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Configuration: Start Right, Right Now

VPMi Professional Hosted and On-Site customers enjoy full admin and even source code access to their applications and have unprecedented ability to configure the application to exactly match their processes and methodology.

Many customers start their implementations with our experienced configuration services.  We can study your processes and goals and apply our 11 years of experience to make sure the reference data, drop downs, and workflows are setup right the first time, eliminating the need to scrub and rework the data down the road.

Furthermore, our consultants can customize the reporting, integrate with other business applications, change the GUI, enhance functionality, and program any custom business rules quickly and cost effectively so that your team can focus on adoption, training, and implementation challenges.

Examples of Configuration Services:
  • Organizational structure and reporting
  • Location structure and reporting
  • Balanced scorecard for business value assessment
  • Balanced scorecard for post project satisfaction
  • Project template setup for different organizations
  • Project lifecycle workflow
  • Project financial capitalization
  • Microsoft Project templates that integrate into VPMi

Examples of Customization Services:

  • Integration with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE)
  • Custom Email business rules
  • Integration and customization of executive dashboards
  • Report modification
  • Re-skin VPMi application
  • Integrate VPMi application into existing portals
  • XML data interchange
  • Customize security schema
  • Add/Remove/Rename fields to views, entry, and reporting
  • Integration with active directory services
  • Module development


Project Management Office
Consulting: Fast Start Project Office
 
Entry Point
Effective Project Management Offices (PMO’s) evolve through 3 stages. First, they gain relevant control over the portfolio of projects. Second, once they have gained the respect and attention of the project community, they are in a position to develop more consistent project performance. And third, with a proper track record, they can influence and support the development of an optimal environment within which projects are more likely to succeed.
 
End Result
A fully functioning Project Management Office (PMO).
 
Approach
To achieve an optimal state PMO, VCSonline proposes a staged implementation based upon years of experience in building effective PMO’s. We provide an experienced leader to fast-start the process, partnering with your own people and completing tasks as appropriate. We will also provide a comprehensive set of product solutions to augment those already in use by your organization. We will integrate the entire set of VPMi products into a coherent and consistent solution suite.
 
Stage 1 of the implementation focuses on establishing the approach required to monitor projects. Part of this effort involves instilling the attitudes and behaviors required to craft an effective PMO within the project community.
 
The key elements of this stage are to shape the a) planning and b) monitoring of projects so that their status in terms of achievement, risk, and issues may be readily determined. Once this step is accomplished, the level of exposure within the organization is known and the level of project productivity may be forecast. VCSonline will introduce a project planning and reporting framework that supports and reinforces the methods, processes, and procedures in use. The PMO will thus have a key role to play in the delivery of a project framework; the definition and delivery of project visibility – the processes relating to describing a project’s status; and the creation of project sponsor awareness.
 
Stages 2 and 3 involve creating a developing and deepening partnership between the PMO and the project management community. From the interactions initiated within the first work package, it will be possible for VCSonline to identify, select, and develop any necessary guidance material to ensure that project managers apply the approach consistently and appropriately. An immediate value of the PMO will be the greater level of assurance that the sponsors have as they support projects. To cement this partnership, the PMO will take its’ message and new capability to the sponsor community. It will take a leading role in helping sponsors understand their own role and responsibilities and how they can use the PMO to their best advantage.

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