Omniscope 

2002 Consensus Software Awards

Product Description

Today’s business environment demands tight control over all aspects of project planning and execution as well as flexibility, speed, scalability and cost effectiveness to ensure all project benefits are delivered.

Omniscope is the software solution an organisation needs to plan, govern, control, communicate and successfully deliver its projects.

Omniscope is a project management & communication tool that streamlines ALL project related activity and significantly reduces costs and effort of project management and running of project offices.

Omniscope is about pro-actively managing projects on a day-to-day basis. Integrating with MS Project, Omniscope will accommodate and support established business processes. It will provide instant status summaries and will send automatic alerts about significant events via email.

Now there is no more need to maintain a host of Gantt charts, Word or Excel documents as separate issue logs, risk registers, tasks sheets, time sheets or change control registers.

Planning, resource allocation, risk management and issue management, change control, task tracking, and time capture or ANY other user defined items are all captured, tracked and reported within the one corporate knowledge management system – Omniscope.

Each project stakeholder is presented only with personally relevant information, and the system affords a simple, effective way of enabling communication between all involved parties.

Omniscope provides a consolidated line of sight across any and all projects, allowing for simpler, more effective status reporting, early trouble-spot identification and mitigation.

With its configurable profile based security, information can be safely shared with all stakeholders

Omniscope is suitable for any organisation which runs projects or project based services, in small or large teams, working jointly or separately, in one or many locations.

Innovation

Omniscope is innovative, not only for the features it offers to end users, but also for the internal architecture on which it is based.

In providing a single, consolidated project management system, Omniscope has to cope with a large quantity of information, and has to make that information available to end users in manageable, relevant chunks. To this end, Omniscope provides an innovative and exceptionally powerful “slice-and-dice” mechanism for reporting and data retrieval throughout the system.

Currently available products tend to focus on a particular type of project data exclusively. For example, there are products that deal solely in activity planning, or products that serve as problem logs. Omniscope provides a single, streamlined management system for all the information an organisation may wish to capture.

Unlike most other products in this space, Omniscope is not exclusively focused on project planning. Omniscope is there to support its users throughout the project cycle, from planning, to execution to learning. It is configurable to the particular business methods and practices of each organisation.

Omniscope also stands out for its Offline Module. This allows users to work disconnected from the main database server and synchronise data at a later stage. However, the Offline Module goes way beyond normal Offline Systems. Omniscope Offline allows any two Offline users to exchange information. It is even possible to connect two or more Offline computers into a mini “offline” network.

Internally, Omniscope is based on Think Software’s UUL software architecture standard. This is in itself a highly innovative software development framework and toolkit that has allowed the rapid and robust development of Omniscope.

Omniscope Key Benefits include: 

- Cost Reduction - 

• Dramatically reduce cost/effort needed to generate meaningful summary and status reports

• Eliminate the need to collect status information manually from employees

• Avoid blowouts as well as misunderstandings over milestones, responsibilities and expectations.

- Cost Control - 

• Identify potential trouble spots early, initiate proactive counter-measures immediately

• Receive automatic alerts for significant changes and events

• Utilise resources more effectively

- Reliability / Accountability -

• Establish a "corporate brain trust" that never forgets or overlooks issues

• Trace the history of all work done

• Produce more accurate timesheets quickly and easily

- Ease of Use -

• Self-explanatory screens

• Movie-clip help system that guides users through every step of the way

• Minimal learning time

Omniscope key Features include :

- Project Planning - 

Plan the phases, activities and milestones of individual projects.

- Resource Allocation -

Assign resources to activities quickly whilst guarding against over and under allocation of resources.

- MS Project Integration -

Import project plans from MS Project. Export to MS Project to view the current status and development of any project

- Progress Information Capture and Automatic Time Tracker -

Collect all relevant information about the progress of the project. Generate timesheets for any period automatically.

- Risk Management -

Identify and mitigate risks.

- Issues Management -

Identify and resolve issues and problems.

- Status and Progress Analysis -

Get an instant view of current project status. Generate the relevant reports.

- Automatic Alerter - 

Keeps you informed about significant events via email.

- Work Anywhere - 

Work anywhere using the Offline Mode or the Mini Remote Network Mode.

- Configurable Profile based Security -

Share information safely with employees, or even clients.

- Powerful Information Search Engine -

Find exactly what you are looking for, quickly and easily. Avoid information overload.

Performance

Omniscope has been used internally for over a year. It was commercially released in Dec 2001 and by Jan 2002 clients included :

KPMG
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, 
TD Waterhouse
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Queensland Govt Dept of Health
Dilithium Networks

ENDORSEMENTS

"Omniscope has the potential to provide us with a single point of access for any project related information we would like to track. The system allows you to have a transparent view of what is happening in your projects from schedules through to risk and issues management, and can be tailored to be used as a key communication tool"

- Jason Millett, Programme Director, Australian Financial Services, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

"Omniscope has been demonstrated to Deloitte. We are carefully considering the opportunities to utilise it internally, in particular its functionality for project planning, managing and controlling service delivery and the associated project risk features including early warnings and expected performance analysis."

- Graham Mott, Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

"Omniscope is certainly a great progression in the field of project management software. The software provides significantly more functionality than its main competitors. Omniscope's ability to provide personal task lists and automatically record time is a superbly designed function."

- David Johnson, Information Systems Manager – Enforcement, Australian Securities & Investments Commission

Omniscope is currently being considered by a number of major organisations in a variety of industries

Potential

In only two months since its release the uptake of Omniscope has been phenomenal.

Omniscope is currently being actively marketed in Australia by Think Software and its strategic partners. Plans are underway for release in NZ and SE Asia by mid 2002.

Further, Think Software is in discussions with a number of international organisations as potential distribution and support partners who have ready and established clients/markets for Omniscope in UK, US and Europe.

Finally, Omniscope is evolving to offer ever greater advantages to its users. Some of the current initiatives include XML publication of the data, web integration and advanced scenario modelling capabilities

Other information the judges should know

Founded in 1997, Think Software creates effective, high quality solutions, provides IT consulting services and leads innovative R&D programmes in the areas of software development tools, architectures and methodologies.

Our customers include:

KPMG
DAI-ICHI Kangyo Bank (Japan)
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 
NSW Rural Fire Services
Lowes – Manhattan
Hunter Institute of Technology
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories 
E-Silkroad.net Holdings (Hong Kong)
Macquarie Bank
ANZ Bank
AMP
Deloitte
Queensland Dept of Health
Dilithium Networks

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