Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)
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Summary of Plugins Installed with PPM Standard
The PPM Standard plugin in ServiceNow activates multiple essential plugins for effective project portfolio management, ensuring organizations can streamline processes and enhance collaboration. These plugins are crucial for financial planning, resource management, and project execution.
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Key Features
- PPM Standard Plugins:
- Project Portfolio Suite: Integrates applications for project management and IT software development.
- Financial Planning: Allows financial analysts to manage spending data and generate resource allocation reports.
- Rate Model: Provides date-effective hourly rates for projects based on specific criteria.
- Ideation with PPM: Facilitates idea collection and collaboration, enabling conversion of ideas into actionable demands, stories, projects, and epics.
- Project Portfolio Suite Plugins:
- Demand Management: Captures and prioritizes project demands.
- Project Management: Aids in planning, organizing, and executing projects efficiently.
- Resource Management: Manages resources for planned and operational tasks.
- Demand Management Plugins:
- Process Flow Formatter: Graphically displays process stages on forms.
- Assessment: Evaluates and ranks records in the system.
- Timeline Visualization: Offers a visual representation of strategic and operational activities.
- Project Management Plugins:
- Checklist: Provides task checklists.
- Cost Management: Tracks configuration item costs using rate cards.
- Skills Management: Assigns competencies to users or groups.
- Time Card Management: Creates timelines for activities defined by start and end dates.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing these plugins, ServiceNow customers can enhance their project management capabilities, improve financial oversight, and effectively manage resources and demands, ultimately leading to more successful project outcomes and strategic alignment across the organization.
Multiple plugins are installed with activation of PPM Standard plugin, if they are not already active.
PPM Standard plugins
| Plugin Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Project Portfolio Suite [com.snc.project_portfolio_suite] |
Activates an integrated set of applications for project portfolio management and IT software development. |
| Financial Planning [com.snc.financial_planning] |
Enables financial analysts to assemble spending data, build cost models, and generate reports to show how funds are being allocated. |
| Rate Model [com.snc.rate_model] |
Delivers date-effective hourly rates for a specific set of criteria coming from the project, demand, or time card being processed. |
| Ideation with PPM [com.snc.ppm_innovation_management] |
Enables your organization to collect new ideas, collaborate on ideas, and identify great ideas for implementation. Convert selected ideas to demands, stories, projects, and epics. |
Project Portfolio Suite plugins
| Plugin Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Demand Management [com.snc.demand_management] |
Enables capturing the demands and provide tools to screen, assess and prioritize them. |
| Project Management [com.snc.project_management_v3] |
Enables planning, organizing and managing projects and resources in order to setup, execute, and complete a project faster and easier. |
| Resource Management [com.snc.resource_management] |
Enables resource requesters and resource managers to plan, organize, and manage resources for both planned and operational work. |
Demand management plugins
| Plugin Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Process Flow Formatter [com.snc.process_flow_formatter] |
Summarize multiple pieces of information about a process and display the stages graphically at the top of a form. |
| Assessment [com.snc.assessment_core] |
Evaluate, score, and rank records from tables in the system. Evaluate results using unique graphical views designed to highlight key performance information. |
| Timeline Visualization [com.snc.timeline_visualization] |
Provide a high-level graphical representation of your strategic and operational activities for your organization such as incidents, problems, changes, and projects. |
Project management plugins
| Plugin Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Checklist [com.glide.ui.checklist] |
Checklists for tasks. |
| Cost Management [com.snc.cost_management] |
Enables the definition and tracking of configuration item costs. Uses rate cards with CIs, contracts, and projects. |
| Process Flow Formatter [com.snc.process_flow_formatter] |
Displays the different stages in a linear process flow across the top of a record. |
| Skills Management [com.snc.skills_management] |
Enables an administrator to assign configured competencies, called skills, to groups or individual users. |
| Timeline Visualization [com.snc.timeline_visualization] |
Enables graphical representation of activities over time. |
| Time card management [com.snc.time_card] |
Enables the creation of linear timelines for any activity that is bounded by two dates, such as the actual start and end dates on a project task. |
Resource management plugins
| Plugin Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Cost Management [com.snc.cost_management] |
Enables the definition and tracking of configuration item costs. Uses rate cards with CIs, contracts, and projects. |
| Process Flow Formatter [com.snc.process_flow_formatter] |
Displays the different stages in a linear process flow across the top of a record. |