About Us

Our Company
Business Engine is a market leader in portfolio management software solutions for IT and R&D organizations. Our solutions provide visibility and control across the entire portfolio and specialize in providing financial transparency into spend and performance. IT organizations are therefore able to achieve alignment with internal business customers by proving value for money. R&D organizations are able to optimize the product portfolio by balancing risk and reward to ensure the right products get to market on time and on budget. With more than 20 years experience developing and implementing innovative enterprise applications, Business Engine serves more than 80,000 end users at over 500 customer organizations worldwide.

Our Mission
Our mission is to empower and transform our customers with the best enterprise solutions to better govern their portfolio investments. The success of our customers is a reflection on our achievement of this mission.

Our History
1986 - Introduced Micro-Frame Program Manager™ (MPM™) to help Aerospace & Defense (A&D) organizations manage complex programs. MPM quickly established itself as the industry leading program management solution. Today, global companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Hughes, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman use MPM.

1995 - Introduced BE client/server product suite to provide an enterprise-wide project and resource management application for organizations in other industries besides A&D. Today, BE 5.x applications are used by worldwide organizations, including Fidelity, Aetna, Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, Sears, Siemens, Pfizer, Merck, Roche, Eli Lilly, and Sony.

1999 - Acquired BayPointe Software, Inc., a developer of browser-based applications for contract management, collaboration and project accounting.

2000 - Launched the Business Engine Network™ (BEN™) in April 2000. The BEN is a Web-based enterprise application that integrates portfolio management, budgeting and financial management, project and resource management, and external relationship management within a single, collaborative platform. Today, the BEN is used by global organizations such as Deutsche Bank, ING, Tesco, and Lloyds TSB.

2002 - Partnered with Microsoft® to become their first Independent Solution Provider (ISV) for Microsoft Project. While continuing to support Microsoft Project 98 and 2000, the BEN 5.3 embeds Microsoft Project and continues to be the industry's pre-eminent integrated solution for helping organizations align executive guidance with detailed project planning and execution.

2005 - Launched BEN Alignment Engine, the industry's leading portfolio optimization tool, in June 2005. This release was followed by BEN Method Engine and BEN Business Intelligence in November 2005. BEN Method Engine is a Business Process Management tool for project-based organizations. BEN Business Intelligence embeds Cognos' industry-leading reporting functionality to provide customers with a fully integrated business intelligence solution for effective portfolio management.

2006 - Acquired Xylogy Research, a privately-held provider of graphical process management technology. Xylogy’s flexible, easy-to-use process modeling has been integrated into the Business Engine Network. Signed a strategic partnership with UGS, dramatically expanding Business Engine’s exposure and reach to manufacturing firms worldwide.