This document describes a project and portfolio simulation capability that provides predictive and prescriptive analytics. It allows users to easily create multiple scenarios considering portfolio data, resources, and financials. It also provides a competing objectives optimizer that evaluates objectives like project priorities, throughput, resource capacity, costs, and revenues. The simulation generates predictions and recommendations by considering all risks and simulating numerous potential futures to optimize portfolio performance. It enables rapid interactive scenario planning and visualization of project schedules and their impacts on constrained resources and costs.

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Project and Portfolio Simulation Capabilities

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Value
Technological Capability
What
Happened?
What Will
Happen?
How Can We
Make It Better?

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 TRUE Predictive Analytics
◦ Rapid Realistic Scenario Planning
 TRUE Prescriptive Analytics
◦ Competing Objective Optimizer
 Interactive Portfolio Scheduling

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Rapid Scenario Planning
 Easily Create Multiple Scenarios
◦ Portfolio Data
◦ Resources
◦ Financial Data Resources

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Competing Objectives Optimizer
 Quickly and Easily Evaluate Multiple Objectives
with the click of a button
◦ Project Priorities
#1 Strategic Planning
◦ Throughput
Challenge?
◦ Resource Capacity
◦ Cost and Budget Constraints
◦ Revenue Targets
◦ Other Related Risk Factors

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Information
Silos
Information
Silos
Information
Silos
Project Selection &
Throughput Target
Predictions
Pragmatic Near and
Long Term Resource
Planning
Realistic Financial
Forecasting
In Minutes EPS Runs
Numerous Simulations
evaluating these Objectives
as they compete with one
another within your portfolio!
The BEST Portfolio is
Revealed!
EXPORT
TO EPS

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TRUE Predictive Analytics
 Considers all Risks !
 Probability of Success Predictions
 Resource Availability
 Budget Availability
 Stage Gate Variability

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TRUE Prescriptive Analytics
 Realistic Portfolio Performance Optimized
 Goal Seeking Optimization tied to a REALISTIC
RISK ADJUSTED PORTFOLIO !
Simulated
NOT
Calculated

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 Rapid Scenario Interactivity for the entire
portfolio in a single view.
 Visualize the impact of projects schedules on
your constrained resources and costs.

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 More work than your resources can handle?
Resource
Requirements
exceeding
capacity?

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 Simply Click and Drag projects to create new portfolio options

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 Click to create a new Snapshot
 Once you are satisfied, easily import back into EPS to simulate
Green Light Portfolio

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 First, what has traditionally been done…
◦ Descriptive and Diagnostic Analytics
Or
<< Looking Backwards
◦ Then we have Calculated predictions that are overly optimistic and
Fraught with error

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 The Next-Generation Analytics or what we are offering !
◦ Extends beyond measuring and describing the past or extrapolating
from the past to simulating the future!
◦ Predicting what is likely to happen and revealing what should happen.
Next we Prescribe and Optimize
what we want to happen.

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 DES is ideal computational technology for Prescriptive
optioning
Discrete Event Simulation
Scenario/What if Experimentation
Optimization
+
=Unmatched
Prescriptive
Capabilities