In a competitive business environment, your organization's ability to efficiently align resources and business activities with strategic objectives can mean the difference between succeeding and just surviving. To achieve strategic alignment, organizations are increasingly managing their activities and processes as projects-in essence, prioritizing their business - to monitor performance more closely and make better business decisions about their overall work portfolio. By planning and tracking projects with clarity and precision, organizations can respond with greater agility to the demands of a fast-changing business environment.
Why Project fail?
“The major cause of project failure is not the specifics of what went wrong but rather the lack of procedures, methodology, and standards for managing the project”
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Computer World as Microsoft GOLD Certified Partner for Information worker provides Microsoft EPM Solution to help customers optimize the value of deploying Microsoft Project. |
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Computer World offers a cost-effective, easy to use, and flexible Enterprise Project Management Solution that delivers measurable return on investment-driving projects without high ongoing costs.
Enterprise Project Management
Enterprise Project Management, a forward thinking project management approach providing a framework to deal with challenges of organizing, managing and tracking projects throughout the organization. |
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Enterprise Project Management Model |
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EPM is a systematic approach to achieve organizational goals through a continual nucleus of projects, which include: |
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Strategic initiatives |
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Business transformation activities |
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Operational improvements |
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Traditional development projects |
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EPM leverages your people, processes, and technology to generate the change needed to keep your organization current and competitive
Growing Adoption of EPM
By 2006, more than 50% of IS organizations will have adopted a mix of project portfolio management application services for managing team collaboration, allocating resources, and tracking utilization and costs (0.7 probability). |
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Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution Overview
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is ideal for organizations that need strong coordination and standardization between projects and project managers, centralized resource management, or higher-level reporting about projects and resources. |
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Strategic alignment for enterprise project management
Making your strategic goals a reality requires technology that is robust enough to support your core business and yet flexible enough to accommodate your existing processes. The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution provides this infrastructure, so your organization can gain visibility, insight, and control its portfolio of projects, as well as improve productivity, reduce cycle times, decrease costs, and increase quality. |
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Manage Projects as a Collective Portfolio for Better Decision-Making
More effectively manage your company's project portfolio by continually identifying, prioritizing, and investing in projects that align with your corporate strategy. By doing so, you can make sure your company's efforts are spent only on activities that contribute to the bottom line.
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution can help you manage your project portfolio effectively by enabling you to: |
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Fairly evaluate project status and quickly identify at-risk and underperforming projects using roll-up scorecard reports that graphically display key business metrics. |
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Integrate critical project data as Web parts into your executive-level dashboard side-by-side with other critical information for a more complete view of your business. |
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Gain insight into the performance of your overall portfolio by identifying trends and problem areas using powerful analysis tools. |
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Understand the impact of trade-offs and evaluate strategies to mitigate risk using what-if scenario modeling features. |
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