1-page Solution Brief - Posted 6/29/2007
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Danish Manufacturing Company Drives Growth with Project Management Solution
Danfoss produce electronic components for various hi-tech industries and relies heavily on EPM software for business critical projects. The team needed a management solution to help team members prioritise and order projects, control financial issues for projects and also give ins9ight into time management for ongoing projects. They chose to deploy the Microsoft® Office EPM solution with support from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners Avenade and Accenture. The solution provides a comprehensive and all-encompassing management solution to meet its business needs.
Business Needs
Danfoss, based in Denmark, produces components for multiple manufacturing sectors, such as air conditioning and refrigeration, heating, motion control, and industrial automation. The Enterprise Project Management (EPM) team—which governs schemes across the business—is at the heart of the company’s worldwide success.
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The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution provides a comprehensive and all-encompassing solution to our needs. |
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Claus Paulsen
Project Director
Danfoss |
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To ensure each business-critical project meets its objectives, the team relies on EPM software. As a result, Danfoss needs a management solution that helps team members:
- Prioritise projects and create business cases to support project plans.
- Order projects correctly, based on the business cases with clear goals and milestones.
- Control budgets, progress, scope, and timelines on each project.
- Gain an overview of availability and manage time spent on tasks.
Solution
Danfoss deployed the Microsoft® Office EPM solution with support from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners Avenade and Accenture. The solution provides a comprehensive and all-encompassing management solution to meet its business needs. The technology is always evolving, ensuring that it continues to deliver the support for EPM teams in organisations such as Danfoss. It helps thousands of companies align resources and business activities with strategic objectives. The EPM technology consists of the following Microsoft software technologies:
- Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007—the graphical user interface for teams to control project work, schedules, and finances.
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007—the enterprise server solution supporting all project data for Office Project Professional.
- Microsoft Office Project Web Access—the Web client for accessing Office Project Server.
Benefits
- EPM team members improve project planning and prioritisation to drive growth.
- Personnel gain greater control over projects, hitting milestones with greater accuracy.
- System flexibility ensures EPM teams can tailor data views to match requirements of specific projects.
- EPM personnel meet benchmarks on executing projects to a high standard.
- Internal customers feel supported with real-time insight into project performance.
- Danfoss maximises project budget efficiency—minimising over-run costs.
