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The European car rental company delivers projects faster and reduce costs after rapid 90-day implementation

Avis Europe genericThe European car rental company delivers projects faster and reduce costs after rapid 90-day implementation

 

Car-rental giant Avis Europe is using a CA Clarity project and portfolio management (PPM) solution. The solution is expected to deliver a rapid return on investment in a matter of months.

 

Tim Bisley, vice president of sales for UK & Ireland, CA Technologies, explained: “CA Technologies, alongside our partner Sandhill Consultants, worked closely with the team at Avis Europe to help the business move away from subjective management and complex spreadsheet reporting to a more rigorous method, which is based on agreed metrics. A real-time project dashboard for programme and project managers was developed to provide a consolidated view across the top-20 projects, as well as the complete IT ‘book of work’.”

 

Tracking project progress

 

Within the UK business, Avis Europe is now able to capture a single view of the company’s top-20 product developments, make better investment and pipeline decisions, while predicting programme dynamics with greater accuracy. In addition, moving to a matrix management and matching available resources to project workloads has improved processes across the business. This prioritisation of projects has helped Avis Europe to maximise its resources.

 

The introduction of Avis Europe’s CA Clarity PPM-powered IT Programme Management Office capability to other major European locations will take place during the second half of 2010. The company runs operations via more than 2,800 locations in 109 countries, as well as through wholly owned subsidiaries in 13 nations plus franchisees in another 96 countries.

 

Fit for purpose and implementation

 

Avis Europe Group chief information officer, Adam Gerrard said: “Initially, we found a different supplier’s solution did not meet all our needs, so we reviewed the market and selected CA Clarity PPM for its completeness, along with the ability to implement the system rapidly out of the box.”

 

He added: “CA and Sandhill listened to our needs and responded quickly with attention to detail and within tight timescales. As a team, they have been supportive of our business goals, working to resolve business challenges and get the system up and running. As a result, the CA Clarity PPM system has been adopted quickly by our teams and is now delivering value to the business.”