Planview is a market leader in providing comprehensive IT management solutions and pioneered in the late 80s what is now called IT portfolio management. By integrating the business process management of strategies, services, and projects within a single, Web-based solution, Planview empowers organizations to achieve greater levels of control over their ever-changing environment by dynamically managing money, resources, and capacities. This unique portfolio management discipline delivers unprecedented, real-time visibility into the trade-offs involved in key business decisions, allowing IT and business executives to make more informed choices that:

• improve IT performance
• optimize resources, services and applications
• achieve greater control over funding
• synchronize top-down strategic planning with bottom-up execution
• support company objectives, and
• deliver value back to the business

Convergent is currently implementing one of the largest Planview deployments in Europe at one of the world’s premier banks, across global corporate IT. We are responsible for project management, business analysis, application architecture, integration, infrastructure and technical implementation of Planview’s products, with the following business objectives:

• Consolidation of IT processes with a globally integrated IT Portfolio Management platform.
• Enabling a top-down budget allocation process to support the financial management of global IT.
• Align business needs with IT activities and provide visibility from a portfolio perspective to manage operational expenses and investments.
• Common financial management and tracking methods, from budget to expense, to ensure the transparency necessary for decision support.
• Maturing project management standards and disciplines for control of projects.
• Enable resources allocation from a global perspective to ensure that the right resources support the right work at the right time at the right price.