Details

	Overview

As an interactive Project and Resource Management tool, UpsidePMO provides a highly flexible and interactive forum for all stakeholders to participate in the active tracking and management of projects and work order activities. UpsidePMO ensures that projects, work orders and all related activities are very visible to their stakeholders and critical elements are addressed quickly and efficiently. Through role, project and template based security and workflow, stakeholders have access to the information and functions they need with effective process management and notification to ensure they act when required.

UpsidePMO enables simple time entry for staff to attribute their time only to activities assigned to them. Analysis of estimates, actual time, project status, schedule and milestone data enables continual risk assessment and management and continual improvements in activity estimation and project efficiency.

Integration of UpsidePMO with the other Upside Software products provides an opportunity for greater benefit. UpsidePMO leverages the value of our other projects to automate your basic project related contracting, invoicing and cost allocation processes.

	Benefits

In general, the benefits of UpsidePMO are seen in the reduction in time and effort and improvements in the processes to manage the activities and tasks of personnel. Specific areas that see improvement are:

• Drastically improved management of projects and on-going work across the enterprise
• Improved access to project information and processes for all stakeholders (e.g. staff, contractors and customers)
• Improved relationships and inter-relationships with and between stakeholders
• Ensures high visibility of project and work order status, outstanding activities and required actions
• Ensures proper review and approval of all activities both before and after execution, as required
• Enables dynamic resource forecasting to ensure skilled resource availability and to identify cross-project impacts
• Leverages effective skillset tracking and management to ensure the use of the most appropriate resources on each project and supports justification for training and hiring
• Streamlines time entry and management processes
• Enables continual improvement in project and activity estimation
• Minimizes project risks
• Greatly improves management information and reporting on projects and work orders

UpsidePMO delivers extensive benefit right out of the box, but when coupled with our other products (e.g. UpsideContract, UpsideBilling, UpsideExpense) UpsidePMO can provide full resource planning and management capabilities - see below for more.

	Features

UpsidePMO is provides extensive functionality for project and resource management. It's general features include:

• Completely web-based with zero client footprint
• Template based workflow definition
• User role, project and template security and change control
• Activity, work order and project performance monitoring
• Project portal that gives a concise view of work order status, outstanding activities and required actions
• User notification of outstanding tasks
• Integrated time entry and management
• Human resource utilization management, analysis and planning
  • Dynamic Resource Forecasting (e.g. when you add a new project, UpsidePMO will tell you if you have resources with the appropriate skill sets available, as well as identifying cross-project impacts)
  • Skillset tracking and management (e.g. track various skillsets employed by your organization, report on skillset dependancies and utilization, justification to hire or contract external resources, etc.)
• Risk assessment and management
• Business intelligence and data analysis of project milestones, resource utilization and estimates versus actuals
• Easy integration with ERP, financial and legacy systems
• Plug-in integration with UpsideContract to manage contract-driven projects and activities
• Plug-in integration with UpsideBilling to facilitate:
  • project based billing (e.g. bill customers for time spent or upon reaching milestones), and/or
  • project based expenses (e.g. validate contractor invoices against entered time)
• Plug-in integration with UpsideExpense to capture all project related costs