Features – Cerri Project

Quickly identify trouble areas thanks to Cerri Project’s portfolio dashboard that allows you to monitor critical portfolio elements including issues, schedules, deliverables, risks and metrics.

Monitor real time budget statuses as Cerri Project automatically tracks all planned and actual costs across your project portfolio.

View your entire project portfolio and gain visibility on ongoing project status and progress indicators like, budgets, workloads, and actuals.

Effectively align projects to your corporate strategy using Cerri Project’s Key Performance Indicators. This KPI module is designed to translate your organisation’s mission and business strategies into performance measures and operating objectives.

Simplify project creation and ensure your team follows organisational guidelines and project management practises.

Schedule, manage tasks and plan projects better by visually planning and modifying them.

Maintain a global overview of the progress and timelines of multiple projects at once.

Build a comprehensive project charter that allows you to detail and share project objectives and mission critical data related to your project.

Monitor project progress thanks to detailed dashboards summarising essential project indicators and statistics.

Configure your project and task tracking dashboards to reflect the unique needs of your team and stakeholders.

Stay on top of your own work progress with personal dashboards.

Export and import plans from or to Microsoft Project.

Monitor and analyse resource workload thanks to a complete set of views, dashboards and charts provided by Cerri Project.

Track availability, time off and absences centrally thanks to Cerri Project’s unavailability management capabilities.

Enhance your staffing processes with Cerri Project. Quickly search resources by skill and availability, then drill down to specific information about each person, including competences and individual calendars.

Benefit from Cerri Project’s workload management and workload analysis features. Gain global visibility on resource availability and distribution of work across multiple projects leading to a more optimised and productive project workforce, thanks to resource charts and reports.

Improve project administration thanks to Cerri Project’s centralised project resource management.

Manage any kind of project by resource, client, project or activity.

Schedule when resources are expected to work on their tasks by taking into account their availability.

Input project expenses directly into corresponding projects for better and more accurate monitoring of all project expenses.

Easily log in time, add comments to your timesheets, and configure the timesheet approval process as automatic or requiring approval.

Obtain a complete and up to date overview of resource usage and costs per project.

Keep a clear and accurate picture of budget status as well as an overview of any discrepancies.

Get an accurate overview of your costs.

Know your required cash flow for each project period (months or weeks).

Easily collect project requests for review and evaluation with the aid of configurable forms and workflows.

Know which project initiatives will be the most beneficial to your organisation whether you follow a stage and gate process or not.

Decide which project requests should become projects by reviewing initiatives and defining rankings and priorities.

Get an accurate view of your NPD project pipeline thanks to configurable evaluation criteria.

Easily configure standard project milestones to support your gated process and project phase review methodology.

Benefit from pre-built stage review project workflows that can be configured to meet your organisation’s approval and gated process

Integrate all your project documents into the reference system, whatever their format.

Attach files and comments to any piece of information and create a discussion thread.

Easily collaborate with team members on project documents and empower users to define any revision/approval process.

Classify all your documents and link related documents.

Benefit from an integrated collaboration platform that leverages the best in team collaboration and social media.

Assimilate users outside of your organisation for effective collaboration, performance and response.

Improve communication by creating notification distribution lists for every available document type.

Define workflows internally in order to automate and support your business processes.

Receive notifications for any new task assignments or for any modifications made to your existing assignments.

Increase your chances of project success by having project team members contribute to the risk register for a project.

Estimate the impact that implementing or not implementing changes will have on a project.

Allow stakeholders to submit issue reports and keep track of pending issues within a project.

Improve customer experience and the performance of your support staff with an inter-project help desk system.

Access 100% configurable project dashboards containing only the views or graphics you want.

Drill down into your data for better tracking of your projects and portfolios.

Export any Cerri Project view to Microsoft Excel.

Access predefined project dashboards and views and create and store your own customised project charts.

Rearrange views so that data is displayed the way you want.

Manage your workflows and engage users with defined project workflows that adhere to your organisation’s project approval process.

Define workflows necessary to comply with your business processes and organisational requirements.

Create business rules for your workflow engine.

Access standard business process workflows that can adapt to any approval and gated process.

Customise keywords, labels and drop down menus according to your business language.

Adapt Cerri Project’s navigation for different user groups.

Easily integrate Cerri Project with your current enterprise applications.

Import and synchronise your Microsoft Project plans into Cerri Project.

Access all of Cerri Project’s features from your Lotus Notes platform thanks to a seamless and direct integration between the two software.

Maximise transparency and data consistency thanks to a network-wide integration with your SAP® Applications.