Everything PPM made easy
The Essential PMO solution provides a turnkey cloud PPM platform that PMOs can deploy to support various project types and teams across the organization
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The Impact of Planisware Essential PMO: Align, Optimize, Execute
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Our Essential PMO solutions and tools are tailored for:
The Essential PMO solution centralizes portfolio management, project and resource visibility, and reporting based on a single source of truth for data.
This solution provides all of the essential PPM functionality and integrated best practices needed for efficient collaboration, project planning, and delivery.
Key Capabilities
Planisware Orchestra delivers all essential PPM capabilities from business alignment to project execution and everything in-between, as well as a scalable growth path that can handle advanced requirements at your processes mature
Data consolidation, reliability, and visibility
Make decisions and generate reports based on a single version of truth for data rather than dealing with thousands of spreadsheets with diverse sources and incomplete data. Leverage your up-to-date and centralized data to:
- Accelerate and simplify reporting and preparation for reviews with flash reports and shared dashboards.
- Track project status, issues, costs, and resource utilization in real time.
- Ensure continuous alignment with business objectives and OKRs.
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Portfolio management and project prioritization
Reprioritize work with agility to address rapidly changing business needs, and minimize resource waste and opportunity costs.
- Build and use a consistent scoring framework to evaluate your projects' business alignment.
- Prioritize activities at the portfolio level by using scenario analysis that compares project business cases to your portfolio's financial and capacity plan.
- Further refine your plan by ensuring that expected project outcomes properly balance costs and risks.
Resource planning and optimization
Get the right resources, to the right projects, at the right time even when unexpected events occur that impact resource availability.
- Gain 100% visibility to activity status, assignments and utilization rate for each individual resource..
- Manage resource status changes and availability to understand impacts to project schedules, expected project cost, and ROI.
- Effectively plan capacity and the skills inventory required to achieve business goals.
Project execution and delivery
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Streamline cross-functional project execution processes and collaboration to accelerate value delivery
- Easily share best practices and templates with stakeholders and facilitate structured and unstructured communications with native collaboration and business rule automation features.
- Adapt and combine the most appropriate methodologies to your project and programs (e.g. waterfall, agile, hybrid, phase-gate).
- Tailor your your project’s workflow end to end to meet your unique needs, including idea handling, gate definitions, risk metrics, business case and deliverable templates.
The Essential PMO solution difference
In addition to being a market leader in adaptive and collaborative PPM for IT, product and work management, and creative projects, Planisware Orchestra offers three clear differentiators:
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Built for ease, trusted for results
Planisware works with customers to make it easy to (1) procure an affordable pre-packaged solution, (2) get global implementation and operations support, (3) use its product leveraging its analyst-acclaimed intuitive design and integrated AI technology, and (4) achieve a compelling ROI and minimal payback period.
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Seamless integration
Orchestra was designed to be embedded gracefully in your existing IT infrastructure offering easy out-of-the-box and custom (no-code) integrations with commonly used systems and tools for collaboration, personal productivity, financial and people management, reporting/BI, and agile workflows.
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Growth path
Orchestra can be pre-configured for low-process maturity environments to get started and more advanced features can be turned on as the team grows and matures. In addition, Planisware provides a straightforward upgrade path to Planisware Enterprise for deployments that are ready for the most functionally mature and scalable solution.
Featured Orchestra success stories
"Before Orchestra, project managers spent hours consolidating data across tools. Now, reporting is optimized, saving us hours every month. Managers have real-time insights, and stakeholders can access fresh project related data with just a few clicks. The biggest win is the alignment we’ve achieved. Everyone is on the same page, we’ve optimized our processes and can make timely decisions.
"- Alessandro Cirillo, IT Project Manager and PMO, Volkswagen Financial Services
"Having a fully integrated PPM tool enables us to manage our projects at all levels, from simple demand management to a full-fledged dashboard; including planning, resource management, comprehensive document management. So, it is our ambition to be efficient that made us choose the collaborative solution Orchestra.
"- Vincent Godot, Head of PMO, Essilor
"We have gained much broader visibility to all our projects in real time. That was the primary intent for my colleagues and me to free up our time because we are responsible for answering many questions from various parts of the organization. Now that we have that visibility, it allows us to be much more productive.
"- Ruth Pechauer, PM and cross-functional engineering team leader, CPC
