Optimizing Project Portfolio Management

DecisionEdge provides the charts and tabular reports managers need to understand and share key project information. By clicking a toolbar button in Microsoft Office Project, managers can quickly access over 100 new charts and reports, including project health scorecards, stakeholder dashboards, resource look-ahead reports, S-curves, stoplight reports, and more. They can also avoid manual copying-and-pasting with custom charts based on specific visibility requirements.

Many companies that deploy MOSS 2007 require a process or workflow capability to reap full the benefits of the technology they have purchased. In response, Microsoft listened to their customer needs and built an embedded workflow capability into the product. Logically, people have begun to ask “why do I need to purchase a separate business process management suite (BPMS) if there is workflow built into MOSS?” The answer is that for some MOSS 2007 deployments, SharePoint’s workflow capability will meet your needs just fine. There are also clear business cases for incorporating a 3rd party BPMS into your MOSS 2007 rollout. Pointing you in the right direction is a simple exercise in understanding what you are trying to accomplish and what capabilities are important to you.

Correlate K-Map is a non-intrusive tool for reusing and harvesting your information assets. As a productivity tool, Correlate K-Map allows users to collect, organize, share, and archive electronic information such as emails, project documents, web links, images, or contact details.

Correlate K-Map connects all your e-information storage environments, allowing access to all information from a single window. Regardless of where the information resides, be it on different servers or multiple Sharepoint sites, all is accessible from within Correlate’s user interface.

360° Mobile Content Management System “CMS” is the complete solution for any content or service provider aiming to engage with mobile phone users across the full range of mobile channels.

CMS is the next step in the evolution of 360° Mobile’s widely successful content management and applications platform, built on years of experience and industry expertise in delivering both common and bespoke mobile services to meet our clients’ needs.

The platform is the obvious choice for enterprises wishing to outsource the whole technical solution, catering for both simple services and exceptionally advanced application development, complete integration with Microsoft SQL Server 2005® and Microsoft Excel 2007®

Credera is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft Development Advisory Council member delivering top quality solutions to companies across many industries. Credera offers very rich Collaboration, Content Management, Portals, and Search Solutions to help you run a more efficient and profitable business. Credera's unique, high quality consulting approach helps assure that your solution will be implemented correctly and will be open and extensible to adapt with your business. Our solutions also result in decreased maintenance cost allowing IT to focus on supporting the business.

Our expertise spans the Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Groove, customizations to standard office products like Word and Excel, SharePoint BI technologies, and many of the other Microsoft Platform products.

Please contact us for a free consultation and estimate.

Project Catalyst is the first easy to use comprehensive web enabled Methodology product suite built inside Microsoft Project EPM. Your organization can create and publish your own methodologies from within Project. Or Jump start using our methods: SDLCs, Project Management or Six Sigma.

Catalyst Professional is built inside Project Pro and has facilities for authoring and customizing best practices, generating project plans from your Pross Asset Library - built on top of Enterprise Templates. Manage Documents stored in Windows SharePoint Services from Project/Catalyst Pro. 

Catalyst Web Access/PWA allows views of methodology and Process Asset Library.

Transpara's Visual KPI puts real-time data on any web browser, whether hand-held or desktop.  Visual KPI is a revolutionary web application that allows you to easily create and distribute real-time Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).  By simply configuring Scorecards and KPIs in Microsoft Excel, you can publish them for instant consumption by anyone in your organization or supply chain on any device using your Intranet, Extranet or even the Internet.  Visual KPI is a vital part of any Business Performance Management strategy.

Correlate K-Map is a non-intrusive tool for reusing and harvesting your information assets. As a productivity tool, Correlate K-Map allows users to collect, organize, share, and archive electronic information such as emails, project documents, web links, images, and contact details.

Correlate K-Map connects all your e-information storage environments, allowing access to all information from a single window. Regardless of where the information resides, be it on your desktop, different computers or multiple internet sites, all is accessible from within Correlate’s user interface.

Bluespring"s BPM Suite is a business process management suite (BPMS) technology that helps companies improve work done by people. Bluespring allows process owners to design, deploy, manage & update their enterprise-wide processes from a single desktop, empowering them to rapidly configure Office Business Applications that present the right information to the right user in the right format at the right time.

Our product is built on a fully Web Services-enabled Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and fully leverages the Office Open XML in the 2007 Microsoft Office System. This provides our clients with unparalled interoperability and a well thought out user experience that allows people to interact with the process using common desktop tools (i.e. Excel, Word, Email, IE).

TimeControl is designed to serve the needs of both Finance and Project Management simultaneously. It includes features such as flexible user structures to allow for multiple levels of timesheet authorization and an open data architecture, which makes the product ideally suited for integration with existing data systems in any organization. TimeControl’s flexibility allows it to be deployed for use as a time and attendance, time and billing, project time and flex-time system.   TimeControl has both a Web and Windows interface.  

A Quality Management solution integrated with CRM based on Microsoft Office Project and MS-CRM helps Professional Services organizations achieve operational excellence and create a highly ‘Visible’ environment for its stakeholders for collaboration.

This Services Execution Management solution addresses the need to integrate the compliance to quality processes ( like ISO, Six Sigma, CMM, etc. ) with the project delivery processes and provide a holistic MIS for these organizations.

The verticals that it makes most impact are in the areas of IT service delivery, Engineering Design and Life Sciences research.

LiveProject Project Collaboration is a solution for teams using Microsoft Project (.mpp) files. LiveProject allows users to collaborate by making suggestions to project tasks which are visible to the entire team, and which the manager can approve or reject. LiveProject also functions as a Project Viewer, including Gantt charts and task and resource tables.

LiveProject Project Collaboration increases visibility and accountability for your team. Only managers need to have MS Project installed, while others can use LiveProject to view mpp project plans via the shared space on the LiveProject Server that comes with each account.

LiveProject Project Collaboration solution can be deployed literally in minutes across multiple sites.

rApplications are packaged business applications for SharePoint that are designed, built, documented, and supported by CorasWorks.  We’ve leveraged our extensive market experience and technology expertise to build applications to address a variety of business functions, activities, and processes.  rPrograms is a packaged application for enterprise-wide program management, managing cross-organizational programs and the projects that are a part of those programs.

DecisionCharts for Microsoft Office Project adds over 100 new multi-project charts to Microsoft Office Project 2007 (it does not include tabular reports).  Embedded as a new toolbar button within Office Project, managers can quickly understand their project portfolio better with new multi-project charts that help them plan resource allocation, keep stakeholders informed, track and compare project status, and measure project performance with earned value.

TurboExcel lets you create mathematical subroutines (DLLs) instantly without any debugging or testing. Simply lay out the logic in an Excel spreadsheet, and TurboExcel will turn that spreadsheet into C++ code and compile it.  The TurboExcel created subroutine is ready to be used and requires no debugging and no testing. This means that with TurboExcel developers can code up to ten times faster. TurboExcel also allows for the immediate migration of existing spreadsheets into code modules that are callable from other systems, and other platforms. TurboExcel also enables you to encapsulate spreadsheet logic into a single function thereby securing your spreadsheet so that proprietary logic can be hidden, and also made tamper-proof.  Some VBA code can be converted, as well.

TurboExcel automatically generates C++ code, compiled DLLs, standalone calculators, example C++ code, C++ headers, ActiveX components, HTML pages, and Web services.

Ideaca has successfully implemented large-scale Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions for leading organizations across Canada.  Ideaca’s Business Intelligence solution leverages our expertise with Microsoft SQL Server, ProClarity, Reporting and Analysis Services, Integration Services, Business Scorecard Manager, SharePoint and Excel to help organizations reduce costs by utilizing the information-value in existing systems, increase productivity by making information quickly accessible across the organization, and increase customer satisfaction by providing an accurate picture of customers and markets.

The Foliodev EPM MultiPart extends the default display capabilities of Project Server and the standard Project Server Web Parts from Microsoft to produce more useful views of your enterprise project data.  In addition, it provides capabilities not available from Project Server out-of-the box including:

• Web-based Calendar Views
• Cross-Project Task Views
• Flexible dimensioning of Project Server data (Lists, Regional Presentation, Aggregation of data, Filtering)
• Platform/Browser Neutral
• Freedom to display ant and all project data on any SharePoint site or page

SCR (Stakeholder Cost Reporting) is a powerful reporting system that compares budget costs, daily estimated costs, committed purchase order costs and actual costs, for 100's of concurrently active projects.

SCR benefits include: 

• Executive dashboard view of project costs transparently shared with selected stakeholders such as project team stakeholders, clients, joint venture partners etc...
• Integration with head office systems by effortlessly sharing cost information as required by the host Accounting System, Microsoft Project, or any other host application.
• Business process via Windows SharePoint Services.
• Digital Document Management strategies via SharePoint and InfoPath.
• Data accessible Excel users to support business intelligence analysis.

Our solution produces a construction project superintendent's daily report utilizing tasks from the project schedule.

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In modern organizations, project management operations require strong and well-structured communication methods between various projects that often run simultaneously.

Microsoft Project Server 2007 is an organizational project management system that enables the simultaneous management of numerous project plans on a shared network.

The project plans in the Project Server may relate to each other with different types of relationships. For example: a certain delivery of one project can be an input to another project, a different link is common in a developmental program that breaks-down into a number of sub projects, also known as work-packages.

MasterLink2007 is a powerful add-in to Microsoft Project Server 2007. MasterLink offers an advanced and easy way to manage programs, links between projects, agreements and work-packages.

SigmaFlow’s Project Portfolio Management Solution for Lean Six Sigma enables Project Professionals to complete their projects faster, with higher quality and within a logical, easy-to-follow roadmap that supports less experienced team members. For Executives, the system identifies the projects with the highest ROI potential, provides broad, deep and timely reporting, and enables scalability.

The system delivers optimal efficiency and productivity:

• Create any template as easily as drawing a process map. The system is infinitely flexible to meet your unique needs.
• Easily integrate Project Management Metrics, a Document Library and Performance Metrics with the template, giving you a one-stop shop for your critical project resources.
• Work where you are most efficient, online or offline
• Improve your project consistency: Know what to do next, when to use tools, and how to use tools throughout your project or process.

Immediately start using Microsoft Portfolio Server to prioritize and optimize your portfolio of projects or applications without having to wait until your IT staff comes up to speed on the software and underlying technologies.  Portfolio Server Online allows you to focus on your portfolio, not IT.  Even better ... flexible month-to-month contracts allow you to start with a hosted solution, while still having the option to move onsite whenever you are ready.

Worldwide Organizations undertake Projects worth trillions of dollars each year, for bringing forth new products or services and improving existing processes. As the Projects become more complex and get increasingly constrained by limited budget and schedules, their management becomes all the more challenging. Few very common challenges faced are:

• Ad-hoc planning
• Inappropriate resource planning
• Improper risk management
• Complex communications
• Scope creep, shifting baselines, and improper change management
• Too many documents floating around but no historical database available
• Improper monitoring & tracking resulting in continuous slippages with no clear forecasts
• Project prioritization - which project(s) to undertake this financial year?
• Which project requires the support from the top management and why?