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Integrated cost and schedule analyzer that reads in IPMR UN/CEFACT XML formats 1-7 and presents analytics for the data in a Splash.

Formats
IPMR Formats 1-5 and 7 are available in accordance with the new OUSD (Office of Under Secretary of Defense) DID (Data Item Description) DI-MGMT-81861. CPR reports (Cost Performance ) are being phased out. IPMR format 6 is also a new requirement; IPMR 6 is IMS or Integrated Master Schedule data. All of these formats are required to be delivered in the new UN/CEFACT xml format. ProjStream delivers these formats directly out of the IPMR reporting engine.

Change Management
Use ProjStream’s suite of tools to manage contract and baseline changes with unprecedented change tracking, budget change request and work authorization work flow documentation and routing.

Higher Success Rate
High visibility into change control and trend analysis enable better communication with your customer. Better communication and visibility eliminate those surprise moments that can damage a program or even cause a program termination.

On Time
It is hard enough to get the performance updates completed and correct, feed in actual costs and get the forecasts correct. When this information has to be corrected and optimized you want to be able to automate the processing and reporting portion of this and that is where EVMax comes in and allows you to recover time.

Smart Status Updates
Engineers, CAM’s and team members can log into the system and update task status if they have been assigned. Updates can be done online or in a client server environment.

Earned Value Techniques
EVMax has over 10 earned value techniques available including % complete, 50-50, 0-100, 100-0, milestones, user defined, level of effort and earned as spent.

Real Time Visuals
EVMax has visual indicators of performance within the application as performance relates to the work breakdown structure. Older systems without graphics look very much like spreadsheets without clear visuals. EVMax creates a paradigm shift in the way performance data is managed and understood.

Change Control
The Program Log is used to track all Program Manager approved changes to the Contract Value, the Contract Budget Base (CBB), the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), Management Reserve (MR), and Undistributed Budget (UB).

Program Log Tool - automates this process through and helps to ensure accurate capture of all approved contract and baseline changes.

EVMax
EVMax is an earned value engine designed to begin with data generated from BOEMax. Both applications interface with MS Project to bidirectionally exchange data for the purpose of iterative planning. EVMax is designed to be the earned value cost engine that is not over-engineered for simple implementations, but it does scale to ANSI/EIA 748 needs with change control and budget logs, CPR format reports etc. EVMax is also part of the VPA engine (Virtual Parametric Analyst). This is where the team captures the cost driver inputs (i.e. lines of code) or maps scrap to material base in order to plot points for a parametric type. This data feeds back to BOEMax for parametric type tasks. It is in BOEMax where we plot the points and recommend the dependent value (manhours, etc.) based on the cost driver input.

Cost Volume
Produce the cost reports necessary for proposal delivery directly out of BOEMax. Save time and money by leveraging the validation capability, workflow, documentation, versioning and customized coding abilities. If your team is spending an inordinate number of hours combining word documents with Excel and reports from pricing and contracts you may want to look at BOEMax.

Powerful User Defined Reporting
Select hierarchical groupings such as WBS, CLIN, OBS, Resource, Tasks, etc. as well as how costs will be displayed. Then modify this information on a pivot type interface to get the data out that you put in. This reporting tool includes logic development and filters that are so easy to use IT will never have to be bothered.

Proposal Versioning Reports
Produce reports that give information on changes between versions of a proposal. This data leaves a trail of information when you are in negotiation stages or there are options that are being proposed, etc. Now you don't have to rely on backups to give you this information, simply set a version at each appropriate point and run comparison reports.

Approved Pricing
Leverage the proprietary BOEMax approved report to show how each cost element result line is calculated, the explicit rates within the database and the results themselves. Tab over to the next page of the report and perform a what-if analysis on rates and escalation for part or all of the resource pool and indirects to see the impact on contract price. This is all done in a report that is invaluable during audits and contract negotiations.

Estimate Volume
BOEMax has the ability to combine document category verbiage with estimates to produce the basis of estimate reporting needed for government contract submittals. Additionally you can combine really any document category into this report, items such as risks, SOW (statement of work), etc. These document categories can be created at either the WBS level or the task level.

Basis of Estimate Library - Searchable BOE database that picks up task action and object and returns all like tasks. Leverage the information from any of the historical BOE's to build a new BOE.

Basis of Estimate / BOE Reporting - Rich Text editing allows you to enter basis of estimate text and format the document however you wish. Input a logo, insert a table, etc. and save rich text formats as BOE templates. BOE Reporting allows you to combine estimates with the verbiage in the BOEMax state of the art BOE reporting tool. Control pagination, page breaks, parse out estimates from the summaries as necessary and align verbiage with the level of data that was collected. The user can do all this on the fly with a simple set of checkboxes.

Bottom's Up Estimating - Estimators, CAMs (Control Account Managers), Engineers and team contributors can easily create tasks or work packages and add resources. From that point the folks that are doing or estimating the work can build estimates in multiple ways:

Divide by 8 Logic: This is the BOEMax default mechanism of estimating. Entering a resources hours will expand the daily duration by taking the resource with the highest amount of hours and dividing by 8. This is assuming that you set up your calendar as 8 hour days. For example if the resource on the task with the most hours is 40, the task duration will be 5 days.

Define a Spread: This logic overrides the divide by 8 logic. The estimator can define the duration first in one of two ways: 1) Modify the start or end date of the task to redefine the spread duration. This will require a spread type definition (i.e. linear, back end load, etc) 2) Modify the duration directly. This method automatically drives the end date of the task and requires a spread definition also.

Analagous Estimating - Leverage actual effort from historical projects to estimate like projects and use complexity factors. This can be done at a work package or task level or a wbs or control account level.

Parametric Estimating (VPA - Virtual Parametric Analyst) - Define Parametric types at a system level and capture actual manhours or material dollars. The team doing the work will then enter productivity. The VPA then plots these points with regression analysis to then recommend the dependent variable value based on the independent variable input on the estimate side.

System Audits
The VPA will identify statistics like correlation coefficient, F-stat and T-stat in order to determine the cost driver applicability for that parametric. This functionality supports estimating system audits.

System Support
The VPA will also allow you to map pool and base systems like material and scrap with regression analysis, allowing estimating system support to indirect costs.

Bill of Material (BOM) Interface - Map in bill of material data from your MRP system to quickly build material pricing.

Bi-Directional MS Project Integration - Build up your estimate without having to know MS Project at all. Define tasks and their durations, add resources, hours and material dollars. Dump the data to MS Project and all the structures will be maintained, including WBS, tasks, codes, resources, hours, etc. The scheduler can then link the tasks with logic and then push the data back into BOEMax. BOEMax will respread the data according to the new dates and reprice the bid as necessary based on escalation. BOEMax maintains the MS Project linkages such that when the data is dumped to Project again, the links are maintained. BOEMax is truly an iterative planning tool in addition to estimating and pricing. Estimates can also integrate with Deltek Cobra if that is your EVMS tool.

EVMax Synchronization - After your bid is submitted, transfer the estimate to EVMax as the beginning of the budget baseline. Iteratively plan between EVMax and MS Project or Primavera to develop the contract baseline.

Primavera Bi-Directional Integration - Build up your estimate without having to know Primavera at all. Define tasks and their durations, add resources, hours and material dollars. Dump the data to Primavera and all the structures will be maintained, including WBS, tasks, codes, resources, hours, etc. The scheduler can then link the tasks with logic and then push the data back into BOEMax. BOEMax will respread the data according to the new dates and reprice the bid as necessary based on escalation. BOEMax maintains the Primavera linkages such that when the data is dumped to Primavera again, the links are maintained. BOEMax is truly an iterative planning tool in addition to estimating and pricing. Estimates can also integrate with Deltek Cobra if that is your EVMS tool.

Excel Import and Export Mapping - Quickly build data structures using excel as an interface to BOEMax. For example, if your company has rates (both direct and indirect) with escalation already defined in excel you can easily map and pull this data into BOEMax. This functionality is pervasive throughout the system.

Workflow: Set up hierarchical and/or peer to peer workflow. Track the progress of BOE's through workflow reporting and identify active review cycles.

Security: Set up security by user, project and role. Some of the security attributes are read, write, lock, cost access, admin, etc.

Estimate Locking: Lock estimates at the control account level. This provides exclusive write capability to a specific control account. Other users with access can read the data at that time but cannot write. BOEMax also provides a recursive lock so you can flow the lock down as many levels within that structure as necessary.

Create Document Categories: Create unlimited document categories at both the work package or task level and the control account or wbs level. These categories are then available as a rich text document designed for being part of the BOE report engine. For example, create a SOW (Statement of Work) category at the WBS level and a BOE and Risk Category at the work package level.

Rich Text Editing: Leverage the BOEMax rich text editor to input verbiage and link it to a basis of estimate, statement of work or any document category you can think of. The rich text editor has attributes very similar to MS Word such as font size and style, find and replace, spell check, insert an image or a table etc. The BOEMax reporter will save the rich text formatting as defined by the user for very professional report submittals.

Link or Store Files: Link files from a file share and BOEMax will be able to launch the file from this link, provided the user has access to the file. Additionally, BOEMax has the ability to store files in the database and integrate with sharepoint.

Engineer and CAM Friendly: The main estimating screen makes it very easy to add tasks and resources in an excel like grid matrix. Engineers can modify task durations as well as how the hours or dollars are distributed over the task. Additionally they can leverage the VPA (Virtual Parametric Analyst) or the BOE Library to build estimates from historical data.

Spread and Reprice Estimates on the Fly: Changing task durations and or spread curves will modify pricing as necessary based on escalation rules set up within the system. Interface with schedules and picking up new dates from Primavera or MS Project will also automatically reprice the data per the new dates.

Logic Builders: Users can create if, then, else statements to create global changes based on logic. An example might be to increase the estimated manhours by 10% for all software engineers in WBS 1.2.

Filtering: Filter data columns by just simply typing information in the column header to down select the rows. This can be done on multiple columns at once to filter down to easily find data within large data sets.

Pivot Table: The main estimating screen is set in an excel like interface that has pivot capability. The user is able to filter resources and/or work packages in this view. Engineers can enter manhour estimates or material dollar estimates directly into the pivot grid.