Date: June 9, 2006
Resilient and Adaptive Launch New Project Portfolio
Manager Product - Take Full Control of your Project Portfolio and
Keep it that Way
Improve Portfolio Strategic Performance, Prioritize
Change, Analyse the Impact of Change, Optimize Budgets and Resources,
Identify Redundancies, Improve Architecture Compliance, Enforce Portfolio
& Project Governance.
June 9, 2006 - Resilient B.V., provider
of solutions that simplify the management of organizational complexity
and Adaptive, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Architecture
Repository solutions, today jointly announced a new Project Portfolio
Manager product. For the first time ever, organizations can now take
complete control of large and complex portfolios of projects.
The Resilient/Adaptive Project Portfolio Manager™
(PPM) product goes beyond just managing budgets, resources and inter-dependencies
to focus on managing the context and content of the portfolio: fit
with the organization strategy, compliance with its Enterprise Architecture
and control of the overall business case. The product is designed
to easily capture pivotal project and architecture data in order to
keep alignment between organization strategy, the project portfolio
and inevitable real world changes. This way, an organization can continuously
manage portfolio performance based on strategies and business cases,
whilst optimizing budgets and resources in order to get maximum value
from the portfolio. PPM provides an organization with a top-down,
holistic and architected approach to Project Portfolio Management,
enabling effective Architecture implementation: the key next step
after creating an Enterprise or IT Architecture.
Project Portfolio Manager is developed as an Adaptation
on top of Adaptive Foundation™ and, as such, it leverages the
powerful features of this extensible repository platform:
- Using the repository technology to effectively manage many complex
relationships across the entire portfolio;
- Using the versioning capability for running extensive "what-if"
scenarios for approving, changing and closing projects against many
parameters;
- Using the reporting capability for running an impact analyses
of every possible change within the portfolio (such as project change
requests, interdependencies) or outside (such as changing strategy,
architecture principles/standards, budgets, resources);
- Using the role-based authorization capability for supporting the
different roles involved in the end-to-end PPM process and to minimize
complexity;
- Using the collaboration capability for implementing workflow,
resulting in task lists and automatic email exchanges for important
events and state changes.
Having accurate and real-time access to this critical
information will produce significant benefits such as:
- Focusing the organization effort on what is really important
- Lowering the cost of organization change initiatives by reducing
duplication and fragmentation and applying re-use across the portfolio
- Understanding the impact of each decision involving the portfolio
- Continuous alignment of individual projects with each other and
understanding the impact of changes on dependent projects
- Improving prioritization and providing for better decision making
with regards to starting, adjusting and stopping projects
- Efficiency in the allocation of people, budgets and other resources
over the entire project portfolio at all times
As a result, the programme of change becomes very transparent
and predictable, leading to an optimally functioning organization
in control of its destiny.
And it needn't be complicated, or time consuming. Project
Portfolio Manager is completely web-based with intuitive screens,
supported by workflows that guide each PPM role through its tasks
within the end-to-end Project Portfolio Management process. Only a
minimal amount of information needs to be captured and linked with
important organization concepts to keep track of all necessary relationships
during the business case and project lifecycles. Because of this,
all important portfolio information is captured in a consistent way
to enable valuable up-to-date, reliable and consistent reports and
graphs across the entire portfolio.
The "heart" of the Project Portfolio Manager
is the Project Portfolio Planner Dashboard - a single screen that
centralizes all key decision making information for Project Portfolio
Managers and Executive Budget Committees. This powerful Dashboard
is used to assess the impact against the entire portfolio of each
new project charter, each new project and each change request of a
running project. Graphical gauges make it easy to quickly view the
progress of the portfolio against business cases or strategic objectives
as well as important indicators for risk, strategy and architecture.
This unique Project Portfolio Planner Dashboard is the control panel
for managing the portfolio of projects of a complex enterprise.
The Resilient/Adaptive Project Portfolio Manager product
is available as licensed software running on-site or as a securely
hosted ASP (Application Service Provider) service. The latter option
constitutes an easy-to-start, low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) solution
to quickly reap the benefits without the need for product installation
and maintenance by the user organization. In addition, the product
is also available as part of a PPM Health Check Service, whereby Resilient
or Adaptive consultants check an organization's portfolio performance
against a set of key parameters. This information alone can add tremendous
bottom line value for an organization, by indicating how and where
to optimize the portfolio and related budgets and resources.
About Resilient B.V.
Resilient B.V. is a spin-off and close partner of Adaptive,
Inc. with its focus to develop specific applications ("Adaptations")
on the Adaptive Foundation™ for supporting structuring, managing
and changing of organizations. The current focus of Resilient is on
Project Portfolio Management because it knows from experience that
organizations unknowingly waste large amounts of money and human effort
to get it right. Resilient is also a reseller of Adaptive software
and services in the Netherlands and beyond (mainly Europe).
About Adaptive, Inc.
Adaptive is a global corporation providing a web-based
and industry standards compliant Enterprise Architecture Repository.
Its products are open, enterprise-scale software that integrate architecture
information from modeling tools, office applications and operational
systems.
Adaptive Foundation™ is a repository platform
that enables Adaptive and its partners to quickly create "Adaptations"
which encompass techniques, tools and analytical capabilities tailored
to target specific domains or markets. The Adaptive suite includes
a number of "Adaptations", including Adaptive Enterprise
Architecture Manager™ (EAM), Adaptive Business Process Manager™
(BPM) and Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager™ (ITPM).
Adaptive works with many large organizations and governments
around the world to address the challenges of enterprise architecture,
business performance improvement, IT governance, meta-data management
and Model Driven Architecture™.
Information
For more information on the Project Portfolio Manager
product, please contact:
RESILIENT B.V.
Marc de Goeij
marc.degoeij@resilient.nl
Phone: + 31 6 53390935
www.resilient.nl
ADAPTIVE, INC.
Ylva Barker
ylva.barker@adaptive.com
Phone (UK): +44 1202 491251
Phone (US): +1 (888) 399 4621
www.adaptive.com |
