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BAE British Aerospace (Microsoft EPM, TPG PSLink, TPG ResourceLink)

Agere Systems (Microsoft EPM, TPG MilestoneLink, TPG ResourceLink, TPG MTA Client, TPG AssignmentRollup, TPG MilestoneRollup)

TPG Case-Study: BAE British Aerospace

The Company: BAE Systems is the premier global defense and aerospace company delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions and customer support services. Its Military Air Solutions (MAS) division provides advanced military air capability via the successful delivery of design, development, manufacture and support contracts with UK and overseas customers. Working in partnership with customers and suppliers, MAS ensures operational requirements are met in the most cost effective manner.

The Challenge: As part of BAE Systems’ enterprise-wide strategy to adopt Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques, the Air Support business within the MAS Group needed to find a way to integrate and automate data transfer between their SAP ERP and Microsoft Project Management systems, while ensuring that data integrity and quality were preserved. The data was being transferred manually and involved specialists checking it for errors, which was a protracted process before it was ready for use in projects.

The Solution: After evaluating a number of solutions to integrate SAP with Microsoft Project, MAS Air Support selected TPG PSLink from The Project Group to automate data transfer. The solution is designed to harmonize the variety of different EVM-based solutions and bring all staff up to speed. The company also turned to The Project Group for training, with both standardized and customized project management courses being tailored around the new project management solution.

The Benefits: TPG PSLink now fully automates data transfer and synchronization between SAP and Microsoft Project with no loss of integrity. The time and resources previously utilized for checking and correcting data after manual transfer are now used to advance customer projects. In addition, multiple different EVM tools and processes have been replaced with the Microsoft Project and TPG PSLink solutions. As a result, staff can transfer easily between projects without needing to learn new solutions and procedures before being productive.

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Case Study: Agere Systems
The Company: Agere Systems is a global leader in semiconductors and software solutions for storage, mobility and networking markets. Agere’s Mobility Division designs and develops next-generation handsets for mobile phones and other consumer devices.

The Problem: Manual import of resource information into Microsoft Project; major IT system performance difficulties resulting from people simultaneously opening all linked projects one after the other.

The Solution: Agere upgraded to Microsoft Office Project while complementing it with TPG add-in products. TPG ResourceLink automatically imports resource data from an external HR database into the Enterprise Resource Pool; TPG MilestoneLink communicates milestone dependencies across projects; TPG MTA Client shows Agere’s project managers how their milestones are progressing over time; TPG MilestoneRollup provides an overview of all milestones in the project portfolio; and TPG AssignmentRollup show all the tasks of a given team member.

The Benefits: TPG’s solution delivers a dramatic increase in user acceptance, and significant time savings and efficiency improvements by automating manual tasks and providing management with valuable information on projects and milestones in an easy-to-read way. Productivity has improved and project participants are always on the same page concerning projects, resources, milestones, and capacity.

Project duration: May-October 2006

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