Business Engine Software Corporation Unveils Version 5.3 Of Its Namesake Software Application.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1999-- Business Engine(R) Provides A Powerful Tool to Help Companies Effectively Manage Projects and Resources Business Engine Software, a leading provider of project portfolio and resource management solutions for IT and R&D organizations, announced today the availability of Business Engine 5.3. Business Engine is a client/server and Web-enabled knowledge resource planning Resource planning may refer to:
reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of work based on priorities that are synchronous with corporate objectives. "Business Engine Software is committed to helping our customers balance the supply and demand of their critical knowledge resources. These include the engineers, programmers, systems designers, scientists and chemists who work on mission-critical projects," stated John O'Neil
John O'Neil was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1915. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Business Engine Software Corporation. "Unfortunately, when companies juggle hundreds of projects concurrently across multiple departments, it's easy to lose control of project resources. With Business Engine, companies have the information they need to ensure that overall organization effort is consistent with strategic business objectives and priorities." Business Engine enables better collaboration between managers and project team members by improving the communication of project status and resource availability. The application easily controls and models the entire resource availability of an organization, including the automation of employee rosters, skill inventories and recruiting and contracting third-party staff. It can also track and report an employee's total availability, individual skills and cost rates (including their inflationary factors). With the ability to consolidate and analyze this data in one single repository, management can: -- Perform "what if" scenarios to select the mix of projects with the highest payoff -- Balance the supply and demand of project resources, including knowledge workers and budgets, across the entire company -- Improve product development, delivery schedules and ultimately, financial performance Business Engine At Work "We often have 120 projects going on at any given time, many of which are integrated, cross-department efforts," said Don Baldwin, business systems consultant, at Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of Florida. "Business Engine allows us to flexibly align our IT efforts with the company's strategic goals. Now we can forecast, allocate and track project resources in a disciplined way, allowing us to manage what I call 'business transformation' more easily than ever before." "One of the key benefits of Business Engine is its resource management capability," said Tom Cox Thomas Michael Cox (born 19 January 1930) is a retired Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Cox was educated at the London School of Economics and became an electrician. , process control manager, UMB (1) (Upper Memory Block) See UMA. (2) (Ultra Mobile Broadband) See 3GPP. 1. UMB - Upper Memory Block. 2. UMB - A university(?). Bank. "It gives us a high-level view of who's working on what, what their skills are, and when they will be available. With 100 to 120 simultaneous active projects, we need to be able to access that level of information across the company so we can deliver better products to customers on time." In addition to adopting the Business Engine application, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida and UMB Bank have both standardized on Microsoft* Project*, today's leading project management software. "Our solutions complement each other to assist the customer. We provide customers with the most robust tool to track and manage projects within an organization, while Business Engine consolidates Microsoft Project (product) Microsoft Project - A Microsoft Windows program offering various project management tools. http://microsoft.com/office/project/. files to provide a global view across thousands of projects and their associated resources," said Michael Ahern There are several people named Michael or Mike Ahern:
Business Engine 5.3 Key Benefits and Features The heart of the Business Engine application is the Knowledge Resource Repository(TM), an SQL-based data warehouse that stores and manages an organization's entire resource information base. Using open-system application programming interfaces (APIs), Business Engine integrates information stored in project management solutions such as Microsoft Project, existing spreadsheets, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), budget or human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. applications. By compiling this disparate information into one database, company management has a "resource control center" allowing them to match appropriate resources with mission critical projects. The unique decision-support and analysis capabilities of Business Engine provide managers with a multidimensional view of their entire project portfolio. Business Engine's unique "sweeping" capability enables the automatic collection of project resource data from anywhere within a company into the central repository. This feature helps customers avoid double entry of data and improves accuracy, information sharing See data conferencing. and efficiency. In addition, Business Engine includes the following key benefits: -- Introduces Enterprise Time Assistant (ETA) which provides project managers with the ability to populate Microsoft Project files with actuals from TimeWizard timesheets -- Provides full integration with Microsoft Project 98 -- Provides a unique "skills yellow pages" that catalogues the skill sets and availability of a company's employee base -- Offers ability to update and view project and resource data directly from TimeWizard, Business Engine's time accounting system -- Enables scenario modeling to analyze the impact of different corrective actions and to enable optimum allocation of resources allocation of resources Apportionment of productive assets among different uses. The issue of resource allocation arises as societies seek to balance limited resources (capital, labour, land) against the various and often unlimited wants of their members. -- Prioritizes projects via an enterprise portfolio view -- Incorporates Web-based technologies for remote-based time capture and customized reporting About Business Engine Software Corporation Founded in 1984 as Micro-Frame Technologies, Business Engine Software Corporation is a developer of project portfolio and resource management applications for project-driven, Fortune 1000 companies. With offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe, the company's products set the standard for program management and performance measurement, and are used by 32 of the top 35 aerospace and defense contractors. Today, organizations across industries - including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , pharmaceutical, insurance, and health-care - are using Business Engine Software products to flexibly control and align their resources to attain corporate goals. For more information on Business Engine Software Corporation or the company's products, please call (415) 616-4000 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.businessengine.com. Business Engine is a registered trademark of Business Engine Software Corporation. All other products and services referenced herein are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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