As global market competition has increased, more and more companies began to face the question of "turning to project management". In the advanced management system, whether it is company's production business or research activities conducted by academic research institute, their project features are becoming more apparent than ever. Overall process will normally conduct on series of project management and implementation. Therefore, it can be said that the key to the success of production business or research activities is that of project management. Meanwhile, many cases have already proven that proper project management has become the efficient tool for preventing running error from happening; how to improve accuracy, standard and completeness of project management has also become urgent issue.
Unison™, developed by Top Era Technology, is an enterprise-level
collaborative project management system based on the actual
situation of country's project management. It supports powerful
project management functions and collaboration working platform.
Unison™ is able to manage model project development
process, balance schedule and resource and integrate company
information resource all in full scale, enabling company's
decision support and knowledge accumulation.
Unison™ is designed in accordance with International PMBOK standard featuring state-of-the-art management notions and rich implementation experience. It has 8 modules including project management, multi-project management, collaboration management, knowledge management, project and evaluation management, document management, view management and change management. Five steps including Initialization, planning, implementation, control and finish of project management are all through 8 modules. Meanwhile, these 5 managing steps also include 9 knowledge areas - scale management, time management, expense management, quality management, resource management, communication management, risk management, purchase management and general management. Unison™ provides reference, tools and input information for every knowledge areas, effectively supporting each workload within a company's actual project management. With professional management consultation and accurate implementation method, Unison™ provides customers with a tailored near-perfect project management solution, fully increasing overall management skills and maintaining a good running environment for customers.
Functions Unison™ includes project management, multi-project
management, collaborative management, knowledge management,
project and evaluation management, document management, view
management and change management.
Project Management
Company-level project management system, covering scale division, schedule planning and tracking, resource usage and expense analysis. It can track and monitor project progress and all project information in the project full life cycle. It can also manage project-related activities, enabling real multi-users and multi-project management.
Multi-Project Management
It is an important supporting module for company-level users to manage projects, enabling overall collaborative management for multiple projects. This module is mainly for the use of high-level management personnel and project management department. It helps managing personnel monitor the overall projects status in order to efficiently balance and control multiple large-scale complex projects, providing decision-making with resource, information and knowledge. Working with powerful information center and report forms functions, this module enables multiple managing personnel to know progress status and overall information of each project, therefore to make appropriate decision in time.
Knowledge Management
A new platform that helps company achieve knowledge collection, management, share and creation. Through continues collection, filing and storage of knowledge resource owned by a company, Unison™'s knowledge management module forms a structural, easy-to-access knowledge library, servicing for company's management and decision-making personnel. This module fully embodies the value of knowledge resource which is turned to company's actual profit; meanwhile it helps gain new competition advantage in accumulating powers for continues development.
Project Initiation and Evaluation Management
Unison™ project management module mainly manages a project's process from its submission to final approve. It is designed for project's preparation process and decision-making, efficiently manage project request, related documents and project approve process before projecting. In this way, it ensures project's feasibility and accuracy, reducing project's risk beforehand. Unison™ project evaluation module helps company realize close-circle management. Through project evaluation, companies will effective evaluate project's execution status, experience summary and project result tracking, enabling continuous improvement of project management as well as maximizing project performance.
Document Management
Tools for managing public documents and project process documents. This module effectively manages creation, change, approve, edit and distribution of different kinds of documents within full life cycle, ensuring the standard and tracing of documents. For project process document, the model provided is based on WBS, putting project document, project progress and task together, making it easy to use and search.
Collaboration Management
The platform for collaborative works among project members and work entrance for employees. This module provides each project members detailed projects, task information and resource. Each project members will, in real time, acquire information and project progress that are related to his job, enabling company-level information and resource share. Therefore it will help achieve parallel working between difference tasks and difference groups, greatly reducing cycles of product R&D, test and design finalization. It can also improve product R&D quality, increase market competition advantage for product and company.
Change Management
Important tool for ensuring effective and controllable project change. It provides project managing personnel with reasonable change scale and progress and helps them control project change to develop to the right direction. By employing this module, managing personnel will be able to execute and manage change properly according to project implementation status and project scale/progress management plan.
View Management
View management is one of the most important
module of Unison™. It helps managing level, project
managing department and project personnel-in-charge fast search
for information related to themselves. It can also directly
display project full life cycle and information to the users,
especially making it convenient for all managing levels to
quickly master project status and finalizing managing strategies.
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Supporting managing personnel's decision-making
Providing managing personnel with detailed project plan, execution and tracking information. Carrying on different analysis, providing accurate information support for managing personnel to making decision.
Managing and controlling multiple complex projects
Effectively balance between project's internal parts and project itself; easy to handle cross-fields multiple complex projects with numbers of sub-programmes. Following system flow that is in accordance with actual business flow; working collaboratively with other members; overall project management plus reasonable resource configuration; avoid efficiency loss caused by improper collaboration, eliminating chaos occurred in multi-project management.
Monitoring and adjusting project plan in synchronization
Communication with other members through network, monitor over execution status in real time and any changes made to the plan and progress, at the same time adjust and update accordingly in order to reach expected goal. Furthermore, to greatly reduce the cost of executing plan and reporting progress, truly enable close-distant, synchronized and highly effective management, ease decision-making process.
Using project management software with ease
No need to look through complex software package, Unison™ work platform's pre-installed tools are designed in accordance with standard functions, not more, not less, just the one you need, making work less difficult and more efficient. Whether you are familiar with project management flow or its software, you can still use Unison™ like an trained expert with ease to conduct most advanced project management.
