Benefits
- Superior technology
]po[
's underlaying framworks is one of the most stabel and scalables in the industry. This includes open and closed source products. Originally developed at the MIT in Boston Massachusetts, the technology nowadays serves as solid platform for many organizations running large web communities with up to 50.000 users.
- One Integrated Application:
]po[
can replace a large number of stand-alone applications
with a single integrated system.
- Regulatory Compliance:
The ]po[
integration of Change Management with Configuration
Management provides a "transparent" change management
history of released software as required by auditing
organizations in the financial sector.
- Increased Visibility of IT Projects:
]po[
allows project stakeholders to check the project
status. Permissions determine whether a user can
read, modify or administer a project.
- Project Budget & Progress Tracking:
]po[
shows up to date information about budget and progress for each project.
Information includes timesheet information, external
costs such as travel costs and information imported
from SAP FI or other accounting applications.
- IT Service Cost & Financial Controlling:
]po[
automatically captures all necessary information in
order to determine IT costs for service types.
- Performance Reports and Statistics:
The integrated reporting and data-warehouse engines
provide insight into key process indicators.
- Project Portfolio Management:
PPM allows managing lists of project and
development requests and supports senior management
decision-making by providing all fields necessary
to priorize requests.
- Release Management:
]po[
can manage and track the advance of different
items included in a software
release, allowing the release manager to take informed
decisions.
- Learned Lessons, Wiki, Blog & Knowledge Management:
A full text search engine index all contents in ]po[
,
allowing fast access to learned lessons, wiki pages
and solution to previous bugs, sometimes resulting
in enormous time savings.
- Easy Installation & Rollout :
]po[
focuses on easy installation and rollout. It can be
rolled out "stand alone" to cover a single functional
area such as internal project management or bug tracking.
Once introduced, the usage can be extended to new areas
until finally supporting a substantial number of ITIL
processes.
The open-source nature of ]po[
allows for an initial rollout with
little or no budget, while the implementation of available enterprise
modules allows covering advanced use cases.
- Security, Performance and Scalability:
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performance scales up to about thousand of "intensive
users" on a standard Intel server platform. "Born in
the Internet", ]po[
features a sophisticated security
architecture and fine-grained and flexible permissions, allowing
to configure access permissions based by roles and profiles.