Client: OMV Pakistan
Project:Enterprise Project Management 2007 Implementation

Client Overview
OMV is Austria’s largest industrial group. It is engaged in Oil & Gas Exploration and Production activities in 21 countries worldwide. OMV (Pakistan) Exploration GmbH, with its head office in Islamabad, is a subsidiary of OMV AG. The Company has an active exploration program in Pakistan in different concession areas. OMV Pakistan is producing gas from its Miano and Sawan fields in districts Sukkur and Khairpur in Sindh.

Problem Faced

Lack of automated Project Management

Lack of Centralized Resource management and allocation

Lack of accountability and visibility for Project progress throughout the project
    lifecycle

Lack of automated, consistent visual reporting across all areas of project
    management and throughout the project lifecycle.

Non-availability of project metrics for benchmarking, baselining, tracking and
    monitoring for historical data comparison and analysis

No mechanism for task allocation and resource usage and over/under-allocation
    tracking

Implemented Solution
This was a pioneering effort being the first-ever EPM implementation within Pakistan. This project encompassed a broad spectrum of activities from requirement envisioning based on client project management maturity assessment and entailed deployment of the MS Enterprise Project Management Solution using Project Server 2007 within the Engineering and Planning departments of OMV . This project provided a good learning experience in terms of best practice guidelines on implementing project management solution with OMV in addition to provisioning of business process re-engineering recommendations. The EPM consultant provided role-based hands-on solution training workshops to the stakeholders within OMV as part of their management’s rive to make this solution an integral part of their planning and execution projects.

Benefits provided

1. Create and publish projects to the Project Server database.
2. Add resources to projects by using the Build Team feature
3. Assign team members to project tasks.
4. Modify projects progress based on team feedback.
5. Approve or reject task updates
6. Track progress by using Tracking Views
7. Create three types of Projects for flexibility
   
   
- Enterprise Projects
- Operations Work Project
- Proposals – Proposed Initiatives waiting for approval


8. Build teams for projects based on resource skills and resource availability
9. Track non-project working time such as vacations, team meetings, training, etc.
10. Create Status Report Requests and Activity Lists for their teams
11. Generate Status Report Requests
12. Generate reminders and alerts for themselves and their team members
13. View Visual Reports for Project and Resource Details
14. Create, view, and link project issues and risks
15. View and add documents to a project workspace (collaboration) site
16. Import Assignments to Outlook calendar/tasks
17. Integrate with Outlook and Exchange for email notifications and task assignment import/exprt
    
    
- Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured
  information across disparate systems
- Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries
- Share data without divulging sensitive information
- Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-
  critical information in one central location
- Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet applications across
  the enterprise
- Saves Space - no need for paper based filing
- Quick retrieval through a powerful search engine
- Up to date documents with full version control
- Simple check-in / check-out functionality
- Simple user interface, with limited training requirements
- Fast and powerful document capture
- Secure storage and document back-up.