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.

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 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.

Utilizing a unique Build-To-Order (BTO) process for  Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007, organizations can leverage best practices to get Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 up and running in a matter of days. With the Software + Service delivery model, configuring and deploying Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is not only faster it’s more cost effective than on-premise deployments. 

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.

CS Connect is the high-performance standard solution for the online integration of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 and SAP R/3.

CS Connect is the high-performance standard solution for the online integration of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and SAP R/3.

CS Project Portal helps organizations centrally manage all projects in progress in their enterprises. The Web-based solution provides a user-friendly, integrated, and flexible infrastructure based on Microsoft Office Project 2003 and up.

CS Project Portal helps organizations centrally manage all projects in progress in their enterprises. The Web-based solution provides a user-friendly, integrated, and flexible infrastructure based on Microsoft Office Project 2007.

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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Successful Project Management is complex balancing act of management and control. The Program Management Office (PMO) is the centre of competence that provides companies with:

• People - Providing specialized staff to establish controls, and implement process and standards.
• Processes- Methods for establishing consistent and reliable delivery across a number of projects and programs. These can include, Governance, Delivery Lifecycles, Control techniques (risk, issue, change, gateway management, cost controls), program and portfolio management related processes, and reporting.
• Tools - Implementation of PM Systems to support and where possible automate the above processes.

Ultimately the PMO gives companies the confidence that projects and program are being delivered with the required controls over key milestones, deliverables, costs, and within supplier capability.

Understanding and proactively developing your corporate project management skills is a vital requisite for successful project delivery. Through capability planning companies assess their competencies and define strategies and targets for improvement. This will include processes to assess and grow individual capabilities. It also means actively matching the right individual project skills to project complexity as an integral part of resource management. Without capability planning, programs have an inherently higher risk to overrun costs and time: Program delays, loss of quality or scope and spiraling costs will erode the benefits to the organization and invalidate the program’s business case.

In today’s fast paced competitive environment, it is vital that companies can deliver their change projects reliably. Process Solutions develop and implement a set of standard processes that give companies the ability to predict success. Change initiatives that follow theses best in class processes have the highest likelihood of being delivered in time, on costs and to quality. Without reliable processes, companies will remain dependent on heroes: although these project managers can deliver even some of the most complex projects, outcomes are always unpredictable and sheer luck can never be a founding block for long term sustainable delivery. Without processes, companies run the risk of continuous reinventions: successes, work on previous projects is often wasted; newcomers are left without guidelines on how to proceed.

People and processes and tools are the key ingredients for successful project and program delivery. The right Project Management tools will essentially help to:

• Underpin Complex Program Delivery - Providing a proven `out of the box` reporting & control solution to support the management and control of complex programs by providing visibility, insight and control.
• Enable Disciplined Delivery Capability - Providing a flexible Project Portfolio Management (PPM) toolkit that underpins PPM disciplines, practice, and required compliance.
• Improve Business Results - For organizations that require a systemized PPM toolkit to deliver `repeatable` project success and improve their `bottom line` performance and control into their customers.

TimeControl is designed to serve the needs of both Finance and Project Management simultaneously. It includes features such as flexible user structures to allow for multiple levels of timesheet authorization and an open data architecture, which makes the product ideally suited for integration with existing data systems in any organization. TimeControl’s flexibility allows it to be deployed for use as a time and attendance, time and billing, project time and flex-time system.   TimeControl has both a Web and Windows interface.