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.

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.

EPM Live Workgroup is subscription-based software that combines effective project management tools and processes with online team collaboration environments. 

EPM Live Workgroup brings Enterprise Project Management (EPM) collaboration to the workgroup level of the company empowering individuals to more effectively work together on projects. The EPM Live Workgroup solution combines the powerful desktop project management tools of Microsoft® Office Project 2007 with online interactive workspace technology of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

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Aerospace & Defense (A&D) companies are faced with challenges on multiple fronts and recognize the value and importance of systemization, efficiency, and scalability. The A&D companies are realizing that programs such as new airplane technology development are becoming more prohibitively costly and time-consuming, it is critical for A&D companies to be able to rapidly develop new design and technology innovations, capture and reuse product and process knowledge, and substantially shorten the overall IMP to IMS lifecycle. To make it even more complicated, A&D companies must operate within a globally disparate environment, and must be able to collaborate with partners, suppliers, and customers.

DecisionEdge Earned Value Manager is the leading system for managing project costs, measuring earned value, and analyzing budget, actual and forecast costs. It offers seamless integration with Microsoft Office Project and financial systems and includes embedded reports and graphics for full compliance with government reporting requirements, including CPR Format 1 through 5 reports associated with the ANSI 748 and OMB 300 specifications.  DecisionEdge Earned Value Managers is a provent system that can help organizations succesfully pass DCMA program audits.

Many companies have experienced their program gone awry. Costs of program overruns, delays and re-work can often amount to 20% or more of the overall costs. Initially, Program Assurance means to confirm the achievability of a program. It is then assuring the organization that sufficient project management systems are in place to monitor, manage and deliver the business objectives. This confidence in delivery will then finally lead to confidence in spend when the organization is assured that it is investing in programs and projects that are strategically aligned and are delivering the required outcomes and benefits.

Companies realize that they often lack the experienced resources to tackle the set up of complex initiatives. The inevitable result is a waste of time and money at the crucial initial stage of a program. Program Definition and Set up results in delivery plans that are achievable from the start and dramatically reduces the risk of cost and time over-runs.

Organizations that launch programs to deliver complex change initiatives often face a series of substantial challenging. One of the most crucial to address early in the program`s life is the one of resources: a lack of experienced and competent resources would inevitable results in severe issues that are not identified and addressed sufficiently quickly and appropriately. Ultimately this will lead to program overruns and failures. Program Delivery Resourcing will create a team able to deliver your program successfully.

Driving programs to success is a challenging task even for the most experienced companies. Too often will programs without good governance waste resources through a lack of coordination and clear direction. Program Governance and Control ensures the implementation of structured governance forums and reporting that drives actions and decisions based on appropriate and timely data. It drives active senior management sponsorship of program control to ensure effective leadership. It enables the PMO function deliver the right data in an efficient manner and support decision making.

No organization can afford failing programs. The impact of such failure, be it financial or reputation, will always be severe: cost and time overruns or worse, the loss of the program’s benefits, invalidate its original business case. Program recovery is about setting a misled program back on track. Mistakes that have been made during program set up or deviation from the roadmap that occurred during the delivery of the program are corrected. After recovery the program will be on track again to deliver the change you have launched it for.

Aerospace & Defense (A&D) companies are faced with challenges on multiple fronts and recognize the value and importance of systemization, efficiency, and scalability. The A&D companies are realizing that programs such as new airplane technology development are becoming more prohibitively costly and time-consuming, it is critical for A&D companies to be able to rapidly develop new design and technology innovations, capture and reuse product and process knowledge, and substantially shorten the overall IMP to IMS lifecycle. To make it even more complicated, A&D companies must operate within a globally disparate environment, and must be able to collaborate with partners, suppliers, and customers.