Kemira: Project Server 2010 and SAP Integration
Save up to two hours per month with streamlined processes
Customer Profile: Kemira is a global chemical company with a new focus on water chemistry. Based in Helsinki, Finland, it has almost 5,000 employees working at 100 sites in 40 countries. Its 2010 revenues were €2.1 billion (U.S.$3.1 billion).
Business Situation: With hundreds of R&D projects to support its new mission, Kemira needed standard project management processes and an easy-to-use enterprise project management solution to help provide control.
Solution: Kemira developed project management processes and, with the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners Tietotalo and TPG The Project Group, implemented Microsoft Project Server 2010 with a link to SAP via TPG PSLink.
Kemira thus gets reports for all of its R&D projects on actual versus estimated hours as well as actual costs from SAP versus costs that were forecast from Project Server 2010. The company developed several reports in Project Server 2010, including one that summarizes many different types of information about all active projects, and that easily exports to Microsoft Word 2010.
Kemira is also developing dashboards using PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to provide executives with key project data.
By the end of 2011, Kemira R&D plans to start using project portfolio planning features of Project Server 2010 to prioritize projects, in part by comparing their projected costs with their strategic fit.
Benefits:
- Reporting enriches relationships
- Data improves resource management
- Data improves cost control
- Users save up to two hours per month with the streamlined processes
- Project managers save one day per month
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