Enterprise Project Management

One of the growing business challenging facing organizations today is the continual efficient alignment of resources to strategic business objectives. The capability to consistently achieve this alignment is one of the key success factors to all organizations.

To consistently achieve this strategic alignment, organizations are increasingly managing their activities and processes as projects in a more streamlined and co-ordinated approach which creates an improved performance management environment. This environment generates the opportunity for management at all levels to be better drive and support decisions to respond early enough, efficiently and appropriately to deliver their business and personal objectives. Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management has fast become the technology tool of choice for businesses to manage their portfolio.

	BETTER DECISION-MAKING OF YOUR PORTFOLIO evaluate project status and quickly identify at-risk and underperforming projects using roll-up scorecard reports that graphically display key business metrics. Integrate critical project data into your executive-level dashboard side-by-side with other critical information for a more complete view of your business Gain insight into the performance of your overall portfolio by identifying trends and problem areas using powerful analysis tools
	OPTIMISE RESOURCES ACROSS YOUR ORGANISATION FOR SUSTAINED COMPETENCE Better assess resource efficiency and activity across projects by accurately and consistently tracking resource use and workload Assemble high-performing project teams using staffing tools that help your organization optimize resource allocation and assignments from a central resource pool Effectively determine hiring needs by forecasting short- and long-term resource capacity and project demands
	STREAMLINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Achieve organization-wide compliance and greater efficiencies in project delivery by capturing and deploying best practices and continually improving processes Consistently meet project goals and attain higher customer satisfaction by creating plans that reflect realistic schedules, resource requirements, and budgets Gain a deeper level of project governance and control through project performance, issue, and risk tracking capabilities Comply with government and regulatory requirements by integrating standardized methodologies with your existing project management processes
	STRENGTHEN COLLABORATION ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY Empower managers and project teams to make timely, informed decisions by giving them Web-based access to real-time business-critical project data Increase participation in the project management process by enabling team members to easily manage, track, and report on their project activities through familiar tools, like the Web and e-mail Realize greater accountability through a central tracking system that enables project teams to record, assign, and resolve issues Gain higher quality and efficiency by jointly developing and organizing project-related deliverables using a central document repository with version and editing control
	DRIVE BUSINESS VALUE The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution is built on a flexible platform that can be customized to support your existing processes and integrate with your line-of-business systems.With the Microsoft Office Solution, your entire organization can work together to continually improve processes, increase efficiency, and facilitate knowledge sharing and drive a sustainable return on your investment.
	IDEAS EXPERIENCE As a Microsoft Gold Partner in Information Worker Productivity Solutions, IDEAS has considerable experience and training in deploying Project Server in a variety of environments. Our clients have employed Project Server as their enterprise project management to enable granular reporting and visibility across resource, projects, portfolio and information. IDEAS EPM Services include: Analysis of your business and how it can benefit from EPM Design of EPM architecture. Installation and Configuration of EPM system. Customisation of EPM for your business. Development and extension of EPM functionality Integration into third party systems like SAP IDEAS has successful delivered EPM solutions to Clayton Utz, Boral and Dept of Employment and Workplace Relations.