Success Stories with Planforge

Sustainable Project Success by Example

Silicon Radar GmbH

Silicon Radar GmbH

Radar Products

How Silicon Radar combines resource management with project controlling and uses scenarios to make confident decisions.

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Jan Balbach-Sobkowicz

"Planforge combines high functionality with ease of use."

Jan Balbach-Sobkowicz Program Manager Silicon Radar GmbH


The Challenge

Silicon Radar needed a tool combining integrated resource management with project controlling to create a structured project landscape and manage external partners. The company had previously relied on tools such as Excel for project management and time and cost tracking, which could no longer meet its growing requirements.

The Solution

Thanks to Planforge, Silicon Radar now benefits from a clear overview of all projects, programs, and portfolios. Using scenario planning and the timeline, the company now makes more informed decisions. The combination of resource management and project controlling allows the company to analyze resources and budgets and monitor project progress efficiently.

The Benefit

Silicon Radar can now manage internal and external projects in one tool. The company particularly values manageability, high functionality, and the ability to deploy on-premises. With Planforge, Silicon Radar gains transparency throughout the entire project process.

ipoque GmbH

ipoque GmbH, a Rohde & Schwarz company

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How ipoque mirrors its entire process landscape in Planforge.

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Thomas Jacob

"I see Planforge as a tool that connects departments. Development continues to work in Jira and document in Confluence, while project managers simultaneously have quick access to all relevant KPIs."

Thomas Jacob Director Application Segment ipoque GmbH


The Challenge

ipoque wanted to supervise the complete life cycle of its process models from sales to customer support. The company's goal was to plan and collaborate in one single tool that helps them manage all aspects of their complex system - with transparency on every level.

The Solution

ipoque now efficiently monitors its life cycles in Planforge and seamlessly integrates existing tools such as Jira and Confluence. As a result, Departments can better communicate and monitor KPIs & risks now. With Planforge, the company has strengthened collaboration between divisions and enabled them to keep track of portfolios.

Witte Automotive GmbH

Witte Automotive GmbH

Automotive

How WITTE Automotive standardizes its portfolios and builds a system landscape with Jira.

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The challenge

WITTE Automotive's goal is to standardize project management throughout the organization. The company is also looking for a tool that enables comparability in portfolios.

The Solution

With Planforge, the automotive supplier now achieves the desired transparency and comparability in project and portfolio management. The company accomplished this by creating own templates (e.g., standard schedule) in the software.

The Benefit

The direct connection to Jira helps project managers manage tasks and reduces duplicate data entry. For the project team members, Planforge is a tool that supports project collaboration with intuitive tools and charts.

Zurich Versicherungs-AG

Zürich Versicherungs-Aktien­gesellschaft

Banking and Insurance

How Zürich Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft manages complex programs and processes with Planforge.

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The challenge

The insurance company is highly developed in process technology and characterized by large programs, complex controlling, and process- and number-based projects. Previous software solutions could not meet these high demands.

The Solution

With Planforge, the insurance company has found a project and portfolio management software to map complex numerical mechanisms and enable precise planning and visualization of data.

The Benefit

Today, over 400 users increase planning accuracy with Planforge and benefit from a single point of truth for documents and templates. In addition, management controls large programs with status reports and status traffic lights, and the users' project time records.

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Provinzialat der Barmherzigen Brüder Österreich

Health care & Life Sciences

Worldwide operating order optimizes its project planning and controlling in more than ten healthcare institutions in Austria.

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The Challenge

Started projects got closed after a while but were poorly managed and controlled. A customized solution for the Barmherzige Brüder's project management did not meet their expectations.

The Solution

Planforge's perennial initiative to achieve an organizational "professionalization of project management" with approved procedures and reports was the right approach. Organizational development + software support = success.

The Benefit

It's effortless for BHB's project managers to create the work breakdown structure. The prioritization of projects can take place in portfolio management. The portfolio management profits from reliable reports, which allow an overview of all portfolios on facility and province-level (i.e., company and holding level).

Dr. Georg Wolf

Planforge gets to the heart of complex project management: Who is working on projects? Which projects are important for us? Where do we stand so far?

Dr. Georg Wolf Head of Qualitiy Management Hospital St. John of God Vienna

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Cargo-Partner Headquarter GmbH

Travel & Transportation

An international logistic and service provider operating worldwide with the headquarters in Fischamend, Austria, optimizes project overview, increases project transparency and standardizes reporting.

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enowa Austria AG

Consulting

An international consulting start-up optimizes its project management and offers its clients maximum transparency in customer projects.

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EVVA Sicherheits­technologie GmbH

Manufacturing

One of the leading European manufacturers of locking and security technologies optimizes project work across locations and departments, improves progress tracking and secures project know-how.

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Astotec Automotive GmbH

Astotec Automotive GmbH

Automotive industry

A worldwide operating pyrotechnic solutions provider for the automotive and non-automotive industry gains the highest transparency by implementing a "single point of information" and professionalizing its project and portfolio management.

The Challenge

Before Planforge was involved, every other project plan looked different, and sometimes the up-to-dateness of the project plans was not guaranteed. Astotec struggled with non-transparent information, and project data was almost hidden in project directories. The simplest portfolio management was realized via a self-built Access project database only.

The Solution

All portfolio analysis features provided by the Access project database could be realized with Planforge very quickly in the same way. Astotec has received the highest transparency through a stable system. Or, as they call it, "Single Point of Information." The awareness of responsibility for updating project data in the system has increased since its implementation and awareness campaign.

The Benefit

With Planforge, Astotec has a professional system to face future challenges. They see this step to multi-project management as an essential element on their way to digitalization.

DI Mathias Pflügl

Planforge is our "single source of project data" and gives us the best possible transparency across all projects.

DI Mathias Pflügl Director of PMO Astotec Automotive GmbH

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Regiocast

Media

A nationwide German operating radio broadcast company creates transparency and optimizes its resource allocation and utilization.

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