Program Management Platform

Does your Program Management and business workflow process help your company attain it’s full potential? Put your Corporate Program Management on cruise control and put Fundamentals™ in control of your business project and workflow requirements.

Fundamentals provides the core capabilities your business needs to manage any project, for any industry using any business methodology.

Our combination of program alignment, executive transparency and enterprise wide functionality provides your Program Management team with the right tools to facilitate results. Whether your Program Management requires the entire organization or just a specific group of users, Fundamentals is configurable to facilitate any corporate prgoram management need.

Platform Overview

Fundamentals Main Dashboard
The main dashboard is your centre of operations. It provides you with a quick overview of all your active programs, a view to your schedule, the budget and hours as well as displaying your current incomplete tasks, upcoming events and a listing of your core team across all your programs.

Navigational Tools
Fundamentals presents users with quick access to all their program management needs from the main navigational bar. My dashboard, calendar, manage records (customizable template management), repository (application wide data repository for assets and results logging), archive (closed programs which you can restore and clone) as well as help and logout.

Data Library
Fundamentals keeps track of all your assets and records in the data library. This is where you will locate any file, template or record you have created within the system.

Calendar View
The Fundamentals calendar gives you high level view of upcoming programs deliverables, milestones and events.by day, week, month and by project. All views can by filtered to show only the information of a certain kind, from a certain program, by status and if you are a manager you can even filter by employee.

Calendar . day view
Calendar day view allows “click.to.edit” functionality for any item in the day view. Simply click on an event.

My Accounts List
The my accounts list is simply a listing of user defined groups of contacts. You create an account and then add contacts to that account. It.s a great way to quickly see a collection of contacts at a single time. You can filter by person, program, status and due date.

Creating a New Program
Fundamentals makes it easy to build, customize, store and reuse program processes. Its innovative program composer makes it a snap to create a program. Fundamental. process (s) that conforms to the way you work.

Program Lists
The my programs list shows not only complete listing of all your open programs but also allows you to filter programs by client, account, owner, type and status. The list also employs a colour coding system to identify programs that are behind (red background) or ahead (green background) of schedule . a very quick way to get a feel for all you are involved in.

Program Manager
Every active program has an associated program manager site. This gives program participants easy access to view/edit/delete or add all the fundamentals of the program including plan, proposal, business case, brief, concepts as well as create the team, a repository, talk (team communications) and a program log. These program fundamentals allow collaborative teams to excel and work together through a single environment.

Program Composer
The backbone of any program, project or campaign is the process behind it. The program composer allows you to build your process stage by stage through the use of user customizable stage templates. You can also create your own stages

Sliding Panels
Along the right side of your Fundamentals screen, we have positioned 6 often used functions in sliding panels. These panels provide users with quick access to your alerts and notifications, task list, event list, a data inspector and the advance search. Just click a tab and its right there.

Todays Fundamentals sliding panel
Todays Fundamentals gives you an overview of your day, tasks, events, deliverables and meetings. By default it shows you everything across all programs but it also provides drop down menus to filter the content types it displays and a filter by specific programs.

My Contacts List
Fundamentals knows the importance of people to any program. Thats why it shows you more information about each contact in list view, allows you to link to corporate contact directory systems and outlook exchange servers, on top of allowing you to create your own contacts through create menu. You can filter your contact list in any number of ways filter by department, by program or account.

Program Plan, Schedule and Spend
The program plan allows you to create and manage the activities, schedule and spending requirements for the current program. The schedule provides a quick representation of the project timeline (month or weekly view). Both the schedule and the spend can be filtered by task, lead, department or channel.

Program Stages
You decide the stages for a program and you can customize the templates for each stage. The templates for a proposal, business case, brief or a concept are easily edited by the user to suit all programs or for each program. You can create new ones for a new stage. All stages record and store the written or visual content, all attachments and reviewer comments and approvers approval.

The Proposal
Is where the idea is outlined, defined and presented.

The Business Case
Allows you to define the value to the business.

The Brief
You may need a marketing, product, research or any type of project brief. The Concept The creative, the prototype . it is easy to see. Simply upload and view. Fundamentals will track the time it was uploaded, who and number of concepts.

The Execution
Timeline An easy to understand timeline in Gantt chart view of status/progress.

Program Team
To make it easy to connect with your team, Fundamentals aggregates all the contacts and resources you have added to the program or stage of the program into a program contact master list. It is separated into your internal and your external contacts. For easy use you can filter by keywords, department or by type.

Fundamental Alerts
Fundamentals keeps you informed and up to date with event-based alerts. Events such as saved or completed tasks, missed deadlines, meeting reminders, sign off.s etc. are all presented as a pop up and archived into the alerts/reminders sliding panel. Alerts can also be forwarded to your email account or to your blackberry.

   

Program Management Platform
Platform Overview