Business Engine Software

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Business Engine Software

• Business Engine
• Enterprise Resource Project Portfolio Management

Presented to
MPUG
Presented by John Cole Region Manager
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Business Engine Software
Enterprise Solutions for Project Driven, Resource
Constrained Organizations
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Enterprise Resource and Project Portfolio
Management

• Provide Integrated Source of Information for
  Project and Resource Managers
• Develop Standardized Framework
• Capture and Track Project Demand
• Analyze Resource Capacity
• Assign Resources in Accordance with Business
  Objectives
• Manage Portfolio on an Ongoing Basis
• Accurately forecast future demands

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Business Engine

TimeWizard
PortfolioTM
Status Tracking
Portfolio Analysis
Actuals trend analysis and charge-backs
Financial Break-Even What If Analysis Project
Prioritization Project Selection
Resource Management
Project Repository Project Standards

Capacity Utilization Assignment Balancing Alignmen
t Conflict Resolution Planning Skills Development
ProjectServer
ResourceServer
Multi-project Analysis and Reporting
Microsoft Project 4.X and 98
Individual Project Tasks, Schedules Plans
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BUSINESS ENGINE OVERVIEW
Business Engines unique repository and DSS
engine
Microsoft Sybase Oracle
Sweeping agent and push technology collects
and distributes data, web-enabled reports and
time sheets
RDBMS
Microsoft Projects
Other DesktopPlanning
ExcelSpreadsheets
ERP
HumanResources
Financial
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Three Levels of Payback

• Immediate
• With visibility into current project status and
  resource utilization, can easily determine when
  to cancel, delay or reallocate work, based upon
  business priorities
• Payback Most critical resources working on high
  payback projects
• Intermediate
• With visibility into future project demand and
  resource availability, can streamline manpower
  planning and staffing efforts
• Payback Anticipate bottlenecks Reduce
  attrition and costs associated with outsourcing,
  recruiting, hiring, and training
• Long Term
• Execute a smaller portfolio of more strategic
  projects with the same or fewer appropriately
  aligned resources
• Payback Increased competitiveness and improved
  bottom line results

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Business Engine Software

• Privately held corporation, San Francisco, CA
• Founded in 1984
• Market leader in developing solutions for
  project-driven organizations in complex,
  resource-constrained environments
• Business Engine introduced in 1994
• Focus on IS/IT, product development, RD
• Largest Microsoft Solutions Partner
• License technology to Microsoft
• Member of Microsoft Project Review Board

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Ensuring Your Success

• Training
• Project Management Concepts
• Microsoft Project
• Business Engine
• Implementation
• Microsoft Project Customization
• Business Engine Implementation
• Rapid Deployment Process
• Ongoing
• Maintenance and Support
• BSFT User Group

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Next...

• Questions?
• Product Demonstration
• John Cole
• Region Manager
• 818-988-4201
• johnc_at_businessengine.com