Intelligent
Planner from Augeo Software
Optimize
Enterprise Resources
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An Optimal
Balance of Usage and Profitability
Managing Professional Service
and Information Technology Organizations today is an intricate juggling act.
Corporate IT and Professional Service Organization (PSO) managers track more
resources across more interconnecting projects than ever before, with profitability
and expense control as primary goals, all within constantly changing technology
priorities.
The Challenge
of Managing Intellectual Resources
Today's projects are multiple,
complex, and global, and they tend to compete for specialized skills and resources.
Success in PSO and corporate IT requires finding, hiring, retaining, motivating,
and utilizing the best people around.
Multiple-Project
Managers Need Enterprise Solutions
Without an enterprise-level solution
that takes into account shared resources and interrelated timelines, managers
of multiple projects can be frustrated by:
- Limited visibility into performance
- Inefficient resource usage
- Out-of-control costs
- Lost revenue opportunities
- No predictability of future
demand and workload
- Customer dissatisfaction.
As a business professional, the
ultimate challenge is to maximize your intellectual and technological resources
across multiple, interrelated projects while increasing profit margins. Until
now, there's been no enterprise software solution to help you do that.
Boost Profits
and Manageability with Intelligent Planner
Intelligent Planner from Augeo
Software is the first complete enterprise software solution enabling Professional
Service and corporate IT organizations to optimize a portfolio of intellectual
resources across the organization's entire project portfolio. Intelligent Planner
scales to thousands of resources and projects. This comprehensive and proven
application:
- Plans, tracks, and analyzes
workloads, schedules and financial status for big-picture visibility and predictability
- Helps accurately scope projects
and develop realistic budgets, timelines, and resource requirements for an
ever-increasing proportion of projects completed on time and on budget
- Matches available resources
with project requirements, ensuring that the right resources are assigned
to the right project at the right time
- Tracks time and expenses ensuring
accurate, timely billing
- Supports existing business
processes and systems, ensuring usability and acceptance.
Take Control
of Every Project in Your Portfolio
IT and PSO managers need more
than just data, they need meaningful information, details and full visibility
within the "big picture" context. Intelligent Planner enables:
- Management of a project portfolio
through the entire project lifecycle, from initial planning to status tracking
to post-project feedback and improvement
- Tracking of detailed information
on individual projects, including project breakdowns by activities and milestones,
GANTT and PERT charts, and resource requirements for each project activity
by skill and experience
- Flexible organization of projects,
such as by business lines, regions, and major initiatives like Year 2000 projects
- Advance notification to managers
of significant events with impact on workloads, resources or budgets.
Build Accuracy
and Predictability with a Best-Practices Knowledge Base
Providing an integrated, automated
way to track and leverage retained knowledge, Intelligent Planner™ incorporates
your entire project workflow: from initial project planning, through project
execution and changes, to post-project feedback and learning. The results include
an ever-increasing proportion of projects completed successfully, on time and
on budget. Intelligent Planner helps managers:
- Develop a best-practices database
by analyzing the accuracy of past estimates for resource requirements, budgets
and timelines
- Get a top-down analysis and
projections of workload, revenue, and margins at any organizational level
- Measure and forecast project
budgets, actual costs and variances, revenue and profitability
- Model workload, revenue and
profitability based on what-if scenarios, such as the addition of new projects,
or changes in project priorities
- Build templates for project
definition, skills requirements and dependencies.
Maximize Available
Resources and Plan for the Future
Now you can closely map your intellectual
resources with your technology and master plans. By taking business constraints
into consideration, Intelligent Planner helps you optimize allocation, leverage
your resources across your full supply chain, and identify future needs. Intelligent
Planner offers:
- Detailed information on each
professional resource, including location, skills and experience, billing
rate, and availability
- Modeling and simulations of
resource usage and availability, based on what-if scenarios, including changes
in staff levels and workloads
- Resource allocation suggestions,
incorporating project priority, resource requirements, timelines, availability,
and skill and location of resources
- User-defined optimization criteria
can cover vital areas such as revenue maximization and workload balancing.
Establish
Accurate Invoicing and Financial Management
- Intelligent Planner simplifies
time tracking and invoicing through several efficiency-enhancing capabilities,
such as:
- Enabling staff to record and
track time and expense information via Web browsers
- Easy measuring and forecasting
of project budgets, actual costs and variances, and revenue and profitability
- Delivery of accurate data for
invoicing.
Ensure Successful
Implementation with Integrated Support for Existing Business Processes
- Maximize your investment in
organizational business rules, structures, workflow and systems with Intelligent
Planner. IT and PSO staff learning curves will be reduced through Intelligent
Planner's ability to:
- Match projects and resources
to organizational design
- Interfaces to Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle financials,
and to Microsoft Project
- All appropriate personnel can
access project and resource information found in a centralized database for
a complete, Web-based project view
- Deliver standard reports on
critical information and integrate with report writers for customized reports
- Business rules are central
to application logic; update and change on demand and the entire system reflects
your changes
- Provide strict user authentication
and security through Microsoft NT Server set of industry-standard Web technologies
- Compatible with industry-standard
corporate databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, and
Centura
- Offer highly configurable user
access and privileges; update rights are restricted to certain types of projects
or resources, and confined navigation within data exists
- Consideration for distributed
organizations, or outsourced and contract labor via secure mobile access.
Take Control of
Your Portfolio and Increase Profitability
with Augeo Intelligent
Planner™
Visit the Augeo
Web site at http://www.augeo.com
or call +49 / 89
/ 500 30 40 for more information.
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