BrightWork pmPoint for SharePoint 2007 - Benefits
BrightWork pmPoint makes it easy to get everyone (employees, management, suppliers, customers and other stake holders) on the same page when it comes to managing the work of your organization. With various views, dashboards, and reports, project managers and team members know what they need to get done and by when. For executives and project leaders, they have one place to go to look across the group or organization's projects. See below for some of the benefits your organization can accrue from using BrightWork pmPoint on SharePoint.
Use SharePoint for improved project communication and information sharing
- Easily share and find project information in a highly accessible, web-based location by team members across time zones and beyond organizational boundaries
- Increase accountability for team members
- Achieve seamless hand-offs with no “dropped balls” between teams and team members during normal project process, during vacations, role changes, re-orgs, etc.
Setup every project with the correct process using industry standard templates
- Rapid project start-up with pre-built solution templates that integrate industry best practices
- Flexible to meet an organization’s unique ways that they work and terminology that they use
- Optionally import from a Microsoft Project plan to define the work of a project
- Extensible to meet compliance requirements for various industry and government regulations and standards
Enable work and project management by all members on every project
- Increase team member productivity with powerful built-in views, dashboards, and reports that list key items such as open work, upcoming work and my work
- Quickly identify projects that are off-track and in need of corrective action
- Easily share work and project status with key stakeholders through a variety of convenient methods
- Easily customize reports or create new ones to meet your specific requirements
- Gain deeper insight for large project portfolios with advanced reporting analytics
Manage a program or a portfolio of projects in a PMO / Project Office
- Complete PM environment to manage across the project lifecycle
- See the big picture as well as have the ability to drill into detail
- Re-use best practices from well-run projects
- Ensure proper approvals are in place before work is initiated or changes are made
Capture and harvest best practices for later re-use delivering continuous improvement
- Create templates from existing project webs and templates
- Create new project webs from existing project webs or templates
- Create copies of portfolios
Exploit Microsoft investments for lower ownership costs
- Quick and easy installation on top of existing SharePoint infrastructure
- Reduce cost by leveraging existing Microsoft licenses
- Quicker user adoption and fewer support calls with familiar, intuitive SharePoint user interface
- The option to use a Microsoft Project plan to kick-start a project
- Leverage in-house IT staff with Microsoft skills
- Flexible deployment options including hosted
