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Ivanti Neurons for PPM

Real-time project portfolio management

Most misinformed projects fail —and are costly. Here’s what to do instead.

Deliver on time and on budget with PPM

Capturing your organization’s demands and priorities

with the Ivanti Neurons platform and Ivanti Neurons for— and understanding which projects will provide theITSM. You can use the tools already in place to remove

greatest ROI for your organization — can be hard

the guesswork from project execution and create ato predict. All too often, projects end up overdue,

predictable project delivery machine that delivers

inefficiently resourced and over budget. This canresults organization-wide. With Ivanti Neurons for PPM

make achieving digital transformation goals difficult —capabilities, you can:and expensive. In fact, 80% of digital transformation
projects fail1, but it’s not for lack of trying. It may be as
simple as putting energy behind the wrong solutions.

Ivanti® Neurons for PPM capabilities are integrated■ Automate workflows with collaboration tools toincrease productivity.
■ Align corporate strategy with project plans andGartner predicts that by 2024,
PPM-driven strategies that enablemultidisciplinary digital businessteams will have a 60% higher
success rate to scale results.2

budgets using cross-portfolio views and control.
■ Right-size resources and optimize project delivery.
■ Analyze project costs and related factors withrobust reporting tools and dashboards.
■ Increase time to value for rapid innovation

throughout the business.

1. Couchbase. (2019). Digital Transformation Projects Continue to Be at Risk, Couchbase Research Finds
2. Gartner. (2021). Hype Cycle for Strategic Portfolio Management, 2021

Key features and capabilities
Demand management
Demand management helps manage the flow ofWith everyone on the project using the same role-project proposals that often span IT, HR, facilities,based and visually intuitive tools to update current

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product and security groups. By consolidating

status, the process is automated, Information can be

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requests and project information from these groups

easily evaluated and communicated, and the effort tointo a single solution, the process of assessing eachcollect project-tracking data is significantly reduced.

request is streamlined — incorporating and integrating
relevant cost, benefit, resource and risk data in acentral repository. A simple, flexible scoring matrix
enables accurate comparison and prioritization of
all project requests to make the right investment

Resource management
Resource management provides planning andevaluation tools that optimize allocation and utilizationof project staffing. Centralized capacity planning candecisions clear.

be done by organizational role or by specific individualPortfolio management

coverage needed to avoid unexpected delays, over-and then evaluated to ensure a project has thePortfolio management provides an executive-levelallocation, or inefficient resource use that can affectview of the health and status of the portfolio in realproject outcomes adversely. Automated time-and-time, with robust reporting and financial analysis fortask reporting, including timesheets, brings into focus

roll-up budgets, costs, revenues, resources and effort

planned versus actual effort.

across all projects. This accurate and always up-todate perspective gives leaders an added layer ofintelligence to ensure alignment of the portfolio withstrategic corporate timelines and objectives, as well as
quick status of individual projects and what-if analysis

Program Management
Program management allows managers to assemble
projects into logical groups or to a specific initiative
within a company to create an optional layer between

as new project demands surface.

portfolios and projects to better understand programs

Project management

a long-lived entity that has projects refined and addedof work against business objectives. A program can be

Project management helps project managers see

to it over time without needing to start and end with aproject status at a glance — with the most pressing

specific set of projects; it can continue until a certain

items and actions prominently displayed — or to drill

goal is reached.

down into the details, including individual work tasks.

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Before:A leading public research university’sbudget was shrinking year over year,
and team silos had developed. Theuniversity needed a solution that
could optimize its project outcomes.

After:The university implemented Ivanti
Neurons for PPM to streamline
project tracking across teams andwith no extra cost to portal users.
It was able to cut licensing costs,
currently supporting 290 systemusers with just 95 licenses. The
university was also able to support
more efficient use of its project
resources and execute projects thatprovide greater ROI for the schooland students.

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