The Executive Team
Improved Decision Support
- Base your decision-making process on information that is timely, accurate and complete
- Gain enterprise-wide visibility with real-time reports, dashboards, charts and schedules
- Improve your understanding of current and planned activities across the organization
Superior Strategic Alignment
- Align all project investments with the organization's strategic priorities
- Select the most profitable and strategically-significant projects
- Avoid no-value projects and defer low-value and poorly-aligned projects
Broader Investment Consensus
- Use portfolio performance, capacity and cost forecasts to select and substantiate your project investments
- Explore investment scenarios and make trade-off decisions with full visibility into the business impact
The PMO
Maximized Portfolio Value
- Prioritize projects using the benefit comparison method, with project priority scorecards containing financial and alignment metrics
- Focus on high-value projects that are well aligned with the business strategy
- Avoid portfolio value erosion with easy recognition of low-value or poorly-aligned projects
Information Timeliness and Consistency
- All project plans and documents are stored in a centralized repository
- All levels of the organization work with the same project information
- Updates to project information are instantly reflected across the organization
- KPIs, statistics and forecasts are updated in real time
Better Alignment of Capacity and Demand
- Improved capacity planning accuracy and real-time monitoring of capacity utilization
- Automatic project selection and scheduling tools
- Capacity management and staffing scenario modeling tools
Functional Managers
Simplified Resource Management
- Full visibility into the activities of employees, consultants and outsourced service providers
- Improved collaboration with project managers in matrix organizations
- Measure resource requirements, availability, utilization and performance in real time
Faster Reaction to Change
- Recognize and mitigate capacity issues in advance while keeping projects in motion and avoiding delays
- Respond quicker to resource requests from project managers
- Substantiate your resource allocation decisions with schedule and cost metrics and quantifiable strategic priorities
Focus on Cost and Profitability
- Monitor project costs closely and accurately, keep track of cash flows
- Review project profitability indicators such as ROI, NPV, IRR, break-even etc.
- Quantify risks and review risk-adjusted KPIs and cash flow schedules
Project Managers
Easy Management of Distributed Teams
- Connect teams, suppliers of outsourced services and customers across the world
- Access projects and documents securely, without special software or VPN connections
- Use the built-in distributed data collection workflows to reduce or eliminate the time spent collecting status information
Improved Agility
- Use the advanced resource allocation functionality to fill requirements quickly and reliably
- Receive early warning of unplanned developments such as schedule or cost overages
- Detect resource under- and overallocation and perform the necessary reassignments
- Spend less time preparing management update reports
Increased Project Success Rate
- Closely track project progress, performance, resourcing, cost and funding
- Recognize tasks and projects at risk and adjust the schedule and resource allocation
- Use historic and aggregated project data for superior post-mortem analysis
Team Members
Efficient Management of Daily Activities
- Keep track of assignments and action items with daily activity lists
- Report assignment progress and effort with just a few clicks and keystrokes
- Review completion forecasts based on progress and effort to date
- Receive automatic e-mail activity reminders and event notifications
Improved Collaboration
- Share information inside the project workspace
- Attach documents to projects, control document visibility
- Receive e-mail notifications for new assignments, action items, update requests etc
Better Visibility and Communication
- Keep the management informed with timesheets and progress updates
- Aggregate your work history for consulting or client-billable activities
- Highlight instances of overly-optimistic allocation and substantiate your requests for additional time or assistance
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