Microsoft Excel and SharePoint provide exciting opportunities for CA PPM users, managers and administrators when it comes to Microsoft integration with CA PPM. The productivity benefits alone are staggering, and with over 500 million active Excel and SharePoint users out there, user adoption associated costs will be in check.
The below list is a result of years of user feedback on where our clients see quantifiable value in our Microsoft integrated solutions for CA PPM.
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1. Microsoft Excel Makes you a Productivity Guru.
When it comes to Microsoft Excel Integration with CA PPM, there is no comparable productivity PPM tool out there for mass project data updates. We all like to work smarter, faster, and feel better doing it. With over 500 million active users, Microsoft Excel is widely adopted and is simple to learn and easy to use, while being highly customizable software. IT-ROI's paradigm shift in Excel spreadsheet integration for CA PPM allows you to unleash the PPM productivity guru in you.
2. Dramatically Increase CA PPM User Adoption Rates.
People say that CA Clarity PPM is hard to use, we hear it from our clients, user groups, at tradeshows, almost everywhere we go. It's expensive to train everyone how to use CA PPM so they can get their job done every day. So we made it our mission to make PPM simpler. Microsoft SharePoint can do just that, almost every large Enterprise uses SharePoint, so why not take advantage of that? Why not leverage something that everyone already knows how to use? Well, we did, and we went big. See our suite of SharePoint integrated solutions for CA Clarity PPM, and if you don't get it, reach out until you do.
3. Save Time, Turn Months into Weeks, & Weeks into Days.
Not only does your inherent knowledge of Microsoft products make you a productivity Guru, it makes everyone else one too. Talk about amazing team collaboration possibilities. CA PPM Project updates via Excel, Financials, documentation, almost everything PPM work related will get done much faster, and easier with less red tape.
4. Out-of-the-box Mobile Functionality.
Microsoft SharePoint comes with Exchange and Outlook integration that allows CA Clarity PPM data to be bi-directionally integrated with your mobile device, for example, CA PPM project tasks and CA PPM timesheets. Everyone in your organization has an App on their mobile device that connects to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook out-of-the-box, and it’s supported by Microsoft, not your IT department.
5. Allow Enterprise Wide Visibility of all your CA PPM data.
This is done via our soon to be released bi-directional Microsoft SharePoint enterprise connector with CA PPM, called PPM studioBoss. The integrated solution allows you to select any data you want to make bi-directional with CA PPM, so you can then configure and personalize to suit your needs.
The key takeaway here is that PPM can be simpler and easier to use by leveraging Microsoft products and solutions. Our integrated solution offerings are just a few of what’s out there, I encourage comments and suggestions on other great Microsoft tools for PPM that you have experience with.
Also, take a look at the below presentatrion, it shows the life cycle of a PPM project and how Microsoft helps from start to finish.
