Integrate Multiple Repositories! Project Observatory allows any number of Project Gateway
Repositories to be consolidated into a single management dashboard that show all projects and
departments.
Extend Reporting! Project Observatory can operate as a companion application that supplements the Project Gateway repository
with skill management, historical data capture, graphical trend analysis and more details resource demand and
capacity picture than that provided by Project Gateway alone. Projects can also be a reported directory to the Observatory that would
not be included in the Project Gateway Repository.
Comprehensive Integration
All kinds of projects and planning methods are supported including projects created with Microsoft Project(R), Primavera(R), SureTrak(R),
ABT Project Workbench(R) as well as those created using Repository Schedules
and manual forms. Note that individual projects can be excluded from observatory reporting by the project manager.
The process collects data from the project profile, from the latest project status report,
from the task list, from the project issues, from the project documents, and makes use of the document tracking
to tabulate project outputs. If you have a Costing Center database connected to
your Repository, the actual project costs and cost targets can be collected from the costing center
automatically and passed along to the Observatory.
The summarization and transfer is so completely automated that Repository users
do not even have to be aware of the existence of the Observatory. They simply use
the Project Gateway system in the normal way. The information that they provide
in plans, issues, timesheets, status reports, costs, etc. will find its way to the
proper Observatory Reports. The automatic reporting can be done daily or weekly as desired.
