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Project portfolio management (PPM) is a hot topic, and there’s no shortage of related advice. However, much of the current
advice is incomplete—or flat-out wrong. Before purchasing a tool, buyers should familiarize themselves with established
theories for valuing projects. Armed with understandin (...)
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2010-03-11
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There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed vendors provide hosted solutions with out-of-the-box integrations, while integrated PPM solutions provide
the complete back-office systems preferred by many l (...)
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There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services
organizations (PSO). For smaller PSOs, best-of-breed...
Published:
2006-01-02
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IT initiatives driven within silos, where each department maintain its own project management office, inhibits the overall
cohesiveness and effectiveness of corporate strategy. This document outlines best practices to centralize and deliver a scalable
and robust project management framework strategy. (...)
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... eleven goals are consistent with the project management key success
factors found in the benchmarking study, Best Practices of Project Management
Groups in ...
Published:
2005-09-21
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Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe)'s IDeWeb 5.3 is a product portfolio management best-of-breed solution for new product
development. It is tailored to discrete and process manufacturers in the electronics, food and beverage, specialty chemicals,
and telecommunications sectors. (...)
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Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe)'s IDeWeb 5.3 is a product portfolio management best-of-breed solution for new
product development. It is t...
Published:
2006-02-08
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Product, project, process, and people represent the four areas of PLM analytics that may help PLM user organizations develop
better products, improve the product development process, increase operational efficiency, and better measure employee performance,
respectively. (...)
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Product, project, process, and people represent the four areas of PLM analytics that may help PLM user organizations develop
better products, impr...
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2009-11-27
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Resource allocation and phase-based processes are key features to consider when selecting a project portfolio management
solution for new product development (NPD) projects. More importantly, NPD projects demand a best practices framework, like
Stage-Gate®, for their success. (...)
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Resource allocation and phase-based processes are key features to consider when selecting a project portfolio management solution
for new product ...
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2006-01-06
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Business Engine provides best-of-breed PPM functionality for internal IT departments, focusing on financial governance. For
organizations seeking flexible workflow and IT governance capabilities, BEN delivers functionality in the financial services,
health care, government, manufacturing, telecommunicati (...)
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Business Engine provides best-of-breed PPM functionality for internal IT departments, focusing on financial governance. For
organizations seeking ...
Published:
2006-03-24
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Deltek Vision and other Deltek enterprise solutions, have been major players with project management-oriented organizations
for the past twenty years. Vision a leading product in the professional services automation market and has taken significant
strides to maintain this market leading position. (...)
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Deltek Vision and other Deltek enterprise solutions, have been major players with project management-oriented organizations
for the past twenty ye...
Published:
2005-09-27
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Project portfolio management (PPM), once a solution only larger organizations could afford, enables companies to analyze,
recommend, authorize, activate, expedite, and monitor projects. In recent years, however, small to medium businesses have
been able to benefit from PPM too, through software-as-a-serv (...)
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Project portfolio management (PPM), once a solution only larger organizations could afford, enables companies to analyze,
recommend, authorize, ac...
Published:
2008-10-29
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Major vendors are entering the professional services software market and small niche vendors are repositioning themselves
to compete. This changing market is conveying mixed messages; however, users can navigate this space by separating market
messages from vendors' functional capabilities. (...)
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Major vendors are entering the professional services software market and small niche vendors are repositioning themselves
to compete. This changin...
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2006-09-04
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The name Omnify Software may hardly come to mind when one thinks of the product lifecycle management (PLM) leaders, but that
might change down the track (...)
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The name Omnify Software may hardly come to mind when one thinks of the product lifecycle management (PLM) leaders, but that
might change down the...
Published:
2009-02-20
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Due to its late expansion into the ERP world, the company has been trailed by its reputation of a best-of-breed accounting
software vendor. While Solomon has accelerated its schedule of new functionality, it will be hard pressed with tight “time-to-market”
constraints. (...)
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Due to its late expansion into the ERP world, the company has been trailed by its reputation of a best-of-breed accounting
software vendor. While ...
Published:
2000-04-12
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After dealing with the over-hype of Y2K, companies have started to reconsider the best of breed as a viable solution to satisfy
their software needs. This comes as a shock to the corporate systems culture when user communities were told that fully integrated
software such as ERP, SCM, and EAM were the on (...)
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After dealing with the over-hype of Y2K, companies have started to reconsider the best of breed as a viable solution to satisfy
their software nee...
Published:
2003-08-08
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy used to implement it. Moreover, murky definitions and objectives have caused varying degrees of success
and failure to emerge from the same initiative. Clearly de (...)
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy use...
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2004-10-21
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Since the late nineties, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have developed functionality for vertical markets in
the service industry. Simultaneously, professional services automation (PSA) became a viable software category. Consequently,
deciphering the difference between ERP and PSA remains a c (...)
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Since the late nineties, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have developed functionality for vertical markets in the
service industry. Sim...
Published:
2006-04-13
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Understanding the nature and specifics of your product development life cycles, and especially new product design and initiation,
can help you realize tangible cost savings and will offset the total cost of ownership of a product lifecycle management system. (...)
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... initiatives focused on collaborative design, project management, portfolio
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Published:
2005-09-28
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Emptoris, an upbeat provider of strategic sourcing software for the global 5000 companies, announced its acquisition of spend
management specialist Zeborg. However, despite a good fit, enlarged customer base, and improved cross-selling opportunity,
some challenges and product gaps will have to be overcom (...)
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Emptoris, an upbeat provider of strategic sourcing software for the global 5000 companies, announced its acquisition of spend
management specialis...
Published:
2003-11-18
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Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe)'s IDeWeb 5.3 is a product portfolio management best-of-breed solution for new product
development. It is tailored to discrete and process manufacturers in the electronics, food and beverage, specialty chemicals,
and telecommunications sectors. (...)
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Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe)'s IDeWeb 5.3 is a product portfolio management best-of-breed solution for new
product development. It is t...
Published:
2006-02-08
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Cost, time, resources, cash, and risk have always been the basics of project management. But as business as a whole becomes
more project- rather than process-oriented, management technologies must in turn become more project-centric. (...)
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Cost, time, resources, cash, and risk have always been the basics of project management. But as business as a whole becomes
more project- rather t...
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2009-04-20
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Best Software/Sage is a company that delivers products based on savvy understanding of its customers' needs, of the competitive
forces in the market, and on constant adaptability. It is still standing on top of the hill in many SME markets, and it is
typically a much more difficult task for anyone to cap (...)
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Best Software/Sage is a company that delivers products based on savvy understanding of its customers' needs, of the competitive
forces in the mark...
Published:
2003-07-29