City of Peoria, Arizona Standardizes Capital Projects and Programs on Skire Unifier.System Plays Key Role in Ten-Year, $1 Billion Capital Improvement Plan MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, integrated workplace, and project portfolio management software, today announced that the City of Peoria, Arizona has implemented Unifier unifier - The unifier of a set of expressions is a set of substitutions of terms for variables such that the expressions are all equal. See also most general unifier, unification. [TM] and standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. its capital project and program management processes. Peoria is using Skire Unifier for comprehensive project management, reporting, and funding tracking across five city departments in support of its ten-year, $1 billion capital improvement plan. The deployment further strengthens Skire's presence in the municipal government market segment, where innovative municipalities are seeking to improve capital project management and maximize the use of taxpayer dollars. The City of Peoria conducted an extensive solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual for proposals during its search for a system to support its capital projects and chose Skire Unifier primarily for its reporting, cost management, and workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. functionality. Approximately 150 people use the system from the city's public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. , utilities, engineering, community services, and budget departments. The city also is providing external partners, such as engineering firms, architects, and contractors, with access to project information through Unifier. The new system has significantly improved timeliness and accuracy of project information for budgeting and executive reporting. Peoria's IT department is also evaluating Unifier for managing its portfolio of IT projects. "Having a central repository for all relevant project information makes it much easier for everyone to find information that they need," said Herman Koebergen, materials manager for the City of Peoria. "Unifier also allows us to track multiple funding sources with tremendous flexibility. We can easily connect multiple projects into a program, track multiple funding sources down to the task level, and significantly simplify cost management with consistent data. As a custodian bailee (custodian) n. a person with whom some article is left, usually pursuant to a contract (called a "contract of bailment"), who is responsible for the safe return of the article to the owner when the contract is fulfilled. of taxpayer money, we seek to work as efficiently and effectively as possible, and Skire Unifier is helping us do that." Peoria frequently must manage multiple sources of funding for a range of projects where several departments are involved. These projects involve efforts from engineering, utilities, and budget departments, and the new Unifier system has simplified funding tracking while strengthening collaboration among them. Plans call for using the Unifier system to provide Peoria citizens with current project information and timelines. Peoria's goal is to help the community stay informed about city projects, while helping free staff from high volumes of project-related telephone calls. "We are pleased to be chosen by the City of Peoria and to be working with a municipality MUNICIPALITY. The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests. that is taking such a significant step forward in project management efficiency," said Sateez Kadivar, Skire's vice president of operations. "We are delighted to work with Peoria's team moving forward." Skire Unifier is a powerful business process automation platform for managing programs, projects, resources, and assets. The platform centralizes comprehensive management capabilities and makes them available to everyone who needs them through a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . With robust cost management and project controls capabilities, Skire's Unifier delivers the best combination of pre-defined workflows, best practices, ease-of-use, and adaptability a·dapt·a·ble adj. Capable of adapting or of being adapted. a·dapt  a·bil .
About Skire Skire, Inc. is the leading provider of capital program, integrated workplace, and project portfolio management software. The company's flagship Unifier platform leverages the company's deep industry experience, giving customers unprecedented visibility and control over major programs and projects. Skire's solutions are used by global Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and educational institutions for managing billions of dollars in capital programs, real estate, and IT portfolios. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. . For more information, visit http://www.skire.com Unifier is a trademark of Skire, Inc. All other products and services mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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