Business Engine: Driving Project Portfolio Management for IT Departments in the Enterprise Market
Neil Stolovitsky - March 24, 2006

Introduction

Today's global economy places high demands on an organization's technology strategy. At one time, businesses were at the mercy of the technology they employed. In today's marketplace, economic success depends on the alignment of an organization's business strategy and the technology driving it. In light of this reality, IT governance has moved to the top of the chief information officer (CIO) agenda. In addition, the explosion of the Internet age and web technology during the last ten years has made project portfolio management (PPM) an effective methodology for aligning IT with business goals. The cumbersome pre-Internet process of consolidating silos of information from disparate IT projects for analysis has evolved to today's PPM solution of providing real-time access to multiple sets of project information from a central repository. In response to the demand for IT governance, Business Engine launched the Business Engine Network (BEN), its web-based PPM solution, in 2000...