Global Microsoft® partner award finalist Ascribe, releases its new Programme Management Office SharePoint™ 2010 Accelerator solution

31st October 2011 – Ascribe, the leading developer of healthcare IT solutions & consultancy services announced today that it has released a new version of its market leading Programme Management Office (“PMO”) SharePoint 2010 Accelerator solution. PMO is designed to automate, govern and manage delivery of enterprise programmes and projects for healthcare organisations.

For the NHS to achieve the required (and unprecedented) cost savings over the next two years, and to meet the evolving targets set by CQUINs, Trusts will need to execute a large and diverse portfolio of programmes and projects to achieve the target reductions and service levels.

Ascribe’s PMO solution has been designed specifically for this purpose, providing core functions tailored to an individual trust which automate and standardise the programme and project review and approval processes, govern delivery, track performance, facilitates collaborative working, and provides a real time dynamic analytical view of performance data.

Ascribe’s Consulting division can assist tailor and configure PMO and most importantly help deliver change management to ensure the benefits of adopting our enterprise PMO offering are realised.

For organisations who have already adopted SharePoint, PMO is simple to add into the existing environment and can be simply configured to utilise existing functions, for example enterprise search, project collaboration, records management or extranet, and for those new to SharePoint it can be rapidly implemented and configured.

Once installed, PMO delivers project reporting ‘at the touch of a button’ and has been demonstrated by existing users to significantly reduce the administrative overheads and project resources associated with this task, whilst at the same time, increasing project governance.

Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service is already gaining significant benefits from the PMO solution. Sian Clark, Business Change Manager at the Trust, commented “Ascribe’s PMO solution is an essential component of our strategy for achieving efficiency and enables us to meet our customer needs and expectations by ensuring we can control and effectively manage our programmes and projects”.