GijimaAst launches `Complete Integrated Life Cycle Governance Solution`

GijimaAst has recognised that CIOs and IT directors need the ability to manage and rationalise both the applications they are running and the projects that support them, ensuring they are aligned with key business objectives.

At the same time, they must control IT costs to allow funding of initiatives that offer the greatest benefit to the organisation. Finally, they must be able to justify IT expenditures and convey the business value that they are delivering.

To succeed in these pursuits, IT departments must overcome three significant challenges, complicated by the constantly changing business requirements.

1) They must manage a complex array of applications across the enterprise, even though they often lack a system for tracking all the applications they`re supporting and the associated costs.

2) They must assess and manage a variety of IT projects that historically have not been evaluated for strategic relevance, which has resulted in supporting initiatives that are of little or no value to the business.

3) Third, they must bridge the obvious disconnect which separates IT departments and the business goals of the organisation and compromises effective management of applications, projects and resources.

GijimaAst also recognises that technology and business units must collaborate to align IT initiatives with strategic organisational goals.

ProSight, whose exclusive implementation partner in SA is GijimaAst, has developed the ProSight Portfolios Solution for IT governance. Built on ProSight`s collaborative top-down portfolio management system, the solution integrates project portfolio management and application rationalisation with the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) platform to provide an automated system for process-driven portfolio management.

GijimaAst has taken this a step further to provide a "Complete Integrated Life Cycle Governance Solution".

1) Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Business Scorecard provide strategic visibility and insight by enabling accurate and comprehensive measurement of the company`s activities in terms of their vision and strategy.

2) Firstly, by using the Microsoft platform GijimaAst has integrated into SQL Server reporting services as well as Business Scorecard to complete the strategic alignment. This enables the accurate and comprehensive measurement by been able to accurately and comprehensively measure and view companies` activities in terms of their vision and strategies.

3) Secondly, GijimaAst has built the connection capability into ERP systems like SAP. This makes it easier than ever for organisations to effectively manage and coordinate their people, projects and processes. Organisations today are often challenged by how to track and measure the effectiveness of a large number of projects in various aspects of their work, and aligning IT costs with business objectives is becoming increasingly important. Executives - especially those tasked with project management oversight in the program management office (PMO) and IT governance areas - need to efficiently allocate resources among different ongoing initiatives, and evaluate project success and costs from a strategic vantage point.

4) Thirdly, GijimaAst has packaged its solution around an enterprise-scale workflow and business process automation solution also built on the Microsoft technology platform. K2.net automates any business process spanning people, divisions, technology and distance using Microsoft`s .NET platform. K2.net can unlock unmatched productivity levels from an existing human and technology resources, showing dramatic return on investment (ROI) numbers in a short period of time.

GijimaAst`s "Complete Integrated Life Cycle Governance Solution" connects business and IT strategic planning capabilities with detailed project, resource, assets and task management capabilities, allowing organisations to align projects, assets and resources with strategic business objectives, satisfying business needs with fewer resources, track IT spending and performance, and optimising IT budgets and planning.