I was asked lately how to find the great reports and dashboards that Microsoft shows in its sales demonstrations. Happily, Microsoft makes those example files available online for anyone who has Project Server 2007. The reports are based on Microsoft SQL Reporting Services which has a wide range of reporting functionality. You could, for example, create reports which are scheduled to leave the report file in a particular area and then automatically send an email…
There is a movement afoot to promoted only centralized project management and you’d think you’d be most likely to hear that lecture on a site dedicated to enterprise project management like this one is. However, there’s nothing about the project management industry or the project management systems industry that makes centralized project management the ideal solution for every problem. Even here on EPM Guidance, we can come up with an argument for being more effective by having a de-centralized project management architecture. This article debunks the myth that only centralized project management is effective.
I’ve been remiss in not talking about this before now but in October, Oracle announced that they had purchased Primavera. Primavera has been around since the early 80s and my firm, HMS has been a technology partner since the mid-90’s. The sale became final late in 2008 and now we’re starting to see some of the effects of the sale. Oracle has explained that Primavera will form one of the major wings of its strategic…
For those of you who were getting more and more irritated with the formatting of the EPM Articles page (like I was), you’ll be happy to hear that I’ve reformatted the page so it is hopefully a bit more readable. There will be more formatting and more content to come over the next couple of weeks. Chris
One of the grand debates in enterprise systems is whether you should be looking for one all-in-one tool or whether it’s better to look for the “best-of-breed” in each type of tool that you need. Can’t you do both? Use the all-in-one when it’s appropriate and the best-of-breed when the functionality outweighs the value of integration?