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Serena Project and Portfolio Management Solutions

Aligning IT With The Business


A company's projects, programs and applications represent an enormous investment of its financial and human capital. Yet, too often, companies fail to manage projects like investments. Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is a means of maximizing returns and reducing costs in project portfolios. Just as a financial portfolio balances a mix of investments like stocks and bonds to achieve an overall financial goal, PPM considers all the organization's investments with one common objective: achieving the business goals.
 

Ensure Business Value
PPM enables organizations to continuously select and execute the optimum portfolio of programs and projects to achieve maximum business value. With PPM, organizations can:

  • Reduce costs by identifying low-value, non-strategic, redundant or poorly performing projects.
  • Increase return on investment through improved selection, prioritization, sequencing and governance of corporate investments.
  • Optimize use of limited resources by balancing risk and focusing on projects that are the most valuable to the business.
  • Achieve competitive advantage by reducing the time required to realign the project portfolio with rapidly changing business needs.

Gain Complete Visibility Across the Application Lifecycle
Serena PPM solutions deliver complete visibility of critical project metrics throughout the application lifecycle.  With the industry’s first integrated PPM solution for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Serena PPM solutions provide automated reporting of project status,— from the initial idea or request, through prioritization and execution, to completion and release, and finally to benefits analysis.

Serena PPM solutions meet the needs of key stakeholders at each point along the way:

  • Senior management gains a broad view of the portfolio and its combined impact on the company's ability to create value. With insight into the entire portfolio, IT management can put the right people on the right projects at the right time to deliver more value to the business.
  • Portfolio managers can prioritize projects to balance overall risks and rewards, optimizing the portfolio to achieve corporate goals.
  • Project managers and team members have tools to effectively manage and execute their plans, collaborate on tasks and learn from each other, as well as from previous experiences.
  • Resource managers have visibility into current and future demand for their resources and can allocate them according to priorities.

Ensure Success of Your PPM Initiative
As companies begin to extend PPM practices across the organization, the PPM application must be flexible enough to assimilate the differences inherent among various groups and divisions. The Serena solution is easily configurable — each organization can define their unique information and processes, while working within a common application that facilitates enterprise-wide visibility.

At the core of our PPM solution is Serena Mariner

Serena Mariner is powerful software that delivers all of the capabilities necessary for effective project and portfolio management. Encompassing portfolio, project, resource, financial and demand management, Mariner is practical to adopt and can be easily configured to your specific PPM requirements.

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