UMT South Africa, South Africa's leading project, program and portfolio management services, consulting and outsourcing company, has just completed its 25th Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 2007 implementation. Along with the more than 60 EPM 2003 implementations that UMT SA has performed successfully, this brings the total count of implementations performed by UMT SA to over 80.
As the leading EPM implementation company in South Africa, UMT SA has assisted organisations with enterprise project management for the last nine years, having implemented more solutions than any of the other partners in the market.
UMT SA gained extensive knowledge of the EPM environment by implementing the 2003 version of Microsoft's EPM at over 60 of its clients. In 2007, UMT SA introduced the EPM Accelerator based on the 2007 version of EPM. The EPM Accelerator fast tracks an EPM implementation and provides organisations with a pre-configured solution, based on best practices, to get them out of the starting blocks quicker.
In the last 18 months, UMT SA has implemented 25 Microsoft EPM 2007 solutions averaging more than one a month. Of the 25 implementations, many have been to clients who are new to the EPM environment, while several of the implementations have been migrating clients from the 2003 to the 2007 version of EPM. UMT SA has also been called in to assist companies who initially decided to do the implementations themselves or initially chose a different company to do the implementation. Correctly implementing an EPM solution is a complex set of activities and it is therefore important to choose a company such as UMT SA with experience and knowledge of the product.
UMT SA does not target any specific type of market space, but rather provides its services to a range of organisations with various different needs and from different sectors. UMT SA's implementations have been provided to a range of organisations from banks to IT companies across Africa and as far afield as the United States of America.
In February this year, a leading IT company in the United States engaged with UMT SA to assist them with their EPM implementation. "Being asked to implement EPM at an IT company in the States is a great acknowledgement of what we are doing and that we are doing it correctly," says Dennin Smith, UMT SA's Training Manager.
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Project delivery scores have consistently been rated above 85% whereas their solutions consultants have received ratings in excess of 90% during the last six months.
"Many reasons have contributed to this, but the bottom line is we are the best in the business. We have the best people, processes and experience. Combining Fulcrum's extensive technical skills and experience with UMT SA's mature portfolio, programme and project management services, UMT SA now offers and end-to-end solution to our customers.
"Further to this, UMT SA extensively understands PPPM tools and practices, specifically how these items can and should work in practice. Case and point, UMT SA uses the EPM toolset and PPPM methods in-house to manage all its projects from inception to final delivery. We use the EPM information along with all its back-office functions from leave planning to invoicing," says Ruan Schutte, UMT SA's Enabling Technology and Special Services Manager.
UMT SA's implementations include configurations based on the client's needs and then providing training, mentoring and support on the configured solution. UMT SA is also positioned to provide additional services such as maturity assessments and assisting clients with the establishment of their project office, both of which help to ensure the successful adoption of EPM.
UMT Project and Portfolio Management Services South Africa (UMT SA)
UMT Project and Portfolio Management Services South Africa (UMT SA) was formed through the merger of Fulcrum Business Solutions, South Africa's leading provider of enterprise project management solutions, and UMT Portfolio Management SA, South Africa's leading portfolio management organisation.
UMT SA is a leader in the field of project and portfolio management and offers unique methodologies that, when combined with effective project management, enable an integrated link between strategy formulation and execution. We contribute to our clients' success by linking business, product, and IT strategies to day-to-day activities leading to improved performance and tangible results.
We are the leading project, program and portfolio management (PPPM) services, consulting and outsourcing company in South Africa, and have serviced more than a 100 of the country's leading organisations with our offerings.
We apply solutions that consistently help our clients build capabilities that support effective business decision-making and enhance business delivery performance. Our objective is to assist our clients in ensuring the operational delivery of their strategy through effective project, program and portfolio management.
UMT SA is a product independent services company with experience to deploy PPP management solutions that will suit clients' specific requirements. Visit our Web site: www.umtsa.co.za.
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