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Project & Portfolio Management Solution

SDLC Management

Portfolio Management

Asset Management

4Business Goals Definition

4Project Selection

4Portfolio Performance Monitoring

4Requirements Management

4System Architecture

4Technical Specifications

4Product Development

4Build Management

4Test Management

4Defect Management

4User Documentation

4Release Management

4Traceability

4Asset Inventory

4Asset Portfolio Management

4Budgeting and Forecasting

Project Management

4Project Dashboard

4Project Charter Creation

4Scope Management

4Team Management

4Work Breakdown Structure

4Cost Management

4Risks and Issue Management

4Change Management

Resource Management

4Organization Hierarchy

4Skills and Training

4Resource Cost and Billing

4Appraisals

4Capacity Management

Collaboration4Workflow Management

4Communication Management

4Role-based Security

4Document Management

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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

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

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.

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

Project Portfolio Management

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.

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


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

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:

Requirements Management

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

Enterprise Project Management

Project Dashboard to provide real time visibility about project

progress

Cost Management

Risk Management

Stakeholder's management

Communication Management


Collaboration

PPM Studio brings project team members, stake holders and executive management onto the same platform by providing complete set of

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

4Role Based Dashboard

4Work Orders and To-do’s

4Priorities

4Time sheet

4Idea Management

4Personalization

4Work Spaces

4Planned Events

Dashboard Resource Management

4Organization Hierarchy

4Roles and Responsibilities

4Skills Assessment

4Trainings

4Capacity Planning

4Delegation

4Resource Allocation

4Resource Utilization

4Profile Based Security

4Security Groups

4Virtual Teams

4Form Locking

4Guest Users

4Login As

4Artifacts Search

4Saved Searches

4Artifact Views

4Dynamic Views

4Reports (in Word or PDF)

4Secured Documents

Repository

4Review and Approvals

4Meta Data Search

4Full Text Search

4Administration

4Lifecycle

4Status

4Functions and Roles

4Checklists

4Notifications

4Issue Management

4Requirements

4Specifications

4Test Cases

4System Documentation

4Emails

4Notifications

4To-Do's

4Discussions

4Comments

4Sticky Notes

Security &Administration

Search & Views

DocumentsManagement

Workflow

System Repository

CommunicationCentral

Enterprise Resource Management

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

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 total 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 the delivered product has met with all quality objectives,

passed through all quality tests and that all the business requirements 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…

Complete quality management from business requirements

development to product delivery

Test Plan development and Test Strategy formulation in accordance with 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



Interfaces and APIs

Integration with Code repositories: Microsoft Visual Source Safe,

PVCS, SVN, Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Development Tools: Team Foundation Server

Build Management: SAP Transport Manager

Business Applications: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

Project Management: Microsoft Project


SemanticSpace is a technology powerhouse that provides full spectrum IT solutions and services to leading global enterprises. It has a proven

track record of over 1000 successful project executions across diverse technology platforms. It has strong presence in the US, Europe, Middle East

and India geographies. SemanticSpace’s strategic alliances / partnerships with leading technology vendors such as IBM and Microsoft further

augment its service offerings to its customers. SemanticSpace is assessed for CMMi Level 3 and certified with ISO 9001:2000.

About Us

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Irvine, CA-92618

Tel No. : (949) 789 7332

Fax : (949) 789 7334

E-mail: [email protected]

India Offices

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Hyderabad - 500033

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Portfolio Management

Project Management

Dashboard

Resource Management

Documents Management

Security & Administration

Search & Views

Asset Management

Cost Management

Requirements Management

Test Management

Worklfow Management

PPM Lite

PPM SaaS

Communication: Microsoft Outlook

Collaboration: Microsoft Sharepoint

Testing Automation: Mercury Quick Test Professional

Manual testing: Test Director

Network Management: Windows Active Directory and LDAP

Business Value Feature PPM Studio PPM Lite PPM SaaS

Server Requirements

Client Requirements

Other Flavors

System Requirements

Hardware Software

Processor P4 or above 1 GHz (3 GHz recommended)

1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)

20 GB Free Hard Disk space (40 GB recommended)

Processor P4 or above 1 Ghz (2 GHz recommended)

1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)

1024*768 min. screen resolution (1280*1024 recommended)

Windows Server 2000/2003

MS SQL Server 2000/2005 (any edition)

Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Crystal Report Runtime

Requirements for 150 users