EPM Implementation

Our Enterprise Project Management (EPM) implementation consulting philosophy is based on the belief that a thorough understanding of your business issues will lead to the most appropriate EPM solution and approach. That success is primarily a function of a carefully phased deployment (spending the time to a prototype and pilot extremely well) and the people you have enlisted to work with you, to support you, and guide your efforts.

We take great care to analyze your objectives, systems, constraints, and resources. Our implementation recommendations will be tailored toward your unique situation.

And, more important that any other service we provide, all of our  Enterprise Project Management Specialists will be extremely honest about what they think the system can do for you and what you can realistically expect from your teams given the organization's current level of maturity.

EPM is a three tier system: 1) a database tier with two SQL databases that contain the enterprise projects and the Windows SharePoint Services workspaces for each project, 2) the application tier with Microsoft Office Project Server being the primary application, and 3) the client tier including Microsoft Office Project Professional, Project Web Access, Outlook & Excel. Typically EPM Solutions address all of these components of the system.

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• Assessment: This involves a health and maturity check of the organization's needs and capabilities in all areas of Project Management. Assessment involves custom-designed PSSI capability evaluation templates and management interviews. The purpose of assessment is to determine the goals of prototype, pilot, and each phase of EPM deployment.

• Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Proof-of-Concept or Prototype: We take an assessment of your major requirements and perform a basic Microsoft Project Server installation and configuration so that you can evaluate the system and plan for pilot.

• Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Pilot: A pilot includes all activities involved with setting up Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 on a company server. Customization includes custom templates, security settings, Microsoft SharePoint Services settings, and Microsoft Project Professional settings as per company requirements. The EPM pilot is designed to run a select portfolio of projects to understand the quality and quantity of information gathered from the system and to evaluate the effectiveness of an EPM application.

• Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Phased Deployment: EPM rollout is the next step after the successful implementation of EPM pilot. It involves training, server modifications, standardization of procedures, cross complexities of resources and management and a strict code of enterprise functioning within the project management domain.

• Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Audit: Our MS Project Server System Audit is a technical and functional review of your implementation. Our technical audit ensures all Microsoft Office Project Server functionality is operational. During our functional audit we review your Project Server configuration and provide recommendations to improve and mature your system. We also guide you in the proper use of the Project Server Enterprise software.

• Business Process Consulting: This involves using industry best practices to generate a host of business processes aimed at resource management, project management, cost analysis, portfolio analysis and if applicable Six Sigma analysis.

• Systems Integration: Our Technical Team has many years of experience exchanging Microsoft Project data with other systems.

See EPM Maturity Implementation Models

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