Project Information System
Purpose
The Project Information System is a flexible, comprehensive information system you can use to monitor and control your project data. You can evaluate individual projects, partial projects, or multiple projects. The system includes overview reports and reports offering various degrees of detail. The Project Information System is designed to meet the needs of both project management and ordinary project personnel.
Integration
You need this component to analyze and control your project.
You can transfer data from the project information system to the SAP Business Informaion Warehouse (BW). BW is a management information system that gathers information from the various areas in your business and makes them available for management reports
Features
You can run recurring standard reports and create your own reports to meet your specific information needs and tasks. You can display all data in the information system immediately after entering it or can run the reports in the background.
Report evaluation includes a wide range of functions. For example, you can branch to other reports for more detailed information, send reports via Mail, or print them.
The standard also includes reports offering different degrees of detail, summarizations, and views of current data, version data, and archive data for:
The following table will help you decide which report type is best for you in each case:
To: |
Choose: |
Analyze operative or organizational data from different viewpoints, bearing your project structure in mind |
The structure reports in technical project reports |
Obtain detailed information on selected objects, such as WBS elements, activities, or confirmations |
The appropriate individual overview in technical project reports |
View a hierarchical overview of your cost and payment data |
Hierarchy Reports: Costs, Revenues, and Payments |
Evaluate detailed information at cost element level (example: reconciliation reports) |
Cost Element Reports. |
Trace the origin of your costs at document level |
CO line item reports |
View detailed information at area level on, for example, purchase orders or capacities |
Reports on Resources |
View information on the progress of your project |
The reports described in 
Evaluating Project Progress |
View information on claims relating to your projects |
The reports described in
Evaluating Claims |
Evaluate project data, summarized, per different viewpoints |
Project summarization |
Obtain information on the materials situation in your projects |
Reports on Project Materials |