acumen fuse & customer case study
DESCRIPTION
This presentation was given by Acumen CEO, Dr. Dan Patterson, and Kurt Voytell, Acumen customer and project manager at Constellation Energy. Created for the Oracle Primavera Special Interest Group webinar, it includes a comprehensive overview and a case study of the use of Fuse at Constellation Energy.TRANSCRIPT
Dr. Dan Patterson CEO-‐ Acumen
Kurt Voytell Constellation Energy/ Acumen Customer
Introductions • Dan Patterson: CEO Acumen • Over 20 years in PPM • Risk analysis expertise • Founder of Acumen
• Kurt Voytell: Constellation Energy • Fuse user since January 2011
World Renowned
Risk Assessment Workshops
Oracle Accredited
Primavera Risk Analysis Training
Acumen Fuse® Enterprise Project Analysis
Acumen Project Confidence
• Project analytics thought leader
• Oracle Partner • Headquartered in Austin, TX
• Global reseller network
What is Acumen Fuse?
• Validate schedule quality, cost forecast accuracy, and risk realism
• Identify logic flaws in a single project or multiple linked projects
• Compare project plans or iterations of the same plan
• Track project performance and trending
• Evaluate compliance and prepare for IBR
• Align schedule with cost & risk information
Enterprise Project Analysis Software
Better quality planning and execution
… Leading to
Metric Analysis
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• Analyze schedule, cost, risk, performance • “What > So What > Now What…”
• Objective of pinpointing issues, shortcomings and failed tripwires • Comparison against benchmarks/thresholds/baselines
• Trending over time • Comparisons, performance improvements
• Advanced metrics • Beyond standard ‘schedule check’ e.g. logic densityTM
• Fuse Metric Library • Over 225 metrics: DCMA 14 Point, GAO, EV, Risk, Baseline
Compliance • Metric Editor
• Only commercial product to allow you to create your own criteria
Acumen Fuse 2.1 • Metric Analyzer
• Schedule quality • Cost/Performance/EV • Baseline Compliance
• Logic Analyzer • Missing or redundant • Multi Project
• Forensic Analyzer • Variances • Trending • Integrated baseline/snapshots
• Visualization • Ribbons • Dashboard • API
Faster Easier More informative…
Integration with Primavera P3, P6, MSP, Deltek, Cobra, Excel, Ares, Pertmaster, UNCEFACT
Enhanced Fuse Analysis
2 x faster analysis; snapshot visualization; custom reports
Visualization & Reporting
Acumen Fuse®
Visualize Metric Results • Colored analysis
results allow for quickly isolating flaws
• View results in charts to compare quality of ribbons and/or phases
Errors flagged in red
Metric results shown in
graph form
Dashboard • Roll up analysis results to a single view
• Configure dashboard to show any metrics
• Copy and paste for easy custom reporting
Included Reports • Verbose summary of analysis, useful for PMs and Executives
Executive Briefing
• Score and compare quality of multiple projects or ribbons
Scorecards
• Uses color and size to help pinpoint and prioritize project issues
Heat Map
• Metric results in spreadsheet form
Ribbon Report
• List of scheduling flaws in spreadsheet form
Analyst Report
Demo Acumen Fuse®
Fuse API
User Story
• Fuse user since January 2011 • Advanced schedule, cost, and performance analysis
• Developed custom reports & metrics
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