CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 March 2011
Product News
EPM Live Launches WorkEngine’s Enterprise Portfolio Management Capabilities for SharePoint
EPM Live, a global leader in Enterprise SharePoint Project and Work Management applications, announced its launch of WorkEngine’s Enterprise Portfolio Management Capabilities for SharePoint. Building on its foundation aligned with project and work execution, WorkEngine has extended its core capabilities to include Portfolio Planning, Portfolio Modeling and Portfolio Optimization with an emphasis on costs and resources . WorkEngine supports end-to-end Project and Portfolio Management disciplines through the entire life cycle of your projects as well as non-project work.
“This launch marks a critical milestone for businesses looking to maximize return on their SharePoint investment by adding a Project and Work Management Solution to their platform. WorkEngine is now a true end-to-end Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) system for SharePoint,” said Joe Larscheid, CEO of EPM Live.
EPM Live has also released a new application, PPM WorkEngine, to align the new capabilities with the business. “Apps are the future; our vision is to not only provide a wide variety of applications that will apply our powerful capabilities to various work such as projects, products and services, but we want our customers to have them at their fingertips, at no additional cost,” said Joe. The WorkEngine product combined with numerous work apps will not only give businesses the tools they need to manage all projects and all work across their organizations, but will do so by accommodating all user maturities and all processes, making the WorkEngine SharePoint platform relevant to any business, simple to deploy and one of the most cost effective systems on the market.
WorkEngine’s new Enterprise Capabilities include the following work features:
Enhanced Resource Management in SharePoint:
Resource Capacity Planning
Resource What-if Modeler
Resource Calendars
Resource Negotiations & Workflow
Capacity Demand Center for Resource Managers
Convert Approved Budgets into Resource Requirements
Manage Resource Capacity Plans from Microsoft Project
Compare Resource Capacity Plans in your Microsoft Project Plans
Enhanced Cost Management in SharePoint:
Cost Planner
Cost Analyzer
Cost Scenario Modeling
Configurable Cost Categories Structure
Unlimited Cost Types (Budget, Forecast, Benefits, Revenue, Actuals, etc.)
Resource Revenue Forecaster
Multiple Resource Rates
Compare Cost Plans with Timesheet Actual Cost
Enhanced Schedule Management in SharePoint:
Dynamic Gantt Control
Multiple Work Planner Templates
Build Team with Skill Replacement
Work Planner Assignments
View Resource Workload vs. Availability
View Resource Workload vs. Capacity Plan
Update Approvals
These new features will allow organizations to get the full PPM experience from their WorkEngine environment. WorkEngine’s Portfolio enhancements will enable organizations to align investments with corporate goals, manage cost and resources, prioritize strategies, and use scenario modeling to optimize the value of work to the business.
“The upcoming PPM WorkEngine launch will provide our customers with all the functionality they need to manage their work through all stages of the Project and Portfolio Management life cycle. In addition, they will be able to do so right within their SharePoint environment. This has been EPM Live’s vision since day one, “said Joe Larscheid, CEO of EPM Live.
EPM Live will continue to provide cutting-edge, cost effective project and work management solutions leveraging the Microsoft technologies organizations already own to increase the value of their current IT investments. EPM Live’s solutions include capabilities such as Portfolio Management, Project Management, Cost Management, Time Management, Resource Management, Service Management, Agile Management, Business Intelligence and Collaboration. These capabilities are all designed to work together or separately to meet any business specific need.
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