Project & Portfolio Management

Allowing IT managers to align their IT portfolio with their overall business strategy is the advantage that Hewlett Packard's Project & Portfolio Management (HP PPM) solutions offer to customers. With a unique ability to control processes and priorities in order to aid optimization of processes, from the demand to production stage, HP PPM offers a unique solution that automatically reflects the real-time project status.

IT managers are constantly looking to ensure comprehensive and efficient alignment of their IT infrastructure, enabling governance of the entire product & portfolio lifecycle. With a constant need to minimize risks & costs, while maximizing compliance to constantly changing guidelines & business strategies, there is incredible strain on the IT infrastructure and resources of any company to constantly outperform despite restraints. Read On

The three most-pressing issues that govern the demand for an advanced system, which can facilitate monitoring and control, are:

• Compliance and Control: Regulations and requirements to harness IT for process automation & control are constantly changing. To be able to, continually and automatically, assess the efficacy of control & compliance, from conceptualization to production, IT managers are required to constantly reinvent processes to reduce costs, resources & risks while satisfying business requirements
• Alignment: To harness the entire value that IT can append to any business, there is an imperative need for IT priorities to be in perfect alignment with the objectives & strategies of the company
• Visibility: For apt business decision-making, it is vital that an accurate real-time view of the status of business processes is visible to decision makers

While most help desk systems can capture some of the IT demands a business has, a majority of the information tends to slip through unobserved. Using HP PPM, Birlasoft ensures steady visibility of all forms of demands using a unique single point for visibility and control of IT processes.

Depending on the type of demand, Birlasoft's HP PPM solutions govern the processes through which the demand is directed, all the way to the development & deployment stage. The Portfolio Management process allows Birlasoft to drive demand for new business systems as well as applications. Therefore, every new business initiative is accompanied by a stringent approach towards prioritizing as well as a real-time view of the entire portfolio of initiatives.

Birlasoft, using the HP PPM, offers a Program Management Office that allows customers to create work plans, allocate resources and monitor the project lifecycle in real-time. The solution also incorporates Issue, Risk and Scope Management within its purview. The backend enterprise Change Management solution incorporated in HP PPM ensures a comprehensive, efficient and automated application development lifecycle.

CLIENT CHALLENGES

• Low adherence to regulatory compliance or a need to increase compliance levels
• Inefficient and improper utilization of resources and budgets
• IT processes and infrastructure that are not in harmony with business objectives
• Absence of a central information storage or repository
• Lack of visibility and control, real-time or otherwise, over projects and portfolios
• Ill-defined IT processes
• Uncultured approach at project selection or reactive project management
• High or uncontrollable costs for project management

WHAT BIRLASOFT OFFERS

Capabilities

• Expertise in Process Consulting for
  • Six Sigma, CMM, ITIL
• Expertise in end to end implementation
  • Project & Portfolio Management Center
• Expertise in upgrade from
  • HP PPM 7.1 to HP PPM 7.5
  • ITG Center 6.0 to HP PPM 7.1
  • ITG Center 5.5 to 6.0
• Expertise in integrating with
  • Business Objects
  • Clear Case, VSS
  • Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reporting
  • SAP, Oracle Apps
  • Peoplesoft, Siebel
  • Legacy systems and many more
• Expertise in maintenance & enhancement
  • 24X7 Production support
  • Shared Services Model
• Expertise in end user training
  • HP PPM Certified Trainer

THE BIRLASOFT ADVANTAGE

• Clients: We have successfully completed over 200+ IT Governance/ HP PPM engagements with Fortune 1000 companies including a Fortune 10 conglomerate. Our client base is present in all major geographies and we cater to clients of all industry verticals.
• Resource Strength: We have over 175 functional and technical consultants with experience in all HP PPM Center Modules including Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Project Management, Program Management, Time Management, Resource Management, Financial Management, Deployment management and various ERP accelerators.
• HP Partnership: We are a Premium partner of HP and our special nature of partnership with HP enables us to provide our customers with best in class solution and services. We have even been recognized with the 'ITG Partner of the year award in 2005' by HP (Mercury Interactive Corp.). We work with HP in following areas:
  • Product Development
  • Joint Sales/Presales Effort
  • Managed Software Services
  • Partner consultants working in HP Global Services Organization (One of the largest partner contributor)
  Birlasoft is a Silver partner of HP in Americas and Gold partner in Europe & APAC.
• IT Governance Center of Excellence: We have one of the world's largest IT Governance Center of Excellence.
• IT Process Consulting: We have combined process consulting and PPM implementation offerings. Our consultants provide process consulting in the areas of Six Sigma and ITIL as value added services. In addition to this, Birlasoft has a separate process consulting practice.
• Training Services: We have an intensive internal training program, followed up with exposure to a live project. Before putting the resource on ground, the resources have to undergo an evaluation. We also have HP PPM certified trainers for providing training services to our clients.
• Integration Services: We have extensive experience of integrating HP PPM with third party applications - ERP Applications like PeopleSoft, SAP; Reporting tools like Business Objects, Crystal Reports; version control systems like VSS and other legacy systems.
• Project Delivery: Our implementation methodology is driven by Six Sigma standards. We have a strong review process and quality assurance team to ensure that our deliveries are beyond client expectations.
• Project Execution: Birlasoft HP PPM implementations have a global project base and cater to customers with diverse industry verticals worldwide. Birlasoft offers flexible engagement models which include Onsite, Offshore, Onsite/ Offshore and Shared Services (SaaS Software-as-a-Service).