Unifying Project Management and Empowering Teams: Tulare County's Success with Microsoft’s Power Platform

Business Problem

Tulare County located in California’s San Joaquin Valley recently partnered with Marque360 to enable a Project Management solution on one platform. The two main driving forces for Tulare was the need to track all project ideas and provide quick reporting to senior management while empowering project teams to use one single platform for all project tracking needs. They wanted to encourage governance while providing flexibility to project teams- all while leveraging their existing investment in Microsoft. Integrating the solution with Azure Dev Ops from the start of the project lifecycle (at Intake) for the customer, simultaneously increasing project management efficiency.

Winning Solution

Marque360’s Solution for Tulare County. Here’s how the solution works:

One Platform all project management needs meant rolling out Marque360’s PPM360 solution integrated with Azure Dev Ops, built on the Power Platform with MS Planner. This integrated solution enables Tulare to:

• Capture Project Ideas in a robust Intake Power App
• Rollout Project Governance through approvals and workflows in Power Automate
           - Pre-configured word templates, tailored to meet the customer’s needs, enhance the efficiency of change approval processes and project charter communication
            - Notification automatically sent to users assigned to project risks, issues, changes
• Enhance collaboration with Microsoft Teams integration
• Provides one platform for task management with Planner
• Report on Project timeline and financials through Power BI automated reports

Solution Benefits

• • Going 100% cloud based allowed the county to save hundreds of dollars on infrastructure and support cost
  • Integration with Azure Dev Ops enabled the Project teams to use ADO for Dev project while maintaining all project data on PPM360