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CQC Launches PMO Out of the Box – Clarity University Edition

CQC has been discussing project portfolio management requirements with several Universities and is now responding to help Universities address financial restrictions common to all.

All the Universities we have been working with recognise they have significant scope to improve the operational efficiencies relating to how they manage projects. They also seek to dramatically improve management access and visibility to accurate and timely information about their projects.

Whilst the value of using sound PPM methods and a tool to enable automation is generally accepted by the Universities, they have struggled to find a solution that functionally meets their needs within budget, principally because initial budgets and usage have been small. CQC, however, has the answer!

CQC has used its extensive ‘real world’ experience to provide common sense best practices and a pre-configured ‘ready to go’ PPM solution that meet the needs of Universities from a starting point of just 10 users. This solution can deliver business results in 90 days, and in most cases even sooner.

As a result, Universities adopting this solution get a high performance, highly secure Software as a Service (SaaS) version of CA Clarity, the market leading PPM solution, and a comprehensive package of services from CQC:

• 95% Pre Configured for University requirements – IP that is worth over six months of consultancy.
• Essential PPM Approval and Change management processes (Prince2 Lite)
• Task, Resource, Time, and Cost management
• Project Execution, Risk and Issue management
• Suite of comprehensive reports for key users and management
• Management Key Performance Indicators dashboards
• 1 man day set-up and minor field change tuning for individual Universities
• Standard Documentation
• A powerful online training tool that is much more than just eLearning
• Uses a “Show me > Test me > Help me” approach
• Significantly assists user adoption and encourages consistent ‘best practice use’
• Support available 5 days a week, 9 to 5. 15 minutes email response. 1 hour turnaround to issues
• 1 day user training