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360 Portfolio Insights v6.8 – Product Update 8

We’re pleased to announce the availability of 360 Portfolio Insights v6.8 – Product Update 8 (PU8). Product Updates include all previously released public updates and private hotfixes. We strongly recommend that any patch and release is validated in a non-production environment first before being applied to production environments. UPCOMING CHANGES: Starting with 360 Portfolio Insights ...

Why The Portfolio Management System Stalled

Recently, companies have shifted their attention to business transformation or optimization in order to improve their current operations and extend their opportunities. This is a significant shift, moving towards a future focus instead of attempting to get the most out of the present through disciplines like process and task optimization or reengineering. This is a ...

UMT360 solution positioned in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools™

UMT360 software is positioned in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for for Enterprise Architecture Tools™. This is the first time UMT360’s solution has been included in Gartner’s Enterprise Architecture MQ, having already been positioned in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Strategic Portfolio Management report. UMT360 is one of only two companies listed in both reports, reflecting our belief that true ...

The science behind managing the investment in business transformation

Enterprise investment management is still waiting for the fundamental tenets to be established. In McKinsey’s recent global survey, 31% of their business transformation were successful. At the same time, successful organizations have realized only 67% of the potential financial benefits their transformations could have achieved. Moreover, nearly 80% of the loss occurs in the investment ...

Digital Transformation and Strategic Portfolio Management: From Ambition To Implementation

Transformation has always been a subject of fascination for business leaders. The interest in business reengineering and business transformation really went into overdrive in the 1980s. And the current focus on the digital transformation trend is merely the latest in this continuing saga. To be clear, business transformation represents management ambitions and strategy. But it ...

360 Portfolio Insights v6.7 – Product Update 7

We’re pleased to announce the availability of 360 Portfolio Insights v6.7 – Product Update 7 (PU7). Product Updates include all previously released public updates and private hotfixes. We strongly recommend that any patch and release is validated in a non-production environment first before being applied to production environments. UPCOMING CHANGES: Starting with 360 Portfolio Insights ...

360 Enterprise Connect v3.6

We’re pleased to announce the upcoming release of 360 Enterprise Connect v3.6. We strongly recommend that you validate these updates once they become available. Here is a list of changes that will be introduced with this update: Visit the UMT360 Product Version History page for version details.

Importance of Strategic Portfolio Management Highlighted In New Research Report

A recent report initiating coverage of UMT360 by 451 Research asserts that strategic portfolio management (SPM) is key in helping organizations “capture what success looks like, understand current and future states in terms of architectures and business capabilities, and align different stakeholders to get there.” The report examines UMT360’s ability to deliver SPM capabilities to ...

UMT360 Strategic Portfolio Management Solution positioned in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

UMT360 software is once again included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Strategic Portfolio Management report. Gartner’s 2022 report also provides a stark warning to organizations that disruptions should not be ignored or dismissed, but rather expected when planning and executing strategy. The report goes further, predicting that that by 2025, organizations that don’t apply a ...

360 Portfolio Insights v6.6 – Product Update 6

We’re pleased to announce the availability of 360 Portfolio Insights v6.6 – Product Update 6 (PU6). Product Updates include all previously released public updates and private hotfixes. We strongly recommend that any patch and release is validated in a non-production environment first before being applied to production environments. Here is a list of changes that ...

UMT360 Client Showcases Solution At Business Architecture Innovation Summit

UMT360 client Cargill will present at the 10th Annual Business ArchitectureInnovation Summit on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 3:55 pm EDT, discussing the different ways the company performs and utilizes assessments they generate using UMT360’s Enterprise Connect solutions. Due to the complexity of their business environment, Cargill requires business capabilityassessments at multiple levels, by function, ...

UMT360 Acquires Western Principles

Bellevue, WA, February 23, 2021: UMT360 is proud to announce the acquisition of Western Principles Consulting, Inc., a leading Canadian-based Project Portfolio Management (“PPM”) consulting firm. Founded in 2005 with headquarters in Vancouver, BC, Western Principles has successfully conducted PPM implementations across Canada, including Microsoft’s PPM systems and UMT360’s strategic portfolio management software suite, in ...

UMT360 Acquires FIOS Insight

Bellevue, WA, December 10, 2021: UMT360 is proud to announce the acquisition of FIOS Insight, a leading Enterprise Architecture (EA) software and consulting firm that helps companies simplify their Business Architecture, Portfolio Rationalization and Enterprise Architecture processes. UMT360 expects to combine the technology and expertise of FIOS Insight with its existing Strategic Portfolio Management Solution ...

UMT360 v6.5 – Product Update 5

We’re pleased to announce the availability of UMT360 v6.5 – Product Update 5 (PU5). Product Updates include all previously released public updates and private hotfixes. We strongly recommend that any patch and release is validated in a non-production environment first before being applied to production environments. Here is a list of changes that will be ...

The current strategy of aligning investment to business drivers is faltering

With over 30 years of deploying investment management strategy software and consulting, I have come to realize that organizations require different approaches to support the implementation of their business strategy. Investment strategy is typically viewed as a vehicle to implement business strategy. For as long as I can remember, the assumption has been that strategy ...

Forrester’s Strategic Portfolio Management Report Features UMT360

Having already been positioned early this year in Gartner’s 2021 Strategic Portfolio Management Magic Quadrant, UMT360’s Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) software is now also included in a new Forrester analysis of the SPM market. Forrester’s Now Tech: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools is the second major analyst report featuring UMT360’s software, and positions UMT360 as one ...

UMT360 v6.4 – Product Update 4

We’re pleased to announce the availability of UMT360 v6.4 – Product Update 4 (PU4). Product Updates include all previously released public updates and private hotfixes. We strongly recommend that any patch and release is validated in a non-production environment first before being applied to production environments. Here is a list of changes that will be ...

Strategic Planning Office

The Strategic Planning Office is at the heart of the ability to deliver strategic success The Strategic Planning Office ensures that all strategic planning across the organization is integrated and aligned with strategic priorities.  It manages the maintenance and evolution of those plans for all work types and all portfolios through the continuous adjustments that ...

Demand better demand management

Has any executive ever complained that they had too few projects?  Most feel that they have way too many projects, and can never get them all completed.  Yet having failed to deliver 100 projects for each of the last ten years they’ll still happily approve another 100 projects next year in the hope that something ...

The Tri-Modal Reality

Gaining visibility across all project execution Today’s work is executed using traditional, Agile, and back-of-the-napkin approaches, so PMOs must provide top-down governance & control to gain a 360°view across all work and allow teams to work in their tool of choice. That’s the Tri-Modal Reality. The Tri-Modal Reality of work management Most organizations now manage ...