Planisware: Flexibility and Long Product Life Cycle
Pros
- Adapts to business processes by changing the work process layout and use of alerts, macros for channeling work to those involved. This allows an organization to easily change metrics, business process, even portfolio configurations as they evolve over time.
- Placing large volumes of data into a meaningful context based on flexible, user defined parameters helps management stay in tight control of organization performance and direction.
- Allow users at client sites to be the masters of their own implementation by providing a wide variety of configuration options to the end-user administrators. This minimizes future costs of new system acquisition or waiting on a vendor for system changes.
Cons
- Organization is still growing and needs to adapt to a rising volume of client needs for consulting, training, core development.
- Major part of corporate oversight is from Europe and is still adapting to US work requirements, responsiveness, communication channels.
Return on Investment
- This is always hard to gauge since we don't have metrics for "did nothing" to compare against. An old Business Roundtable white paper indicated that a 10% reduction in expense could be attained, but I don't think a general statement like that applies to any specific organization unless they can say their Project Management Maturity level is low.
Other Software Used
Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Deltek PPM, CA PPM