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Automotive
In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving automotive industry landscape, managing the product lifecycle can often be a difficult task. Factors such as globalization, escalating competition and diversified consumer demand have simultaneously decreased product lifecycles while increasing the complexity of automobile production. To keep pace and remain profitable, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have begun working in smaller, more nimble project teams, in addition to outsourcing certain activities to a variety of manufacturing partners. Collaborative product development (CPD) techniques are now being used by OEMs to facilitate the different entities involved in producing automobiles.
One of the CPD techniques utilized by automotive manufacturers is project portfolio management (PPM). A sound PPM process enables manufacturers to manage their portfolio of automobile projects across internal and external global teams, and it allows for standardization and rapid decision-making. PPM ultimately maximizes return on investment by ensuring projects continuously support the manufacturer’s strategic goals and objectives.
Dekker offers a wide range of education and products that enable automotive OEMs to implement and maintain a disciplined PPM process. Our PPM solutions will help expedite project management, idea management, risk management, resource allocation and collaboration.
Education
A variety of project management training courses are available through Dekker University online or at one of our two conveniently located campuses in Ontario, California, and Reston, Virginia.
For more information on Dekker University and the types of courses offered, please click here or call 1-800-4-DEKKER.
Products
The following Dekker products can help effectively prioritize, manage and analyze the multitude of small and large-scale automotive programs and projects within your organization:
- Dekker PMIS™ (Project Management Information System; i.e., Dekker’s entire suite of project management products, including TRAKKER, iPursuit, Traction and iPortfolio) delivers a full project portfolio management (PPM) tool, which allows users to track, control and analyze all projects and programs throughout the organization’s portfolio.
- Dekker TRAKKER® is the core product of Dekker’s project management information system (PMIS). TRAKKER integrates cost, schedule, resources, and performance information into an enterprise project management (EPM) system, complete with EVM capabilities.
- Dekker iPursuit® is a robust earned value analysis (EVA) and oversight tool that enables organizations to monitor performance on a single project or throughout the entire enterprise.
- Dekker Traction™ provides a method of measuring operational performance metrics; enables organizations to align projects to strategic objectives and operational goals; and provides the ability to perform project risk assessment.
- Dekker iPortfolio® allows project teams and management to share and access data remotely and securely via the Internet.
For more information on Dekker’s product solutions, please click here or call 1-800-4-DEKKER.
Integration
Every Dekker product seamlessly integrates with the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software your project team members currently use and that resides on your desktop or server, such as:
- Microsoft® Office (including Excel and Word), Project, and Visio
- Databases, including Oracle® Database and Microsoft® Access and SQL Server
- Financial Packages, including Oracle® Financials, SAP®, Deltek®, JAMIS®, Microsoft® Dynamics, and Intuit® Quickbooks®
- Dozens of other COTS software
To learn more about the integration and compatibility of the Dekker Project Management Information System (PMIS), please click here or call 1-800-4-DEKKER.