- Industry: Consulting
- Number of terms: 1807
- Number of blossaries: 2
- Company Profile:
Gartner delivers technology research to global technology business leaders to make informed decisions on key initiatives.
A project management office (PMO) is usually created to solve a specific problem: generally, the IT organization’s inability to deliver IT projects on time, on budget and in scope. Project managers may “live” in the PMO, or in different IT units, such as in application development or in the business.
Almost all PMOs start at this initial project management stage before they can evolve to the program management or portfolio management stages.
The scope of work changes from tactical to strategic, while the scope of initiatives broadens from IT-intensive projects to enterprise-wide business and IT initiatives. Once the PMO has earned credibility with the business, it usually receives requests to help manage business projects.
Industry:Technology
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Gartner analysts observe many clients focused on enhancing the collaboration, communication and resulting project portfolio-level reporting needed to gain first-line visibility into project demand, project status, resource capacity and utilization, and cost estimates versus actuals.
PPM leaders recognize that the primary value of projects goes beyond delivering on-time and on-budget projects, and rather ensures the expected business outcomes and realized value. Further, they are increasingly aware that the biggest changes from project activities are actually people-oriented, and that they influence culture and mind-sets across the enterprise.
Successful project management is characterized by the ongoing development and refinement of methods and practices and ensuring that any software tools deployed meet the needs without becoming a burden.
Industry:Technology
The fundamental building block of factory and process automation. A specialty purpose computer, including input/output processing and serial communications, used for executing control programs, especially control logic and complex interlock sequences. PLCs can be embedded in machines or process equipment by OEMs, used stand-alone in local control environments or networked in system configurations.
Industry:Technology
The integration of planning, resource management, project management and project accounting for service organizations.
Industry:Technology
Also known as a “process information management system,” a PIMS is a client/server application for the acquisition, display, archiving and reporting of information from a wide variety of control, plant and business systems. A critical component in a manufacturing enterprise’s application architecture for creating a common repository of plant information that can be effectively leveraged in enterprise and supply chain management applications.
Industry:Technology
Production devices encompass printers, stand-alone copiers and MFPs featuring a printing speed of more than 70 ppm in both monochrome and color. Production printers perform three specific types of printing:
• Transaction printing includes statements, bills, notices and other transactional documents that are printed in large volumes. With the growth of color print, transaction printing is merging into direct marketing with promotional and marketing pieces with the inclusion of personalized color items as well. “Transpromo” refers to transactional documents that have a promotional message or third-party advertising on them.
• Direct marketing, such as direct-mail packages.
• Publishing that includes short-run printing, print on demand (POD) booklets, catalogs, manuals and brochures, which are printed on an as-needed basis. POD is also being used to print books that are published in limited volumes.
Industry:Technology
Product support services refer to labor-based services for hardware or software, which can be performed by the manufacturer of the product or parties other than the vendor that created the product. These services can be provided by several types of vendors, typically including hardware OEMs, such as Dell, HP, EMC or IBM; and software publishers, such as Microsoft, Oracle or SAP. Formal channel partners of hardware and software vendors also provide support services.
Product support services are also delivered by additional independent service providers and third-party support providers. An independent service provider delivers a broad range of services for hardware and/or software products (such as consulting or support), and may have an alliance with the product manufacturer but not as a primary means to its service business. A third-party support provider primarily delivers break/fix technical support for hardware and/or software products and is not typically aligned with the product manufacturer but may have a relationship in certain specific exceptional cases.
Industry:Technology
Product portfolio and program management (PPM) is the continuous cultivation of a product set and the set of capabilities to prioritize and manage product development programs. Software that supports portfolio management assists in analyzing and reporting risks versus opportunities, and it makes these analyses and opinions visible to all decision makers. PPM includes dashboards with executive views of decision variables, such as risk, opportunity, resource allocation, investments, product-revenue performance and customer acceptance. For decision-making teams, this visibility makes the selection of product investments more objective. It also helps manufacturers to systematically allocate resources for product life cycle support. This category also includes project/program management capabilities to monitor the progress of product development programs and make adjustments when teams encounter bottlenecks or other difficulties.
Industry:Technology
Product life cycle management (PLM) is a philosophy, process and discipline supported by software for managing products through the stages of their life cycles, from concept through retirement. As a discipline, it has grown from a mechanical design and engineering focus to being applied to many different vertical-industry product development challenges.
Industry:Technology
PDM technologies and products have historically been positioned as the primary application backbone for managing and controlling the flow of design intent across the three major design stages: concept design, detail design and production. But in practice, PDM has served as a complementary application tower to computer-aided design (CAD) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems by providing the main repository for production-approved engineering data (i.e., vaulting) and managing the changes to production – approved data (e.g., engineering change orders and configuration management). PDM is a key enabler for constructing a concurrent art-to-product environment (CAPE) for enterprisewide design and production. A well-constructed PDM enables all participants involved with the capture, communication and maintenance of design intent to freely share and disseminate all heterogeneous data related to the product. PDM evolved from the need to better manage paper, electronic documents, engineering change orders, and bills of materials during the product development process.
Industry:Technology
