Consolidate PPM Across the Enterprise

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What are the business drivers for enterprise project portfolio management, what are the consolidation challenges and what is the solution?

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) is the practice of taking a more integrated and tops-down approach to managing all-project intensive work and resources across the enterprise. This contrasts with the more common approach of building separate functional and technology silos to manage IT, new product development, process improvement and other enterprise initiatives and programs.

EPPM software provides a single-system approach to managing enterprise initiatives and programs rather than relying on a combination of manual processes and desktop tools (e.g. MS Excel and Project) and “best-in-breed” PPM applications for each project portfolio type.

Common pain points associated with the traditional siloed approach include:

• Inconsistent and unreliable data
• Difficulty in reporting
• Weak executive visibility
• Lack of accountability for results
• Inability to drive and align projects with corporate strategies and programs which cross traditional project portfolio boundaries
• High TCO

Business Drivers for EPPM

Consolidating the technology used to manage multiple project portfolio management silos across the enterprise can be viewed as part of a broader IT …

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