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Enterprise Project Management
(EPM)
What is EPM?
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is a technology solution
that empowers workgroup executives to optimize resources and
project portfolios with tools to view and analyze processes
and information worker performance and enables project teams
to efficiently manage and successfully complete projects.
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Who are the users of EPM?
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Organizations are increasingly looking
to technology solutions to define and integrate processes
for information workers in the mid office segment. EPM offers
a solution that can integrate the business processes throughout
an enterprise, creating central repositories for business
data and intelligence, highly collaborative workspaces and
visibility and control over project portfolios. The solution
empowers executives to monitor progress and resource allocation,
ensuring projects are pursed and finalized on time and on
budget. The Microsoft® Office EPM solution offers partners
a fully integrated platform built on familiar Microsoft desktop
and server technologies that also leverages Internet standards
and includes server side and client side APIs and lets you
turn your best practices into a solid solution offering. While
an EPM deployment necessitates significant changes in company
culture and processes, the ubiquity of Microsoft tools across
desktops and the open platform upon which EPM is based will
facilitate both the deployment and adoption of this solution.
Key Business Challenges:
Traditionally, projects were considered successful if they
were on time and on budget. Nowadays, a detailed overview
and insight into the risks and profitability of current projects
and programs is required at all levels within the organization.
Many solutions that attempt these challenges in project management
but most break the processes down exponentially, offering
"either or" type solutions and few that address
the full spectrum of functions needed to effectively manage
a knowledge driven project portfolio.
Ideally, EPM services should address the nine business processes
defined by the Project Management Institute: project scope
management, risk management, time management (planning or
scheduling), cost management, resource management, quality
management, project communications management and project
procurement management. The ninth area enables the integration
of these processes.
For a technology solution to address these processes it needs
to blend tools and manual solutions to allocate resources,
schedule activities and milestones, track progress, share
project-related documents, control project risks and otherwise
manage their project portfolios. It must also answer the need
for visibility into projects that exist across and enterprise
and be built on a scalable platform that allows companies
to leverage their current technology investments.
The Microsoft® Office EPM solution spans these segments, supplying
cohesive functionality. This solution offers customers a solid,
integrated platform that leverages their existing IT and provides
a familiar interface to end users. It provides standard tools
to aid in decision making, resource optimization and process
automation and goes further to integrate familiar tools like
Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 for project communication.
The solution also combines Microsoft® Office Project Server
2003, Project Professional 2003 and Project Web Access to
enable organizations, departments or teams to manage company
wide projects and align business initiatives for better results.
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