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When selecting an appropriate solution, a number of criteria's should be considered to ensure your organization has the solution which fits the best. Therefore, once you have decided that you do have a need for "Project Management", "Project Portfolio Management" or even a "Professional Services Automation" solution(s), following information should be a good guide to educate you on various aspects of our solution so you can make the call, as to what is important to you...
Project PlanningTo guarantee the successful delivery of any project, a period of planning is required before the project commences. Our Project Management (PM) solution provides a simple, easy to use toolset to help your business effectively plan the tasks, activities, roles, responsibilities and deliverables required by each project. By helping your business plan projects in a clear and consistent method, PM helps avoid the disappointment of failed and overdue projects by reducing risk and providing exact timings and decisions points which help ensure projects are delivered on-time and to budget.
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- Provide clear visibility of outline and detailed activities for your Projects
- Minimise Risk to the final outcome and delivery of your Projects
- Provide Clear Goals and Objectives to Resources
- Easily identify who is Accountable for each aspect of the Project
- Deliver Projects On Time and within Budget
- Avoid project Failure and Disappointment
- Measure the Earned Value of your Projects and Services
- Publicise Major Deliverables from the Project to all Stakeholders
- Provide exact timings for key decisions and points of review
- Avoid Project Overruns and un-expected costs
- Measure Project Progress, Performance and Status in Real Time
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Team Collaboration Throughout humanity, people have historically recognised that working together can accomplish more. However, many businesses ignore this fact and continually allow individuals to pursue their own objectives which are loosely tied to project or organisational objectives. Our Project Management (PM) solution eliminates this, by providing your business with an ideal platform to encourage your project team members to work in synergy and share knowledge throughout the project management process. With each team member making an individual contribution towards a common goal your business will quickly benefit from greater innovation, better problem solving, greater efficiency in project delivery and a reduction in the cost and impact of absent resources.
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- Accomplish more by working together
- Combine the skills, perspectives and experiences of individuals in a single repository
- Provide multiple perspectives for innovation and problem solving
- Transfer knowledge between team members more effectively
- Limit the impact of absent resources on project delivery through shared knowledge
- Reduce costs and increase flexibility through improved team synergy
- Create more feasible solutions to problems through better team collaboration
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Risk and Issue Management Take risk management to the next level. With Our Project Management (PM) solution your business has the ability to manage risk in a pro-active manner. Long gone are the days of consolidating spreadsheets or numerous emails to gain an accurate overall picture of project risks. By managing risks in PM solution your business has real time visibility into the status of risks at every stage in the project management process, what’s more a series of mitigating actions can be implemented to manage out risk and limit its impact on the quality and final delivery of your projects. With PM Solution you have the ability to deliver project on time and to budget, every time.
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- Minimise Risk to the final result and delivery of your Projects
- Deal with uncertain project events in a pro-active manner
- Minimise the Impact of Project Threats
- Ensure Projects are Delivered On Time and To Budget
- Deliver Projects with the Quality demanded by Sponsors
- Prepare and Defend against Risk in a Planned, Measured, Manner
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Project Estimation Many factors influence the final outcome of a project, with upfront planning and estimation two of the most crucial determinants to long term project success. Yet many organizations fail to carry out any form of estimation or place very little importance on the benefits it provides to the business, its individuals, its project managers, its executives and to the satisfaction of its customers. Our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution solves this problem by providing a consistent method of estimating your project resourcing levels and expenditure throughout the business. With our PPM solutions you can easily understand a projects impact on resource capability and its impact financially on your operating budgets.
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- Achieve greater alignment between business objectives and technical estimates
- Provide Executives with more informed business decision making
- Ensure reliable project delivery dates
- Provide greater control over project costs
- Improve communication between management and the project team
- Increase project profitability and customer satisfaction through improved project delivery
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Resource Capability Planning Resource Capability Planning is one of the key success factors for any business which delivers projects or services. With our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution your business has the power to analyze the impact of delivering projects and services on resource capability in real time, enabling you to better manage customer expectations, improve overall business productivity, exceed customer service level agreements and reduce costs.
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- Assess the impact of Resource Demand on your overall Resource Capacity and Capability
- Remove the administration cost associated with managing complex resource planning spreadsheets
- Enhance the overall Business Productivity through improved Resource Planning
- Reduce the time invested in Resource Scheduling
- Reduce Overtime and the reliance on temporary, contract or freelance staff
- Reduce missed deadlines and penalties for late delivery
- Enhance Customer Loyalty and Customer Satisfaction through timely delivery
- Identify long term training and recruitment requirements
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Project Selection and Prioritization Project prioritization is beneficial to any organization independent of shape, size of focus, as it enables you to priorities project related work against each other to define a sensible, optimized order of work. In fact at Atlantic Global we believe it is an essential process for any growing business, as making use of your scarcest resources to maximize benefit whilst removing project failures is without doubt a huge challenge and one which can provide the greatest benefit. That’s why with our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution we have greatly simplified the project selection and prioritization process, enabling you to quickly and easily assess the potential return of your project investments versus the resource and expenditure demands and potential risk.
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- Ensure your Project Portfolio is fine tuned to deliver a greater return on project capital investment
- Accurately select a portfolio of projects that stands to better deliver an enterprise strategy
- Ensure an improved rate of successful project delivery
- Improve resource management, ultimately delivering savings in resource costs per units delivered
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Deliverables Effectively managing project deliverables is important for any organization, independent of size or focus, in fact, this is especially important for small or growing businesses with less mature project management processes where there is no formal process of defining business cases or the benefits associated with each project. Deliverables are different to project milestones in that they represent the quantifiable goods or services produced as the result of a project. Whether tangible or intangible, our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution provides Executives with real time visibility into the status of each deliverable and a clear overview of how the business will profit or benefit from each project.
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- Provide Executives with clear visibility into the key deliverables of your projects
- Provide clear evidence of Project Progress and Benefit
- Reduce the administration involved in producing Business Cases through a standardised method of defining deliverables
- Streamline the Business Case sign off process and reduce queries by providing clear deliverables for each project
- Drill into past project successes or failures based on the deliverables achieved
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Budgeting/Cost Control For many businesses the prospect of generating a project budget is daunting, especially if little project management experience exists. However, the project budget is an essential tool for measuring the performance and progress of any project. That’s why with our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution, we have greatly simplified the process of generating project budgets; in fact, it is as easy as automatically generating a budget based on your estimated resources and planned expenditure or by creating a budget directly from your project plan. For more advanced budgeting requirements, our PPM solution provides both top down and bottom up budgeting, whereby budgets can be created by building up a profile of your resource costs, travel, supplies, equipment and other indirect costs or by simply entering your budgeted figures directly into the system. However, you choose to manage your budgets, our PPM’s end to end solution will ensure you can monitor budget, versus actual versus planned to ensure you have an accurate picture of your current budget and future financial projection in real time.
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- Reduce the administration costs and errors of managing and consolidating multiple budget spreadsheets
- Provide a standardised format for producing and tracking project budgets throughout the business
- Identify potential budget slippages and overruns before they occur
- Gain real-time visibility into the financial performance of each project
- Ensure an accurate picture of past, present and future budget performance
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Project Delivery/Management Our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution provides an effective toolkit to ensure the successful management of the products or services you deliver. With our PPM solution your project managers have the tools required to lead their team and implement an effective strategy to bring your projects to fruition. Your clients will benefit in the knowledge that their input has a direct effect on the project delivery process and your workers will benefit from having a clear understanding of their stake in the project and their role in its delivery. The beauty of managing projects in PPM is its flexibility; if you discover a smarter direction, with PPM Solution you have the flexibility to take it.
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- Enhanced effectiveness and efficiency in delivering products and services
- Improve, increase and enhance customer relationships through on-time delivery and implementing customer input
- Increase your flexibility to deal with changes in project scope or to take a smarter direction
- Greater market standing and competitive edge through excellent project performance
- Improved Quality of products and services through better efficiency and effectiveness
- Improved quantity through the greater efficiency and the co-ordinated use of resources
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Project Progress/Status Reporting Accurately tracking project progress is not only a huge challenge for many businesses, it is essential for ensuring the successful delivery of any project. Our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution provides your business with a standard and repeatable method of capturing project progress and reporting status. From your end users updating the percent complete of their tasks, through to project managers carrying out a full project review and submitting a fully auditable project status report, PPM Solution provides a simple toolkit to ensure all project stakeholders have a clear, consistent, real time view of project progress and status.
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- Provide a consistent method of tracking project progress throughout the business
- Reduce the administration costs associated with consolidating spreadsheet based status reports
- Deliver more projects on-time and to budget through accurate progress reporting
- Reduce project overruns and slippage by identifying issues earlier
- Ensure executives have real time visibility into the overall status of projects
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Resource Scheduling Resource scheduling provides an essential component for establishing the feasibility of your project plans and for setting realistic customer expectations. By scheduling resources in our Professional Service Automation (PSA) Solution before projects commence, your project managers will be able to assess the flexibility they have over the use of specific resources, align tasks and work packages with resource availability, and where resources are unavailable and delays are not an option, project managers can consider alternative approaches, trade off’s or the re-prioritization of work. For businesses with less structured or more volatile resourcing requirements, PSA solution provides the ability to optimize resource utilization levels and increase revenue by providing the ability to quickly assign best fit available resources based on skills, experience and location, to efficiently fulfill resource requests and to manage out resource conflicts.
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- Improve Resource Utilisation
- Reduce Time on the Bench
- Reduce the Administration Costs associated with the inefficient scheduling of resource
- Increase Revenue through optimising the use of your best fit resources
- Improve Customer Satisfaction through Better Achievement of Customer SLA"s
- Identify Skill Shortages and Training Requirements
- Improve Project Delivery by tying Deliverables to Resource Availability
- Increased transparency of resource levels and individual/team workload
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Time and Expense Management Keeping track of your employee timesheets and expenses and updating project progress has never been easier with our Professional Service Automation (PSA) Solution. Quick and easy to use, PSA solution provides your business with an effective solution to fully automate the capture, submission and approval of time and expenses, to update project progress in a consistent manner, to improve project cost control and to measure, monitor and analyse the productivity and utilisation of resources. By capturing your time and expenses in PSA solution your business is able to improve cash flow and revenue recognition by fully automating your project time billing process.
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- Improve Timesheet Compliance
- Fully automate Timesheet Capture, Submission and Approval
- Easily Capture and Control Project Costs
- Improve Resource Productivity
- Analyse Chargeable Utilisation
- Capitalise Project Time
- Measure Chargeable vs. Non Chargeable Time
- Monitor Staff Absences
- Automate the Expense Submission process
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Contract Management & Billing Our Professional Service Automation (PSA) Solution provides a cost effective easy to use toolset to fully automate the billing all of your products and services. With PSA Solution you can easily improve cash flow, maximise revenue and reduce billing errors. PSA Solution billing functionality is ideal for all organisations and enables you to automate the most basic billing types such as time and materials, as well as easily implement more complex billing requirements such as fixed price, milestone, capped and repeat billing.
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- Improve Cash-flow by automating the end to end Billing process
- Centrally Store all Contracts and Purchase Orders
- Analyse Project Profitability, Work in Progress and Revenue Recognition
- Significantly reduce billing errors
- Reduce Billing administration and reimbursement times
- Analyse at Risk Revenue through late project delivery
- Gain real time visibility of Contract Status
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