Success Stories

After Intense Selection Process, Amerisure PMO Chooses Daptiv

Amerisure Insurance is a rapidly growing, regional property and casualty insurance group with more than nine decades of experience insuring American businesses. It had created an internal project management office to manage IT projects, but also wanted to create, define and roll out processes and methodologies that would standardize practices throughout the company.

Amerisure Conducts Intense Evaluation

Prior to Daptiv, Amerisure relied on an ad hoc system cobbled together using Microsoft Project and Excel, and embarked on an extensive search to evaluate and choose a tool that could bring this all together in one environment that would also offer quick and seamless deployment. To solve this dilemma, the PMO Director evaluated a number of products including Microsoft Project, Niku, Primavera, and Daptiv.

Each company was sent a survey containing 150 criteria that would be used to compile a product self analysis. This was followed by each vendor visiting Amerisure for an on-site demo. Competing products were found to be too regimented, and would require Amerisure employees to conform to strict confines within the product. Some products were priced four times higher than Daptiv. Based on cost and functionality, Daptiv was the clear winner.

Since its initial deployment, Daptiv has lived up to its winner status with its "hassle-free ability to scale from both a product usage/adoption perspective and visibility across the enterprise." It combines collaboration, knowledge sharing and project management in one platform - popular features include alignment between projects and tasks, document sharing and version control, and real-time information in the form of Gantt charts. Due to quick user adoption, Amerisure has quickly increased its number of seats with plans for even more expansion.

Daptiv Delivers High ROI

"Daptiv is not a simple project management tool. It is a full-scale environment that combines collaboration, knowledge sharing and project management in one platform that all departments in a company can use, while helping us to create, manage and maintain our processes and methodologies. Its web-based access makes it ideal for any organization that has employees in multiple offices or telecommuting, and it is so easy to learn how to use we were able to initiate our employees with simple one-hour training in-house. If you are looking for a platform that can bring another level of ROI to your bottom line, you should look closely at Daptiv," says Ed Cullari, Director, Project Management Office Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company.