Acunote delivers management analytics

By David Rubinstein

June 28, 2012 — (Page 1 of 2)
Developers complete tasks. Their managers oversee the work and allocate resources as needed. They work in project-management tools that help them get their jobs done through task assignments, burn-down charts and more. In large organizations, there will be multiple teams working on multiple projects, each generating their own data as to how their work is going.

But how do managers at the highest level of an organization—who must keep their eyes on what’s good for the business, not merely one project or another—make sense of all the data at their disposal? Traditionally, this has been done through weekly executive meetings, with vice presidents reporting on how the teams under them are performing. This, though, can lead to unpredictability, and if there’s anything an organization values, it’s predictability.

To that end, Acunote, a project-management software company, today is releasing a solution called Management Analytics, which aggregates and presents the “How are we doing?” data in ways that executives can act on it to make key business decisions.

“In companies with multiple business units, the problem is allocation of resources,” said Gleb Arshinov, CEO of Acunote. “A project manager will pull as much as he can for his unit, but sales from that unit might be only 1% of the total business. That unit might take up to 50% of available resources. That’s good for the unit, which will be able to get its work done on time, but it’s bad for the overall business,” he explained, as too many resources are dedicated to business units that generate only small percentages of the overall business revenue.

Management Analytics is process-agnostic, and Arshinov explained that the solution crosses groups within an organization, because “95% of the subsets for each group are the same. We look at what is the vertical functionality that’s needed for the last 5%,” he said. As an example, the notion of working in iterations has spread beyond the developer world, and it’s a concept that’s easily explained to business-side people.

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