| One of the compelling reasons to take a
closer look at PDW Portfolio is that it
leverages the Microsoft® Office product that you
already own and know.
The PDW philosophy is to get your company
productive quickly, and that means avoiding the
lost time and cost of deploying new database
servers and application servers at your
datacenter.
Leveraging the Microsoft® Office platform
allows PDW to implement a Portfolio Control
system in days, not weeks or months. In
addition, we are able to provide the flexibility
and portability required to support your
existing business processes when most competing
tools will require significant business process
re-engineering.
The process flow works like this:
PDW Portfolio applications install to
Microsoft® Windows 2000 or XP, and have the same
HW specifications as Microsoft® Office. As a
result, many of our customers create value by
leveraging existing application servers to
install our products.
PDW Portfolio imports data from Microsoft®
Project to leverage project scheduling and
tracking work that has already been done by
project managers. This eliminates the need for
dual entry by the portfolio planning team.
PDW Portfolio stores data in the PDW
Repository database, which installs to your
choice of Microsoft® SQL Server or Microsoft®
Access. We interact with both of these products
natively so either option is an excellent
choice.
PDW Portfolio provides data views that use
the Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet grid. The PDW
Marketing team has confirmed that Microsoft®
Excel is the presentation tool of choice for
most executives with P&L responsibility. The
Excel format is both portable for laptop users
and well understood by all business managers
across the organization. Excel is so important
to some organizations that they hire staff
members just to reformat proprietary web data
into excel for analysis by the executive staff.
With PDW, the efficiency is built in. All views
are presented directly in excel, and offline
copies can be sent to other office users with a
few mouse clicks.
The result is a system that offers a
relatively low cost training requirement for
both end users and administration personnel.
This High Impact / Low Risk approach is what
differentiates Portfolio DecisionWare, Inc. from
traditional solutions.
For additional information, please contact us
at sales@pdware.com
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