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Project and Portfolio Management Center

Mercury Project and Portifolio Management Center (PPM) provides visibility and control over the demands being made of IT, your portfolio of IT projects, and the roll-out of strategic changes at the enterprise level. It offers transparency into IT proposals, priorities, projects, and investments to optimize the business value delivered by IT, lowering the cost of compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley by automating processes, required controls, and reporting. In addition, Mercury supports quality programs and process control frameworks such as Six-Sigma, CMMI, and COBIT and best-practice frameworks like ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).

With Mercury Project and Portifolio Management Center (PPM), you can:

- Improve overall operational efficiency.
- Reduce the cost of day-to-day operations.
- Free more resources for the strategic initiatives that improve competitiveness.
- Bring those strategic initiatives to market faster, with less risk.

Mercury's Project and Portifolio Management Center (PPM) Offerings

Mercury Project and Portifolio Management Center (PPM) includes integrated applications to manage demands, portfolios, programs, projects, resources, financials and application changes.

You can implement Mercury Project and Portifolio Management Center (PPM) applications individually, starting with the area of greatest need, then expand across IT. Here are four popular starting points:

- Portfolio Management Manage your portfolio of current applications, in-flight projects, and proposed investments to align IT with business priorities.
- Project Visibility and Control Provide complete visibility into project and program status, using a real-time dashboard to manage assignments, exceptions, and drill into details.
- IT Services Automation Manage the demand on IT by providing visibility and control over processes and resources – including outsourced processes and resources.
- Application Change Management Digitize the change process to support compliance initiatives, reduce application downtime, lower total costs, and minimize risk.

Mercury's Approach to IT Governance

Mercury's approach to IT governance optimizes IT business processes from demand through production – ensuring that both strategic projects and "keep-the-lights-on" IT activities are aligned with business goals.