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ProjectObjects is a comprehensive Enterprise Project Intelligence platform which supports Planning, Control, Analysis, Reporting and Collaboration processes across Company portfolios, projects, initiatives, opportunities and services.
ProjectObjects main goal is to support executives, project managers and their teams in making the right decisions throughout the project lifecycle, and thereby enhance the value of company projects to all stakeholders.
ProjectObjects blends best-in-class project management tools with powerful analytics and portfolio dashboard modules. The result is a powerful and effective way to:

• Plan and control projects according to Project Management best practice
• Gain better control over resource assignments across the entire collection of company projects
• Fully align business strategies, project goals, resource capacities, and financial constraints
• Powering the web applications that provide an integrated view of projects, portfolios and company business
• Support in the best way management and collaboration processes by ensuring high quality of project data and effective information sharing
• Automating the delivery of planning an control information to a broad user base and not just to a pocket of professional users
• Helping people interact with the information and analyze it to drive the projects, portfolios and business forward

Setting Enterprise Codes
ProjectObjects is a complete Enterprise Project Management suite that blends best-in-class project management tools with powerful analytics and portfolio dashboard modules. The result is a complete platform for:
• Plan and control projects according to Project Management best practice
• Automating the delivery of planning an control information to a broad user base and not just to a pocket of professional users
• Powering the web applications that provide an integrated view of projects, portfolios and company business
• Helping people interact with the information and analyze it to drive the projects, portfolios and business forward
ProjectObjects introduces the concept of Enterprise Project Intelligence and combines Project Management and Business Intelligence functions into a single platform.
A modular architecture based on WEB ProjectObjects technology gives you access to Content Creation functions, allowing you to insert any kind of project management data.

With ProjectObjects the project data “intelligence” stored in a centralized company database may be shared with all project stakeholders using Content Management and Delivery functions.
For each project team member ProjectObjects will make available analytical tools and a dedicated sub-set of information coherent with their role and their project’s visibility level.
Defining Project Breakdown Structures
Defining Project Breakdown Structures
PO5 enable the interactive definition of project breakdown structures, Through a very intuitive configurator, project contents can be broken down by combining Product Breakdown with Activity Breakdown in order to define the Work Breakdown Structure.

The resulting WBS is immediately available in Microsoft Project as the project tasks list.
The use of multiple breakdown structures helps all project stakeholders gain visibility insight their project information by analyzing data according to many possible hierarchical views.
Planning & Scheduling
PlanningandScheduling
ProjectObjects Planning & Scheduling capabilities are based on a seamless integration with Microsoft Project. The project’s schedule can created either using the ProjectObjects web interface or using the Microsoft Project desktop client. Resource can be planned over project tasks using few mouse clicks.

Resource planning and control is based on subset of powerful functions that enables users to assign resource at skill or name level, substitute resource according to their skills, locate the right resource in case of overload assignments or optimize resource usage using ad-hoc phasing. Chart views are available to analyze baseline, current or actual workloads at any level of detail, by employee, by task or by project.
Resource Management
ProjectObjects Resource Management unique capabilities enable project managers, department managers and executives to share a single and clear picture of enterprise resources workload. All resource assignments can be analyzed at company, portfolio, project, departmResource Managementent, and employee level in order to optimize their usage across projects and portfolios.

Resource Management functions are grouped under the Resource Explorer module where resource data can be easily modified to perform simulations, to analyze the impact of a new project or evaluate the effect of a new assignment.
Timesheets & Expenses Tracking
TimesheetsandExpenses Tracking
ProjectObjects Timesheets & Expense Tracking capabilities bridge the gap between executive/project manager decision-making and day by day project execution.
Project team can count on a specific module that enable them to access project planning and assignments using a very simple and intuitive interface. Information is accessible according to specific visibility rules defined at company level.

Individual timesheets are approved according to company or department defined workflows and then automatically consolidated by project, client, demanding department, contract, task type, project category, etc.
Project Collaboration
Project Collaboration
ProjectObjects Collaboration capabilities have been designed to enable projects teams to share in a single repository Issues, Actions, Changes and Documents information.
All these items can be easily related to each other in order to navigate through pre-defined paths collaboration info. Project documents can be stored in the ProjectObjects repository and downloaded via Web when required.
Cost Management
Cost Management
ProjectObjects includes a set of embedded capabilities which supports cost management process from budgeting to control & forecasting. Costs can be organized according to company CBS – Cost Breakdown Structure and Accounting Codes in order to guarantee cross-projects consolidation at company level. The seamless integration with resource management, contracts & rates, timesheets and expenses tracking enable the full control of project costs & revenues, providing to Executives and Project Manager a clear picture of financial project’s health.
Cost data are perfectly integrated with project schedule, can be organized according to multiple hierarchical codes, and integrated with company ERP systems.
Reporting & Analysis
ReportingandAnalysis
With ProjectObjects Reporting and Analysis module project information can be explored, analyzed and shared using a very powerful set of analytical tools.

Schedule, Resource and Cost information can be accessed via web using “drill-down” and “slice & dice” approach to analyse data according to user-defined multi-project hierarchical views.
A pro-active alerting system informs users when project schedule, resource or cost data are deviating respect to the pre-defined alarm thresholds.
Reporting capabilities are based on Business Objects XI - Crystal Reports technology and provide a rich set of high quality reports.
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Management
ProjectObjects adopts sophisticated portfolio management functions, designed to provide optimum support for the processing and management of your investment strategies and business development.
ProjectObjects allows you to monitor the evolution of your project portfolio and make essential choices right on time, whilst guaranteeing that human, economic and financial resources are directed towards projects which generate the greatest returns.

With ProjectObjects you can implement portfolio management as a dynamic process wherein the list of portfolio projects can be constantly revised and optimized. In this process new projects are evaluated, selected and prioritized. Existing projects may be accelerated, killed, or deprioritized and resources are allocated and reallocated to the active projects.