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Session Title:  Integrating Data from External LOB Systems (SAP, ClickSoft, etc.) for Strategic Resource Planning & Forecasting
Speaker(s), Company:  Tim Runcie ,  Advisicon
Chetan Patel , Advisicon
Track:  Deployment Administration & Developer
Session Code:  PC322
Presented By:  MVP
Level:  300
Audience:  IT Professionals ,Developers ,Business Analysts ,Consultants ,Executives ,Managers ,Portfolio Program and Project Managers
Product(s):  Project Server
Solution:  Project Portfolio Management (PPM) ,Line of Business Integration (LOBI)
Abstract: 
This Session will Showcase the creative and cost effective solution for integrating external and in some cases competing LOB systems with Project Server. Enabling the migration or integration of External Systems while simultaneously addressing Business Forecasting & Resource Strategic Planning Needs

This presentation will help organizations who want to integrate other Systems with Project Server's Powerful Views & Capabilities, while not spending a fortune to do so. This session will help define the methods for driving baselining, actuals, costs, work and hours into Project Server and Project Professional, extending the Power of Project Client and Project Server together to solve issues that other external systems struggle to achieve or are otherwise prohibitive in costs to implement and maintain, but Project Server can do so easily.
Key Learning Objectives: 
1. Understanding External Line of Business Systems functions, limitations and methods for bringing the data to Project Server (Examples will be SAP & ClickSoft).

2. Explain the Technical Challenges of Integrating External Systems and the solutions that were applied that achieved results in bringing the information into Project and Project Server.

3. The end user will understand how to help bridge the gap between external systems and solve business resource forecasting and strategic resource planning issues with Project and Project Server. The attendee will understand how to enable organizations to take advantage of Project Server in a scalable and cost effective manner that increases adoption of the product, better and faster results and leverages both the Desktop and Project Server for organizations who are looking to migrate to project server, but can’t drop their existing Line of Business Systems.

4. This session will cover industry and customer examples that have leveraged this solution and been successful. In every case the integration and implementation took less time than the original planned full Project Server Implementation rollout, helping to increase adoption and reduce the resistance by executives to implementing another enterprise system
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