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Mercury IT Governance Center™ is the most comprehensive transaction system available for IT, covering the broadest spectrum of IT activities, including portfolio management, project visibility and control, IT services automation, and application change management. Major features in the 6.0 release of Mercury IT Governance Center include:

Six-Dimensional “What-if” Portfolio Management Scenarios

Optimizing an IT portfolio requires a careful balance of risk, value, resources, and budget with business priorities. But you can lose this balance quickly unless you take into account a sixth dimension: time. Release 6.0 lets you visualize and interactively adjust the start and end dates of projects in “what-if” scenarios. This provides conclusive assurance that you can actually execute an optimized IT portfolio.

Improved Resource Search for Assigning Resources Across Projects and Operational Activities

New search capabilities make it even easier to find the right resource or resolve resource conflicts. Most resource management products focus on projects, but in the real world of IT, resources usually work on both projects and operational activities, with operational activities making up 60-80 percent of the total work. Mercury Resource Management™ covers both projects and operational activities, so no matter how your IT resources divide their time, Resource Search always gives you a complete view of resource availability.

Best-of-Class Document Management

Documents are critical components to many IT projects and operational activities. In most cases, though, they’re not treated that way. In most IT operations, users have to juggle a document management system and a separate project management application, requiring time-consuming, error-prone manual coordination. This is hardly a “best-practice” situation.

Mercury IT Governance Center 6.0 adds best-of-class document management capabilities from a leading document management provider to its best-in-class workflow to help you ensure that documents are created, reviewed, and updated at the right time by the right resources in a unified process. Other major features in Release 6.0 include:


 *Unlimited International Calendars
 *Self-Service Resource Calendar Updates
 *SOP 98-1 Monitoring and Enforcement
 *Multi-Currency Support
 *Next-Generation Dashboard
 *Additional Customer-Driven Enhancements

In Summary

While the improvements in Mercury IT Governance Center 6.0 address many different functions within IT, they share a common goal: making it easier to run IT as a business. Just as disparate financial systems have given way to enterprise resource planning (ERP), so too are CIOs discovering the advantage of a single system of record for all IT transactions. Mercury IT Governance Center 6.0 is that system: a real-world application that can be implemented in stages, starting with the biggest pain points and building out to optimize the way you govern and manage IT.

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