【正文】 and the resulting constraints on Ramp。D. Furthermore, pricing pressures have mounted because of the tough PPM market (as well as petition from the Microsoft Project product line), while growth rates for most vendors have decreased or stopped altogether. As noted last year (see 20xx Project/Resource Management Magic Quadrant), application vendors from other areas have also been entering the market and contributing to growth in this space. Since 3Q02, the vendors of the moreintegrated PPM solutions have struggled, and the petition is heating up (see Figure 1 and Note 1). Figure 1 The PPM Magic Quadrant Source: Gartner Research (July 20xx) Note 1 Evaluation Criteria Ability to Execute Vendor viability Management team Track record in delivery and support Functional depth Support capability Sales and marketing Completeness of Vision Vision of technology and the market Resourcing (including external) Consulting/service mitment Package breadth Platform, database and ERP support Team collaboration features IS anization requirements Vendors39。s portal approach enables simpler user configurations than previous releases and also features a native Enterprise Dashboard, with hundreds of Clevel stored procedures, including many for portfolio reporting. Previously focused on IBM39。 Touche, and PeopleSoft has partnered with Cap Gemini Ernst amp。s user base, although it falls short of being a PPM product. Along the same lines, PlanView has introduced a set of anizational governance processes called Prisms, which it has built into its PlanView Portfolio Management solution, which was launched at Gartner39。D, which has yielded a Microsoft Project 20xx release that is due in the fall, enhancing synergies with other Microsoft technologies, including Windows Sharepoint Services, Office and Outlook. Continued work with Microsoft Solution Partners to address implementation issues provides valuable experience in addressing enterprise needs. ERP II vendors continue to target the space, both defensively (to prevent PPM midoffice vendors from expanding their enterprise footprints) and offensively, with PPM products or features packaged with parts of their application platforms to address PPM market requirements. Although initially offered to extend their implementations39。s new PPM solution, which was introduced in June 20xx, extends its established Oracle Projects module (formerly focused on project costing and billing, with some recent resourcing features) with three new products: Project Management, for building work plans, controlling project issues and changes and tracking progress。Y, it also offers CIO OneSource, a bined PPM product/service for IT. SAP is approaching the market with new offerings that may challenge the petition next year: xRPM, a cross app for resource and program management that is positioned as a product targeting internal Ramp。s new J2EE framework pricing to drive PPM pricing of flexible, configurable Web services. With another round of investment ($ million in February) and a return to profitability, a stabilized Niku may be poised to take advantage of potential economic rebounds in 20xx. On the product front, Niku shipped in 2Q03, featuring portlets and streamlined navigation of its five main modules — Niku Projects, Portfolio Manager, Resource Planner, Financial Manager and Niku Workbench — effectively getting the product in shape. Among its new and upgraded Niku 6 customers are several implementations of more than 2,000 users (including team members reporting time/status). Business Engine39。 Young CRM customer relationship management EPM Enterprise Project Management ERP enterprise resource plan