Rational Portfolio Manager

Delivering measurable results

Implementing effective Portfolio Management can have a direct and measurable impact on your productivity and your bottom line. At the very core of Rational Portfolio Manager is project, resource, and investment and financial performance data which can help you to achieve this.

The value received from your Rational Portfolio Manager investment is driven by how effectively you use the software. And, how you use the software is entirely dependent on your Project Management Maturity level as well as the enterprise processes, methodologies, and governance structures that you have in place.

Leveraging our proven approach to implementing enterprise applications and capitalizing on our extensive experience with the business of IT management, our services are designed to help you:

Harness your information and support effective processes.
Allow you to control complexity.
Leverage the knowledge that exists throughout your organization.
Secure strategic alignment.
Ensure competitive advantage.

Rational Portfolio Manager Service Offerings

Whether you are looking to define and implement processes or simply need assistance in configuring Rational Portfolio Manager in order to automate those processes, Noblestar can help you to:

Plan your deployment and install RPM.
Develop and implement your project, resource, financial, and portfolio management processes.
Configure the application to enable your project, resource, and portfolio management processes.
Develop customized end-user and management reports.
Integrate RPM with external systems to make them all work as one.
Conduct customized end-user and system administration training.
Conduct package upgrade assessments.
Assess system effectiveness and utilization; provide recommendations to make your RPM investment payoff.

IT Portfolio Management Service Offerings

IT Portfolio Management is not just about having a project or resource management database. It is about retooling your business to create a data-driven culture where decisions are based on the right combination of objective and subjective criteria. It is about establishing a set of values, methods and technologies that enable transparency, standardization, measurement, and process improvement.

In addition to our Rational Portfolio Manager services, Noblestar provides a full range of consulting services in the IT Management and IT Portfolio Management space. We can help you:

Develop or validate your Portfolio Management strategy and business plan.
Develop performance measurement models for your Portfolio Management initiative.
Implement or optimize Enterprise Project Management processes.
Implement or optimize Enterprise Resource Management processes.
Conduct EPM and PPM software selection.
Establish/enhance your Program Management Office.
Assist with IT Business Planning.

Experience and Expertise: A Powerful Combination

Nothing takes the place of experience. Our teams draw upon years of experience with clients, large and small, to provide recommendations that are relevant, fresh, and insightful, and that allows us to create value and deliver results.

Noblestar hires only experienced business and technology experts who possess:

The intellectual curiosity to keep pace with rapid industry advancements.
The foresight to effectively incorporate breakthrough technologies.
The expertise to apply and integrate complex, technology-based business solutions.
Rational Portfolio Manager Deployment Professional certification.
Professional project management accreditations from leading organizations such as the Project Management Institute and the Office of Government Commerce.

Our Approach

We realize that not every organization shares the same drivers for implementing Rational Portfolio Manager. As such, we work closely with you to understand your objectives and constraints and to develop a solution plan that meets your unique needs. We then employ the appropriate analytical approaches, tools, consulting techniques, and templates required to support that plan.

We believe in a collaborative, iterative approach to implementing Rational Portfolio Manager that:

Allows you to prioritize and phase in components at the time and in the manner that best suits your business objectives.
Delivers meaningful value in relatively short time-frames.
Focuses on knowledge transfer in order to equip you with the skills you need to support and maintain RPM.
Emphasizes the consulting and change management approaches best suited to foster user adoption.
Supports your efforts to standardize project-related practices, processes and methods.
Provides for process development/improvement and automation to occur in near parallel.
Mitigates the risk associated with introducing too much change at any given time into an organization

The Noblestar Difference

We affect strategy through implementation.
We are able to address the complete spectrum of Portfolio Management processes.
We keep abreast of the latest releases by participating in Rational Portfolio Manager Beta Testing and Partner Enablement programs.
We sincerely want to help you realize your objectives - this is how we measure our success.