Do the right projects, the right way – with SAP project portfolio management software

Complete quality work on schedule and within budget – with efficient project portfolio management (PPM). SAP PPM software gives you robust tools to centrally manage the full project lifecycle, from forecasting and planning to tracking and accounting. It can help you invest the right resources in the right projects – and align strategy with business objectives.

Why SAP Portfolio and Project Management?

Because the PPM software can help you profitably develop new products and services – maximizing resources and speeding time to market. Get flexible support for your key processes, from project planning to closure, and seamlessly integrate financial and logistic information.

• Align initiatives with strategic goals to demonstrate – and increase – their value.
• Balance your portfolio based on risk, business objectives, and investment type.
• Identify project anomalies and risks, and make midcourse adjustments.
• Better allocate resources by capturing, prioritizing, and matching demand to available supply.
• Streamline and enforce approvals for funding, resources, gate decisions, and ongoing evaluations.
• Lower TCO with pre-built, services-based integration to disparate back-end systems.

Learn how SAP Portfolio and Project Management can simplify the lives of business users and IT staff.

Functional Capabilities

Portfolio management

• Align your portfolios with business goals and strategies.
• Get a quick and reliable overview of your entire portfolio.
• Manage a range of portfolios – including projects, programs, and services – within capital expenditure, R&D, professional services, and IT.

Project management

• Effectively manage project operations across your company – with tools for structuring, scheduling, visualization, and more.
• Support different implementation and management models, such as Six Sigma, Phase-Gate, critical-path, product and cycle-time excellence (PACE), and others.
• Incorporate all HR and financial resources, either within resource pools or enterprise-wide.

Resource management

• Optimize the use of human, capital, and equipment assets.
• Deploy resources efficiently and assign them to projects based on need, qualifications, and availability.
• Manage upcoming resource demand with information about effort, location, skill, and source requirements.
• Identify and deploy resources according to organizational structure and approval workflows.
• Maintain up-to-date information about employees’ skills and experience.

Portfolio project tracking and simulation

• Get a clear, company-wide view of initiatives, as well as detailed information about each program (such as project-cost actuals, forecasts, and baselines).
• Maximize visibility into project-cost data, forecasts, baselines, and other KPIs.
• View real-time constraints by running what-if scenarios and assessing the impact of various conditions on budgets, resources, and schedules.

Technical Capabilities

Our portfolio and project management software makes it easy for IT to integrate, extend, and deploy an enterprise-wide PPM solution.

Flexible deployment

Deploy as a standalone application or on top of an SAP ERP installation. Both options provide the same level of integration to financials and HR.

Integration approach

Communicate with components in SAP ERP (e.g. financials, project system, and HR) – or in third-party systems via SAP Remote function calls, SAP ALE technology, and Web services.

Object-based and object-oriented programming

Get IT up and running quickly with the application’s familiar object-based and ABAP-type programming.

Data model

The SAP Portfolio and Project Management architecture follows the classical separation of data access, presentation, and actual functional layers.

Business add-in

Add customer-specific logic through pre-defined business add-ins.