beteo Miniguides - P&PM Market Survey11/29/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Today’s PPM market is changing. The term PPM as a software category is used by Project Portfolio Management (PPM) as well as Project Management (PM) software vendors. For the sake of clarity there should be a comprehensive category including both subcategories: Project & Portfolio Management (P&PM).
For this reason we analyze the P&PM market in detail [...]
Project Portfolio Management - Miniguide11/22/2007 by Marco Gerussi
In the articles “PPM - Gartner Causes Confusion” and “Project Portfolio - Hype and More” we covered the issue of the nonspecific use of the term PPM.
Today the PPM market is changing. On one hand software companies are being acquired (HP / Mercury Interactive / Kintana, Oracle / Peoplesoft, Primavera / Prosight, Serena / Pacific [...]
SAP Search Guide11/22/2007 by Nicolaj Ammann
Searching the right information in the SAP information jungle can be quite time consuming. This guide is intended to help to SAP professionals to quickly find answers to typical questions on the internet. For each proposed search starting point prerequisites as well as an estimate for the time needed to find the solution are listed.This [...]
PPM – Alibi Without Impact Analysis11/16/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Project Portfolio and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) are well established terms used in many industries and heavily by software vendors. Accordingly, there are some standards and a number of software solutions that support the planning and controlling of ideas, initiatives and projects. But do these approaches and tools really meet the actual needs of organizations?
Reasons [...]
PPM - Gartner Causes Confusion11/16/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Stimulated by HP’s limiting use of “Portfolio Management” in the new name of its powerful IT Governance solution HP PPM, we already covered the often misinterpreted and ambiguous use of the term “Project Portfolio” in earlier blogs.
Confusion around PPM
Similar vagueness as for “Portfolio Management” can be observed for “Project Portfolio Management”. Software vendors trying [...]
Project Portfolio - Hype and More11/15/2007 by Marco Gerussi
After the acquisition of Mercury HP has changed the product name of Mercury ITG to HP Project Portfolio Management Center, HP PPM. Dieter Steiger criticized this new naming already in his blog “Lifecycle Management - HP BTO makes it happen!”.
Unfortunately, by changing the name of their Software Suite to HP Project and Portfolio Management Center [...]
Lifecycle Management – HP BTO Makes It Happen11/12/2007 by Dieter Steiger
This article shows how Application Lifecycle Management can be implemented for large SAP installations. A description of the respective software components can be found on HP’s BTO website.
Complex SAP systems landscape
The subsequent chart illustrates how complex a comprehensive SAP Business Suite can be, with its various systems landscapes that can consist of development, quality assurance [...]
ERP4IT – the Vision Found its Way into Wikipedia11/08/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Enterprise Resource Planning for Information Technology (ERP for IT, ERP4IT) describes the automation of information technology (IT). Therefore ERP4IT focuses on the automated IT itself and not on the automation of business processes by IT.
IT organizations define long-term strategies, integrate them into their business models and offer adequate IT services to the business. Integrated systems [...]
SAP Template Distribution - a One Way Street?11/08/2007 by Dieter Steiger
Inconsistent customization settings - a typical issue of decentral SAP systems
Large SAP installations with multiple decentral system landscapes struggle to keep SAP customization settings consistent across the company. Conventional approaches , e.g. SAP Template Customization, to distribute templates lead inevitably to inconsistencies. Maintaining a consistent system requires extraodinary effort.
Conventional SAP company template roll-out
In most SAP [...]