Planview MPM

Comprehensive earned value management across multiple programs

Today, government agencies and their contractors require earned value be applied on all new programs of a certain size. Planview® Micro-Frame Program Manager™ (MPM™) is recognized as the industry's leading earned value management solution. In fact, it is the only complete solution for efficiently managing the entire program lifecycle, from the proposal phase through program completion.

MPM is used by hundreds of organizations, including 8 of the top 10 aerospace and defense contractors. The solution is compliant with ANSI/EIA-748, and it supports critical programs for Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA and Department of Transportation.

Your Benefits with MPM

With MPM, you can:

• Identify trends early and adjust tactics to meet diverse program challenges
• Plan, track and analyze projects effectively throughout the entire program lifecycle
• Enable cross-project analysis with MPM's comprehensive data warehouse
• Enhance pricing, planning and "what if" analysis with powerful utilities
• Improve managers' visibility with real-time project analysis
• Take advantage of more than 80 standard and government reports
• Support better decision making and increase customer satisfaction

Integrate Program Management for Maximum Efficiency and Profitability

MPM is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)-based solution that fully integrates proposal planning and program management data and activities. With MPM, organizations can rely on one solution to manage every phase of their programs, thus maximizing operational efficiency and profitability.

A sophisticated pricing engine is combined with a scalable and powerful earned value model to measure program budget, performance, actual expenditures, and estimate to complete effort. This enables organizations to view all program-related performance metrics in real-time.

Enhance and Streamline Cost Estimating

With its spreadsheet-like interface, MPM enables organizations to estimate their proposal or program baselines with speed and precision. Users are able to view multiple WBS and estimate data simultaneously. Estimates can be entered in hours, equivalent heads or any level of the cost hierarchy; MPM will automatically apply the appropriate direct and indirect rates for pricing.

Increase Productivity with Powerful, Easy-to-Use Tools

Planview MPM includes the industry's most powerful cost analysis tools, all fully integrated with Microsoft Project. Unlike cumbersome form-based systems, MPM is the only project management solution with an easy-to-use, spreadsheet-like user interface.

With MPM, organizations can:

• Quickly and easily see all cost estimates simultaneously
• Simplify the estimating process by copying and pasting estimates from one project to another while instantly viewing the impact of a change on each level of the cost hierarchy and WBS
• Provide top-down values that adjust entire project or focus changes on a specific WBS leg, Element of Cost, Department or Resource
• Automatically reprice and roll up underling estimates to incorporate the impact of new rates

Meet Complex Reporting Needs with a Proven, Scalable Solution

MPM has repeatedly proven itself as the industry's leading earned value management solution. Organizations providing critical products and services to DOD, DOE, DOT and NASA all rely on MPM to meet their complex reporting needs. It is robust enough to handle the most complex multi-user EVMS requirements, yet simple enough to use on very small short-term projects.

Analyze and Report to Internal and External Customers

MPM provides organizations with out-of-the-box proposal (SF 1411 and DD 1861), baseline, forecast, resource, and government (C/SSR, CPR, and NASA 533) reports. Each of these reports has an extensive number of options to customize the output, which includes sorting, conditioning, summarizing, and displaying fiscal time periods. In addition to standard reports, custom reports can be produced with the optional Crystal Reports® for MPM product.

Improve Decision Making with the Planview MPM Data Warehouse

The MPM Data Warehouse provides you with a detailed yet enterprise-wide, consolidated view of all MPM data. Unlike third-party generated consolidation tools, this SQL Server-based data warehouse was created by the company that knows MPM and its users the best. Accordingly, it has been carefully optimized for optimal performance and reporting with MPM.