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SemanticSpace PPM Studio is a collaborative, end-to-end, scalable, enterprise solution that helps organizations in managing projects from

inception to delivery. It has the following building blocks to manage the entire spectrum of the Software Development.

Overview

Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is a means of maximizing returns and reducing costs in project portfolios. PPM looks at entire

organization's investments in the various projects with one common objective, “Achieving The Business Goals”. PPM Studio provides complete

visibility of critical project metrics throughout the application lifecycle. With the industry’s first integrated PPM solution for Application Lifecycle

Management (ALM), it provides automated reporting of project status, from the initial idea / request, through prioritization and execution, to

completion and release, and finally to benefits analysis.

Modules

Portfolio Management

Project Management

Requirements Management

Resource Management

Schedule Management

Test Management

Defect Management

Build Management

Release Management

Workflow Management

Communication Management

Dashboard Management

Asset Management

Security Management

Risks Management

Auditability

Reports Management

Documents Management

Audit

Reports

Idea’s

Search Documents

Timesheet

Dashboard

Security

Functions & Roles

Notifications & ToDo’s

Communication

Checklists

Status

Lifecycle

Traceability

Build Management

Risk Management

Realtime Documentation

Repository


PPM STUDIOS E M A N T I C S P A C E

PPM helps organizations to best align their IT and systems investments with

business priorities and goals. The Project Portfolio dashboard gives real time

visibility to the executive management about portfolio performance. Some of

the key features are provided below.

Features

An intuitive workflow designer helps you quickly define and automate your project portfolio management

(PPM) governance processes.

Business goals definition and rating to clearly define organization business strategy

4Capture all project requests and detailed business cases in accordance with your organization’s

governance processes.

4Automatically derive prioritization scores such as strategic value, financial value, risks to objectively

assess projects.

4Use prioritization scores to build intuitive charts to effectively evaluate the competing investments

within the portfolio.

43D view to show strategic position of the project in the portfolio

4Powerful ‘What-if’ analysis provides various strategy selection criteria, e.g. Highly strategy project

selection, cost-effective project selection, Long term gain, short term gain, conservative, balanced

score-card etc.

4Option to force-fully select or deselect the projects from project portfolio selection criteria.

4Powerful project portfolio dashboard provides real time visibility on overall portfolio performance, rates

each project against key performance indicators and various eye-opener matrices to evaluate optimal

usage of organization resources

4Drill down from the portfolio level to view the latest status report for each project.

Automated and Enforced PPM

Governance Processes

Select portfolios that best align

with your business strategy

Prioritize and effectively evaluate

competing investments

Manage Portfolio performance

effectively

Align projects to the organization strategy and optimally utilize the enterprise resources

Project Portfolio Management


Unique top down approach to define organization business goals and align projects accordingly

Gain visibility and control by automated governance processes, standardized data collection, and tracking portfolio performance through Portfolio Dashboard

Integration with PPM Studio Enterprise Project Management to enable streamlined software delivery and lifecycle management with automated best practice processes gives end-to-end visibility


Configurable templates for project charter (in MS Word) and Work

Breakdown Structure (WBS) - two way integration with MS Project

Create WBS and allocate work orders to resources directly from the

WBS which can be tracked for effort

Allows to search enterprise resource database to select resources

having required skill as per project requirements

Workflow Engine to define custom lifecycles according to project type

Project Dashboard to provide real time visibility about project progress

Cost Management

Risk Management

Stakeholder's management

PPM Studio offers advanced enterprise level project management with extensive benefits to Project Management Office (PMO) teams to efficiently

initiate, execute and deliver the projects:

Features

Project Header

Project Charter

Work Breakdown structure

Project Team

Cost Management

Change Management

Quality Management

Risks and Issue Management

Communication Management

Roles and Responsibilities

Workflow

Capture important project metadata information like: Planned Start and End Dates, Actual Start and End

Dates, Planned and Actual effort, Project Requester and Sponsor, Estimated budget, Risk Rating etc.

Organization defined configurable project template to define project charter

Do task planning, allocate resources, and define duration and dependencies. Gantt chart visually displays

planned vs. actual task execution statistics. Resource allocation view details about over allocation and

under allocation.

Select best fit resources from enterprise resource database, evaluate skills, provide security privilege,

multiple roles and responsibilities

Define resource wise project cost, billing rate, overtime details, asset cost, expenses like travel, rewards etc.

Manage change across any stage of project development

Manage change across any stage of project development

Create Test Plans, Test execution, monitoring and defect management using important quality metrics like

Pareto chart etc.

Capture risks across the project development lifecycle, do risk planning, allocate tasks to stakeholder's to

mitigate the risk.

Call for project meetings, discussion threads, review comments, notifications and escalations

Define roles and responsibilities of various stakeholder's groups

Configurable workflow on the basis of project type, priority, size

Enterprise Project Management




Features

Requirements Development

Collaboration


Traceability

Audit ability

Ease of Learning

4Establish structured Requirements development, review and approval process.

4Multiple stakeholders' involvements with defined roles and responsibilities.

4Supports industry standards like traditional, RUP, Agile and organizations defined document templates.

4Establish logical link between dependent requirements.

4Use case development and Non functional requirements definition.

4Structured review and approval process by multiple stakeholders group, requirements review and approval

board.

4Digital signatures, discussion threads, review comments, walkthrough’s and meetings.

4Workflow driven automated To-Do’s and notifications.

4Integration with build Management, project management and release management modules.

4Report generation in PDF or MS Word format.

Requirements prioritization, categorization, and effort estimation.

4End-to-End traceability with specifications, design documents, code objects, test scripts, defects.

4Understand the impact of requirement changes and change request management.

4Versioning and Base lining.

4Actions Tracking.

4Edit History.

4Developed on top of widely accepted Windows XP platform following Windows XP UI guidelines by

Microsoft.

4Quick navigation to related artifacts or forms reduces training and learning curve.

PPM Studio ensures, complete and timely delivery of application software by

providing a strong requirements development and management environment

to build and deliver right requirements and features into the application

software.

Offers a unique methodology to gather software requirements and helps

enterprises to upgrade from unstructured requirements development

process to the structured requirements development process

End-to-End Requirements Management ensures traceability between

business requirements, system components, technical specifications,

test scripts, and defects

Collaboration among cross-functional teams to participate in

requirements development, review and approval process all using a

single database repository

Change Request Management to manage change at any stage of development

Requirements repository and real –time documentation can be achieved in real time



Collaboration

PPM Studio brings project team member’s, stake holder’s and executive management onto the same platform by providing complete set of

collaboration modules required by an enterprise to effective execute the projects.

Features

Dashboard

Security and Administration

Document Management System

Workflow

Resource Dashboard: Provides information to the project team members about the active work order’s,

to-do’s, notifications, timesheet, planned event, communication and much more.

Project Dashboard: Displays the real-time information about project health by displaying important and

critical metrics.

4Role based security mechanism to ensure the confidentiality and criticality of the information.

4Project level security to ensure that only project team members should have access to the project data.

4In built secured document repository to store project documents in secured SQL database repository.

4Folder level privileges to avoid unauthorized access of the document.

4Linking and embedding of documents to projects artifacts.

4Document review and approval lifecycle.

4Document metadata and full text search.

Highly configurable visual workflow allows custom lifecycle definition, to-do's, functions and roles,

statuses, notifications and checklists

4Role Based

Dashboard4Work Orders and To-

do’s4Priorities4Time sheet4Idea Management 4Personalization4Work Spaces4Planned Evnets

DashboardResource Management

4Organization Hierarchy4Roles and

Responsibilities4Skills Assessment4Trainings4Capacity Planning4Delegation4Resource Allocation4Resource Utilization

4Profile Based Security4Security Groups4Virtual Teams4Form Locking4Guest Users4Login As

4Artifacts Search4Saved Searches4Artifact Views4Dynamic Views4Reports (in Words)

4Secured Documents

Repository4Review and Approvals4Meta Data Search4Full Text Search4Administration

4Lifecycle4Status4Functions and Roles4Checklists4Notifications4Issue Management

4Requirements4Specifications4Test Cases4System

Documentation

4Emails4Notifications4To-Do's4Discussions4Comments4Sticky Notes

Security &Administration

Search & Views

DocumentsManagement

Workflow

System Repository

CommunicationCentral



Enterprise Resource Management

Features

Organization Structure

Organization Capacity

Planning and Management

Time sheet

Time sheet Review and

Approval

Integration with Enterprise

Project Manager

Planned Events

4Hierarchy based organization structure definition ensures resource organization as per organization

reporting and escalation structure

4Captures important resource information like contact details, position details and other HR and network

details

4Capacity planning module keeps track of resource involvement across various projects and ensures optimal

usage, of the resources, avoids over allocation and under utilization

4Resource Time sheet allows the resources to fill daily accomplishments while executing a work or update the

effort spent on completing the work.

4Keep tracks of planned and actual effort

4Timesheet Review and Approval mechanism authenticates resource managers to review the work

performed by the resources and approve or reject the effort hours reported

4Resource Management integration with Enterprise Project Manager keep track of work order allocation,

effort tracking and project work cost

4Planned Events allows the resources to inform project managers or reporting managers about the planned

events e.g. vacation plan, which helps project managers to consider dependencies while doing project

planning

Resource Management benefits the organization by ensuring optimal human

resource utilization. Resource Management offers organization wide capacity

planning and management, resource skills and training management,

resource timesheet, timesheet review, planned events etc.

Hierarchy based organization structure management provides complete

overview of organization structure

Organization capacity planning and management ensures optimal

resource planning, avoids over allocation and under utilization

Skills based resource management ensures best fit resource allocation

to project as per project requirement

Timesheet empowers the project managers to get details of the work

performed.



Asset Management

Features

Asset Inventory

Asset Portfolio Management

Finance Management

Leased Asset Management

Asset Documents

Management

Enterprise Project

Management Integration

4Central repository to keep track of all organization assets

4Provides real time up-to-date status information about organization assets

4Streamlines budgeting and fore casting process

4Show used and unused asset statistics

4Provides details about total cost of ownership

4Capitalized vs. Non Capitalized assets

4Depreciation Calculation

4Manages Leased assets

4Lease Revision

4Maintain and manage electronic format of all important asset documents in the integrated documents

repository

4The documents remains intact with the asset and are secured with limited access

4Integration with PPM Studio Enterprise manager ensures the assets cost calculation while calculating

project cost

Asset Management helps organizations to manage their asset inventories,

asset requirements, budgeting, forecasting and ensures adequate asset

utilization. It keeps track of assets allocation, asset expiry, leased assets,

lease revision and avoids penalties in case of lease expiry. It ensures the

optimal usage of organization assets which benefits the organization in huge

cost savings by avoiding expenditures on non-used assets.

Asset inventory management keeps up-to-date information of all

organization assets

Protects from over-usage of software licenses and always keeps the

organization audit ready

Total Cost of Ownership provides precise details of all the expense heads

incurred while procuring the asset

Leased Asset Management ensures timely revision of assets to avoid

penalties

It keeps all the asset documents intact to the inventory in the electronic format

Integration with PPM Studio Enterprise Management ensures the assets cost calculation while calculating the project cost



Test Management

Test Management offers unique complete quality management model which

keeps track of product quality across all the SDLC phases from business

requirements development until product delivery to the customer.

It ensures that delivered product should meet all quality objectives, passed

through all quality tests and ensures that all the business requirements

should have been properly developed, tested and delivered to the customer.

It benefits the organization by providing maximum returns on investments,

structured quality processes, optimal usage of QA resources, reducing total

cost of ownership and much more…

Features

Test Plan

Test Case Design

Test Run (Test Scheduling

and Execution)

Defect Logging and

Tracking

Test Results, Reports and

Metrics

4Test Plan creation aligned to Project and Release Plan

4Testing Requirements definition from Release Scope

4Test Strategy formulation comprises of defining test cycles, testing approaches to be used among various

cycles

4QA Resource Planning

4Structured Test Case Definition with important parameters like: Preconditions, test case steps, pass fail

criteria, priority etc.

4Test Case automation by attaching QTP script to the test case

4Scheduling of test cases for execution on the basis of the readiness of the software build

4Capturing test results while execution

4Defect logging in case of test case failure

4Defect logging with important attributes like: Severity, Priority, Impacted component, Associated risk, Test

Environment etc.

4Defects identification, logging and categorization across the SDLC: Requirements Defects, Design Defects,

Code Defects etc.

4Defect life cycle definition to ensure track to closure

Overall quality management and monitoring with the help of graphical metrics:

4Test Success Ratio: Graphical report to show % of test cases passed-failed in different test cycles

4Week wise Defect Find vs. Fix Rate

4Week wise defects introduced and re-opened

Contd...

Complete quality management from business requirements

development to product delivery

Test plan development and Test Strategy formulation in accordance to project and release plan

Automated Test Scheduling

Manual Testing and automation by integration with Quick Test Professional (QTP)

Easy to use user interface

Defect logging and track to closure



Features

Integration with Code repositories

Development Tools

Build Management

Business Applications

Project Management

Communication

Collaboration

Testing Automation

Manual testing

Network Management

Microsoft Visual Source Safe, PVCS, SVN, Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server

SAP Transport Manager

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Share point

Mercury Quick Test Professional

Test Director

Windows Active Directory and LDAP

Test Management

Test Results, Reports and

Metrics

End-to-End Traceability

4Week wise defects introduced and re-opened

4Phase wise defect removal efficiency calculated on the basis of defects captured during multiple SDLC

phases

4Review and Testing Effectiveness

Cost of Quality: The effort spent on developing the application vs. effort spent on project planning, reviews and

rework.

End-to-End traceability with all engineering objects:

Business Requirements, Technical Specifications, System Components, Test Cases, Code objects, Defects


Interfaces and APIs

SemanticSpace PPM Studio comes with a rich set of integration APIs which

provides a great value proposition in terms of reducing total cost of

ownership, deployment challenges and increases reusability, user

acceptance and product success. Integration with most of the industry

standard SDLC products:

Microsoft: MS SharePoint, MS Office, MS Project, MS Outlook

Development Tools: Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe, SVN

SAP: SAP Transport Manager

QA Tools: Quick Test Professional, Test Director

API’s exposed to integrate with your legacy applications


SSEMANTICSPACET E C H N O L O G I E S

I n v e n t i n g M i n d s , I n s p i r i n g S p a c e

SemanticSpace Technologies is a leading software services company that caters to diverse industry verticals. Founded in 1997, SemanticSpace's

software engineers are providing solutions to enterprises across the globe. SemanticSpace's Technology Development Centers are located in

Hyderabad, India, with sales offices across the USA to cater to its large clientele. With CMMi Level 3 and ISO 9001:2000 certified company and

excellent development teams, SemanticSpace has been successfully empowering its customers with innovative end-to-end technology

solutions.

SemanticSpace's technology labs are built to provide Strategic Outsourcing services that include end-to-end product engineering services,

enterprise solutions, and packaged application implementation, QA & Testing services using popular tools & methodologies, and staff

augmentation services. SemanticSpace leverages its enduring alliance with Microsoft as a Gold Certified partner while providing solutions to its

customers. SemanticSpace specializes in developing strategic business solutions using its proven onsite-offshore delivery model - a stabilized

project execution methodology using its homegrown tools PPM Studio (a collaborative, end-to-end, scalable, enterprise solution that helps in

managing change from concept to delivery of a software project or solution) and QMWare (facilitates deploying high-quality applications quickly

and effectively by better test management throughout the application testing cycle) to meet specific customer requirements.

SemanticSpace has consistently demonstrated its commitment to developing cost-effective, quality applications by adhering to strict time-lines.

This has enabled SemanticSpace to work with some of the Fortune 200 / 500 / 1000 companies as their technology “Partner of Choice” on a

continuous basis.

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