Business Package for SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0

 

The Business Package for SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 enables you to combine strategic portfolio management with operational project management by offering access to SAP Portfolio and Project Management and Collaboration Folders (cFolders) through the SAP NetWeaver Portal. You can also use the cFolders features to collaborate with external partners on (technical) project-related documents and product structure data.

SAP’s solution for portfolio and project management enables users to monitor and manage all project activities across the entire enterprise. It utilizes the capabilities of project management and integrates seamlessly with other base systems like human resources and financial systems. It also enables users to align projects precisely with strategic business goals and achieve better, faster and more cost-effective results.

SAP’s portfolio management capabilities give high-level visibility over the entire project portfolio, portfolio analytics, and scenario modeling functionality, while delivering the functionality and seamless integration required to manage all aspects of the project portfolio effectively.

Business Value

The Business Package for Portfolio and Project Management is aimed at all project stakeholders such as project leads, project members, decision makers, and persons responsible for template creation.

It also addresses the needs of portfolio managers/executives and resource managers who manage strategic, cross-project resource demand and capacity, as well as portfolio item stakeholders such as owners and reviewers.

Users can execute on project-related tasks as well as portfolio items. They can perform resource planning and assignment, and also view portfolio and project analytics.

The Business Package for Portfolio and Project Management:

  • Addresses all stakeholders within an organization through a single point of access

  • Supports heterogeneous information technology (IT) infrastructure by combining information from different systems

  • Combines operational project management with strategic portfolio management

  • Offers comprehensive project resource management by merging project and portfolio management functions.

  • Enables portfolio managers to align the entire project portfolio with corporate objectives through scoring models

  • Supports resource demand forecasts and availability checks

  • Monitors portfolio performance by providing a better overview of projects across the entire enterprise.

  • Allows the integration of design collaboration with cFolders (used, for example, by engineering departments) into SAP NetWeaver collaboration (used by departments other than engineering) and SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Technical Data

Availability

SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 on SAP NetWeaver 7.02

For technical reasons, there are two versions of the Business Package for SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0:

For SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0x (7.0 SP20, 7.01 SP05, 7.02), use the Business Package for SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 (BP_PROJ_PORT_DESIGNCOLL 5.0 70).

For SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.30 and 7.31, use the Business Package for SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 73 (BP_PROJ_PORT_DESIGNCOLL 5.0 73).

For further information, see SAP Note 1377082.

Data Source

Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 on SAP NetWeaver 7.02

Browser Recommendation

For information about system prerequisites for these components, see the Product Availability Matrix on SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/pamInformation published on non-SAP site.

See SAP Note 1402912.

Languages Available

Czech

Danish

German

English

Spanish

Finnish

French

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Dutch

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Swedish

Chinese

Bulgarian

Croatian

Hebrew

Norwegian

Romanian

Slovakian

Turkish

Support

cFolders: EP-PCT-PLM-DCC

Portfolio Management: EP-PCT-PPM-PFM

Project Management: EP-PCT-PPM-PRO

Prerequisites

Business Package ERP Common Parts 1.5.1

Constraints

Not all iViews in the Business Package for Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 are available in all languages specified. For more information, see the technical documentation for each iView.