Kovair PPM is a one-stop solution to manage budget, schedule, resources, and actuals through a unified platform. It delivers greater value by connecting planning to execution. Portfolio and Program Managers can use Kovair PPM to optimize their project portfolios, balance the capacity against the different project demands, and link plans and resources to the actual project execution. Kovair PPM allows to optimize your project portfolios, furnish demands with available capacity, define plans and allocate resources for project execution. It provides you with real-time data and increased visibility to help you make correct investment decisions. It helps you streamline, standardize, execute and manage the entire business at product, project, program, and portfolio levels. Organizations using Kovair PPM are better equipped with managing multiple portfolios, resources, staffing, budget and overall business goals. Kovair PPM enables the mapping of initiatives to portfolio to projects to the final outcomes. It allows to define strategic initiatives, decide and approve the relevant projects for execution, provide deeper insights into projects and programs through EVMs, providing valuable inputs, enabling the management in making data-oriented decisions. Kovair’s unified and comprehensive PPM helps you analyze and prioritize market and customer requirements that you need to deliver quality products on time and on budget. DEtails - https://www.kovair.com/alm/project-portfolio-management/

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Acceleration, efficiency, and agility are the critical needs of today's Project Management Organizations
(PMO). Meeting those requirements is extremely difficult if resources, time and cost are used in wrong
and unplanned initiatives. For a successful project delivery, it is important that key decision makers have
critical information about the portfolio, program, project, resource, finance, risk in real-time to make the
right investment decisions.
Time, cost, and resource are the biggest management challenges in any project. Without central visibility
on project progress, effort estimation and cost optimization become guess work. How do you decide which
project to invest on depending upon the available time, budget and resource? How do you know if your
project goals are realistic and aligned with IT investments? How do you capture and measure plan vs.
execution details, supply vs demand trend, risk vs return in a distributed tool environment? Too often,
managers make decisions based on the ongoing customer inputs or the instructions led by business
heads.
Portfolio decisions, if not made based on real-time project data cutting across tool boundaries may lead
to deadlines slippage and severe project failure.
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Kovair Project and Portfolio Management
Delivering Promises, Not Just Projects

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Kovair PPM - An Overview
Kovair PPM is a one-stop solution to manage budget, schedule, resources, and actuals through a unified platform. It delivers
greater value by connecting planning to execution. Portfolio and Program Managers can use Kovair PPM to optimize their
project portfolios, balance the capacity against the different project demands, and link plans and resources to the actual
project execution.
Kovair PPM allows to optimize your project portfolios, furnish demands with available capacity, define plans and allocate
resources for project execution. It provides you with real-time data and increased visibility to help you make correct
investment decisions. It helps you streamline, standardize, execute and manage the entire business at product, project,
program, and portfolio levels. Organizations using Kovair PPM are better equipped with managing multiple portfolios,
resources, staffing, budget and overall business goals.
Kovair PPM enables the mapping of initiatives to portfolio to projects to the final outcomes. It allows to define strategic
initiatives, decide and approve the relevant projects for execution, provide deeper insights into projects and programs through
EVMs, providing valuable inputs, enabling the management in making data-oriented decisions.
Kovair's unified and comprehensive PPM helps you analyze and prioritize market and customer requirements that you need
to deliver quality products on time and on budget.
Kovair Unifies PPM and ALM
Beyond project portfolio management capability, Kovair also manages application portfolio and application lifecycle from
ideation to development to delivery stage. In a typical scenario, Product, Project & Portfolio managers use disparate
systems to monitor and report on overall progress and deliverability. Without synergy between the tool systems, data
hierarchy and consolidated reporting at ground-up level, it is difficult to take portfolio decisions and address key market
requirements.
Kovair PPM with its built-in Application Lifecycle Management - ALM capabilities builds an integrated PPM-ALM
solution for organizations that want to manage their enterprise portfolio, including program, projects, and
products from a single and centralized place. Kovair PPM and ALM combined together provide an integrated
work environment for managing Project, Program, Portfolio, Requirements, Test Cases, Defects, Tasks,
Timesheets, Risks, Releases, Help Desk and IT operations – the end-to-end support for governing product and
project lifecycle.
With Kovair, you get the flexibility and transparency to meet challenging economic conditions and be prepared for
ongoing micro-and macro level changes in products, projects, programs, and portfolios.

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Kovair PPM Key Features
Project Initiation
• Complete visibility to the Portfolio of objects – Programs, Project Ideas / Opportunities, Proposals, Contracts
• Specific users from the resource pool are assigned to the Program.
• Allows to gather, track and manage internal Project Ideas from various sources
• Allows to track Opportunities from Prospects / Customers
• Every Project Idea / Opportunity moves through an approval process
Charter Agreement
• Proposal is created automatically from an approved Project Idea.
• Defines High level WBS, Cost, Deliverables, Risk, etc. at the Proposal

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Project Planning using Task Scheduler
• Task Scheduler allows Project manager to create a Project Plan
• Allocate resources to each of the WBS items defined in the Project Plan
• Tightly coupled with Project Calendar and automatically assigns Planned Start and Finish Dates honoring
company holidays and weekend day-offs as defined in the Calendar
• Provides visual representation of the Project Plan through Gantt and Pert charts
• Allows to define Task Dependencies and enable auto assignment of Planned dates of the WBS Items
• Automatic synching of Actual Dates and Duration in Task Scheduler based on the timesheet entries and
completion of the Task by resources
• Enable single visibility to Project Manager from Task Scheduler to compare planned vs actuals
The Beneficiaries of Kovair PPM-ALM
Timesheets
• Provides a web-based timesheet module to record time entries for individual resources.
• Time entries against each Task can be provided on a day-wise basis along with
percentage complete to indicate the progress of work done per Task
• Time entries done are submitted to individual’s supervisor for approval.
• The Timesheet tool allows managers to manage their subordinates Timesheets, as well as
their own Timesheets.
• Time entries submitted, approved or rejected are clearly depicted by different color indicators
Resource Loading
• The system automatically alerts the Project Manager when resources get overloaded.
• The system indicates against those WBS items for which the assigned resource got
overloaded.
• It shows on a day wise basis, the hours of work each resource has contributed.
• If a resource has 8 hours of work or less in a day it is shown in green but if more than 8 hours
of work is allotted to a resource, it is shown in red, indicating that the resource is overloaded.
Resource Allocation
• Provides a dedicated Resource Availability page as well as the same page can be accessed from Task Scheduler
• It shows resource wise the no. of open Tasks, hours required to complete the open tasks, the earliest available date
when the resource can be available and the list of Projects they are assigned to.

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Program Execution
• Provides dashboards to show Program Health and Projects Health
• Health of the projects is portrayed with respect to Cost and effort, open Tasks count per Project from the Program
level, the amount of time spent by the users on the different projects, and various other information
Approvals & Feedbacks
• Kovair PPM provides Task based workflow mechanisms by which the various teams can engage to do reviews
and provide approval.
• Kovair provides an entity management framework that allows to define appropriate entities to record all
customer inputs, feedbacks, market/tech landscape, etc. while going through the execution of a Project

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Top View Management for Project Review
• Kovair PPM provides built-in graphical and textual reports in Word, Excel, PDF formats and dashboards
with real-time drilldown data access.
• Allows users to configure KPIs as per organizational need and give access to different users based on their
roles and responsibilities.
• Allows users to generate pre-formatted word documents from the application.

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Business Benefits
Ensure PMO Success
Kovair PPM comes with Integrated Project Management capabilities ensuring PMO success. Starting from project
initiation to project closure, all the activities are effectively and efficiently managed using Kovair PPM using EVM
metrics.
Improved Portfolio performance
Kovair PPM enables managers to establish standard evaluation and selection criteria for projects. It helps you
develop and optimize planning scenarios, communicate investment decisions to cross-functional team heads and
monitor overall performance at the portfolio level.
Capacity Planning, Demand and Resource Management
Kovair PPM comes with built-in resource forecasting capability based on the project plans created by the project
managers. It facilitates in the effective and optimized allocation of resources with respect to different project
demands on one hand and the availability of resources on the other. It not only helps in identifying over-allocation
of resources but also helps in identifying under-utilized resources.
Task and Time Tracking
Kovair PPM allows users to track their actual time spent on each of their assigned Tasks using the Timesheet
module of Kovair. Once they capture their times, the actuals can be viewed against the planned hours and
resource productivity as well as any delay can be seen in a real-time manner.
Project Templatization
Kovair PPM functionality of project templatization provided a standardization of project creation and enforce all
projects belonging to a specific type follow the same structure, artifacts, and processes. It allows faster creation
of projects so that the team does not have to invest much time in arranging specific objects to build the project
with.
Support for application lifecycle management
Kovair's PPM-ALM capabilities help organizations combine project plans with requirements management, testing,
defect tracking and release data of applications. It keeps product development teams, project teams and business
tied together with a single source of information.

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End to End Traceability
With the implementation of Kovair PPM, organizations can achieve an end-to-end traceability from Programs to
Projects. Using this traceability, the portfolio managers, program managers get accurate data on coverage of
various items and provide real-time status updates on the project proceedings.
Workflow Automation
Omniprocess, the task-based workflow in Kovair PPM, coupled with notification and business rules, enables the
project teams to implement and enforce a centralized governance across different phases resulting in enhanced
productivity and quality.
Integrated reporting for all stakeholders
Unlike other project management tools that offer standard timesheet reporting and project scheduling, Kovair
PPM gives top-down project visibility through graphical reports and executive dashboards. The comprehensive
reports entangle various stages of application development, application portfolio management, project, program
and business portfolio management.
Conclusion
Kovair PPM has helped organizations to successfully implement a complete Portfolio and Project Management
environment. With this implementation, organizations have seen a substantial growth both in quality and
productivity. Members from Portfolio, Programs as well as different Project teams have recognized the benefits
of Kovair PPM implementation. Some of the areas where the organizations have seen significant benefits are:
• Efficient managing of Portfolios
• Automation of standard operating procedures and working process enabling controlled project execution
• Significant improvement in Project Planning and execution
• Better release predictability with the help of real-time reports and dashboard
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