Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)

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    Summary of Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)

    Activating the PPM Standard plugin in ServiceNow automatically installs multiple related plugins essential for comprehensive project portfolio management. These plugins collectively support managing projects, demands, resources, financial planning, ideation, and process visualization to streamline project execution and portfolio oversight.

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    PPM Standard Plugins

    The core PPM Standard activation includes these key plugins:

    • Project Portfolio Suite: Integrates applications for project portfolio management and IT software development.
    • Financial Planning: Allows financial analysts to collect spending data, develop cost models, and create reports on fund allocation.
    • Rate Model: Provides date-effective hourly rates based on project, demand, or time card criteria.
    • Ideation with PPM: Facilitates capturing, collaborating, and selecting ideas for implementation, converting them into demands, stories, projects, or epics.

    Project Portfolio Suite Plugins

    • Demand Management: Enables capturing, screening, assessing, and prioritizing demands.
    • Project Management: Supports planning, organizing, and managing projects and resources for efficient project delivery.
    • Resource Management: Assists resource requesters and managers in planning and managing resources for planned and operational work.

    Demand Management Plugins

    • Process Flow Formatter: Provides graphical stage summaries of processes at the top of forms.
    • Assessment: Offers evaluation, scoring, and ranking of records with graphical views to highlight performance.
    • Timeline Visualization: Displays high-level graphical timelines of strategic and operational activities such as incidents, problems, changes, and projects.

    Project Management Plugins

    • Checklist: Enables task checklists for better task management.
    • Cost Management: Supports defining and tracking configuration item costs using rate cards linked with CIs, contracts, and projects.
    • Process Flow Formatter: Shows linear process stages across record headers for clear process tracking.
    • Skills Management: Allows administrators to assign skills and competencies to users or groups.
    • Timeline Visualization: Visualizes activities over time graphically.
    • Time Card Management: Enables creation of linear timelines for activities bounded by start and end dates, such as project tasks.

    Resource Management Plugins

    • Cost Management: Similar to project management, it enables tracking configuration item costs linked to resources.
    • Process Flow Formatter: Displays process stages in a linear flow at the top of records.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    By activating PPM Standard, customers gain a comprehensive suite of plugins that enable integrated project portfolio and resource management, financial oversight, and ideation capabilities. These plugins support detailed demand capture and prioritization, project planning and execution, resource allocation, cost tracking, and process visualization. This integrated approach enhances governance, efficiency, and strategic decision-making across portfolios. Customers can expect streamlined workflows, improved collaboration, and better visibility into project and resource performance.

    Multiple plugins are installed with activation of PPM Standard plugin, if they are not already active.

    PPM Standard plugins

    PPM Standard adds the following 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

    Project Portfolio Suite adds the following 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

    Demand management adds the following 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

    Project management adds the following 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

    Project management adds the following 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.