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More than ever, IT and business executives are focusing on cost savings, compliance, optimizing the value of their IT investments, and gaining visibility into all the demands being placed on their organization. The HP PPM suite is a diverse set modules that helps IT organizations meet these needs by providing the following services:

Identify and focus on IT projects that are strategic to the business
Leverage top-down planning capabilities that are supported with bottom-up detailed project plans
Gain real-time visibility and control over project processes, issues, risks, resources and dependencies across the enterprise
Adapt to unforeseen changes quickly and still maintain alignment with business objectives
Demonstrate the value of IT to the business.

PPM's Center Demand Management module enables you to capture all the requests made on your IT organization. It allows you to aggregate, prioritize and fulfill demands for both strategic projects and day-to-day activities. As a result, business users and IT can collaborate efficiently, which helps you cut costs, accelerate problem resolution and manage your service levels. HP PPM Center Demand Management software leverages a powerful workflow process engine that helps automate business processes and enforce best practice process methodologies.

PPM's Center Project Management module helps you reduce project complexity and accelerate project delivery by integrating project management and process controls. This true 100 percent zero-client project management solution enables collaborative project management with a low total cost of ownership. Unlike traditional project management software that only plans, schedules and reports on project status, this software uses task-level workflows to augment a work breakdown structure and leverage best-practice processes to accelerate project delivery.

PPM's Center Program Management module provides visibility across programs, projects and operational-type activities , enabling your team to collaboratively manage programs from concept to completion. It automates processes for managing scope, risk, quality, issues and schedules. This software provides a single repository for all project status reports, including detailed cost and schedule metrics as well as expected benefits. This information is presented to all project participants and stakeholders through a role-based dashboard. With HP PPM Center Program Management, you no longer need multiple point tools and manual processes to gain visibility and control to keep your PMO humming on schedule and on budget.

PPM's Financial Management module enables your organization to manage its IT portfolio with real-time visibility into financial performance. This software offers automatic calculations of costs and variances that delivers detailed comparisons of your project health. This helps you establish and manage IT budgeting, expected and realized benefits, risks, actual costs calculations and actual to budget comparisons. For global organizations, multi-currency is supported within the application. HPFinancial Management supports comprehensive earned value analysis and SOP 98-1 capitalization.

PPM's Center Time Management software helps you streamline time collection and improve the accuracy of tracking the work your IT organization performs. The software bridges the gap between work management and time management across a range of items, including projects, tasks, requests and deployments. It enables you to focus on value-added activities by helping you manage both the work-demanded and time-expended sides of the equation in your IT portfolio.

PPM's Center Resource Management software enables you to effectively manage resource capacity and allocation. This software provides a clear picture of your resource supply, including resource roles, skills and skill levels, across your entire organization. It also balances your resource supply with incoming demand, giving you full visibility and control over your project demands. Support for top-down and bottom-up resource planning allows you to forecast resource demand by roles for high-level portfolio planning. Through resource requests, this high-level planning profile transitions to detailed task and request assignments. And because HP PPM Resource Management provides visibility for both operational tasks and mission-critical, strategic projects, you can allocate resources to the highest-priority activities to ensure IT stays in alignment with business priorities.

PPM's Deployment Management module helps you lower risks and increase return on investment by accelerating deployment of changes to your applications portfolio. This software automates and manages the application change management process for packaged applications, custom applications, legacy systems, web content, and more. By automating formerly manual tasks, this software allows you to accomplish more with less. Enforceable workflows with field level security help you cost-effectively support compliance initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley.