Category: Articles

We’re lacing up for the launch of the PPO Active Club!

Project Portfolio Office (PPO) is demonstrating our commitment to healthier but more importantly HAPPIER employees through the launch of the PPO Active Club. And we’re making it official with our first team race event, The J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge! The J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, run in 7 countries and 13 cities is a 5.6km race … Continue reading

Wait…is that a redesigned main menu?

November is here, and even as the holidays are drawing near, our developers continue to be hard at work designing a new user experience just for you! So this week, we’re bringing changes to the menu layout. Our new, redesigned menu which is cleaner, more intuitive and allows for faster navigation in PPO also boasts … Continue reading

AB InBev improves compliance by 80 percent, using PPO

Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world’s largest brewer, has rolled out Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) application, PPO, to track projects and consolidate reporting across 13 different African countries. AB InBev underwent an organisational structure change following its acquisition of SABMiller in late 2016, explains Woveshen Moodley, design & delivery lead: QA … Continue reading

Our brand new login page

We hope that you love our new login page as much as we do! There is actually more to it than meets the eye and it showcases a lot of the changes that you will start seeing elsewhere in PPO. Side banner The most obvious change is the introduction of a side banner which allows … Continue reading

I hate horizontal scroll bars!

One of my pet peeves is when I have to scroll from left to right in order to see all the columns on my home page or on a list page. Vertical scrolling on the other hand is usually not a problem since today most of us use a mouse with a scroll wheel which … Continue reading

Lots of changes!

When we announced our official launch of the PPO ‘User Interface (UI) Facelift’ project, we shared a few details on what users can expect. Today the first of those changes are available! We’ve rolled out multiple changes to the PPO user interface, which we hope you'll agree not only looks nicer, but also makes PPO … Continue reading

It’s the PPO you know and love, only better!

The Project Portfolio Office (PPO) team has been hard at work laying the groundwork and preparing for an exciting new chapter in the evolution of PPO. We can finally unveil the details of our PPO ‘User Interface (UI) Facelift’ project, which will be rolled out over the next few months. What can you expect? A … Continue reading

New! Faster task imports.

Based on user feedback and observing how users use the Task Import functionality we have found that most users do not modify the imported tasks before doing the actual import. We have therefore added a direct Import feature which skips the Preview screen and just directly imports all tasks on the project plan in just … Continue reading

Nedbank Distribution delivers projects on time, every time with PPO

The Distribution division of Nedbank, one of South Africa’s largest banks, recently implemented PPO, Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based, immediately available project portfolio management (PPM) application to ease management of its numerous repeatable projects. Reedwan Samsoodeen, senior manager of operations, design and governance, Integrated Channel Enablement at Nedbank Distribution, explains that the division is responsible for … Continue reading

New Feature: Connecting project sponsors with project status information just got easier!

Project visibility is almost always listed as a top priority for project sponsors wanting to understand the performance of projects and programmes for which they are responsible. In my 15 years+ of working with our clients and performing the role of a project sponsor myself, I’ve witnessed many project managers acknowledge that connecting with project … Continue reading