Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)

Where Organizations Plan, Manage, and Execute Work

People, teams, and projects—three key elements of almost any organization. CorasWorks Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) for SharePoint is designed to support these three elements and provide a environment where they can come together and be successful. PPM is built on the CorasWorks Software Platform (v11) and is a flexible, customizable framework for collaborative work management. It allows teams to collaborate and organize their work while providing real-time project and portfolio dashboards and reporting that ensure visibility, accountability, and communication. Whether it's structured projects or ad-hoc team activities, PPM provides a place where organizations can plan, manage, and execute work.

Benefits

PPM provides a wide range of benefits for everyone in the organization. Whether you're a project manager, team member, executive, or other stakeholder, you can realize immediate value from PPM. Some of the benefits include:

Increase visibility - Improve accountability, reduce risk and exposure, and eliminate redundancy and overlap by making your projects and portfolios accessible to team members, managers, executives, and others.

Save time - Tired of building presentations, briefings, and status reports? Real-time access and visibility reduces the need for these activities and frees you up to actually focus on the task at hand and meet your objectives.

Deliver more effective outcomes - Ensure all team and project members have access to the data and information they need.
Improve communication - Open lines of communication from project managers to project sponsors and among the project team.

Facilitate decison making - Make real-time data available for quicker and better-informed decisions.

Standardize reporting - Eliminate inconsistencies and standardize project and portfolio data capture and reporting for consistent reviews and better decision making.

Drive customer satisfaction - Improve the quality and timeliness of your projects and related work products.
Features

PPM provides a wide range of benefits for everyone in the organization. Whether you're a project manager, team member, executive, or other stakeholder, you can realize immediate value from PPM. Some of the benefits include:

Scheduling - Plan, track, and modify your work/projects with robust, interactive scheduling engine and Gantt charting.

Meeting and Document Management - Post and manage your meeting schedule and related documents, such as agendas, action items, templates, and deliverables.

Project Collaboration - Create a team or project community where members can collaborate on their work.

Integration - Native integration with Microsoft Project. Read/write to external data or third-party apps. Enterprise reporting with Excel, Access, SQL Reporting Services and more.

Mobile Access - Make your work available on any mobile device: iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile.
Cost Management - Monitor and manage costs to ensure you stay on budget. Track estimated vs. actual.

Portfolio Management - Roll up information from across multiple teams or projects. Rich, drilldown dashboards and reports with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Portfolio views of My Work, schedules, risks, and other project metrics.

Flexibility - Configure and customize PPM to work the way you work. Easy-to-use, point-and-click wizards to modify reports, charts, graphs, dashboards, and processes, and more advanced tools that drive integration, mashups, and mobility.

Risk Management - Don’t let risks and issues derail your work. Identify, assess, and track any risk or issue.
Customer Solutions

CorasWorks has implemented project and portfolio management solutions for many of its customers, including:

U.S. Army - Acquisition program management system that provides visibility into hundreds of projects to ensure consistent reporting. Allows dynamic generation of reports directly into Microsoft PowerPoint.

Urban-oriented, Multi-media Company - Using CorasWorks to manage the production of television programs.
Specialized Agency of the United Nations - Classic PPM soluton that manages individual projects within multiple divisions, then reports that information up the management structure through role-based dashboards.


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