We sat down with Harry Snoxell, Program Planning & Operations Senior Manager at Wisk Aero, to hear how the company building a fully autonomous air taxi outgrew Microsoft Project, what changed once Planisware became the heartbeat of the program, and why the AI worth having is the AI you can use today.
Compare the best PPM tools for earned value management, financial analytics and capacity planning. Learn how portfolio budgeting, cost tracking and forecasting improve visibility, reduce risk and support smarter investment decisions.
Capital projects in engineering, construction, energy, aerospace and defense rank among the most demanding undertakings an organization can pursue. The stakes are high.
Enterprises running hundreds or thousands of concurrent projects face one persistent challenge. They need project cost management, scheduling and financial visibility unified into a single trustworthy view.
The project controls platforms that deliver reliable earned value management and construction cost control share 1 architectural trait. They treat cost, schedule and scope as a single dataset.
ADNOC is one of the top ten oil producers in the world, employing around 50,000 people across more than 70 group companies. Before its transformation, project and portfolio data sat in silos, spread across different systems, often producing conflicting reported numbers for the same projects. This fragmentation made it difficult to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and support ADNOC's sustainability ambitions at scale.
Saint-Gobain R&D teams working for the construction businesses as well as the Corporate Innovation team needed a system to replace obsolete in-house developed tools that were difficult to maintain and were seen as not user friendly. This new system would be an opportunity to unify its R&D processes while respecting business specificities, allowing later rollout to other R&D entities or functions (global engineering, marketing, …). Saint-Gobain turned to Planisware in 2018 to help integrate its innovation management and drive efficiency.
ADNOC is the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, a diversified and integrated group of fifteen energy companies that provide oil and gas exploration, drilling, refining and logistics services.
Diane East, Senior Implementation Project Manager at XRiver Technologies, discusses the role that an effective change management plan had on user adoption of Planisware at Michigan DOT.
Tiago Hipolito, Senior Specialist from ADNOC shared the story of Planisware implementation journey; project life cycle, what they targeted and achieved.
Diane East, Senior Implementation Project Manager for XRiver Technologies, discusses some of the unique challenges faced when implementing a PPM system for a Department of Transportation organization and how Planisware has benefitted Michigan DOT.
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