PPM Software for easy Project Portfolio Management (factsheet)

1. Principal Toolbox
Project portfolio management
with the Principal Toolbox.
Simply Fortes.
How do you keep grip on the progress of programs and projects within your organization? Or
determine the optimal mix of initiatives and projects in your portfolio matching your strategic
objectives? And in which way do you assign scarce resources efficiently across all projects?
Effective collaboration in projects, programs
and portfolios
The Principal Toolbox is a web-based software solution to
professionally manage projects, programs and portfolios. Thanks
to built-in support for PRINCE2, Stage Gate, MSP, Six Sigma,
AgilePM, P3O, MoV, MoP and other best practices, the software
actively contributes to setting-up and executing your projects,
programs and portfolios. Each methodology can be customized
to seamlessly fit with the processes in your organization.
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Supports best practices such as PRINCE2, MSP, Stage
Gate, Six Sigma, P3O, MoP, MoV and other;
Can easily be customized, making it fit seamlessly with
your organization, business unit or team;
Fully web-based solution that can be implemented within
a few weeks in any organization.
based on your strategic objectives, performance indicators
and preconditions. The Principal Toolbox simply shows the
contribution of each initiative, project and program to your
strategy and what this means for the available resources. And
because the Principal Toolbox can directly calculate the effects of
the various scenarios, you are able to shorten the time to review
your portfolio with an average of 80%!
Program Management
The Principal Toolbox out-of-the-box supports the methodology
Managing Successful Programs (MSP). However, you can also
use your own best practice instead. The Principal Toolbox offers a
complete overview of all current projects per program. In addition,
it visualizes the dependencies between different projects. Thanks
to its customizable program dashboard and many graphical
reports you always have an accurate understanding of status
and progress of your projects.
Project Management
Moreover, using the Principal Toolbox’ extensive graphical
reporting capabilities, you instantly see project progress, possible
risks, costs and hours spent, consistency between projects and
the status of your project portfolio.
Portfolio Management
With the Principal Toolbox you maintain control over all initiatives,
projects and programs that are currently running within your
organization. It allows you to create an optimal portfolio
Fortes Solutions BV - Capitool 50-3 7521 PL Enschede
Tel: +31 (0)534317450
With the Principal Toolbox it is possible to manage all projects.
Simple projects can be managed through a Single Sheet. More
complex projects can be managed through a complete project
model, containing the entire project plan and all documentation
and reporting templates. With the Gantt editor in the Principal
Toolbox you can plan all activities and products, including
resources and budgets.
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info@fortes.nl
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2. Moreover, you can capture dependencies, define baselines
and milestones and keep track of finished products. You can
automatically assign costs, hours and resources to financial
categories such as Capex and Opex.
Benefits
Saves time and costs
More effective collaboration and communication in projects and
programs means saving costs and hours of project managers,
project members and project board. Moreover, you are able to
optimally schedule resources on ongoing projects and programs.
Manage project portfolios effectively
The Principal Toolbox allows you to constantly manage the
optimal alignment between strategy and project goals, taking
into account the strategic priorities, performance indicators and
preconditions.
Case: Delta Lloyd
Delta Lloyd is continuously working on further growth, without
losing sight of quality and efficiency. From that perspective the
Project Office is also continuously working to improve the quality of
its services. After an extensive selection Delta Lloyd selected the
Principal Toolbox of Fortes Solutions. The most important reasons
to select this solution were a positive business case, flexible support
of the Delta Lloyd-wide project methodology and an intuitive user
experience.
Resource Management and time registration
The Principal Toolbox supports the entire process of planning,
requesting and assigning resources. It optimizes resource
planning on project, product and resource level, taking into
account specific knowledge and skills per employee.
In addition, employees are able to register their hours in the
Principal Toolbox, so you have an overview of spent versus
budgeted hours per person at any given moment.
Straight to work!
In the Principal Toolbox you are able to capture, quantify and
monitor the benefits of projects and programs. You can plan
the realization of your benefits and capture the underlying
dependencies. By connecting data from underlying projects,
you will create consistency, synergy and transparency in the
realization of the intended benefits.
Straight to work!
The Principal Toolbox is 100% web-based and is available
as an online service (Software-as-a-Service) and as on-site
installation. The implementation will only take a few weeks,
including preparation of all custom reports. Because of the userfriendly user interface, project managers with minimal training
are able to manage projects within the Principal Toolbox. All this
ensures that you can get straight to work with professionalizing
your project organization!
Realized benefits:
- Project manager is back in control;
- Very efficient and transparent reports;
- One source, one truth.
Marja Bonting, head of Project Office: “The PoC went smoothly.
Within 4 weeks all projects were transferred and we were able to
get reports for management and board directly from the Principal
Toolbox!”
Gives grip through insight
Clear understanding of the project progress and an automated
monitoring of the business case enables you to adjust projects
quickly before risks get out of hand.
Fits seamlessly to your own approach
You are able to simply configure organization specific best
practices. In addition, it is possible to capture all project
documentation in the Principal Toolbox.
Quickly implemented
The Principal Toolbox is 100% web-based and therefore
doesn’t require an installation on every workplace. In addition,
the software is intuitive to use and can be implemented in any
organization within two to six weeks.
Integrates seamlessly with existing software
The Principal Toolbox works well with MS Office and MS Project,
but also with financial and time registration systems such as SAP,
Oracle, Exact, Infor and PeopleSoft.
The Principal Toolbox for a lasting result!
With the Principal Toolbox you are able to improve the results
of your project organization within a short amount of time by
applying and embedding best practices. This makes for a lasting
result!
Our software is being used by:
Fortes Solutions BV - Capitool 50-3 7521 PL Enschede
Tel: +31 (0)534317450
Fax: +31 (0)534345 578
info@fortes.nl
www.fortes.nl
Simply Fortes.