SMART EPM

SMART EPM is an Award winning end-to-end EPM solution built using the Microsoft Office System stack. SMART EPM supports the entire business ecosystem by providing the functionality and benefits offered by other top EPM solution providers. These functions are offered independently and as a complete solution. SMART EPM offers specific functionality and benefits for Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Project Management, Operational Management, Collaboration, and Business Intelligence. Using the Microsoft Office System stack, SMART EPM was developed to provide industry specific functionality, tools, templates and processes. Below is an illustration of some key functionality that SMART EPM offers:

 

SMART EPM™ is a convenient and cost-effective way to implement and enhance the Microsoft EPM Solution. SMART EPM™ installs a best practice instance of Microsoft EPM that supports industry-specific standards. Customers select and deploy the SMART EPM™ configuration they prefer, based on their industry and business needs. Organizations can reduce the costs and complexities of requirements gathering, system design, and software configuration that are so frequent in traditional deployment of an EPM Solution.

Why SMART EPM

SMART EPM™ provides best practices configurations to get EPM solution up and running quickly.  LMR Solutions has leveraged their vast enterprise solution implementation experience of deploying EPM for industry leaders to ensure that SMART EPM™ meets not only project management requirements but industry specific project requirements. SMART EPM™ will provide stakeholders, project managers and team members with the visibility, insight and control of projects and portfolios with appropriate outcome-based Views and Reports.

How it works...

SMART EPM™ helps enterprises implement and expand the Microsoft® Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution with a preconfigured instance of the Microsoft Office stack that incorporates preconfigured industry-specific standards and best practices. SMART EPM™ comes with a preconfigured security module, preconfigured industry-specific resource pool, project views and reports and project management best practices templates. SMART EPM is also highly customizable for individual business requirements.

Customer Benefits

SMART EPM provides organizations with the following benefits:

• Pre-configured solutions reduce deployment time and efforts
• Best practice, industry-specific configuration drive down costs and risk
• Help instill and enforce standard project management methodologies
• Proven, pre-tested solutions reduce implementation risk
• Standup a QuickStart EPM within hours not weeks or months

Partner Benefits

SMART EPM provides Partners with the following benefits:

• Get clients using Microsoft Project more quickly and improve customer satisfaction
• Save time and costs, and reduce Partners risks with standard implementations
• Provides a solution baseline for Partners to ensure a successful deployment
• Partners can focus consulting on true value add, satisfying unique customer needs
• Out-of-the-box Framework for PMM and PLM

Four Reasons You Need SMART EPM

• Connectedness

  SMART EPM combines the capabilities of Project Server, Project Portfolio Server, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and other Microsoft technologies to connect people and information in efficient, optimally defined project management processes.

• Productivity

  SMART EPM increases the productivity of enterprise project management by giving organizations the means to implement the EPM Solution quickly and effectively. SMART EPM lets workers collaborate on both projects and operational work, incorporates best practices and standards, and can be customized to meet specific business requirements. SMART EPM standardizes project management processes and reporting for consistent results, and boosts overall project management productivity by making it easy to share expertise across the organization.

• Best Economics

  SMART EPM allows organizations a cost-effective implementation of the Microsoft EPM Solution without a lengthy trial period or expensive consultants. By standardizing business practices, automating common tasks, and giving workers a range of efficient project management tools, SMART EPM facilitates economical project management. The solution also saves companies money by letting people prioritize effectively and coordinate project requirements with available resources. SMART EPM makes it cost effective to conduct a pilot study of the EPM Solution to justify a full-scale deployment.

• Dependability

  SMART EPM supports a dependable implementation of the EPM Solution with low-risk project management by giving the project management office the capability to reprioritize projects at any time, identify risks and issues early, and quickly terminate low-priority or failing projects when necessary. SMART EPM enjoys the support of LMR Solutions deployment teams with their understanding of project management and business issues. They can ensure a reliable, swift implementation that satisfies organizational needs.

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