The document discusses the challenges of integrating disparate project management applications, which often results in disconnected data and inefficient processes. It introduces Proteus, a solution designed to enhance project control and collaboration by providing real-time data integration across various systems and streamlining decision-making. Additionally, it outlines the benefits of Proteus, including rapid implementation, low costs, and the ability to extend the life of existing applications.

1. Improving Project Control and
Credibility using Proteus
Nicholas Pisano
President and CEO
Safran North America, LLC

2. Integration Challenges
 Stove piped, best of breed applications
 Promotes disconnected islands of data
 Lack of business process integration
 Processes are inefficient, plagued by human interactions and requirements are to
integrate bare minimum
 Heavy reliance on PowerPoint for reporting and Excel for
reconciliation
 Information is cleansed from baseline systems as it gets passed up and shared
 Significant investment already made in existing applications,
customization and legacy systems
 Resistance to change within executing programs
 Technologies available in the past made this difficult, time consuming
and costly
 Data transfers files, Data Warehousing, OLAP Cubes, API/Web Service
Integration
 Glorified PowerPoint presentations on the Web
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3. Opportunities for Integration and
Collaboration
 Scheduling Tools
 Earned Value Engines
 Job Card & Detail Milestone Applications
 Cost Estimating Tools
 Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Applications
 ERP Systems
 Financial & Timesheet Applications
 Document Management & Requirements
 Procurement Systems
 Analytical and Reporting Tools
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4. Integration Points Across Applications
are Relational
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5. Aggregate Data as Appropriate According to Role
Regardless of the Underlying Application
• Executive Management
• Functional Management
Consumers • Customers
• Oversight Agencies
• Program Managers
• CAM’s & Engineering Leads
Performers • Sub Contractors
• Product, Test & Other Support Centers
• Financial & EVM Analyst
• Master Planner & Schedulers
Caretakers • Performance and Risk Managers
• Program Controls
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6. Appropriate level of integration and
aggregation varies based on vertical roles
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7. Data Integration and Collaboration
Across Disparate Systems
EV Schedule Resource Risk
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8. Data Integration and Collaboration Across
Disparate Systems
Schedule Jobs Document PO’s
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9. Visualization Elements and Controls
Needed for PM Data
 Data Grid
 Color Coding, filtering, sorting, grouping
 Gantt Control
 Visualize time scaled data
 Charts
 Line, pie, bar, stack, etc.
 Data Modeling
 Sandbox for pivoting related datasets
 Other…
 Completion report, tabular reports, area maps
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10. Visual Elements in Grid and Gantt
Progress bar is green
if 100%
Bar is red if > 10 000 hours
Show expected
Range if Behind
Schedule
Blue box indicates child-range (min -
The more negative the number, max).
the more attention it should get:
Score = Hours * Delta% / 100 Hatch=Outside parent range!
This bar is more “yellow”, indicating it
has more hours. Transparency
controlled by hours – compare with
topmost bar!
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11. Data Grid and Tips Apply Business Rules
and Analysis
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12. Pivot Grid and Ad-hoc Charts

13. Pivot Grid and Ad Hoc Charts

14. Dashboard and Gauge Controls

15. Live Report Design and Execution

16. Live Analytics

17. 14 Point Assessment Against Live Schedule
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18. Cost-Schedule-Risk Integration with
Performance History

19. Histograms Allow Splits By Data Elements

20. DCMA/Specialized Reporting on the Fly

21. Watchdog Alerts
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22. Completion Report
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23. Custom Outputs
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24. Adapt Quickly To New Requirements
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25. Collaboration provides Foresight
 Dashboards and Stop-lights are old hat and easy to game
 Intelligence is needed in extending our systems in lieu of
collecting a row of metrics
 Apply best practice parametrics to normalize and quantify
measurements
 Make the underlying data actionable!
 Stop reinventing the wheel – tools exist to preclude labor
intensive custom software development: COTS/NDI model
now applies to cross-application, cross-discipline integration
without data transfer in most cases
 When necessary utilization of ANSI X12 839 transaction set
and UNCEFACT XML for cost-schedule-financial integration
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26. Layering intelligence to take out the
grunt work of Project Management
 The ability to visualize data makes it easier for us to
conceptualize trends and to transform raw data into
intelligence
 Modeling allows us to filter out false leads
 With appropriate source data and business rules we
can be more precise and rational in our business
decisions
 Moves us away from glorified PowerPoint
 This approach allows for integration and value-
added intelligence of subcontractor data
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27. Applying Parametric Analysis to
Source Data
 Technical performance measures
 Qualitative measures
 Assessments of risk
 Assessing proportionality of impact
 Predictive methodologies for complex adaptive
systems
 A complete real time project control ecosystem
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28. Proteus Main Features
 Real-time data across an organization or enterprise from
underlying sources
 Supports ANSI X12 Transaction Set and new
UNCEFACT XML in addition to direct connections to
databases
 Supports geographically dispersed sites and data
 Extends functionality of underlying applications
 Extremely secure with full user and database security
layers
 One source for editing, analysis and verification of data
from multiple sources
 Simplifies the data environment by only giving users
exactly what they need to see
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29. Proteus advantages
 Agnostic to underlying application data that require integration
and intelligence
 Not limited to earned value alone – can integrate all
information relevant to user role
 Extends underlying data by making it intelligent
 Extends the life-cycle of existing applications by adding
features and functionality not found in hard-coded software
 Rapid implementation means immediate ROI – weeks to a full
solution compared to months or years when using data
mining, cubes and hard-coding
 Low acquisition costs and low life-cycle costs – perpetual
licenses, established maintenance and support and easy
configuration for changes in underlying data or new
requirements
 Reduces and eliminates most training costs since data is
organized based on organizational requirements, not based on
learning hard-coded software applications
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30. Where to find more information on these
concepts:
 www.safranna.com
 Safran User’s Group – LinkedIn
 E-mail: npisano@safranna.com
 Phone: 505-265-2229
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