Take your Project and Portfolio Management to the next level, with a world-class, pre-configured solution for Project Online, aligned to industry standards and best practices.
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Boost your PMO with an award winning and powerful turn-key PPM solution.
Many PPM software solutions are complicated and hard to use. Some organisations spend months getting weighed down implementing solutions only to use a small portion of the functionality. At Sensei we have developed a pre-configured PPM solution that is easy to use and quick to get started so that you get both improved productivity and portfolio insights that help you make better decisions faster and equip your teams with the right tools to be successful from day one.
Trusted by brands globally, Empower PPM provides an end to end solution including comprehensive reporting, workflows, training and process support in all key PPM areas from project intake and prioritisation, resource and demand management, budgeting and cost tracking, planning and collaboration, Project and Portfolio reporting and PMO governance.
Sensei also provides continuous and evolving innovations through updates and new features to keep your PPM solution current with industry trends. By leveraging your investment in Microsoft 365, users can utilise the tools best suited for them; the richness of Empower PPM and Project Online; collaboration through Teams, Planner for ad hoc projects and leverage the flexibility of Power Apps and Flow to rapidly deploy custom business solutions and integration with Power BI for advanced analytics and reporting.
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Rapid Deployment That’s Scalable
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Proven Process and World Class Reporting
Empower PPM is a pre-configured, best practices PPM solution that is compliant with PMI® industry standards and aligns to Gartner's PPM recommendations, supporting both traditional and agile projects, or a hybrid of both. These industry standards and best practices are fully embedded into Empower PPM, ready to go.
It also comes with a World-Class Reporting platform that includes role-based reports and dashboards, and a data warehouse for reporting on related data from your Line of Business (LoB) systems.
BENEFITS
Cost Effective and Instant Return on Investment
Empower PPM facilitates trustworthy data in your PPM solution so you can focus on variances and exceptions and get the right projects successfully delivered, in a consistent manner. Having data your Executives can trust provides an instant return on investment and demonstrates the value of the solution.
Functionalities
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Create
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Plan
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Execute
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Collaborate
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Governance
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Report
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Enhance
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Integrate
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Reliability & Security
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Support
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Create
Project Intake and Prioritisation
Enable Executives to get an overview of incoming proposals with work and cost estimates; and show all projects and their relative priority in the portfolio. -
Plan
Resource Capacity / Demand Management
View the true utilisation of resources by role, team and department and easily see which projects are requesting and consuming resources. -
Execute
Project Planning and Collaboration
Monitor progress throughout the project lifecycle and understand and understand active risks and issues, action items, deliverables and missed deadlines across the portfolio.Budgeting and Cost Tracking
Get a portfolio level view of cost performance against budget and original baselines. Track spending by cost type and monitor variances. -
Collaborate
Strengthen everyday collaboration with the social experiences of Microsoft Teams, which facilitate discussions, information sharing, and your team’s ability to get work done.
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Governance
PMO Governance
From project lifecycle management to tracking compliance to project management and scheduling standards, Empower PPM will ensure governance and user adoption is achieved resulting in better data quality through the Microsoft PPM environment. -
Report
Project Status and Portfolio Reporting
Track portfolio performance with Key Performance Indicators and easy access to detailed project status information and SharePoint project site data. Empower PPM has natural language queries making it even simpler to get to the data you need.Embedded Power PI Reports
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Enhance
Create your own dashboards using the Portfolio Dashboard app. Microsoft purchased the app from Sensei in 2015 and incorporated the app into Microsoft Project Online. The tool provides great out-of-the-box dashboards and easy to use tools so that you can create your own dashboards.
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Integrate
The Sensei Integration Hub™ solution integrates with most Line of Business (LOB) systems so you can have all your project relevant data in one place.
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Reliability & Security
Microsoft takes care of the infrastructure, so you don’t have to. With comprehensive security accreditations and Service Level Agreements in place with their customers, you’re in safe hands.
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Support
The Sensei Customer Care team provides dedicated, Aussie based support staff to our clients across the PPM and productivity solutions we provide. The team is comprised of level 2 and 3 support specialists with a wide variety of skill sets and experience.
APPLICATIONS
The right apps for
the job
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Sensei Portfolio Advisor™
Provides automated governance and compliance reports to monitor data quality and ensure compliance to industry standards and best practices.
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Project Sync for Word
Project Sync for Word™ automatically syncs Microsoft Project Online content with your Word documents creating a single source of truth.
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Sensei Schedule Analyzer
Sensei Schedule Analyzer™ performs a series of quality checks on your entire Microsoft Project schedule to ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
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Sensei Bulk Update
Sensei Bulk Update™ allows selection of individual updates and publishing multiple enterprise fields across selected projects.
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Sensei Resource Heatmaps
Sensei Resource Heatmaps™ get instant insights of your resource availability, engagement, and coverage for effective resource management in Microsoft Project Online
Who is it for?
PMO & Finance
Enable the PMO to define business drivers, measure strategic impact of competing ideas, make funding decisions and view project and resource status across the enterprise whilst providing consistent and trustworthy data across your organisation.
Empower PPM enables the management of Project, Program and Portfolio Financial Forecast with the ability to manage Budget approval.
Executives
Enable Executives to define business drivers, measure strategic impact of competing ideas, make funding decisions and view project and resource status across the enterprise whilst providing consistent and trustworthy visibility of the Portfolio of Work within your organisation.
Project
Managers
Make project management easy and engaging for project managers by enabling them to analyse resources, budgets and timelines. Project managers can easily measure progress and anticipate resource needs with Sensei’s Empower PPM solution.
Resource Managers
Empower PPM provides resource managers with a heatmap across the enterprise highlighting capacity and overbookings to ensure visibility and accurate allocation of teams to complete tasks across projects and portfolios.
TECHNOLOGY
We use the Microsoft technology you've already invested in.
We combine our expertise in Microsoft technology with deep knowledge in modern work trends, real-world experience and modern industry best practices.
Customer Success
Through the years we’ve worked with some of Australia’s best brands. Hear their stories and discover how we can help on your productivity journey.
Case Studies
Great brands doing great things with Sensei.
