Comprehensive Project Portfolio Management includes both strategic and tactical processes to create, select, plan, and manage your project portfolio. In this detailed and integrated demo you will learn how the Microsoft EPM Technology Suite (Microsoft Project Portfolio Server, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Project Professional and SharePoint Services) helps organizations select the projects that best align with their strategic plan and enable stakeholders to execute in the most cost effective manner. This demo will also include a significant emphasis on the business intelligence capabilities available in the Microsoft technology platform and how the tool suite can help organizations adhere to governance standards.

Budgets and priorities can change rapidly and the ability for managers to present options and a revised execution path to steering committees is critical. In this brief presentation you will learn how the Microsoft Project Portfolio Server can help managers calibrate their Portfolio to align with shifting priorities and budgets.

Application Portfolio Management helps organizations simplify their technology footprint by classifying their application inventory, assessing their operational performance / architectural fit, analyzing cost effectiveness, and ultimately building a plan to maintain, enhance, or transition an application. In this demo you will learn how the Microsoft Portfolio Server offers a complete Application Portfolio Management solution and ensures technical standards and service level agreements are delivered.

Can we take on more work? Are my resources spending time on the right projects? Who is allocated to what project? How can I optimize my staff? These are common questions that managers frequently struggle with. While a resource management solution requires significant process work, managing the data consistently and having the right analytics in place is also critical. In this demo you will learn about the process and tools considerations related to capacity planning and resource management and how the Microsoft EPM Technology Suite can help managers answer these questions.

Learn how the Microsoft Enterprise Technology Suite can help to Introduce enterprise-wide, regional, product line or market driven Portfolio Management capabilities to your New Product Development efforts to improve visibility over your product pipeline, enhance investment control, and ensure the alignment of your portfolios to your business strategies and capabilities for a higher decision transparency and maximizing the rate of successful launches.

UMT’s PFS 2010 seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Project Server 2010 to facilitate workflow driven financial governance, develop project budgets, track project and portfolio actuals (including forecasts, and variances), report on project and portfolio financials, and even integrate project and portfolio financials with line of business financial systems.

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Learn about common pitfalls encountered in an implementation of Project and Portfolio Management tools and processes and how to avoid them. You will hear first hand what has worked at Global Fortune 500 organizations and how these successful strategies can be applied to your Project and Portfolio Management implementation.

8 Keys to Successful PPM Implementations:

• Managing Change throughout the implementation with consensus meetings and senior sponsorship
• Balancing Governance and Autonomy in Project Investment Decisions
• Prioritizing Portfolios While Addressing Different Priorities Across Product Lines
• Leveraging the Project and Portfolio Management Solution for Funding Allocation Decisions
• Building a Central Repository to Capture Project Ideas from Across the Organization
• Designing a Workflow to Effectively Manage all Work Preventing Gamesmanship With Appropriate Standards and Controls
• Ensuring that flexibility is designed into the Project and Portfolio Management Solution