UMT Project Essentials
UMT Project Essentials delivers the ultimate Business Planning & Management controls for Microsoft Project Server 2010. The solution provides powerful governance workflow design, financial management, business intelligence and ERP integration capabilities to help PMOs and Finance Teams to improve organizational budgeting and quickly drive financial transparency across project and program portfolios.
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"I know that our enterprise customers are going to be truly excited by the availability of the new multi-currency, change request management and other features included in UMT Project Essentials 2012".
Chris Crane
Director of Microsoft Project
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Integrated Business Planning & Management
Driven by uncertain economic times and enhanced compliance requirements Business Planning and Management has become a key requirement for organizations investing in project and portfolio management best practices and tools. Pressure to reduce or at least maintain budgets has resulted in sharper scrutiny of discretionary investment and in turn increased the importance of effectively controlling costs across the project lifecycle and tracking the resulting benefits.
UMT Project Essentials provides the following Business Planning & Management capabilities:
| Automate PPM governance processes |
Lock cost and benefit estimates on approval |
| Standardize financial structures & controls |
Submit and archive financial status reports |
| Define and manage multiple currencies |
Import actual costs per period from ERP system |
| Improve capital planning & budgeting |
Update forecast / remaining costs |
| Build cost & benefit assessments for projects and programs |
View real time variances and metrics |
| Breakdown estimates by funding center (e.g. line of business) |
Build chargeback and showback reports |
| Sync resource assignment costs from schedule and resource plan |
Raise and manage change requests for incremental funding |
| Control funding and projects approvals by stage gates |
Build powerful dashboards and financial reports |
| Automate auditable snapshots at stage gates |
Establish a benefits realization framework |
UMT Project Essentials powerful and rich features deliver a multitude of benefits including:
- Simplified Governance: Reduce the time required to effectively build, deploy, and administer Project Server 2010 workflows
- Reliable & Robust Estimates: Enhance strategic planning by improving the accuracy of cost and benefit estimates
- Visibility & Insights: Efficiently track financial performance and ROI with real-time metrics, powerful reports, and detailed dashboards
- Seamless Integration with ERP: Better connect project and organizational accounting
- Faster Deployments: Reduce the time-to-value of your Project 2010 investment by eliminating the need for expensive and time-consuming custom development
- Ease of Use & Familiarity: Take advantage of out-of-the-box best practice financial web parts that seamlessly integrate with a familiar Project Server 2010 experience, minimizing training time and helping you get started quickly