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# Custom Reports
## Better manage projects at every stage with out-of-the-box reports
 Enterprise comes with more than 200 out-of-the-box standard reports for projects, programs, and portfolios. Reporting on task, activity, and project progress for progress and performance measurement is critical for knowing if a project is on target throughout its lifecycle. Running reports to assess whether projects are hitting specified criteria, targets, and/or benchmarks, lets project managers know immediately if a project is over or under-performing, which enables organizations to make better decisions faster.
### Solution capabilities
With more than 200 standard reports to choose from, your organization will gain visibility into all stages of your projects using one source of truth:
* Executive Summary
* Cost & Comparison Report
* Time-Phased Report
* Estimate at Completion (EAC) Report
* Histogram & S-Curves
* Performance Report
* Period Actuals Report
* Change Management Report
* Commitments Report
* Staff Planning Report
* Physical Progress Report
* Baseline Budget Details Report
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#### Reduce time required for month-end reporting
#### Improve data integrity and accuracy with standardization
#### Free up time for high-value added data analysis
## Customize reporting to meet your team’s unique requirements
Contruent Enterprise has a report writer built-in that can be used by organizations to create custom reports. With an all-new graphical interface “drag and drop” feature, users are able to create new reports faster and easier. Simply start with one of the twelve most popular cost reports and customize according to your organization’s requirements.
* Cost and Comparison #1
* Cost and Comparison #2
* Cost and Comparison Detail #1
* Cost and Comparison Detail #2
* Period Actuals
* Actuals History #1
* Actuals History #2
* Productivity
* Productivity and Performance
* Performance
* Performance Index
* Time Phased Performance
#### Personalize reports to change styles and data formats
#### Publish reports for use by individual or all projects
#### Create custom calculations to provide analysis of the data
We use Contruent to monitor, track, and forecast cost, progress and changes during all phases of our projects. We update actual costs, progress and schedule data on a monthly basis and produce a forecast for the current phase along with project reports.
Sandip Dhanani
Lead Controller, Covestro
## 90% Time Savings & Increased Reliability through Digital Transformation at Covestro
Explore how Covestro, the world’s largest high-tech polymer material suppliers, utilizes Contruent as a part of a global corporate digitalization strategy. Covestro required a centralized single source of truth to standardize project control practices across its project portfolio, increase consistency of its reporting, and further increase forecast accuracy. With Contruent, they were able to save time on data collection and validation, implement a structured and integrated approach across all projects and regions, and increase reliability.
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# Executive Dashboards
## Get everyone on the same page using enterprise-grade dashboards
Understand project, program, and portfolio performance at a glance and work at the speed of thought without ever taking your eyes off the data.
 Enterprise provides a series of pre-designed dashboard views, showing progress and performance information based on industry best practices. Users can easily manipulate the dashboard data, thereby presenting the data from a different perspective based on your company’s coding standards.
#### Key project insights that are data driven
#### Real-time data for more informed business decisions
#### Significant savings on all capital costs
## Benefits
* Glean instant business intelligence
* Increase collaboration with easy to understand dashboard views
* Bring all project data together in one intuitive dashboard
* Spot project trends and identify projects with the greatest risks
* Easily determine when to take action on ‘suspect’ projects
## Use Contruent dashboards for project & portfolio-centric reporting
### EnterpriseDashboard
Provide an overall dashboard of the enterprise.
### Executive Summary Dashboard
Focus on a specific portfolio including cost performance, budget breakdown, schedule milestones, and project cost.
### PerformanceDashboard
Show cost performance, performance indicators, SPI/CPI, negative variances and their sources, progress, totals and variances, any overspend and it’s source.
### Change OrdersDashboard
Display the overall evolution of your budget and forecast. View change statistics comparing budget and forecast, view change types (change by variety, change by status), and view change orders in a change register.
### Time-Phased DataDashboard
Analyze trends, see how CPI/SPI and variances have changed over time and include forecasting as an option.
### Project ScheduleDashboard
Since Contruent integrates out-of-the-box with scheduling applications (such as Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project), data that is fed into the system can be rolled up by project and portfolio..
### Cost & ComparisonDashboard
Display budget comparison, EAC comparison, and cost comparison dashboards. Drill down into high level reports to understand the full project cost breakdown.
### Progress & Performance Dashboard
View and dive into project or portfolio planned vs earned percentages, remaining scope, performance indicators, variances, cost performance, and time-phased performance data.
### Variance AnalysisDashboard
View variance analysis, baseline budget vs approved budget vs current EAC, and performance indicators.
They now have greater visibility into project execution and performance through dashboards, and are able to track expenditure and calculate forecasts without having to rely on a series of spreadsheets.
National Highways Case Study
## Ready-to-use project dashboard templates
* Easy to create and share dashboards with the project team, the owner, or anyone that needs fast visual performance information
* Expertly designed to be the best dashboard for project management data in the world
* Only a few clicks to publish — allowing you to spend more time on analysis, and less time on IT
# Account for Change and Maximize Efficiency
## Faster to audit compliance, change management and workflow efficiency
Are all the contractors on my project aware of the most recent changes? Do they know exactly what steps are to be taken as a result? And which projects in my portfolio are in danger of contract overspend?
Take the guesswork out of change management with  Enterprise, the capital project management software solution that allows you to proactively manage contract spending with the most robust change management engine available.
You’ll be able to see and understand where the data is pointing and anticipate potential changes.
And you can facilitate transparency across all parties for better  through increased awareness, improved decision-making and enhanced compliance.
## Reduce contract overspending due to improper change management
### 4%
average annual reduction in contract overspend
### $8M
in savings per $500M in annual contract overspend
## Track cost and schedule changes with a certified audit trail
Contruent Enterprise change management capabilities deliver  for tracking cost and schedule changes to your project’s baseline and forecast. You get complete traceability from period to period for budget, forecasting, funding and more.
## Centralize change management for a single source of truth
Structured  and procedures are essential to the success of a project and the profitability of an organization. With Contruent Enterprise, all changes are tracked and can be traced back to a single source of truth. Risk is reduced while communication, decision-making, transparency, and compliance are optimized.
Contruent is a no-brainer because it cuts down a lot of the time that is spent in developing and implementing project controls once the information is in the system. Having a system like Contruent to work with when we’re setting up projects really helps streamline our effort and saves time.
Praetorian
## Reduce the cost and effort of workflow management
Contruent Enterprise allows you to initiate a sequence of approval events whenever you define a change. You build the lists of approvers, assigning specific roles and defining the level of approval. Other project controls solutions may require you to develop workflows from scratch, which can be time-consuming and expensive. The  are much easier to configure and far less costly to maintain.
## Read all about it: Account for change and maximize efficiency success stories
## Datasheet
# Cost Management
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## Case Study
# Low Level Waste Repository – Enterprise Reporting & Earned Value Management
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## White Paper
# AACE Earned Value Management
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# Certified Audit Trail
## Avoid change failure pitfalls with a detailed audit trail
Change failures can not only cost your business a fortune but finding out what went wrong, how to fix it and providing an accurate audit trail for regulators can also be time-consuming and stressful if you don’t have the right platform in place. A good change management platform can be the difference between your project’s success or failure.
 Enterprise provides organizations with a certified audit trail for managing changes on large capital projects. An audit trail not only enables strong governance, but it helps equip the project team with historical context for project changes.
#### Increase transparency and awareness
#### Streamline and improve decision-making
#### Monitor, track, and meet compliance standards
* Link all changes back to the schedule, estimate, and impact on cost at completion
* Create integrity in change management data
* Utilize insights to benchmark future projects
* Improve communication and increase awareness across project stakeholders
Crossrail has seen several business benefits including increased reporting capability, having an audit trail of project changes, and producing executive reports in 5 days from month’s end.
Crossrail Case Study
## Complete traceability from period to period for budget, forecast and funding
* Support communication between all stakeholders within an organization
* Foster better project control via transparency, increased awareness, better decision-making, time saved and improved compliance
* Monitor, manage and optimize the changes that occur throughout the project lifecycle
# Change Management
## Effectively manage change to stay on time and on budget
Structured change management processes and procedures are imperative for the success of a project and an organization. Change management helps support communication between all stakeholders within an organization and fosters better  via transparency, increased awareness, better decision-making, time saved and improved compliance.
 enables all project changes to be tracked and traced back to a single source of truth. Our enterprise change management solution provides organizations with a complete and auditable system for tracking cost and schedule changes to the project’s baseline and forecast.
#### Achieve business outcomes
#### Maximize ROI
#### Reduce risk
* Complete traceability from period to period for budget, forecast and funding
* Budget and forecast calculations with hours and FTEs defined
* Support communication between all stakeholders
* Implement change management processes to maintain control of scope and cost
* Trends communicate potential changes
* Change orders linked to imported schedule activities for time-phasing the effects of changes
## Spreadsheets Are Not Enough for Change Management
Unfortunately, many organizations are still relying on spreadsheets to track not only their projects, but the changes within those projects. Excel spreadsheets have their own shortcomings in terms of project management, and in terms of change management, they have major failings:
* Spreadsheets do not accurately reflect the complexity that project changes can have on complex, megaprojects
* Spreadsheets are incapable of providing big picture and historical context of the changes, including the knock-on effect to other systems and processes in the project
* Organizations end up with numerous copies of the same spreadsheet in different hands; making version control a very manual and nearly impossible goose chase of tracking them all down and updating each one every time a change is made.
## Why Do I Need Change Management?
If you are unable to answer any of the following questions regarding change on your project or program, you need a change management solution:
* How did a change go through the review and approval cycle, and was the appropriate due diligence undertaken?
* What was the result of that review and approval?
* Who physically or electronically signed off and committed the program to go down that particular path resulting from that change?
* How was the funding requested, allocated, and tracked?
* Who agreed to the changes in design, cost, and schedule?
IHI E&C is able to effectively manage project changes with an audit trail. They have access to view the total detailed history of each control account and change order by commitment, actuals, changes, etc. This is very efficient when having to research and summarize past cost impacts.
IHI Case Study
## 10-15% reduction in time spent during closeout
IHI E&C previously relied on high-level spreadsheets and needed a dependable tool to manage cost data, change, and provide standardized reporting while minimizing their dependency on spreadsheets. Implementing Contruent project management software resulted in IHI E&C saving 10-15% time during their closeout periods, increased confidence in report outputs, and creating a trusted centralized data source.
# Workflow Management
## Improve data accuracy and reduce errors with workflow management
Project changes often affect other teams and departments, and they can easily increase in complexity and cost. Depending on the project change requested, it could impact additional worksites, stakeholders, and require numerous approvals and sign-offs. Having a change management workflow with pre-defined reviewers and approvers is table stakes when managing complex .
 Enterprise helps organizations increase their  level by moving from manual paper or email processes to automated change management processes.
#### Increase project management maturity portfolio-wide
#### Greatly reduce redundant and manual processes
#### Streamline & automate change management
* Eliminate the need for wet signatures, couriers, printers, and unnecessary meetings
* Increase transparency with automated change order status updates
* Create and manage workflows around trends, change orders, change requests, and monetary authority levels
* Automatically submit, track and approve changes at the click of a button
* Speed up the approval process by notifying managers of change approvals via email
Contruent’s change management features, with automated change management workflow, enabled Crossrail to overcome the manual process of change control, improved data accuracy, and reduced re-work and errors. Project changes are now automatically submitted, tracked, and approved at the click of a button. This change approval workflow has significantly sped up the approval process since managers are alerted to approve each change via email.
## Changing the face of London by successfully managing change on Crossrail
Learn how Crossrail Ltd, a 73-mile high frequency, high capacity railway in London, increased confidence in data and created a dependable audit trail for all project changes by implementing Contruent Enterprise. Crossrail needed to manage up to 1,000 project changes per period and the team was dispersed throughout multiple offices in London. With Contruent, they were able to automate the approval process, improve data accuracy through one source of truth and produce executive reports just five days after month end.