Managing Projects & Work
Microsoft Planner
About
Managing Projects & Work
Microsoft Planner
About
PPM Express transformed our approach to academic program management. Faculty collaboration improved dramatically, our accreditation processes are streamlined, and student success analytics help us identify at-risk students before they struggle."
With PPM Express, our company saves up to 60% of the time on reporting, project, and resource planning. The efficiency gains have been transformative for our entire organization."
We use PPM Express to manage our entire innovation pipeline. The ideation module provides a structured way to capture, evaluate, and prioritize new ideas, ensuring a constant flow of high-potential projects into our portfolio.
The integration with Salesforce is seamless. When a deal is won, a project is automatically created by PPM Express, bridging the gap between our sales and delivery teams and ensuring a smooth client handoff every time.
Our productivity has skyrocketed. By automating routine tasks and streamlining complex workflows, we've increased our team's efficiency and capacity, allowing us to deliver more projects with the same number of people.
The automated alerts for key dates and approaching milestones keep my entire team aligned and focused. It fosters a proactive culture where everyone is continuously looking at what's next, rather than reacting to what's late.
We reduced project overlap and improved our on-time delivery rate by 25%. The visibility we gained into cross-departmental dependencies and resource constraints allowed us to identify and resolve bottlenecks before they impacted our timelines.
As a development manager, I love that my team stays in Azure DevOps. PPM Express adds the portfolio management layer on top, giving leadership the visibility they need without changing our team's core workflow. It's the best of both worlds
The ability to provide our clients with read-only access to project status dashboards has been a huge differentiator for our consulting firm. It builds trust and provides a level of transparency that sets us apart.
PPM Express helped us move from 'doing projects right' to 'doing the right projects.' The portfolio prioritization tools ensure we are investing our limited resources in the initiatives that deliver the most strategic value to the business.
With over 200 pre-built Power BI reports, we eliminated countless hours of manual report building. Our stakeholders now have self-service access to beautiful, real-time dashboards, giving them the exact information they need when they need it.
The platform connects our strategy to our execution. We can now clearly see how every project contributes to our business objectives, which has been fundamental in creating a culture of accountability and purpose.
Finally, a tool that understands hybrid environments. We manage both waterfall and agile projects, and PPM Express provides the flexibility to support both methodologies while rolling everything up into one cohesive portfolio view.
From ideation to execution, PPM Express manages the entire lifecycle. We can capture ideas, align them with strategic objectives, and track them through the development pipeline, ensuring we are always building what matters most.
The financial management module gives us the clarity we need to control costs and maximize ROI. We can track budgets against actual in real-time for every project, ensuring our investments are always aligned with our financial goals.
Our biggest win was integrating our existing tools. Our teams continue to work in Jira and Planner, and PPM Express seamlessly pulls all the data together. There was no disruption, no need to retrain teams on new tools, just immediate portfolio visibility
PPM Express has been a game-changer for our PMO. We've unified our processes and automated reporting, saving each project manager over 100 hours a year. We now focus on strategic value, not manual data collection.
For the first time, we have a real-time, executive-level view of our entire portfolio. PPM Express replaced our disjointed spreadsheets and manual reports with a single source of truth, allowing us to make faster, data-driven strategic decisions.
Supplier coordination across hundreds of subcontractors was a nightmare before PPM Express. The secure collaboration portals improved our supplier performance by 42% while maintaining all security clearance requirements for classified programs."
Emergency response coordination used to be reactive and chaotic. PPM Express provides real-time resource deployment tracking and automated communication workflows that improved our response time by 50% during the last major storm event."
The Microsoft ecosystem integration was seamless - no disruption to our existing workflows. PPM Express connected our Project, Azure DevOps, and SharePoint environments, giving us portfolio visibility we never had before while maintaining familiar user interfaces."
Clinical trial coordination across multiple sites was our biggest bottleneck. PPM Express streamlined patient recruitment and site management, accelerating our trial completion while maintaining rigorous quality standards that regulators expect."
Before PPM Express, our R&D pipeline was a black box. Now we have clear prioritization based on market potential and resource availability. Our capital investment ROI improved 15% and we eliminated $1.8 million in waste annually."
Global logistics requires coordinating thousands of moving parts across multiple continents. PPM Express improved our fleet utilization by 30% and reduced warehouse costs by 25%, while helping us expand into five new international markets 35% faster
Omnichannel retail demands perfect coordination across physical and digital touchpoints. PPM Express improved our customer experience consistency by 45% and reduced inventory costs by 30%, while our e-commerce conversion increased 40%."
Research administration was drowning in manual processes before PPM Express. Our grant success rate improved 40% through better proposal coordination, and we reduced program approval time by 25% while improving faculty satisfaction significantly
Defense contracting requires zero-defect execution under extreme cost pressures. PPM Express improved our program delivery by 28% while reducing cost overruns by 15%. The secure collaboration features met all our classified program requirements."
Taxpayer accountability demands complete transparency in government operations. PPM Express improved our project delivery timeliness by 30% and increased citizen satisfaction by 35%, while providing the budget visibility that elected officials and residents expect."
Managing renewable energy integration while maintaining grid reliability is incredibly complex. PPM Express helped us reduce system downtime by 35% and improve our renewable integration by 22%, all while accelerating regulatory reporting by 45%.
With PPM Express, our development teams finally speak the same language across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies. We've seen 35% improvement in delivery speed and 50% reduction in resource conflicts, plus our remote coordination is seamless now."
Our digital transformation needed coordination across banking, insurance, and wealth management divisions. PPM Express gave us unified portfolio management that reduced regulatory compliance costs by 25% while improving customer digital adoption by 40%.
In pharmaceutical development, regulatory compliance can make or break a program. PPM Express automated our FDA submission tracking and reduced compliance risks by 60%, while accelerating our clinical trial completion by 25%. The ROI was $134,000 in just the first year."
The seamless Microsoft integration was a game-changer for our manufacturing operations. PPM Express connected our eight facilities for the first time, giving us enterprise-wide visibility that improved our new product success rate by 45% while reducing production lead times by 20%.
With PPM Express, our company saves up to 60%of the time on reporting, project and resource planning.
We implemented and used PPM Express as our Portfolio Management Platform. The reports and Dashboards provide valuable consolidated information at different levels, and the beauty of this is that it’s just connecting information we already have and getting all the possible value from it.
PPM Express seamlessly integrates with MS Teams and enables our students with an easy way to collaborate and learn the Project Management course.
With PPM Express our customers have a clear view of what is my next key date and my next milestone, and with active automated alerts on key dates approaching we make them more aware continuously looking at what’s next.
"Our digital transformation needed coordination across banking, insurance, and wealth management divisions. PPM Express gave us unified portfolio management that reduced regulatory compliance costs by 25% while improving customer digital adoption by 40%."
"In pharmaceutical development, regulatory compliance can make or break a program. PPM Express automated our FDA submission tracking and reduced compliance risks by 60%, while accelerating our clinical trial completion by 25%. The ROI was $134,000 in just the first year."
"The seamless Microsoft integration was a game-changer for our manufacturing operations. PPM Express connected our eight facilities for the first time, giving us enterprise-wide visibility that improved our new product success rate by 45% while reducing production lead times by 20%."
"PPM Express transformed our construction portfolio visibility completely. We went from 72% on-time delivery to 89% within the first year, and our project managers finally have real-time resource allocation that eliminates double-booking conflicts across job sites."