Rail industry design, manufacturing and services giant CAF (Construcción y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) says that deploying Infor PM 10 performance management solution has significantly improved its decision-making. Infor's system creates a balanced scorecard for managing global projects, and helps companies to improve through its holistic presentation of near real time information, configured for users through Infor's PM Application Studio. Its flexible Web reports, says the company, are key to knowledge sharing.
Says CAR industrial engineer Aránzazu Romanos: "The main advantage from implementing Infor PM technology is that we now have a broader global vision of projects. Before, we relied on manual information gathered from each department, but now our management team has a single point from which to obtain an overall view of operations."
The scorecard project began two years ago, in response to a request from CAF's financial department to improve on its disparate information sources, which made getting under the skin of project costs, revenues and developments very difficult.
"We chose Infor PM Application Studio to create the scorecard for various reasons," explains Romanos. "Value for money was a determining factor, as were web access, the ease of programming different scorecard views and the learning process for end users. The fact that the application can be integrated easily with different data sources was also decisive."
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