Providing better insights to project managers

Our Client is one of Electrical utilities Company of USA delivering electricity to 10.5 million customers. Information Systems (IS) that are designed and developed efficiently, accurately, reliably and meet the intended needs and expectations of the stakeholders are important goals of organizations today. However, cost, quality and schedule issues have been widely reported in IS development. Project failure in the IS field is a costly problem and troubled projects are not uncommon. Industry Heads and Executives are interested in monitoring the progress of Projects, Status, Issues, Actual vs Budget, Variance etc.   

InfoCepts developed this MicroStrategy Apps to help client’s  VPs/CIOs is to monitor the progress of IS Projects and take necessary actions related to Project Execution, Budget, keep track of the projects completing or starting

Challenge

Major challenges faced by Clients higher management in monitoring the progress of IS Projects were : 

• No Insights on Project Execution, Budget, and Performance of the supervisor 
• Unable to track the progress of projects  
• Unable to capture customer satisfaction 
• Lack of information with respect to  budget utilization for the year 

Solution 

 Our solution enabled the following capabilities to address customer challenges : 

• Summary data which shows Number of projects by their status i.e., Green, Yellow, Red.​ 
• Health card for different Business Units and Departments​ and Actual Vs Budget for all the months of the current year​ 
• List of projects which are in progress, completed and upcoming with additional details like Manager, Status, Issues, etc. 
• Real time  KPIs to track top 5 Projects  at Business Units Level 
• Capability to export and share the analysis and insights with higher management for decision making