PPM Software

Simplify your project portfolio management process, with access to project files, management functions and reports through the Web or in the email client already sitting on your desktop.

The benefits of a solid PPM software system are clear. Automation Centre offers PPM software solutions that return maximum results from your employees' time and efforts by streamlining project workflow and providing tools for organizational and individual planning, scheduling, on-line documentation, process control, team management, access to current status reports and more.

By providing the ability to manage projects and their resources, measured against their status and estimated benefits, these solutions allow organizations to identify value projects and effectively budget and allocate resources. They can prioritize projects effectively, ensuring that valuable projects have the time and resources they need to succeed, while projects of lesser benefit are re-scheduled or scaled back accordingly.

Using Automation Centre PPM software, organizations can:

1. Define projects and programs.
2. Track the status and progress of projects.
3. Track resource availability and workloads.
4. Measure costs and results.

Automation Centre offers several PPM software solutions:

Project Tracker.Net a 100% Web based PPM software system that integrates with most email platforms, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, and Web email services such as Gmail.

Project Tracker- a Web enabled Lotus Notes PPM software system.

TrackerOffice Project Tracker - a Microsoft Outlook based PPM software system.

These systems provide a comprehensive solution set for managing projects, with features including:

• A structured online project environment, with a hierarchy including project programs, definitions, milestones, budgets and billing and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Bi-directional integration with MS Project.
• Review resource availability at the Week or Month level, with the ability to drill down on resources.
• Color coded project dashboards which can be emailed as on-the-fly status newsletters.
• Task dashboards, lists and calendars that provide at-a-glance reviews of workloads, with single-click drilldown on task information and assigned resources.
• Integrates with email for:
  • Automated notification of task assignments and schedule changes.
  • Automated notification of status report due dates encourages timely reporting, which helps managers, sponsors and stakeholders stay abreast of the progress of their projects.
• Document management. Tracker solutions provide a central, online storage of documents and files, which users can access within their email client.
  • Version control.
  • Check in/ check out.
  • Document approval workflow.
• The ability to conform with PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) workflows.

Other Tracker Applications

The applications available within TrackerSuite.Net, Tracker Suite and TrackerOffice integrate with each other.

These applications include:

• Support Tracker - a help desk system that helps bridge the gap between projects and IT services. Support tickets created in Support Tracker can be transformed into tasks, or even projects.
• Customer Tracker - a CRM database with customer and contact information, as well as contract management functions.
• Purchase Tracker - a purchase order system that ties purchases directly to projects. Purchase orders are automatically routed through the approval process, with electronic signatures for all approvals and edits of the purchase order.
• Time Tracker - a timesheet system that allows users to charge time from any location, via the Web or within their email client. Time can be charged against projects, tasks and support tickets.
• Expense Tracker - an expense reporting system that allows users to submit expense reports from any location, via the Web or within their email client. Expenses can be charges against projects. Submitted expense reports are routed through the approval process, and exception reporting (for items that exceed daily limits) is available.
• The Tracker Data Warehouse - a Web based reporting system that serves as a single point of access to business intelligence. The Tracker Data Warehouse receives data from all of the other Tracker applications, to provides reports including Project Portfolio Reports, Project Dashboards, Resource Allocation, Time Pies, Purchase Lists, Budget vs. Actual and more.
• Personnel Tracker - a personnel management system with comprehensive employee files, and tools for vacation and leave request management and tracking.