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As the competitive landscape intensifies and customers demand greater access to services, your IT organisation is being asked to deliver projects faster and more efficiently. But while the pace of change may be increasing, amount of resources and budget that IT organisations have for their projects has not.

Therefore, it is crucial to make the right decisions about how your resources will be used to effectively create and deliver services that meet the demands of your business. To achieve this goal, you need complete visibility into the projects you are working on and the resources you have to complete the work. This will help you reduce the risk of project failure, improve the quality of service delivery, increase customer satisfaction and deliver projects that are on time and on budget.

Implementing a demand and portfolio management solution allows you to design the right governance model, identify and automate your management processes, prioritise projects against business goals, and identify the critical resources to complete those projects.

HP believes that a fully integrated demand and portfolio management solution must deliver the right governance, processes and products to improve the management of your entire IT project portfolio, resources and business services. Key components of these solutions are:

• Consulting and integration services: Our service portfolio helps you design your IT governance programme; develop a high-level solution architecture; design, build and implement an integrated solution; and train staff in new technologies, skills and processes.
• Educational services: HP offers a full curriculum of training, educational and certification services. Offerings range from business strategy to operations. HP also offers product-specific user training courses, as well as a host of ITIL and service management training and certification programmes.
• Software: HP Software’s Project and Portfolio Management Center and Service Management Center include integrated solutions enabling automation and implementation of demand and portfolio management processes.

At one of the largest energy suppliers in North America, an HP demand and portfolio management solution helps increase business and IT efficiencies and achieve significant improvements in IT operations.

As a result, the company has been able to better manage the demands placed on its IT organisation, reduce costs, obtain higher data integrity and control monitoring and achieve sustainable SOX compliance. Most importantly, the solution helps the company to achieve higher levels of business and IT alignment by allowing it to easily manage IT investment priorities.

To meet the service demands of your business, your IT organisation must be able to deliver against IT and business service demands and ensure IT meets business expectations. HP Demand and Portfolio Management solutions can help you achieve this goal by enabling your organisation to optimise how your IT projects are initiated, planned, executed, tracked and measured.