Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)

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  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)

    Activating the PPM Standard plugin in ServiceNow automatically installs a suite of related plugins that enhance project portfolio management capabilities. These plugins support integrated project and portfolio management, financial planning, resource management, demand management, ideation, and more. The activation ensures that your organization can effectively plan, execute, and track projects, resources, and financials within a unified framework.

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    Key Features

    • PPM Standard Plugins:
      • Project Portfolio Suite: Provides integrated applications for project portfolio management and IT software development.
      • Financial Planning: Enables financial analysts to compile spending data, build cost models, and generate allocation reports.
      • Rate Model: Delivers date-effective hourly rates based on project, demand, or time card criteria.
      • Ideation with PPM: Facilitates idea collection, collaboration, and conversion of ideas into demands, stories, projects, and epics.
    • Project Portfolio Suite Plugins:
      • Demand Management: Supports capturing, screening, assessing, and prioritizing demands.
      • Project Management: Enables planning, organizing, and managing projects and resources to accelerate project completion.
      • Resource Management: Helps resource requesters and managers plan and manage resources for planned and operational work.
    • Demand Management Plugins:
      • Process Flow Formatter: Displays process stages graphically at the top of forms.
      • Assessment: Evaluates, scores, and ranks records with graphical performance views.
      • Timeline Visualization: Provides high-level graphical representations of strategic and operational activities.
    • Project Management Plugins:
      • Checklist: Adds task checklists.
      • Cost Management: Defines and tracks configuration item costs using rate cards linked to CIs, contracts, and projects.
      • Process Flow Formatter: Shows linear process stages across records.
      • Skills Management: Allows administrators to assign competencies (skills) to users or groups.
      • Timeline Visualization: Enables graphical timelines of activities.
      • Time Card Management: Creates linear timelines for activities bounded by start and end dates, such as project tasks.
    • Resource Management Plugins:
      • Cost Management: Supports cost tracking as described above.
      • Process Flow Formatter: Displays stages in a linear process flow on records.

    Key Outcomes

    By enabling the PPM Standard plugin and its associated plugins, ServiceNow customers gain a comprehensive, integrated platform for managing project portfolios, financial planning, resource allocation, demand prioritization, and ideation workflows. This setup facilitates streamlined project execution, improved financial oversight, enhanced resource utilization, and effective innovation management, ultimately driving better project outcomes and organizational alignment.

    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.