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Leveraging Your Most Valuable InvestmentsMS Project and SAP…Communication Made Easy

Microsoft Office Project ConferencePaul Szyarto, CEO

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Is Your Organization Struggling? Is your project office being forced to manage projects based on financial

or SAP requirements?

Does your organization operate in silos with your project office doing one thing and your operations/financial group doing another?

Does your financial group have a difficult time managing project operations due to poor project data in SAP?

Do your project managers complain that they have the burden of maintaining two sets of data for accounting?

Has your culture not accepted the current project management tool due to it’s complexities, and inability to adapt to the organization?

Are you struggling with your tools to produce the required data to effectively manage project operations?

Is generating project and portfolio reports is very time consuming and sometimes nearly impossible?

Does your organization continue dumping money into solutions that don’t add value to your organization?

Project operations are not efficient according to your expectations?


Scenarios When We Get Involved

Three Company Scenarios You Probably Fall Into

No project management tools Situation: Projects are managed at a high level in SAP by the financial

group and in Microsoft Office by the project managers. Implications: minimal value, NO visibility and transparency, NO valid

financial information (up to SOX compliance issues)

Multiple PM Systems Situation: Mixed landscape of tools, lots of ad-hoc solutions Implications: Redundant data maintenance, expensive financial

updates into SAP, minimal value out, no visibility to projects, portfolios or operations, no comprehensive project & portfolio reports.

SAP Project Systems/cProjects Situation: SAP is/will be the platform for all types of project data Implications: long implementation time, extensive configuration to

replicate to business, changes are expensive and time consuming. It is still culturally unaccepted, and produces poor data due to complexity and culture.


What is the Solution?

Capturing project execution data and combining this with internal operations data to fully identify your project

operations key performance metrics (profitability/schedule/customer satisfaction)

Microsoft Project Microsoft Project Server SAP


Company Overview: The Project Group America The TPG Difference How We Maximize Your Systems A Companies Ideal State System Demo High Level Costs Questions

Todays Agenda


Our company – The Project Group Our OriginsEstablished in 1998 with a combined knowledge base of over 75 years of industry experience in Microsoft, SAP, and System Integration/Optimization

Headquarters in USA – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Additional Offices:• Development headquarters in Munich,

Germany• Germany, Mainz (near Frankfurt) and

Dortmund (near Düsseldorf)• Austria, Gmunden

Our FocusAssisting project oriented organizations

with leveraging their human and technology investments by optimizing business processes,

integrating systems, and creating an overall solution that produces value out.

Our Knowledge AreasProject ManagementProject Management Tools • Microsoft Office Project EPM

• Microsoft Office Portfolio Management Server

Related Microsoft Products• SharePoint, SQL Server, Internet

Information ServerSAP

• Project Systems, xRPM and cProjects• Controlling and Finance• HR and CATS

Integration solutions with SAP and Microsoft Project Management Tools

Our Partnerships •Camako, Sweden

•Corporate Project Solutions

•Great Britain

•Holert.com, Germany

•M7, France

•Bogdanov and Associates, Russia

•Diventis, Switzerland

•Fulcrum, South Africa

•HMS, Canada

•MATAN Computers Ltd., Israel

•Prosperi, Brazil

•SDM Strategic Data Management, Australia

• Enterprise Premier Microsoft Project Solutions Provider, and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

• Member of the International Advisory Council for Microsoft Project (PAC)


Some of Our Customers


Our products and services

Products TPG PSLink Integrating MSP with SAP TPG ResourceLink Import SAP HR to MSP TPG MTA MSP Milestone Trend Analysis TPG MilestoneLink Collaboration on milestone

dates TPG TimeSheet Extender Extension of MSP time sheets

Services Consulting for PM software solutions and SAP Systems Implementation of TPG products Systems Training Maintenance and Support


The TPG Difference – We don’t just integrate fields

We are Project Management and Organization Experts Our management team alone has over 75 years of combined management

experience focusing on public and private organizations We are Microsoft Project Experts

We are Microsoft Gold Partners, with over 150 implementations successfully completed. We understand how to leverage this tool to produce maximum value.

We are SAP systems Experts Sr. SAP Consultants who have provided High level architectural and detailed

configuration knowledge to both public and private organizations. Our team has been through several full cycle implementations and we understand the potential of this system.

We understand your struggles Our customers understand the value of efficient data and so do we. You will learn

instantaneously that our team will dive into your organizations issues and recommend process, and system solutions both from a business and technology perspective.

Our focus is on optimizing your processes, and maximizing your decision making ability. We have the experience and knowledge to help your organization make a difference by leveraging two of the most powerful systems in the world to produce maximum value.


How Do We Maximize Value Out of Your Systems

Most organizations struggle with adapting to the rigid controls of using the SAP system but depend on the data to perform financial and management reporting

TPG focuses on progressing the use of Microsoft and SAP by providing value in 4 ways:

Putting control BACK in your PM’s hands

Focusing on the BIG Picture

Decrease the administrative burden

Quality PM data = Quality MANAGEMENT data


Project Management CONTROL

Flexibility to create scenarios without damaging SAP integrity

Control how you manage your structures

Ability to control when/how it is replicated

Your plans/budgets now in SAP

Flexibility to manage global resources without SAP constraints

Ability to develop milestone plans that will provide SAP invoicing requirements automatically

Easy revenue and cost management

Customizable reports through MS Project, Web Access and easy pulls into a data warehouse


Focusing on the BIG Picture

TPG focuses on maximizing SAP operations while allowing the project manager to function in a familiar flexible environment without the burden of being controlled by SAP

Sales Orders / InvoicingRevenue Recognition Cost / Revenue Plans

Cost AccountingProfitability AnalysisTime Management

Expense Management

Project ManagementResource Management

Time ManagementOutlook Integration

Performance Measurement

Portfolio planningCapacity planning

Gap analysisPortfolio

optimizations

Company wide reports

Consolidated information

Microsoft Portfolio Server

or SAP xRPM

Microsoft EPM

SAP R/3MySAP ERP

SAP BW Reporting


Decreasing the Administrative BurdenWe don’t expect project managers to learn Sapanese

and neither should you!

PMs work in a familiar flexible environment and we code the SAP attributes to make sense to your team

Decrease the need for managing in two systems, Master data pulled from SAP to drop downs in MSP for easy use

No longer a laborious activity to create projects in SAP. SAP custom structures/codes/descriptions required? NO PROBLEM! We can build the logic in the middleware

SAP cost plans are automatically created based on cost and resource plans in MS Project

Ability to plan resources from multiple cost centers globally Auto generation of SAP baseline plan, operative plan, and updated

baselines based on the baselines saved within MSP NO SAP project administrators needed

Our interface middleware is so flexible we can configure just about any business process requirement within minutes.


Quality PM Data = Quality Mgt Data

Create and Manage Project

Manage Project

Portfolio

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Portfolio with Operations

Collaborate about

Portfolio with Operations

Financial Management

Reviews Project Impact

Executive Management

Makes Decisions

Full system integration provides visibility and the data needed to make proactive decisions about projects and operations

Our Focus is on ALL levels/roles of the organization

Quality Data, Provides the ability to make Quality Decisions

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A Companies Ideal State

Sales Orders / InvoicingRevenue Recognition Cost / Revenue Plans

Cost AccountingProfitability AnalysisTime Management

Expense Management

Project ManagementResource Management

Time ManagementOutlook Integration

Performance Measurement

Portfolio planningCapacity planning

Gap analysisPortfolio

optimizations

Company wide reports

Consolidated information

Microsoft Portfolio Server

or SAP xRPM

Microsoft EPM

SAP R/3MySAP ERP

SAP BW Reporting

Managing Your Organization Begins with Leveraging Your Investments and understanding which systems produce optimal

value out…


A Companies Ideal State

Portfolio items, dates, capacity

Employee basic data

FinanceSAP R/3 / MySAP ERP

Human ResourcesSAP R/3 / MySAP ERP

Other sources (AD, SQL…)

Portfolio ManagementMicrosoft Portfolio Server

or SAP xRPM

Project managementMicrosoft Project EPM

TPGPSLink

Structures, dates, costs,

budgets, actuals

TPGResourceLink

And Continues with Seamless Integration


System DemoWe don’t expect project managers to learn Sapanese

and neither should you!

PMs work in a familiar flexible environment and we code the SAP attributes to make sense to your team

Decrease the need for managing in two systems, Master data pulled from SAP to drop downs in MSP for easy use

No longer a laborious activity to create projects in SAP. SAP custom structures/codes/descriptions required? NO PROBLEM! We can build the logic in the middleware

SAP cost plans are automatically created based on cost and resource plans in MS Project

Ability to plan resources from multiple cost centers globally Auto generation of SAP baseline plan, operative plan, and updated

baselines based on the baselines saved within MSP NO SAP project administrators needed

Our interface middleware is so flexible we can configure just about any business process requirement within minutes.


High level costs

Simple Pricing Structures for All Products and ServicesExample: Microsoft to SAP Integration

Base “Rapid Deployment” Solution Microsoft Project EPM is in place SAP CO with internal orders or with SAP PS (WBS level) is in place Exchange of structure, dates, fields between both systems. License Price: $95,000 (includes client license for 5

Users) Fixed Services Price : $30,000 TOTAL: $125,000

Add On Capabilities Seamless integration of detailed plans based on resource and task

assignments. Both activity type planning and general cost planning. Actual cost/revenue transfers between both systems based on resource,

task, and revenue assignments. Fully Automated Resource Updates from SAP HR or other sources Integrated and Auto Population of Timesheet Data from Project Plan SAP Integration to the Network, Activity, and Activity Element Level RFC Connector Which Allows for Integration with ADDITIONAL MODULES Report Data Connection Possibilities


Questions?

Contact Paul Szyarto Phone/fax: 800.806.0646 Phone: 908-566-6233 [email protected] www.tpgamerica.com

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