Eurocom strengthens project management with Hansoft Uppsala

Eurocom, Britain's most successful privately owned games development studio, is set to become even more efficient with its adoption of Hansoft, a project management tool which enables game development to be tracked and organised much more easily.

This year Hansoft have increasingly supplied games development companies and it demonstrates how much bigger and complex game development has become. Similar software has been used for several years in industries such as bio chemicals and telecommunications.

.Hugh Binns Director of Eurocom explained "Eurocom has established a strong track record for time-critical projects and is actively recruiting for a number of exciting projects on next and current generation platforms. Hansoft's fast and easy state-of-the-art functionality strengthens our project management capabilities and enhances our studio efficiency. Our adoption of Hansoft is also demonstrates the increasingly intricate process of managing game projects"

"Eurocom has one of the most solid track records in the market and a history of focusing on good project management practices. We are proud to provide Eurocom with a tool that will help them take the stress away from management and empower their teams to deliver even faster on desired quality and budget," says Patric Palm Managing director of Hansoft

Hansoft recently also announced its 3.2 release with project history analysis and enhanced functionality for involving publishers and outsourcing partners in the project. "We believe tighter collaboration will be increasingly important but also more difficult. Hansofts integrated solution will leverage the growing teams to their full potential," says Patric Palm.

About Eurocom Entertainment Software

Eurocom was founded in October 1988 by current owners Mat Sneap, Tim Rogers, Neil Baldwin, Ian Sneap and Hugh Binns. Eurocom has steadily expanded to cover all the major consoles and handhelds, and has developed over 70 titles in that time. Eurocom's development team of 235 talented staff is based in Derby, UK. Previous Eurocom developments have included many of the biggest selling titles in the industry including games based on James Bond, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Tarzan. Eurocom's last published game is Ice Age 2: Meltdown, released in March 2006 by Vivendi for PS2, Gamecube, Xbox and PC. Eurocom's most recent announced project is the development of next-generation games based on the Pirates of the Caribbean for Buena Vista Games, due for release in 2007.

About Hansoft

Hansoft was founded on the idea that a truly intuitive and communicative project management and collaboration tool will increase project quality and efficiency to an extent never seen before. In 2002 the first commercial version of Hansoft was released. Since then we have constantly built on that legacy by improving and expanding our solution to meet the needs of our customers.

Today we are proud to conclude that Hansoft is not only appreciated by project managers and executives but that we also have a strong fan base among the project co-workers. They feel that they benefit from using Hansoft day by day and of course are key to the success of our customers found in games development, telecom, biotech and IT.

For further information on Hansoft please contact Patric Palm on +46 18 109090 or via email patric.plam@hansoft.se

For further information on Eurocom please contact Cathy Campos at Panache PR on +44 1 483 401099 or via email cathy@panachepr.co.uk