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Requi rements Management
Test Management
P ro j e c t Ma n a g e me n t
Po r t f o l i o Ma n a g e me n t
C o l l a b o ra t i o n
Asset Management
In ter face and API 's
Project & Portfolio Management Solution
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SemanticSpace PPM Studio is a collaborative, end-to-end, scalable, enterprise solution that helps organizations in managing projects from
inception to delivery. It has the following building blocks to manage the entire spectrum of the Software Development.
Overview
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is a means of maximizing returns and reducing costs in project portfolios. PPM looks at entire
organization's investments in the various projects with one common objective, “Achieving The Business Goals”. PPM Studio provides complete
visibility of critical project metrics throughout the application lifecycle. With the industry’s first integrated PPM solution for Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM), it provides automated reporting of project status, from the initial idea / request, through prioritization and execution, to
completion and release, and finally to benefits analysis.
Modules
Portfolio Management
Project Management
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Schedule Management
Test Management
Defect Management
Build Management
Release Management
Workflow Management
Communication Management
Dashboard Management
Asset Management
Security Management
Risks Management
Auditability
Reports Management
Documents Management
Audit
Reports
Idea’s
Search Documents
Timesheet
Dashboard
Security
Functions & Roles
Notifications & ToDo’s
Communication
Checklists
Status
Lifecycle
Traceability
Build Management
Risk Management
Realtime Documentation
Repository
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PPM helps organizations to best align their IT and systems investments with
business priorities and goals. The Project Portfolio dashboard gives real time
visibility to the executive management about portfolio performance. Some of
the key features are provided below.
Features
An intuitive workflow designer helps you quickly define and automate your project portfolio management
(PPM) governance processes.
Business goals definition and rating to clearly define organization business strategy
4Capture all project requests and detailed business cases in accordance with your organization’s
governance processes.
4Automatically derive prioritization scores such as strategic value, financial value, risks to objectively
assess projects.
4Use prioritization scores to build intuitive charts to effectively evaluate the competing investments
within the portfolio.
43D view to show strategic position of the project in the portfolio
4Powerful ‘What-if’ analysis provides various strategy selection criteria, e.g. Highly strategy project
selection, cost-effective project selection, Long term gain, short term gain, conservative, balanced
score-card etc.
4Option to force-fully select or deselect the projects from project portfolio selection criteria.
4Powerful project portfolio dashboard provides real time visibility on overall portfolio performance, rates
each project against key performance indicators and various eye-opener matrices to evaluate optimal
usage of organization resources
4Drill down from the portfolio level to view the latest status report for each project.
Automated and Enforced PPM
Governance Processes
Select portfolios that best align
with your business strategy
Prioritize and effectively evaluate
competing investments
Manage Portfolio performance
effectively
Align projects to the organization strategy and optimally utilize the enterprise resources
Project Portfolio Management
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Unique top down approach to define organization business goals and align projects accordingly
Gain visibility and control by automated governance processes, standardized data collection, and tracking portfolio performance through Portfolio Dashboard
Integration with PPM Studio Enterprise Project Management to enable streamlined software delivery and lifecycle management with automated best practice processes gives end-to-end visibility
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Configurable templates for project charter (in MS Word) and Work
Breakdown Structure (WBS) - two way integration with MS Project
Create WBS and allocate work orders to resources directly from the
WBS which can be tracked for effort
Allows to search enterprise resource database to select resources
having required skill as per project requirements
Workflow Engine to define custom lifecycles according to project type
Project Dashboard to provide real time visibility about project progress
Cost Management
Risk Management
Stakeholder's management
PPM Studio offers advanced enterprise level project management with extensive benefits to Project Management Office (PMO) teams to efficiently
initiate, execute and deliver the projects:
Features
Project Header
Project Charter
Work Breakdown structure
Project Team
Cost Management
Change Management
Quality Management
Risks and Issue Management
Communication Management
Roles and Responsibilities
Workflow
Capture important project metadata information like: Planned Start and End Dates, Actual Start and End
Dates, Planned and Actual effort, Project Requester and Sponsor, Estimated budget, Risk Rating etc.
Organization defined configurable project template to define project charter
Do task planning, allocate resources, and define duration and dependencies. Gantt chart visually displays
planned vs. actual task execution statistics. Resource allocation view details about over allocation and
under allocation.
Select best fit resources from enterprise resource database, evaluate skills, provide security privilege,
multiple roles and responsibilities
Define resource wise project cost, billing rate, overtime details, asset cost, expenses like travel, rewards etc.
Manage change across any stage of project development
Manage change across any stage of project development
Create Test Plans, Test execution, monitoring and defect management using important quality metrics like
Pareto chart etc.
Capture risks across the project development lifecycle, do risk planning, allocate tasks to stakeholder's to
mitigate the risk.
Call for project meetings, discussion threads, review comments, notifications and escalations
Define roles and responsibilities of various stakeholder's groups
Configurable workflow on the basis of project type, priority, size
Enterprise Project Management
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Requirements Management
Features
Requirements Development
Collaboration
Requirements Management
Traceability
Audit ability
Ease of Learning
4Establish structured Requirements development, review and approval process.
4Multiple stakeholders' involvements with defined roles and responsibilities.
4Supports industry standards like traditional, RUP, Agile and organizations defined document templates.
4Establish logical link between dependent requirements.
4Use case development and Non functional requirements definition.
4Structured review and approval process by multiple stakeholders group, requirements review and approval
board.
4Digital signatures, discussion threads, review comments, walkthrough’s and meetings.
4Workflow driven automated To-Do’s and notifications.
4Integration with build Management, project management and release management modules.
4Report generation in PDF or MS Word format.
Requirements prioritization, categorization, and effort estimation.
4End-to-End traceability with specifications, design documents, code objects, test scripts, defects.
4Understand the impact of requirement changes and change request management.
4Versioning and Base lining.
4Actions Tracking.
4Edit History.
4Developed on top of widely accepted Windows XP platform following Windows XP UI guidelines by
Microsoft.
4Quick navigation to related artifacts or forms reduces training and learning curve.
PPM Studio ensures, complete and timely delivery of application software by
providing a strong requirements development and management environment
to build and deliver right requirements and features into the application
software.
Offers a unique methodology to gather software requirements and helps
enterprises to upgrade from unstructured requirements development
process to the structured requirements development process
End-to-End Requirements Management ensures traceability between
business requirements, system components, technical specifications,
test scripts, and defects
Collaboration among cross-functional teams to participate in
requirements development, review and approval process all using a
single database repository
Change Request Management to manage change at any stage of development
Requirements repository and real –time documentation can be achieved in real time
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Collaboration
PPM Studio brings project team member’s, stake holder’s and executive management onto the same platform by providing complete set of
collaboration modules required by an enterprise to effective execute the projects.
Features
Dashboard
Security and Administration
Document Management System
Workflow
Resource Dashboard: Provides information to the project team members about the active work order’s,
to-do’s, notifications, timesheet, planned event, communication and much more.
Project Dashboard: Displays the real-time information about project health by displaying important and
critical metrics.
4Role based security mechanism to ensure the confidentiality and criticality of the information.
4Project level security to ensure that only project team members should have access to the project data.
4In built secured document repository to store project documents in secured SQL database repository.
4Folder level privileges to avoid unauthorized access of the document.
4Linking and embedding of documents to projects artifacts.
4Document review and approval lifecycle.
4Document metadata and full text search.
Highly configurable visual workflow allows custom lifecycle definition, to-do's, functions and roles,
statuses, notifications and checklists
4Role Based
Dashboard4Work Orders and To-
do’s4Priorities4Time sheet4Idea Management 4Personalization4Work Spaces4Planned Evnets
DashboardResource Management
4Organization Hierarchy4Roles and
Responsibilities4Skills Assessment4Trainings4Capacity Planning4Delegation4Resource Allocation4Resource Utilization
4Profile Based Security4Security Groups4Virtual Teams4Form Locking4Guest Users4Login As
4Artifacts Search4Saved Searches4Artifact Views4Dynamic Views4Reports (in Words)
4Secured Documents
Repository4Review and Approvals4Meta Data Search4Full Text Search4Administration
4Lifecycle4Status4Functions and Roles4Checklists4Notifications4Issue Management
4Requirements4Specifications4Test Cases4System
Documentation
4Emails4Notifications4To-Do's4Discussions4Comments4Sticky Notes
Security &Administration
Search & Views
DocumentsManagement
Workflow
System Repository
CommunicationCentral
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Enterprise Resource Management
Features
Organization Structure
Organization Capacity
Planning and Management
Time sheet
Time sheet Review and
Approval
Integration with Enterprise
Project Manager
Planned Events
4Hierarchy based organization structure definition ensures resource organization as per organization
reporting and escalation structure
4Captures important resource information like contact details, position details and other HR and network
details
4Capacity planning module keeps track of resource involvement across various projects and ensures optimal
usage, of the resources, avoids over allocation and under utilization
4Resource Time sheet allows the resources to fill daily accomplishments while executing a work or update the
effort spent on completing the work.
4Keep tracks of planned and actual effort
4Timesheet Review and Approval mechanism authenticates resource managers to review the work
performed by the resources and approve or reject the effort hours reported
4Resource Management integration with Enterprise Project Manager keep track of work order allocation,
effort tracking and project work cost
4Planned Events allows the resources to inform project managers or reporting managers about the planned
events e.g. vacation plan, which helps project managers to consider dependencies while doing project
planning
Resource Management benefits the organization by ensuring optimal human
resource utilization. Resource Management offers organization wide capacity
planning and management, resource skills and training management,
resource timesheet, timesheet review, planned events etc.
Hierarchy based organization structure management provides complete
overview of organization structure
Organization capacity planning and management ensures optimal
resource planning, avoids over allocation and under utilization
Skills based resource management ensures best fit resource allocation
to project as per project requirement
Timesheet empowers the project managers to get details of the work
performed.
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Asset Management
Features
Asset Inventory
Asset Portfolio Management
Finance Management
Leased Asset Management
Asset Documents
Management
Enterprise Project
Management Integration
4Central repository to keep track of all organization assets
4Provides real time up-to-date status information about organization assets
4Streamlines budgeting and fore casting process
4Show used and unused asset statistics
4Provides details about total cost of ownership
4Capitalized vs. Non Capitalized assets
4Depreciation Calculation
4Manages Leased assets
4Lease Revision
4Maintain and manage electronic format of all important asset documents in the integrated documents
repository
4The documents remains intact with the asset and are secured with limited access
4Integration with PPM Studio Enterprise manager ensures the assets cost calculation while calculating
project cost
Asset Management helps organizations to manage their asset inventories,
asset requirements, budgeting, forecasting and ensures adequate asset
utilization. It keeps track of assets allocation, asset expiry, leased assets,
lease revision and avoids penalties in case of lease expiry. It ensures the
optimal usage of organization assets which benefits the organization in huge
cost savings by avoiding expenditures on non-used assets.
Asset inventory management keeps up-to-date information of all
organization assets
Protects from over-usage of software licenses and always keeps the
organization audit ready
Total Cost of Ownership provides precise details of all the expense heads
incurred while procuring the asset
Leased Asset Management ensures timely revision of assets to avoid
penalties
It keeps all the asset documents intact to the inventory in the electronic format
Integration with PPM Studio Enterprise Management ensures the assets cost calculation while calculating the project cost
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Test Management
Test Management offers unique complete quality management model which
keeps track of product quality across all the SDLC phases from business
requirements development until product delivery to the customer.
It ensures that delivered product should meet all quality objectives, passed
through all quality tests and ensures that all the business requirements
should have been properly developed, tested and delivered to the customer.
It benefits the organization by providing maximum returns on investments,
structured quality processes, optimal usage of QA resources, reducing total
cost of ownership and much more…
Features
Test Plan
Test Case Design
Test Run (Test Scheduling
and Execution)
Defect Logging and
Tracking
Test Results, Reports and
Metrics
4Test Plan creation aligned to Project and Release Plan
4Testing Requirements definition from Release Scope
4Test Strategy formulation comprises of defining test cycles, testing approaches to be used among various
cycles
4QA Resource Planning
4Structured Test Case Definition with important parameters like: Preconditions, test case steps, pass fail
criteria, priority etc.
4Test Case automation by attaching QTP script to the test case
4Scheduling of test cases for execution on the basis of the readiness of the software build
4Capturing test results while execution
4Defect logging in case of test case failure
4Defect logging with important attributes like: Severity, Priority, Impacted component, Associated risk, Test
Environment etc.
4Defects identification, logging and categorization across the SDLC: Requirements Defects, Design Defects,
Code Defects etc.
4Defect life cycle definition to ensure track to closure
Overall quality management and monitoring with the help of graphical metrics:
4Test Success Ratio: Graphical report to show % of test cases passed-failed in different test cycles
4Week wise Defect Find vs. Fix Rate
4Week wise defects introduced and re-opened
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Complete quality management from business requirements
development to product delivery
Test plan development and Test Strategy formulation in accordance to project and release plan
Automated Test Scheduling
Manual Testing and automation by integration with Quick Test Professional (QTP)
Easy to use user interface
Defect logging and track to closure
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Features
Integration with Code repositories
Development Tools
Build Management
Business Applications
Project Management
Communication
Collaboration
Testing Automation
Manual testing
Network Management
Microsoft Visual Source Safe, PVCS, SVN, Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server
SAP Transport Manager
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Share point
Mercury Quick Test Professional
Test Director
Windows Active Directory and LDAP
Test Management
Test Results, Reports and
Metrics
End-to-End Traceability
4Week wise defects introduced and re-opened
4Phase wise defect removal efficiency calculated on the basis of defects captured during multiple SDLC
phases
4Review and Testing Effectiveness
Cost of Quality: The effort spent on developing the application vs. effort spent on project planning, reviews and
rework.
End-to-End traceability with all engineering objects:
Business Requirements, Technical Specifications, System Components, Test Cases, Code objects, Defects
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Interfaces and APIs
SemanticSpace PPM Studio comes with a rich set of integration APIs which
provides a great value proposition in terms of reducing total cost of
ownership, deployment challenges and increases reusability, user
acceptance and product success. Integration with most of the industry
standard SDLC products:
Microsoft: MS SharePoint, MS Office, MS Project, MS Outlook
Development Tools: Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe, SVN
SAP: SAP Transport Manager
QA Tools: Quick Test Professional, Test Director
API’s exposed to integrate with your legacy applications
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software engineers are providing solutions to enterprises across the globe. SemanticSpace's Technology Development Centers are located in
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SemanticSpace's technology labs are built to provide Strategic Outsourcing services that include end-to-end product engineering services,
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augmentation services. SemanticSpace leverages its enduring alliance with Microsoft as a Gold Certified partner while providing solutions to its
customers. SemanticSpace specializes in developing strategic business solutions using its proven onsite-offshore delivery model - a stabilized
project execution methodology using its homegrown tools PPM Studio (a collaborative, end-to-end, scalable, enterprise solution that helps in
managing change from concept to delivery of a software project or solution) and QMWare (facilitates deploying high-quality applications quickly
and effectively by better test management throughout the application testing cycle) to meet specific customer requirements.
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