Borland® Tempo™ generates a broad array of real-time graphical analyses of forecasted and realized costs, benefits and risks to help manage proposed investment portfolios and in-progress investments. The system uses data collected through Borland Tempo Intelligent Forms during automation and combines it with execution data and easily definable metrics.

Borland Tempo Portfolio Management helps organizations:
• Evaluate complex investment scenarios
• Improve visibility into information supporting investment decision making using powerful drill-through capabilities
• Make more accurate comparisons about different investment options

As part of its Portfolio Management capabilities, Borland Tempo supports Metric Definition and Portfolio Analyses processes.

Metric Definition

Borland Tempo provides a computation system which is easy to use and flexible, for defining and automatically generating interesting summary-level project metrics. Organizations can compare and prioritize very different kinds of investment alternatives for IT portfolio management by using these metrics. Organizations can create all different kinds of metrics based on algorithms that use multiply, divide, add, subtract, ratio, average or net present value. For example, an organization may define a metric that sums up the answers to a cost worksheet as “Estimated Cost” or have an ROI calculation and assign metrics to be displayed in reporting and analyses. Organizations can create all different kinds of metrics based on algorithms that use multiply, divide, add, subtract, ratio, average or net present value.


Portfolio Analyses

Borland Tempo makes IT Portfolio Management fast and easy by delivering swift and obvious business benefits. Borland Tempo generates real-time analyses of the forecasted costs, benefits and risks of proposed investment scenarios, as well as for in-progress investments. The system exploits data collected through process automation using Borland Tempo Intelligent Forms combined with execution data and easily definable metrics. Analyses are easily comprehensible by business users. All reporting is self service, which empowers decision makers and reduces overhead costs. Borland Tempo facilitates IT portfolio management by providing collaborative scenario-based analyses to drive consensus across organizations about the best IT projects, purchases and other technology investments.

Key benefits of the system are:

• Improved decision-making through thousands of real-time, on-line analyses
• Complex investment scenarios can be grouped together to form flexile, reusable portfolios
• Offers comparisons of investment opportunities through generation of standard summary-level financial and non-financial cost, benefit and risk metrics
• Delivers visibility into the sources of data and computations behind summary metrics with real-time drill-through of algorithms, sources and timestamps
• Promotes a shared understanding of history using change audits for all assertions of cost, benefit and risk and the progress of approved investments made over time

Borland Tempo facilitates IT portfolio management by providing collaborative scenario-based analyses to drive consensus across organizations about the best IT projects, purchases and other technology investments.

Key Benefits

• Improves decision-making quality by providing decision makers with thousands of real-time, on-line analyses
• Simplifies complex investment scenarios by allowing scenarios to be grouped into an unlimited number of flexible, reusable portfolios with a wide array of criteria
• Offers comparisons of disparate investment opportunities by generating standard summary-level financial and non-financial cost, benefit and risk metrics
• Delivers unprecedented visibility into the sources of data and computations behind summary metrics with real-time drill-through of algorithms down to specific responses, sources (e.g. respondents) and timestamps
• Promotes a shared understanding of history using change audits for all assertions of cost, benefit and risk, as well as the progress of approved investments made over time