Sentient PPM

Sentient PPM is an enterprise private cloud solution that the vendor claims effectively manages portfolios, programs, and projects. It is designed to offer visibility and control across projects, aiding in project selection, reducing financial risk, generating graphical reports, and meeting regulatory obligations. The product targets Australasia's leading enterprises across diverse industry segments, including Financial Services, Airlines, Government, Media, and Retail.

Key Features

Assessment & Prioritization: According to the vendor, Sentient PPM allows organizations to capture, assess, and prioritize initiatives across the organization. It offers the ability to evaluate initiatives based on critical success factors and weightings, and enables comparison using an assessment tool and visual bubble charts.

Planning & Prioritization: The vendor claims that Sentient PPM brings crucial business and financial information into simple visual formats, optimizing planning and budgeting processes across portfolios and programs. It enables modeling of different scenarios and real-time adjustment of priorities.

Benefits Management: Sentient PPM is said to capture and measure program and project-related benefits. It claims to forecast successful initiatives based on empirical evidence, providing organization-wide summaries or individual program/project benefits. The vendor states that the product can help improve efficiency of future investments using financial and non-financial criteria.

Financial Management: According to the vendor, Sentient PPM provides real-time financial information for dynamic decision-making. It allows planning and management of program/project costs, and seamless integration with financial systems for data transfer. The product is said to monitor budget baselines and help identify potential budget issues.

Governance & Compliance: Sentient PPM aims to ensure consistency and adherence to policies and processes. It allows organizations to define processes, checklists, and approval templates, while tracking key decisions and maintaining a full event history. The vendor claims that the product enforces gating procedures and facilitates due process.

Delivery & Visibility: Sentient PPM is designed to provide portfolio-wide visibility of delivery processes. It enables identification and management of conflicts, bottlenecks, and dependencies, while monitoring milestones and tracking progress in real-time. The vendor states that the product generates graphical reports for easy comprehension.

Risk & Issues Management: According to the vendor, Sentient PPM centrally tracks and manages risks and issues. It standardizes the risks and issues framework for consistency, creating and assigning actions for resolution. The product is said to generate real-time summaries and exception reports.

Status Reporting: Sentient PPM aims to provide clear summary and drill-down information on project progress. It allows organizations to define status reporting processes and automate reminders. The vendor claims that the product generates real-time organization-wide summaries and exception reports, while reusing information from other modules for efficient reporting.

Collaboration Tools: Sentient PPM centralizes project information and facilitates easy access and sharing. It allows organizations to assign and track actions, meetings, project diaries, and documents. The vendor states that the product automates email notifications and formatting of meeting minutes, while integrating with existing document management systems.

Resource & Team Management: According to the vendor, Sentient PPM enables organizations to schedule and allocate resources to projects. It optimizes work schedules and tracks performance, while analyzing resource gaps and keeping track of true resourcing costs. The product aims to provide clear visibility and control over resource allocation.