Project & Portfolio Management

Business and IT users rely on familiar desktop software to help them manage common business applications such as project & portfolio management, project resource staffing, and asset management. Even though companies have spent millions of dollars on enterprise point solutions, much of this planning work is still done in desktop Excel since its capabilities for quickly modeling business processes and performing what-if analysis is un-matched.

Project & Portfolio Management Challenges

Inflexible Offerings

IT cannot effectively address common business process problems for business users, such as project & portfolio management, because enterprise point solutions are too expensive to deploy and are not flexible

Lack of Control

It’s difficult to control rogue desktop PPM processes because there's no easy way to gain insight into their status, no ability to control who has access to the data, and no easy way to centrally manage these ad-hoc spreadsheet-based processes

Difficult Collaboration

Information workers require the ability to work collaboratively on their desktops. This means the power of business applications is not being extended to every employee across the enterprise

Boardwalk-Driven Project & Portfolio Management

Only Boardwalk utilizes a patented isolation sharing capability which lets users work offline maturing their updates until they are ready to share, and then rather than emailing, they simply click on Submit to share their changes with other users who Refresh to see the changes. This, coupled with the ability to quickly setup a new project template, makes Boardwalk the ideal choice for project & portfolio management applications

Collaborative

Boardwalk turns existing spreadsheet-based processes into enterprise quality applications while retaining the power and flexibility of Excel on the desktop

Flexible

Boardwalk enables a two-way, collaborative exchange between ad-hoc, desktop-based productivity processes and existing enterprise systems

Connected

Boardwalk can work with any industry standard relational database system which means integrating it with your existing enterprise infrastructure can be done in weeks not months

Boardwalk provides not only a full collaborative planning environment, but visualization tools which make it easy to spot gaps in your planning

Benefits of using Boardwalk for Project & Portfolio Management

Employee Effectiveness

Eliminate the information worker’s reliance on business application experts and seamlessly connect the process and productivity application worlds

Process / Data Visibility

Shorten the time lost to manually managing data and invest it back into making the process better

Better Decisions. Faster.

Enterprise data used in isolation on the desktop can now be included as part of the overall enterprise workflow while eliminating the risk of being out of compliance with standards and policies

Collaborative

Boardwalk turns existing spreadsheet-based processes into enterprise quality applications while retaining the power and flexibility of Excel on the desktop or working in a browser-based environment

Project & Portfolio Management

76 percent of IT organizations still rely on spreadsheets for critical decision-making applications including PPM