Case Studies: Innotas Customer Success Stories
Thomas Publishing
Organization
Thomas Publishing and its affiliates offer a range of regional, national and international industrial buying guides, product news magazines, information news services and magazines focusing on the most critical industrial topics, including technology solutions for production facilities and supply chain management. In addition, Thomas has forged strategic partnerships where appropriate, to extend their presence in this fast-moving digital economy. With unmatched resources and expertise to offer this marketplace, Thomas has refined and extended its role in bringing buyer and seller together, for mutual benefits, via information products.
Business Opportunity
- Find a simple easy-to adopt system that can manage demand, projects, and track IT spend at a granular level
- Manage the process of the divestiture of one business unit and the combining of three other IT units into one new merged IT group
- Adopt a methodology of allocating IT costs back to the lines of business, data capture, payroll support, and broaden IT governance within IT
- Centralize and maintain data from home grown systems, Excel, and Microsoft Project
Solution
On-Demand IT Governance Project Portfolio Management from Innotas
After evaluating several vendors, John Blevins, leader of the selection committee, decided on Innotas for several reasons:
- Innotas' strong time entry, project reports, task management, configurable dashboards, alerts, and key project metrics native to the Innotas Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform
- Robust integration capabilities using Innotas' Application Programming Interface (API)
- Detailed reporting capability. Innotas' reporting engine produces summary reports with detailed backup of all project data
- Innotas' "FastTrack" implementation services. Accelerated data mapping, setup of entity relationships, and setup of the organizational and resource elements with project and work hierarchy to support time keeping
Results and Benefits
- Greater detailed budget reporting with improved historical records of work performed which wasn't previously visible to the business and which also supports improved internal process measures and maturity
- Development of key performance metrics on project activity. The ability to view the cost and health of strategic projects and schedules, comparing actuals to baselines
- Setup of internal cost recovery model for IT
- Management dashboards for executive visibility into project status and granular detailed roll-up for project health
- Provide full summary reporting with detailed work information and status for project sponsors across their project portfolios
- Integration enabled by Innotas' web services, to populate a corporate time and attendance system that drives payroll.
