Oracle's Instantis EnterpriseTrack—Features

Optimize Project and Resource Investments

Improve strategy execution and financial performance with more effective work and resource management. This end-to-end solution provides a top-down approach to managing, tracking, and reporting on enterprise strategies, projects, portfolios, processes, resources, and results.

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Use what-if scenarios to optimize resource deployment.
Enhance resource pool visibility and allocation control.
Track and roll up actual resource usage, effort, results, and costs.
Mobile dashboards provide the right information to decision-makers on the go.

Overview
Features
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Feature

Benefit

Strategy and process management
- Drive business and IT strategy execution from the top down by defining a portfolio of strategic goals and initiatives
Idea management
- Capture new project ideas and filter requests by leveraging an online portal
Demand management
- Streamline and standardize intake capture, workflow, prioritization, resource scoping, and approval processing for simple and complex project work demand
Proposal management
- Ensure alignment with strategic goals by enforcing a standardized workflow for promoting an idea for a proposal and selecting and approving projects
Capacity management
- Optimize resources with "what-if" scenario planning to simulate the impact of shifting, excluding, or adjusting proposed project plans
Resource management
- Enhance resource pool visibility and allocation control by balancing inbound work demand with available resource supply (For example: time, staff, and budget)
Project management
- Increase project status visibility and guide project team execution success
Knowledge management
- Improve project success by leveraging a centralized knowledge base of best practices, documents, tools, and templates
Financials management
- Track planned versus actual costs with top-down and bottom-up project budgeting, as well as capitalization, expense, and charge-back accounting
Metrics management
- Track and roll up non-financial performance indicators such as defects, service levels, trouble tickets, or any other operational metric of choice
Survey management
- Gather feedback on demand from key internal customers and stakeholders with simple online surveys and polls
Dashboards and reports
- Easily and instantly compose and share project- and portfolio-level dashboards and reports at any phase of the project lifecycle, from ideas to metrics and results
Collaboration
- Improve productivity and project team and stakeholder communication and collaboration with seamless, fully integrated social networking
Integration
- Integrate with desktop applications, project management tools, enterprise applications, and IT service management systems