Enterprise project management (EPM) solution provider, Fulcrum Business Solutions, has recognised a need in the South African market for Critical Chain capability within the Microsoft EPM solution, leading to the development of a business partnership with SphericalAngle.
Critical Chain is a methodology for running projects based on Dr EM Goldratt`s Theory of Constraints (TOC). A number of large South African companies run their projects using Critical Chain, but until recently there has been no built-in support for customers also running Microsoft EPM. A few tools for Critical Chain scheduling have been available, some leveraging Microsoft Project (however, with a proprietary collaboration engine) and other totally non-Microsoft-based.
"We have created an alliance with SphericalAngle in order to improve and expand on the Critical Chain capabilities available to EPM users," explains Dries van der Colff, Technical Director at Fulcrum Business Solutions. "Through this partnership we are now able to offer a complete Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) solution which includes quality software, training and support."
"The value of a partnership with Fulcrum is that it allows SphericalAngle the use of Fulcrum`s Knowledge Centre for further development and testing for EPM compliance. Fulcrum has also extended its network of contacts with Microsoft in Redmond to SphericalAngle, setting us up to expand internationally and ensure our products are compliant with the latest version of Microsoft EPM," says Scott Button, Senior Leadership Consultant of SphericalAngle.
The partnership with SphericalAngle is yet another of the value-added services that Fulcrum Business Solutions through its various third-party relationships," explains Van der Colff, who is responsible for evaluation potential business partners and establishing these relationships. Earlier this year, Fulcrum Business Solutions also announced a partnership with Germany-based The Project Group (TPG) and has signed up as an EPK reseller.
EPK-Portfolio is a project portfolio management tool that is used to align portfolio items with corporate objectives and manage them through a stage gates that reflect a company`s business processes. It is tightly integrated with Microsoft EPM, and extends the built-in functionality of EPM with enhanced reporting and analysis.
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Fulcrum Business Solutions is a certified Microsoft business partner focused on delivering enterprise project management (EPM) solutions and other related offerings to large corporate organisations with formal project management offices, to small businesses with single project managers.
In addition, Fulcrum is a certified K2.Net Workflow partner, with the skills and experience to integrate enterprise project management and workflow solutions.
Fulcrum`s mission is to extend EPM to the business management arena and deliver a spectrum of project solutions and services to obtain project excellence. The opportunity for integration of core business applications and project management services represents the next wave in the business.
Fulcrum is undoubtedly the premier EPM player in the South African market, based both on the completeness of the offering as well as the number and size of implementations to date.
SphericalAngle
SphericalAngle is a software development company owned by project management, new product development and software development professionals. By merging their years of experience and talents, SphericalAngle will create software solutions based on statistically sound methods for calculating feasible, high probability project commitment dates and monitoring project performance relative to those commitments.
We are an organisation dedicated to bringing together extreme talent to create extraordinary things. We offer our employees a non-traditional, artistic environment which recognises and rewards creativity, promotes synergistic approaches to total solutions, and values individual talents and personalities.
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