adaQuest, Inc., a leader in Project Portfolio Management, recently completed a pilot project with King County?s Wastewater Treatment division that became a successful showcase of how they can offer customization of the project management tool WorkEngine? by EPM Live to suit the needs of any business or organization.
An overlay of Microsoft?s SharePoint?, Work Engine builds on SharePoint?s foundation, but with specific project management capability. ?Bringing in SharePoint is like going to the lumber yard,? explains David Ducolon, the Solutions Architect for the King County Project. ?You can buy the lumber, and then go home and try to build the house yourself, or you can hire a carpenter.? As the carpenter, adaQuest takes that lumber and builds a custom-designed house based on the organization?s challenges.
King County?s challenge was one of document management. Government organizations, as well as medical, legal and many other types of organizations, are generally burdened with a heavy load of regulatory requirements that largely determine company processes and workflow. This often leads to inefficiencies and a surplus of time spent tracking, organizing and storing documents according to regulatory standards. Workflow is often interrupted, for example, when a document must be reviewed and signed off on by every member of a team. Tracking that document to make sure that each member of the team has done his or her part, especially if many of the team members are subcontractors or work offsite, is a logistical nightmare.
Since the County had SharePoint capabilities, adaQuest, Inc., came in to help them use that ?lumber? to build their solution ? at a 10:1 cost-benefit ratio to the other options available to the County. ?This was a highly cost-effective solution, and it can work with any organization that needs to monitor and track their documents,? says Roni Leeds Shapiro, VP for Business Development at adaQuest.
After adaQuest implemented their solution, each team member of King County?s Wastewater Treatment division now has access to all of their documents, all of the time. Whether they are at work, at home, or on a contractor?s site, they know that each piece of their project is being properly tracked in compliance with specific government regulations, and there is a transparent workflow to keep each person informed of their next step.
In the growing trend of perceiving all business practices as ?projects?, adaQuest can customize EPM Live?s WorkEngine solution for a broad range of applications.
?Until recently, the two industries that sort of owned the term ?Project Management? were construction and technology,? says David Ducolon, ?but essentially every business initiative is a project. Marketing campaigns, legal cases, you name it.? The beauty of adaQuest?s solution, according to Ducolon, is that it allows organizations to seamlessly integrate the project management tools available through SharePoint with the existing terminology used by their organization. Or as Ducolon puts it, ?instead of buying software and having to change your business to match it, we match the software to your business.? Good news for any company that wants to streamline their processes without changing the way they do business.
adaQuest, Inc. offers on-site and hosted project portfolio software tools and professional design, implementation, and testing services. For example, adaQuest successfully designed, developed, and delivered a customized Microsoft Project Server 2010 comprehensive solution within a globalized department for a Fortune 100 firm. adaQuest employs PMP?-certified PMs who are experienced with the latest technologies, including EPMLive?s Workengine?, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Project Server 2010. With a staff of MCTS- and PMP-certified technical specialists, adaQuest is able to assist on customers? portfolio, program, and project assignments.
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