Plastic Technologies Inc.

"With Project Insight, our estimates have become more accurate and all-inclusive because they're based on project plans, staffing, resources, time and expenses. It's already very obvious in our levels of billing. Project Insight is a huge part of the new approach that allows us to issue quotes faster and bill at a higher level."

- Program Officer Coordinator

Main Challenges

Before PTI established its program office, project teams chose any processes, management and reporting tools they preferred. Everything from spreadsheets, checklists and punch lists were in use. The goals were to improve customer service and to streamline project management for greater overall efficiency.

  • Needed support for implementation of project management process
  • Time consuming to track project and task status manually
  • No easy way to share information or work collaboratively with clients
Why PI®

The program office group evaluated approximately 80 potential project management solutions. They narrowed the field of candidates to a handful, which the group then tested. Based on the powerful feature set, ease of use and reasonable product price, PTI chose Project Insight.

  • Web-based and accessible by both MAC and Windows systems
  • Easy to use to enable collaborative customer engagement
  • Integration with Microsoft Project for offline project planning and template development by engineers
  • Support multiple project management methodologies
  • Readily produce a variety of reports
Outcome

The program office group evaluated approximately 80 potential project management solutions. They narrowed the field of candidates to a handful, which the group then tested. Based on the powerful feature set, ease of use and reasonable product price, PTI chose Project Insight.

  • Ease of use and easily accessible self-help resources
  • Simple to use and promotes collaboration with customers
  • Rapid project creation with project templates
  • Accelerates proposal turnaround
  • Integrates with the ERP system