BST Software and Project Incentives announced their participation in the Microsoft� Project 2002 Business Value Challenge (BVC), which runs April 1- July 15, 2002. John Mathew, BST Product Manager, stated, "The Microsoft Project 2002 BVC is an excellent way for us to prepare to build new project management solutions for our large- and mid-sized customers. The new solutions offer true enterprise-class functionality. The BVC competition, prizes and recognition are great incentives for our team to learn these products today-further supporting our goals of having comprehensive and integrated customer solutions ready to sell when Microsoft Project 2002 and BST Enterprise Version 8 are available to the public."

The Microsoft Project 2002 BVC is a program designed to assist any Microsoft partner to learn Microsoft Project 2002 and begin building business solutions now for customer deployment in June. Partners are creating their solutions using Microsoft Project Professional 2002 and Microsoft Project Server 2002 (beta code) integrated with a variety of applications into a competition to win one of several prizes totaling over $50,000. Prizes will be awarded during Microsoft Fusion 2002, a partner event held July 13-15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The BVC program is open to any Microsoft partner and more information is available by emailing projbvc@microsoft.com.