Post Vision Technology partner, PM.Ideas, has deployed Post Vision's Project Portfolio Office (PPO) software as a service (SaaS) solution, PPO, at SABMiller to address its long-term project collaboration requirements.
The South African Breweries is a mature projects organisation that has implemented a number of successful projects over the years, says Post Vision Technology CEO Guy Jelley. “However, the brewery's ability to enhance project maturity and increase collaboration on projects had become vital.
“PPO turned out to be the ideal fit to all of its requirements and PM.Ideas completed the deployment in August 2010.”
PM.Ideas' director of sales, Sean van Rooyen, says PPO is an enterprise capable SaaS solution that brings all the common elements of typical projects together, including project communication, tactical operational decision-making, issue management and workflow and resource capacity management - all of which contributed to its appeal to SABMiller.
“Due to its inherently neutral methodology, the PPO solution easily aligned with SABMiller's existing methodologies and life cycles, all of which were in differing stages of development,” he says.
“This level of flexibility was very important to the company and now, with PPO, in-house system administrators can customise the solution to fit their diverse environments without the need to employ developers.
“This includes data fields, screen layouts and lists; and user groups and data filters can also be implemented to control the information users are allowed to access and the functions they are allowed to perform.”
Pieter Pienaar, senior project manager at SABMiller, says one of the key factors to deciding on the deployment was the sheer ease-of-use proffered by it. “This is easily the most user friendly project management system employees have reported using over the years, and this is due to the online context sensitive help feature, which reduces the amount of training required.
“It addresses our requirements in a simple and uncomplicated manner and can, and will, be used by all of our project team members, not just the managers.”
He says the SaaS solution offers greater accessibility, lower costs, quicker implementation, lower risk, greater customer focus and lower maintenance, which sums up SABMiller's stated requirements during the briefing phase of the implementation.
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