The City of Canning has reaped numerous benefits by adding PLM to their suite of TechnologyOne products. The largest benefit for the Council has been project justification.

“I think for the local government sector, Project Lifecycle Management is absolutely critical,” outlined Gill.

“The integration with Project Lifecycle Management has really yielded massive benefits for us. For me the biggest has been project justification. We’ve been able to put in pre-planning towards projects and understand what that project’s purpose is for delivery.”

The City of Canning also gained efficiencies when it came to reporting. With PLM, the Council is able to use timely, real-time data to base their decisions off.

“We’ve been able to capture everything around the project. We’ve got attachment grids now mapped via Enterprise Content Management, it’s (PLM) capturing costs, actuals against budgets, and commitments. That real-time reporting has really been key.”

The third benefit for the Council has been transparency.

“The third benefit for me is transparency. You’ve got real-time data; you’ve got all your business cases from the very beginning – from pre-planning through to what stage of the project you’re in now. You’ve got all those governance activities there filled. You’ve got your monthly reports that are sequential, that you can just go to.

“I’ve been working in local government for ten years plus, every budget cycle, every asset management plan that I’ve put together around long-term plans, I think project lifecycle is interconnected and integrated with our greater systems. It just connects and provides that greater connection around long-term planning down to what you’re delivering – in terms of your service plans.