Hydra Management Limited has today announced that the UK's leading loyalty programme, Nectar, has chosen Hydra, a leading Project, Portfolio and Resource management solution for its business.

Fraser Ewen, Programme Office Director at Aimia, the company that owns Nectar, is responsible for the projects approved from the London office.

Fraser commented "As our business continues to grow we have invested in Hydra which supports our delivery of all major projects for our customers. Hydra is an easy to use solution which provides us with management and project information".

He concluded "Hydra's implementation will deliver good value and provide the organisation with the ability to drive efficiency through the effective allocation of resources across the entire project portfolio".

About Nectar
Nectar, the United Kingdom's leading coalition loyalty programme, is owned by Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management. Over 18.5 million collectors earn Nectar points when shopping for groceries, doing DIY, booking a holiday, paying household bills, buying petrol and even getting their car serviced.

Collectors also earn Nectar points when they shop exclusively online via Nectar eShops at over 500 leading retailers online including, Play.com, eBay.co.uk and GAP (not applicable to retail stores or GAP.com).

Since Nectar's launch in 2002, over £1.5 billion of rewards have been redeemed by its collectors. Rewards include money off shopping, travel and general merchandise.

For more information about Nectar, please visit: www.nectar.com

Hydra Management Limited (HML) are delighted to announce that following on from the highly successful annual User Group Symposiums, held in Central London and the North of England that the winner of the Red Letter prize draw, was Frances Lawrence of Thurrock Council a valued customer of Hydra Management Ltd.

Sanjay Gandhi, Operations Director at HML commented 'Once again thank you to everyone who attended this year's events and congratulations especially goes to the prize winner Frances' as well as other prize winners from the User Group events which included customers from UBS and Leeds City council. Congratulations to them all!

Gandhi concluded 'We were delighted to see so many of our customers under one roof, sharing experiences and networking , as well as offering the opportunity to showcase the new and exciting Hydra V8'.

You can follow Hydra today on Twitter to ensure you are among the first to hear about all the exciting things we are planning over the coming months.

Hydra Management Limited exhibited on stand 55/57 at project challenge EXPO, Olympia, London last week and was awarded 'Best Resource Management Software' & 'Best Dressed Stand' for the 10th year in succession.

In fact the Hydra stand and team were completely maxed out and at times London Underground struggled to keep up with the demand to transfer people to Olympia to witness the dynamic resource management and modelling capabilities that Hydra uniquely provides.

You can follow Hydra today on Twitter to ensure you are among the first to hear about all the exciting things we are planning over the coming months.

But for now here's a reminder of why Hydra was the STAR of the show!

Following on from the success of our recent webinars, Hydra Management will be hosting a further series of FREE webinars over the next three months, covering the following subject areas:

• Thursday 13th October 2011 at 10:00am - Formatting in Hydra Manager
• Tuesday 22nd November 2011 at 10:00am - Hydra Workflow
• Thursday 15th December 2011 at 10:00am - Scheduling in Manager

For more information, to register your interest and to reserve your seat please click here alternativley you can view our linkedIn event for the webinars here

Hydra Management will be hosting a free morning seminar in Aberdeen on the 12th October 2011 at 10am.

Professor Gerry Musgrave and Geoff Reiss will be speaking about Improving project delivery and resource Management in oil and gas services.

For more information, to register your interest and to reserve your seat please click here

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Insight into real world project management by Geoff Reiss.

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Due to continued success here at Hydra, we are in the process of recuriting for the following positions.

• Experienced software implementation consultant
• Sales consultant

Hydra Management have today announced a strategic partnership with JEMCO Associates head quartered in Scotland. The alliance will see JEMCO offering assistance in the area of sales, consultancy, technical assistance and training to the UK marketplace.

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Newcastle Building Society has been using the Hydra PPRM solution for five years. During this period, Hydra has predominantly been used in the IT Department, to support the management of systems development and user acceptance testing.

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Duncan Macmillian Director, Group Operations at SSP received the best speaker award at Project Challenge spring show - NEC, Birmingham on 30th March.

Who are SSP?
SSP service the global insurance industry and have over 750 employees. SSP consistently deliver implementations to customers, whatever the contract size, whatever their location and without SSP's technology there would be none of the responsiveness, flexibility & choice which the insurance distribution chain depends on to service its consumers.

For full and further information please visit www.ssp-uk.com

Most project management tools are based on an old model developed by the construction and heavy engineering industries. But the world of programme management makes very different demands on its tools.

Every tool should make our lives easier - that is the point of a tool. Tools should make every-day processes easier and simpler. Many do not.

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See why everyones attention will be on Hydra - The star of the show (stand 134-136) at the forthcoming Project Challenge Exhibition 30 - 31st March, NEC, Birmingham.

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Simplyhealth has been a healthcare provider for nearly 140 years and was named Best Health Related Insurer at the 2010 Personal Finance Awards. As a result of the increasing number of projects that Simplyhealth is required to deliver, it has chosen Hydra as the Programme Management tool to assist in managing and delivering these projects.

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As you are already aware Hydra is the leading Portfolio, Project and Resource management software solution. Over 60000 users and more than 100 blue chip customers are already benefiting from Hydra's use. Increasingly, more of our new customers have come from referrals from current and previous users of the product and we thought it was high time you were rewarded!

Until 25th February 2011 we are rewarding any current and previous users of our product that make a referral leading to a product demonstration with a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne. The referral can be to another part of your current business or a different organisation entirely - that wants to benefit from our leading solutions.

There are only 20 bottles of champagne to give away so be sure to act fast!

Don't forget the closing date for this is the 25th February so act quickly!

Hydra Management Limited invites you to join us on one of our 30 minute Hydra V7 webinars (Webinar reservation dates are during the months of February and March 2011).

Reserve your seat today by emailing us or call us direct on 01937 589560.

The Sales Manager for HML (seen on the right) personally delivered the prize to Mr Patel at the Willis offices in Trinity Square, London.

Sanjay Gandhi, Operations Director at HML commented 'Once again thank you to everyone who attended this year's event and congratulations to the prize winner Kru Patel from Willis,'

He concluded 'We were delighted to see so many of our customers under one roof, sharing experiences , as well as offering the opportunity to showcase the new and exciting Hydra V7'.

Willis Group Holdings
Willis Group Holdings Plc is a leading global insurance broker. Through its subsidiaries, Willis develops and delivers professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities and institutions around the world. Willis has more than 400 offices in nearly 120 countries, with a global team of approximately 17,000 employees serving clients in virtually every part of the world. Additional information on Willis may be found at www.willis.com.

• Launch event for Hydra v7.0
• V7 provides additional reporting capabilities and enhanced capacity planning features
• Keynote presentations by Business leaders
• Breakout product training sessions with Hydra users and experts
• Panel discussions on best practices and methodologies
• Networking with Hydra users from all industries

Sanjay Gandhi, Operations Director at Hydra Management commented; 'We were delighted to see so many of our valued customers attend the event and share their experiences with other Hydra users. Due to the ever increasing numbers of Hydra users and differing geographical locations this annual event is a fantastic opportunity for a diverse range of industry users to gather and exchange experiences.

He concluded: 'This event also provided us with the platform to showcase the dynamic and exciting new features in V7. I am pleased to report that the majority of customers were so impressed that they have already signed up for this version'

• Launch event for Hydra v7.0
• Keynote presentations by Business leaders
• Breakout product training sessions with Hydra users and experts
• Panel discussions on best practices and methodologies
• Networking with Hydra users from all industries