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TeamDynamix Delivers Project and Portfolio Management Solutions Built for Higher Education
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Company focused exclusively on meeting the needs of university and college CIOs and IT departments
COLUMBUS, Ohio – October 28, 2008 – Higher education chief information officers (CIO) are being challenged more than ever to drive innovation, support customers and maintain existing IT investments. Unfortunately, in many cases, operational funding requirements have risen much faster than funding for new project work, and without the infusion of proper funding and resources, new projects and innovation suffer.
“At a time when universities are pushing for more innovation to compete and grow, these constraints place university CIOs in a precarious position where they are short on resources, people, budget, and management tools,” commented Andrew Graf, lead analysts at TeamDynamix.
With these IT challenges in mind, TeamDynamix has built a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio management (PPM) solution that meets the needs of higher education CIOs and their staffs. With TeamDynamix, organizations have a clear picture of their resources and capacity, and project performance, which will help to avoid productivity bottlenecks that increase costs, reduce quality and threaten commitments. CIOs will also be able to fully leverage their existing IT investments by integrating TeamDynamix with current backend systems, such as Banner®, Peoplesoft® and Datatel®.
EDUCAUSE surveys have identified IT funding as a perennial issue. TeamDynamix helps to simplify the IT funding process by clearly aligning all IT work and needs with institutional and departmental strategic objectives. This alignment brings understanding and increased funding support.
“Higher education CIOs, PMOs and IT professionals have different needs than organizations in the private sector,” said Graf. “Because of their unique cultural and operational environments, they need technology partners that speak their language and PPM software and processes built specifically for higher education. We understand how to make it easier for them to prioritize work, track projects, manage resources, adjust to change and meet expectations.”
Graf noted several areas where the Higher Education IT environment differs from their corporate counterparts.
- Higher education is highly consensus and committee based requiring a low risk approach and greater communication.
- There is a wider range of project management understanding and comfort. Tools and processes have to accommodate both the novice and expert.
- Technology usability is more important for adoption and success.
- Higher Education is more open to cross-institution collaboration and has a greater opportunity to benefit from knowledge sharing.
- The Spellings Commission report is driving CIOs to provide more institutional accountability, efficiency and transparency.
- Compliance, student experience, retention, educational quality and maintaining accreditation are bigger drivers than hard ROI.
- The avoidance of risk plays a greater factor in decision making.
Graf added, “At TeamDynamix, we facilitate the adoption of our higher education PPM solutions by taking a maturity-based approach. This method delivers value quickly to build consensus support and capitalizes upon early successes at all levels of use, from novice to expert, to accelerate maturity. Our customers mature differently than a corporate organization, and maturity needs to be measured differently as well. Understanding higher education maturity measurement, goal setting, planning and execution are critical to success in what is a consensus and buy-in-based culture.”
For more information about TeamDynamix’ approach to higher education PPM, visit www.teamdynamix.com.
About TeamDynamix
TeamDynamix is the leading provider of Web-based project and portfolio management solutions for the higher education market. The company’s suite of project tracking, reporting and portfolio management software provides the work tools and environment necessary for successful project management and delivery, in addition to project portfolio management and planning, IT governance, time and expense tracking and help desk ticketing. The company’s software creates an online team environment that advances communication, collaboration, efficiency, accountability, security and success. TeamDynamix is currently used by a number of the nation’s leading colleges and universities, including The Ohio State University, The University of Texas at Austin, UNLV and Syracuse University. The company is based in Columbus, Ohio. For more information, visit www.teamdynamix.com.
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Kevin Wilson
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Kevin Wilson is a principal with Wilson PR, TeamDynamix' PR and communications partner. Kevin has many years of experience with technology, PPM and higher education-focused organization.
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