QSR, a leader in SaaS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems has announced the adoption and implementation of newly upgraded VPMi SaaS project portfolio management software.  QSR selected VPMi v4.5 over Microsoft Project EPMLive, Daptiv, @Task, and twelve other SaaS PPM providers with ease of use, lower cost, full Microsoft Project integration, and a more complete resource management capability cited as the major factors in the decision.
 

 
Cable & Wireless Americas and Caribbean needed more structure in driving IT projects from idea to implementation. The company provides more than two million customers in 13 countries throughout the Caribbean with integrated communications solutions.  

Prior to 2006, its IT department did not require any structured methodology in managing projects, allowing IT staffers to use Microsoft Project Plan and Excel spreadsheets to initiate new IT projects. This resulted in little or no visibility into enterprise-wide technology needs, activities and spending...
 

The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story 

This week The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story presents, “PPM Software as a Service, an interview with Greg Tilley, Manager of Business Development, VCS Online." Have you heard the term, “software as a service”? Do you know what it is? Well, since the start of the PMO Podcast, we have had listener emails to the PMO Podcast Mailbag requesting that we do shows on “PPM Software as a Service.”  Listen to an expert in PPM software as a service, Greg Tilley, the Manager of Business Development for VCS Online, the providers of VPMi.   
     
The PMO Podcast™ Points Memo 
 
The PMO Podcast Points Memo presents, “Consider Software as a Service." Analysts claim that by 2010, 30 percent of new software will be delivered via an SAAS model. For many companies large and small, SAAS is the best way to rollout new solutions. And, SAAS has now proven itself and is here to stay. 

The Corporate Portfolio Management Association (CPMA) endeavors to help progressive organizations transform themselves – financially and strategically. 

Recently the CPMA published: Thinking Outside the Intranet

Finding New Ways of Meeting Enterprise Project and Program Portfolio Management Requirements 

Intro:  Although many companies are seeing noticeable, yet gradual increase in project, program, and portfolio management spending, they are being far more cautious in their spending and demanding business cases with lower risk, which often translates into less spending and a quick ROI.  Fortunately, there are companies that have quickly adapted to the prevailing economic climate by finding new ways to deliver enterprise-level solutions, which reduce risk without compromising functionality.
 

Butler Group, Europe's leading IT research and analysis organization recently completed a detailed audit of the newly upgraded VPMi for project, portfolio, and resource management to the delight of VCSonline employees and customers.  
 

Sitting in the small conference room at Virtual Communication Services (VCSonline) in St. Louis, Jeff Pupillo and Nick Matteucci explain why they left jobs with the Ernst & Young Big 5 consulting group to start their own business and how, with 20 employees, they have managed to build a $1.4 million business with clients such as New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson, the U.S. Army and New York-based 1-800-FLOWERS...
 

VCSonline, a small information-technology company based in St. Louis, is helping a couple of the biggest companies in town to get a grip on their unwieldy internal IT projects.

Ameren Corp. and Charter Communications Inc. say they're using software from VCSonline to chart, to track and to prioritize hundreds of tasks throughout their organizations. The software is bringing order to what had been a chaos of requests for upgrades, online uploads, new-software development and tech support...
 

 
Project management vendor VCSonline's recent release provides busy executives with tools to more accurately manage the performance of internal projects and the people who work on them.
 

The company has added resource and performance management tools to the Enterprise VPMi. The platform provides tools to manage a company's individual projects, its portfolio of ongoing projects and to gauge the performance of those projects...
 

Organizations that have collaboration needs that go far beyond e-mail will have a diverse list of choices, thanks to new project management, instant messaging, and group calendaring and scheduling offerings.

VCSonline released the latest version of their VPMi software for enterprise project management.  All the new products are designed to improve internal communications and make it easier for employees to work together...

 

 
VCSonline is hoping to parlay a handful of overseas partner successes with its enterprise project management tools by updating the software and launching a new, accompanying reseller program here in the United States.
 

"We're really working to be the Google Apps of project management," said Nick Matteucci, co-managing partner at VCS, a services and software company based here. "The tools are very simple to use, easy to set up and easy to digest within the organization." ...