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Friday | 5 December, 2008

Serena On Demand Software Zone

Get Real Project Portfolio Management - You Deserve Better than Spreadsheets

Are you looking to:

Align projects and portfolios with your business needs and priorities to achieve a competitive advantage
Allocate and optimize resources based on skills, experience and availability
Execute and track projects effectively and predictably
Ensure minimal time to value, in terms of quick, easy installation and deployment

Just as financial portfolios balance a mix of investments like stocks and bonds to achieve an overall financial goal, a company's mix of projects, programs and applications should be maximized to achieve business goals and values. To do so, it enables you to answer the following questions:

What are 100% of my people doing with 100% of their time?
How do I balance and manage scarce resources for competing projects?
How do I keep track of the progress of my projects, to ensure that I deliver on time, on budget and on target?
What's the ROI for my applications?
Are our projects in line with business objectives? How do I realise the right mix of projects?

If you can't answer yes to these questions, you're not alone. When project plans are everywhere, insight is nowhere. You need a project and portfolio solution to quickly take the pulse of what's going on across your organization whilst ensuring that new project ideas are well aligned with strategies and in compliance with your governance policies.

Serena Mariner 2008 brings total visibility into your projects, people, and costs enabling you to more effectively plan, manage and deliver a greater return on your business activities. Mariner is an uncomplicated yet fully functional project portfolio management (PPM) solution that provides top of the line portfolio management, powerful dashboard reporting, and robust resource management. Unlike adhoc approaches, Mariner delivers a smart, straightforward solution with a quick time to value by matching your PPM maturity with our functionality through free assessments and solution accelerators.

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