of the Fortune 500 and half of U.S. Federal Agencies rely on Expert Choice to help them make better, faster, more justifiable decisions and improve their bottom lines. For more information on Expert Choice, visit the web at www.expertchoice.com.