MID-MARKET AND DEPARTMENT-LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT MICROSOFT PROJECT SERVER ON AN ACCELERATED BASIS
March 8, 2005 (Press Release) --
Montreal, March 4, 2005. HMS announced today the creation of a new consulting package for organizations implementing Microsoft Project Server. HMS Consulting Services is a Microsoft authorized partner for the delivery of Microsoft’s new epm Adoption Framework services.
“HMS has been working on enterprise project management system deployments since 1984,” said Chris Vandersluis, President of HMS Software. “We’ve taken Microsoft’s recently designed Enterprise Project Management Adoption Framework and adapted it for deployment in the mid-market and division-level space.”
Microsoft’s epm Adoption Framework methodology for evaluating and deploying the Microsoft epm Solution including Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server, consists of three consultant-facilitated workshops. The Envisioning Workshop is designed to assist organizations in generating a consistent vision for enterprise project management across the organization that responds to the business needs of the organization. The Planning Workshop is designed to take that vision and to design the enterprise project management environment using Microsoft Project Server, Project Professional and other elements that may be required to realize the epm vision. The Implementation Workshop is designed to condition the existing IT infrastructure and the epm system to provide a secure, stable and maintainable project management system.
HMS consultants have been trained by Microsoft in delivering these workshops and have extended this methodology to a scale appropriate to organizations just getting started with epm.
“Our technical staffs have gone through extensive training both here at HMS and at Microsoft to be able to deliver this methodology for our enterprise level customers,” explained Stephen Eyton-Jones, Director of Technical Services for HMS. “What we’ve done with the RAF is to take that expertise and apply it in a different direction.”
The Rapid Adoption Framework is a two week program designed by HMS Consulting Services for organizations from 100 to 2000 employees with epm project management system deployments in the 50 to 500 user range. This program includes elements of Microsoft’s epm Adoption Framework as well as the installation and training of core personnel within a two week timeframe. The two weeks include 2 days for Envisioning and Planning the epm implementation, 2 days for installation of Project Server, 2 days of Administrator training and 4 days to train up to 10 core project management personnel in the use of the basic system.
HMS Consulting has also developed a range of additional modules to the Rapid Adoption Framework each of which allows a growing organization to expand the epm system in a particular direction. Additional modules include Advanced Security, Advanced Reporting Capabilities, Advanced Reporting and Custom Reporting, Project Portfolio Management, Communications and Collaboration and Integration with external Line of Business systems.
This pre-packaged methodology is available now from HMS Consulting Services.
For more information on the Rapid Adoption Framework or the epm Adoption Framework, contact HMS Software at info@hmssoftware.ca or visit the HMS Consulting Services website at www.hms.ca.
“HMS has been working on enterprise project management system deployments since 1984,” said Chris Vandersluis, President of HMS Software. “We’ve taken Microsoft’s recently designed Enterprise Project Management Adoption Framework and adapted it for deployment in the mid-market and division-level space.”
Microsoft’s epm Adoption Framework methodology for evaluating and deploying the Microsoft epm Solution including Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server, consists of three consultant-facilitated workshops. The Envisioning Workshop is designed to assist organizations in generating a consistent vision for enterprise project management across the organization that responds to the business needs of the organization. The Planning Workshop is designed to take that vision and to design the enterprise project management environment using Microsoft Project Server, Project Professional and other elements that may be required to realize the epm vision. The Implementation Workshop is designed to condition the existing IT infrastructure and the epm system to provide a secure, stable and maintainable project management system.
HMS consultants have been trained by Microsoft in delivering these workshops and have extended this methodology to a scale appropriate to organizations just getting started with epm.
“Our technical staffs have gone through extensive training both here at HMS and at Microsoft to be able to deliver this methodology for our enterprise level customers,” explained Stephen Eyton-Jones, Director of Technical Services for HMS. “What we’ve done with the RAF is to take that expertise and apply it in a different direction.”
The Rapid Adoption Framework is a two week program designed by HMS Consulting Services for organizations from 100 to 2000 employees with epm project management system deployments in the 50 to 500 user range. This program includes elements of Microsoft’s epm Adoption Framework as well as the installation and training of core personnel within a two week timeframe. The two weeks include 2 days for Envisioning and Planning the epm implementation, 2 days for installation of Project Server, 2 days of Administrator training and 4 days to train up to 10 core project management personnel in the use of the basic system.
HMS Consulting has also developed a range of additional modules to the Rapid Adoption Framework each of which allows a growing organization to expand the epm system in a particular direction. Additional modules include Advanced Security, Advanced Reporting Capabilities, Advanced Reporting and Custom Reporting, Project Portfolio Management, Communications and Collaboration and Integration with external Line of Business systems.
This pre-packaged methodology is available now from HMS Consulting Services.
For more information on the Rapid Adoption Framework or the epm Adoption Framework, contact HMS Software at info@hmssoftware.ca or visit the HMS Consulting Services website at www.hms.ca.
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