Multi-Project Business Benefits from ProjectReporter
Success for any system is made up of people, process and tools. ProjectReporter's market is a stepping stone for organisations or teams on their way to Microsoft Project Server or for smaller organisations for whom Project Server is a step too far (because of cost or infrastructure limits). ProjectReporter is low cost, low tech, but still high added value. key business benefits are:
- Multi-project visibility to the organisation.
- Central capture, management and reporting of (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions (RAID) and change requests.
- Automation of 80% plus of weekly and monthly project reporting.
- Who Does What When reporting ofr each project.
- Central control of Resource naming and calendar management for each resource (updating resource calendars in each proejct for annual leave etc.
- Easy and safe (no file corrution risks) management and reporting of inter-project links.
- Central storage (SQL Server or Microsoft Access) of all project reporting data (master data is still each project's .mpp file in Project).
- Low cost, low tech, high added value - maximum leverage of the 20% of effort for 80% of results in managing the data for multiple projects and leveraging readily available technology most organisations already have.
- Reporting tools are easily administered by SQL Server administrators to add required data and remove unwanted data.
- Easy to use and re-use reports in Excel (for example pivot tables using daily data from all schedules).
- Master data in each project's .mpp file left untouched, so the .mpp files can be shared, emailed, updated remotely then returned.
- Most functionality runs from an easy to use extra ribbon in Microsoft Project 2010 or later or an extra menu in Project 2007.
- View all reports for any project easily from Excel.
- Reports in Excel get their data from Views in SQL Server which are easily customised by Admin.
- Data from any custom field in Project can be exported to ProjectReporter and then used in any reports.
- Leverage the reporting tools you already know and use on the ProjectReporter database (supports the low cost, low tech goals).
- ProjectReporter makes an excellent steepping stone on your way to a full EPM software (such as Microsoft Project Server) implementation whilst you work on scheduling skills, process development and setting up or extending your Project Management office (PMO).
- Easy to bolt on or customise new functionality such as Excel based timesheets that update your schedules automatically, S-Curves and more.
- Supports automated governance of projects.
- By automating project reporting, project managers are rewarded for updating and maintaining their schedules. They spend less time on admin work and get better value schedules: a win-win solution.
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