A Solution to Align IT Investments
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Jul 23, 2008

As a part of business technology optimization (BTO) software portfolio, HP has introduced a Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Center 7.5.

The center delivers integrated IT management capabilities that span project and portfolio management, application lifecycle management and IT service management.

Integrations between PPM Center 7.5 and service management center, quality center, universal configuration management database (CMDB) would be possible.

Ken Cheney, director, products (project and portfolio management center) of HP said, CIOs often have difficulty tracking investments to demonstrate business value due to ill-defined checks and balances and unclear results, putting IT organizations in a vulnerable position.

The solution comes with enhancements like automated workflows, improved team collaboration tools and tighter integrations with existing Microsoft project deployments. This increases end-user productivity and accelerates customers time to value. It enables demand management, portfolio management, resource management, project management and time management module enhancements based on customer input.

PPM offers configuration capabilities to drive productivity along with project management and demand management e-Learning end-user training (EUT) courses, offered by HP Software Education Services.

Besides this, it offers software professional services, including quickstarts, blueprint and implementation review services, to help customers identify the right starting point, sustain implementation momentum and achieve rapid return on their investment in HP PPM center.

The solution helps to support key business technology initiatives including deploying service-oriented architectures, multi-vendor outsourcing, data center consolidation, and compliance.

The PPM center is offered either as an in-house deployment or via Software as a Service (SaaS).


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