BT Lancashire Services achieved a 10% Reduction in Capital Program Costs
BT Lancashire Services centralize, consolidate and achieve 10% Reduction in Capital Program Costs BT Lancashire Services (BTLS) is a wholly owned company under the BT
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Our Construction & Engineering Project Management Software solution helps firms to centralize the management of complex capital and operational projects
In order to deliver engineering and construction projects successfully, it is crucial to streamline decision-making, cost management and approvals process across the organization.
To achieve this Project managers and executive management need to see the full picture. However, collaboration can be difficult when teams are geographically dispersed and include not only employees, but clients, vendors, sub-contractors, and other third parties.
Cora’s Construction and Engineering Project Management Software solution helps firms to centralize the management of complex capital and operational projects. Cora PPM provides immediate visibility on project portfolios, giving senior management, program managers, project managers and relevant stakeholders the control, governance and insight to make better decisions.
Get the Full Picture, Instantly
Project and program dashboards visualize the health of your portfolio; personal dashboards provide a digital ‘to-do’ list. See Forecasts, WIPs, KPIs and more. Drill-down to focus in on any issues.
Track Project Progress
Use customizable activity steps to track the progress of your projects’ deliverables through the full project lifecycle from design to closure.
Documentation Management
Attach or link documents to projects, risks, tasks and registers. Annotate documents with mark-up tools directly within the application.
Update on the Go
Mobile apps for Android and iOS. Access and update key project activity from anywhere.
Cora PPM Portal
A flexible framework that provides access to data contained in Cora PPM to a wider audience, such as sub-contractors.
More Than a Software Solution
We commit to developing a deep understanding of your business challenges and delivering bespoke solutions that address your needs. We then co-design and implement the solution using a partnership approach.
What Are the Challenges Faced by Project Managers?
For over 20 years Cora’s Construction and Engineering Project Management Software solution organizations with a holistic view of infrastructure, asset and project information and their inter-dependencies. With each engagement we have learned the challenges faced by Project Managers and used that learning to improve our solution.
Our client required a solution to support a number of challenges: around consolidating systems, standardizing processes, project deviation, resource/capacity management and financial control.
Cora Capabilities:
Cora PPM brought a level of configurability that allowed the system to match the current project management methodology within the client organization which minimized implications and management associated with change and provided an easy-to-use, intuitive system.Benefits:
- Our client has reduced their systems from 22 to less than 7, all of which directly integrate with Cora PPM
- Visibility has increased across all projects with specific dashboards and reports displaying key project and financial data, giving the client’s team instant, accurate project status updates
- Early warning signs are available through a number of compliance indicators which is helping to reduce project/budget deviation
- By using our centralised system, our client was able to reduce project deviation from €40 million to €2.5million within 18 months.
Before installing Cora PPM, our client had multiple data sets from multiple systems, e.g. P6 for scheduling, risk management systems, Oracle Aconex for information distribution, MS Excel spreadsheets. What the client didn’t have was the one location that project executives could go to see all the information instantly.
Capabilities Cora Brings
Cora PPM has given our client the view into project data it was looking for. It has also provided consistency – so it has a coherent approach to managing each project.
Benefits:
- Reduced Training: In addition to helping with governance, the Cora solution provides a standard mechanism for our client to manage its data, which means it’s easier for new staff to come on board the Northern Estates programme with minimal training.
- Single View Of The Truth: “With Cora PPM, we can now hold time, cost, risks, issues, commercial data in a platform that is accessible and easily digestible. We chose Cora for those reasons. It takes project information from disparate sources and providing it in an easy-to-read reporting format.” (PPM Technical Lead)
- Reduced Time Reporting: Measurable results in cutting time to report, e.g.
a. Time spent reporting each month cut from 10 hours to seconds
b. Time spent compiling project lists cut from 2-3 weeks to minutes
c. 1000s of projects in a single view - Smarter Decisions: “It allows us to drill down into information and gives our senior management the key decision-making information so they can make informed decisions on all our schemes.” (PMO Services Director)
- Better Governance: “It facilities a consistent approach across a portfolio of projects and allows us to have good governance across a series of projects in a consistent manner.” (PMO Services Director)
Our client went to market for a program & portfolio management (PPM) solution because it required a digitized and cloud-based collaboration tool to deploy across the organization. The desired solution it looked for was a platform that assisted in standardizing work processes across all its business units so they could operate more efficiently and, for example, improve the execution transparency of projects at all tiers of the organization.
Capabilities Cora brings:
- Cora PPM establishes a consistent Project Management process for our client integrated into 4 enterprise systems providing consistent reporting/dashboards with project data resident in a secure cloud server accessible to field teams via mobile apps.
- The implementation minimized disruptions associated with change and provided an easy-to-use, intuitive system.
Benefits:
- Since Cora PPM has been implemented, our client has been able to import the detailed scope of any awarded project and create a dynamic Gantt-style scheduling chart, which will set all projects across the United States off on a level footing.
- It has provided a convenient way to access documentation and standard templates for every project.
- Our client’s business executives can now delve instantly into the detail of each portfolio of work on major projects, delivering significant time savings and making them more competitive.
Are your current processes wasting time and money? Request a Demo today, outline your challenges and requirements and we will provide a solution which will add value to your firm.
Success Stories
Honeywell Building Solutions achieve Global Visibility, Control & Governance with Cora
Honeywell Building Solutions achieve Global Visibility, Control & Governance with Cora PPM Honeywell Building Solutions is part of Honeywell – the Fortune 100 technology company
Automated Logic powers Project Forecasting and Standardized Workflow Processes with Cora PPM
Automated Logic powers Project Forecasting and Standardized Workflow Processes with Cora PPM Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) provides innovative building-management solutions that maximize energy efficiency and
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Free Engineering Solutions Guide
There’s nothing an engineer dislikes more than lack of control. Yet when it comes to project management, control can often be in short supply.
Often there’s no way of knowing the state-of-play on projects – if they are profitable, what work is left in them and when will they be finished. Maybe your company has grown swiftly and both your processes and systems need to mature fast to manage that growth carefully. New staff might need to be brought up to speed quickly through having standardized systems and existing staff need to align to one way of working. Sound familiar? What you require is a reliable, repeatable and robust way of managing your project portfolio. You need tight control on every aspect of your engineering jobs, i.e. exact tracking – and invoicing – for time your engineers spend on site. You need to able to:- See what’s finished and forecast what’s coming down the line.
- Invoice quickly after a job is complete.
- Avoid getting bogged down in delayed payments.
- Reduce the time spent on documentation and reporting
- streamline your process.
About the Author
Philip Martin is CEO of Cora Systems and worked for a decade in engineering and management roles, primarily for the telecommunications industry, before founding Cora Systems in 1999.
Philip is an electronic systems engineering graduate of Ulster University. He previously held positions with major US multinationals, including 3Com, Tellabs, DSC and Pulse Engineering. This engineering project solutions guide has been produced based on Cora’s experiences of working with firms such as Automated Logic, Honeywell Building Solutions and WSP.Latest Engineering News
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