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Newsletter FY2012 Qtr 2 Edition

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -1000

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Aaron Tamblyn Joins EPM Partners

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -1000

EPM Partners has significantly strengthened its Victoria team with the recruitment of Aaron Tamblyn.

A senior consultant, Aaron joins EPM Partners from Dimension Data where he has been leading and delivering EPM and SharePoint solutions. Aaron brings to EPM Partners a wealth of experience in successfully implementing project management and knowledge management solutions to businesses across many industries.

With a strong base of Microsoft consulting experience gained over the past 15 years, Aaron has designed and delivered an extensive range of project management solutions. These span departmental project collaboration through to high-profile, multi-party portfolio and program management solutions.

Aaron is a passionate advocate of Project Management and Knowledge Management, helping clients to design and implement elegant solutions which transform the way people work.

After hours, Aaron enjoys windsurfing, yachting and getting away at the weekends with his family.

EPM Partners Becomes an Australian Agent for UMT Project Financial Server

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -1000

New York-based UMT Consulting Group, perhaps best known for its Portfolio Manager product - upon which Microsoft based its 2007 product Project Portfolio Server, launched Project Financial Server in June 2010.

Project Financial Server 2010 is an enterprise Project and Portfolio Financial Management software that enables financial budgeting, planning, selection, tracking and benefits realisation. Designed specifically for Microsoft Project Server 2010, this product offers a seamless and familiar user experience.

Project Financial Server 2010 is built on the same SharePoint platform as Microsoft Project Server 2010. Together with Microsoft Project Server 2010, UMT’s Project Financial Server 2010 supports all project and portfolio processes and enables organisations to become smarter, more agile, and better-aligned.

The product addresses delivers insight and ease-of-use to executives, operations managers, PMO, project managers and team members. It enables organisations to streamline their project financial planning, forecasting and tracking processes by offering intelligent workflows that are data-driven, user-configured and scenario-specific, to address the needs of today’s multi-faceted organisation.

As an agent for UMT Project Financial Server, EPM Partners will represent UMT’s product in Australia.

To learn more please contact info@epmpartners.com.au

Frontline Implements Microsoft EPM Solution in Record Time

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -1000

Leading Australian IT professional services company, Frontline Systems, has implemented a Microsoft Project Server-based EPM system to support its team of 150+ staff – in record time.

Frontline delivers major system integration projects and managed services. New requirements could not be met by its existing on-line project management. Specifically these included the ability to track project "Earned Value" (the value of work delivered but not yet invoiced for), to compare historical and future work versus capacity, and to capture resource effort information on project, presales, business-as-usual and admin time - within a single integrated timesheet.

Frontline engaged EPM Partners to install, configure and deploy the Microsoft EPM solution using EPM Partners’ fixed-scope-for-fixed-price "EPM-in-a-Box" engagement model.

Due to the decommissioning of the existing system, EPM Partners had just 5 working weeks from the approval of the functional design to delivery of the fully functioning solution into Frontline's production environment. As a critical business system that triggers customer invoicing, there was no room for error.

EPM partners worked closely with Frontline throughout the project which included a rigorous user acceptance testing stage during which issues were formally raised, tracked and closed to ensure that the solution would fully meet requirements once placed into production.

“The system meets all the requirements specified” says Chris Lafferty, Frontline PMO Director, “EPM partners did a great job in very tight time frames to get this into production” he states. In addition, Michael Chanter, General Manager of Frontline Professional Services, states “This platform enables us to present the executive team with detailed and timely data and analysis on the performance of our Professional Services business ; an essential contribution to the continued success of our business”. Dan Stopher, EPM Partners’ project manager for the engagement says “Frontline has been a great customer for EPM Partners – they committed to the solution from the outset and worked with EPM Partners to ensure the solution meets requirements. The tight timeframes were challenging but we hit the target and are delighted with the solution delivered”.

Further reports development work has been undertaken since the January roll-out to further extend capabilities, and a support arrangement has been established to ensure the smooth on-going operation of the solution.