Synergy is a comprehensive process content management application designed for use by every stakeholder involved with projects - directors, managers, methodologists, project staff, and business users. It focuses on project success and is designed to dramatically increase an organization's ability to define, manage and continuously improve core processes and methodologies used in execution and management of projects, business initiatives and product lifecycles.

The only sustainable source of competitive advantage in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment… is the rate at which organizations learn to create flexible and extensible solutions

 Synergy makes it happen.

   Collaborate in real-time

   Share relevant knowledge

   Optimize Process Value Chain

   Learn from experiences

Synergy’s intuitive interface guides you through setting up process and reference libraries – and through all aspects of defining and planning

Design your Process Asset Library

Synergy's powerful Process Library capability allows the definition and creation of development paths that reflect the best practices of your organization. Simplicity, speed and flexibility are essential for the rapid start of projects. Synergy is designed to enable you to create projects either by defining them from scratch or by simply selecting all or parts of development paths from one of our field-tested Synergy/ Framework methodologies.

Assign Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities need to be defined only once for processes. These definitions automatically flow to your project definitions… saving you time and ensuring a consistent approach. All roles and responsibilities can be completely customized to reflect the needs of your organization. 

Build a Complete Reference Library 

Your project team needs more than just process definitions to ensure quality work products. The Synergy Reference Library allows you to store your organization's standards, techniques and other reference material. Synergy dynamically creates indexes across projects and references… allowing you to put the right information where it counts most - in the hands of your teams.

Standardize Deliverables

Synergy comes with a rich collection of work product examples and templates. Use these or create your own. Once created, these can be used again and again by different projects - quickly standardizing deliverables across your organization.

Estimate Effort and Assess Risk

Synergy's sophisticated estimation engine allows you to quickly build simple or complex estimation scenarios. It provides full support for top-down, bottom-up and function point estimation. Synergy also supports risk assessment and cost/benefit analysis to help you manage project risk and expectations.

Assign the Right Resources

Synergy's resource management facility allows you to assign resources to specific tasks based on the skills required. You can then authorize and prioritize assignments.

Develop a Project Schedule

Synergy's open interface provides integration with your choice of project scheduling tools. Synergy's seamless bi-directional interface to MS Project makes it easy.

To understand the dynamics of projects we observed how managers, users, analysts and other technical staff interacted…

how estimates and schedules were developed…

how changes and issues were managed…

how deliverables were inspected and approved…

where problems occurred…

what caused rework at later stages of development…

 We Observed.

     We Listened.

       We Learned.

     We developed Synergy.

Share and Manage Deliverables

Synergy has extensive facilities to capture and track project work products in its Project Library. Once deliverables are approved, they can be marked as "read only" and promoted. Access to any work product stored in the Project Library is as simple as clicking on its title. 

Manage Change

A complete change request and tracking facility is included in Synergy. You can examine the cause of changes… for example, understand which changes are directly related to changes in requirements. You can also track the resources, status and time spent on specific changes.

Track Problems & Issues

Synergy provides a problem and issue tracking facility. Problems with deliverables, assignments, project plans - even standards and references, can be recorded and managed across projects.

Monitor Quality 

Quality and audit reviews are easy to manage with Synergy. Every work product can be tracked with an inspection report. Items can be tagged for rework or given conditional or final approval.

Monitor and Control Projects Using Multi-Project Dashboards and Reports

Rarely does the upper management have the time to go into the details of a project. They need a mechanism that allows them access to key information at an enterprise level to assist in their decision making. Synergy offers birds eye views into projects through summary reports and project dashboards. These can be for a specific project or across multiple projects. 

Measure and Analyze Metrics

Estimates, actual hours expended, time spent on changes and problems, function points - are all recorded in Synergy's database. Analyze this information across the enterprise.

Report Time

Synergy comes with an integrated time reporting system. Resources can report time against assignments and submit them for approval by their manager.

Facilitate Team Collaboration

Any information or work product can be distributed via Synergy facilities. Synergy is fully enabled to support electronic mail.

Key Features

    Full Authoring and Customization Capability

    Extensive support for standards and reference materials

    Online delivery of methods, processes, references and deliverables

    Customized cross-referencing

    Top-down and bottom-up estimating

    Function point counting

    Problem tracking

    Change management

    Automated inspection reporting

    Bi-directional interface to Microsoft Project

    Metrics capture and reporting

    Role-specific views

    To-do lists

    Workflow management

    Full email support

    Time reporting

    Launch tool invocation

    Deliverables Management

    Multi-project reporting

   Open architecture using industry standard RDBMS

Examine Development Processes

When evaluating your development process, Synergy provides far more than simple resource expenditure and deadline reports. Examine the changes that affected your project. Analyze the cause and duration of problems and changes. Investigate rework due to failed inspections. Synergy's data collection and analysis features allow you to truly understand what happened in your project and how to improve it next time.

Improve Your Process Asset Library

Synergy provides the capability of converting successful projects into development process definitions. This allows the organization to not only capture best practices, but also rapidly incorporate them into standard processes. Synergy's libraries are easy to update, giving you the power to improve your standard methodology over time.

Update Standards and References

Synergy takes the pain out of maintaining reference material. Synergy's change request and problem reporting features are used to constantly elicit feedback to update the enterprise standards and references. Because Synergy is built around a central repository, changes just need to be made at one central place and they are instantly available to everyone in the organization.

Refine Estimates

The metrics captured in Synergy are available for use during project estimation. This is an easy way to continually improve your estimation - project after project.

Optimize Resource Utilization

Synergy captures and tracks what your resources were assigned to do - and what they actually did. Use this information for better resource utilization in the future.

Update Function Point Counts

Manage your application assets by taking advantage of Synergy's Function Point database. Synergy provides full support for new development and enhancement projects.

Achieve Compliance to Industry Standards

Synergy allows you to rapidly implement industry standards for best practices. These include SEI's CMM, CMMI, TSPi, ISO or internally defined best practices. Synergy's power of integration ensures that standardized processes and templates are propagated and institutionalized very quickly.

Become a Learning Organization

Synergy fosters continuous learning through constant feedback. Lessons learned are captured and incorporated into the processes. Processes managed and improved through Synergy have the participation of every stakeholder ensuring buy-in from everyone involved.