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Enterprise Portfolio Management
Today, most enterprises spend anywhere between 3% and 8% of their income on IT – however these budgets have been constantly shrinking due to competitive pressures and macro economic factors. IT executives face the challenge of delivering maximum business value with a shrinking IT budget - running IT as a business. As a result, majority of projects initiated by an organization are completed late or over budget, or are not completed at all, or are completed but fail to fulfill the original business objective.
Satyam’s Enterprise Portfolio Management practice helps organizations enhancing, improving and accelerating ROI on IT investments through its consulting services in:
- Designing and establishing enterprise level PMO than can deliver real business value
- Define and implement a set of metrics and processes that will improve project and program delivery
- Manage large scale IT programs through its Global Program Management model
- Identify and implement right technology and tools to enable the project portfolio management and IT Governance processes.
Service offerings
Enterprise PMO Consulting
Most companies today lack a single organizational function that is responsible for ensuring Business - IT alignment, Portfolio Management and establish control and visibility over all IT projects.
Satyam’s E-PMO Model fills this gap by positioning PMO as an enterprise function and making it accountable for governance and control of IT projects/spend. Traditional PMO is viewed as localized function with very limited responsibility and influence in organizations decision making process. But the model suggested by us works as a corporate IT function.
 Such a model transforms PMO from a mere overhead/auditing function to a value delivering function. The schematic provides an enterprise view of IT with both strategic and operational focus provided by the E-PMO. In its exhaustive form E-PMO would provide enterprise focus by facilitating Governance and portfolio management. It provides program level focus by managing risk and value of critical business programs, looks at opportunities for accelerated delivery and orchestration of
various projects within the program. It has the primary responsibility for maturing project management process across the organization.
Major benefits delivered by such a model are:
- Increase in number of projects aligned with business goals
- Increase in number of projects completed within the budgeted time and cost
- Save costs by killing projects not required by business
- Improved utilization of IT staff and contract resources
- Improved visibility and therefore control on IT spend
- Reduce risk on project and increase probability of success
Global Program Management
Most global corporations are moving towards multi-vendor sourcing approach whether it is for outsourcing maintenance and support of its existing IT assets or for implementing new IT systems. Organizations are effectively leveraging the ‘right shoring’ model of delivery of IT projects where significant amount of execution of IT work is moved to low cost countries. However this brings in a new set of risks and complexity that needs to be managed. Satyam’s Global Program Management approach has all elements of managing large-scale IT programs through:
- Experienced project and program management certified professionals
- Detailed methodology and library of processes and procedure templates required
- Use of Project Management tools that can enable orchestrated delivery and reporting dashboards
Enterprise Portfolio Management Solutions
Enterprise Project Management software tools are now becoming one of the critical enterprise business applications for investment decision making and managing execution of ongoing projects and initiatives. EPM tools address needs of global enterprises for IT management. For industry verticals such as Aerospace, Defense, Construction, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, Energy and Utilities, Project Management is the core business process. Many of these industries have embraced EPM tools much earlier and are at a very high-level of maturity. In the context of managing a mission critical IT / Business Transformation program involving multiple IT projects with large business implications, multiple locations and multiple delivery organizations, the successful delivery of such a program requires ability to construct an integrated project plan, manage resources at project and program level, real-time visibility and control of the program, ability to drill-down in the task level from program level, manage project baselines and budgets, standardization of the processes/templates to be used across all the projects, managing Risks, Issues and Changes at project as well as program level. EPM/PPM software products such as Primavera, Planview, HP PPM, Clarity and MS EPM are the leading products addressing the project portfolio management requirements.
Satyam has the most comprehensive capabilities in EPM Solutions consulting. Satyam has strategic alliance relationship with leading EPM/PPM vendors including Primavera Systems and Planview. Satyam has rich and deep capabilities in implementing Primavera and Planview. Satyam also provides implementation and post-implementation support services for HP PPM, CA Clarity PPM, Planview and MS EPM.
Case Illustration
Case Profile 1: Satyam is assisting one of its clients in North America in establishing Enterprise PMO and enabling the project portfolio management processes through a leading EPM technology. The company provdes Medical, Detnal, Health Insurance for both group companies and individuals and has a huge IT setup. The company faced severe challenges in completing IT projects on time and lacked visibility and control over delivery. Therefore the company embarked on an EPMO initiative where Satyam was selected as its consulting partner in establishing the program office and supporting PMO operations.
Benefits Delivered
- Increase in percentage of projects completed on time
- Reduce under-utilization and over-utilization problems with more than 25% of IT resources
- 100% of projects entered and tracked in EPM
Case Profile 2: Client is a global energy systems maker with challenges in managing large turnkey projects where multiple plants and business lines are involved in completing a customer order. Client setup a Global Program Office that was mandated to setup global project management processes and implement enabling EPM Technology. Client selected Satyam as its partner for providing consulting and implementation services.
Benefits Delivered
- PM Maturity level increased from Level 1 to Level 3 within 3 years
- 95% of the projects recorded and managed through an EPM software system
- 100% of issues resolved within agreed SLAs
- Establish project baselines
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