Overview
Marstrand Planning Intelligence provides you with a scalable view, from overview to detail of all elements of your planning and resources, giving you the control to create detailed and specific plans or to oversee your company, handing unforeseen events or difficulties smoothly, getting you back on track quickly.
Planning Intelligence considers four main dimensions: People, Projects, Finances, and Time.
People
Who is assigned to the job considering: competence profiles and experience; work hours and capacity, flexibility, part time, holidays, illness, or other activities.
Projects
Which projects or tasks need to be planned: Work Breakdown Structure, templates, easy and quick response to unforeseen events or difficulties, re-arranging schedules and people using drag and drop.
Finances
Stay on top of finances: create forecasts, reports, business intelligence graphics, and manage finances from overview of all projects to details of a single task or person.
Time
How to best navigate time: plan people and projects based on previous commitments and upcoming engagements, move projects and people in time and create forecasts and pipeline projects.
Benefits
Marstrand Innovation is founded on our many years of experience from resource control in manufacturing. We know effective resource management across multiple projects means there must be integration of all time horizons, from strategic Portfolio Management to operational execution, and there must be budgeting and follow up for financial considerations.
Resource Management is based on four main areas:
Time
Time is the main factor in managing resources. Planning Intelligence incorporates our unique, flexible time-line technology. Time resolution can be changed with one click between hour, day, week and month. Begin with monthly resolution and extend the degree of detail as a project phase comes closer. Zoom on day, week and month with automatic calculation.
Resources
Individuals and teams are assigned to jobs. Precise definition of capacity (working hours per day, absence and bookings and dates), cost and billing rates and competences. Resources can be individuals or budget resources to be reassigned. Planning can also include other types of resources such as equipment, rooms, or materials.
Projects, jobs, activities, time cells
A project is defined as detailed with WBS: Work Break Down Structure and dependencies. Resources are assigned to activities with input of hours in time cells directly in the planning board by day, week, or month. Link to documents and ”action lists” or ”to do’s”. Workflow control of procedures for resource management.
Financials
Activity based budgeting and follow up. Plan on any entity related to activities on the flexible time line, e.g. hours, costs, revenue, product or material units. It is much easier to make and control budgets than with traditional spreadsheets such as Excel™.
Features
• Multiple projects/activities – multiple resources
• Comprehensive resource management
• Ease of use. Combines spread sheet functionality with Gantt
• Time line flexibility: From years to hours in one system
• Time based financial consequences, cost and revenue.
• Flexible Business/Planning Intelligence.
• Configurable by the user. Columns, perspectives, commands.
• Safe technology and communication: Relational database.
Technical Details
A PC with a processor of a minimum of 1.5 GHZ, and a minimum of 2 GB RAM. As MPI is a graphical tool, the user experience will be better, the faster the PC is, and the more RAM is has – although the above requirements are sufficient.
The client needs Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7; with latest service pack; Microsoft .NET 2.0, latest build available. Also, if the MPI database server is Oracle you will need the Oracle instant client (Net 8).
The MPI database server
Any platform that supports either of the following databases can be used:
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005+ (recommended)
• Oracle 9i or 10g
Other requirements
The MPI clients will need access to a file server, for storing common configuration files as well as the license file (MI.lic).
All MPI clients, the MPI database server, and the file server mentioned above, should be in the same domain. Remote access can be accomplished by, e.g., a VPN connection.
Systems supported: Windows
Platforms/Certifications: None
Deployments: Client Server
Support, SLA, Guarantees, Data Security & Privacy Information
Market Coverage
Geographies served
• Asia
• Australia
• Canada
• China
• Europe
• India
• Latin America
• Middle-East and Africa
• United Kingdom
• United States
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Languages supported
• English
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Customer types served
• Large Enterprises
• Public Administrations
• Small Business
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