Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The Software Behind Huge Multi-Project Environments

With business software, even the smallest technological advancements lead to savings. The savings are indirect, achieved through increased efficiency. This is especially true for enterprises with huge, multi-project environments. Finding the right software to handle such an environment, however, can be a monumental task.

Many solutions only equipped for small and medium-sized businesses are disguised. Overly-ambitious marketing campaigns and exaggerated product descriptions lump thousands of unequal solutions into a single “enterprise business software” category.

At this high-end level business software must meet a lot of additional requirements. Some features that set true enterprise project management software, for example, apart from the rest include:

-Various means of sharing resources between multiple projects
-Sophisticated risk assessment tools
-Detailed project performance tracking
-Tools for creating a detailed project budget
-Automation when demanded, with the ability to be overridden
-Company-specific processes definitions
-Workflow

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