Hydra Management Customers

"NORCAL’s culture is independent and freethinking—planning is not in our nature. However, we face the same issues with resource constraints and project coordination that all organisations face."

“The Hydra tools will provide us with a realistic picture of our project work across the organisation. Having factual data about resource constraints that our management team can use to make effective decisions will improve the quality of work we do at all levels of the organisation.”

Krista Gettle, Project Administrator for Norcal Mutual Insurance

“The implementation of Hydra will bring an integrated view of activity across all programmes and projects, along with a consolidated view of all risks and issues.”
"It’s crucial to our business to maintain control of the ever-expanding project portfolio; with Hydra we can have a panoramic view of all plans and resources, giving us clear visibility of the impact on the business when new projects are introduced, and when existing projects change."

"We have been aware of Hydra’s effectiveness within other finance organisations, particularly our parent company, and are delighted to be working both with the product and the company, PMG"

Richard Copley - Strategic Solutions Director, Homeloan Management Ltd

"We are looking to optimise our ability to deliver an increasingly complex and inter-related portfolio of projects. To be successful, we need to give our project teams clear accountability and the tools to operate in a well-defined structure which supports strong methodologies and procedures.

"The flexibility of Hydra will fully support these objectives, giving us a rolled up view of all of Skipton's project activities whilst enabling us to effectively manage the conflicts of competing priorities, timelines and demands for shared resources. We have been impressed with PMG's track record in the financial services sector and their flexible approach to working with us in the early stages of our partnership."

Derek Bond, General Manager IT, Skipton Building Society

“The Hydra toolset was selected as it will offer us a solution that can ensure we have better control of all programmes and projects currently being undertaken. Reporting will be simplified now that all the data is to be held in one place, giving us greatly improved visibility on our current and future workloads” Hydra will significantly improve the utilisation of both the equipment and our teams of people’

Tony Elliott - Cementation Foundations Skanska

”Hydra will allow the capture and reporting of actual resource effort utilised for programmes and projects alongside existing support commitments. More accurate planning of development activities will enable us to work more effectively and continue to improve the level of customer service delivered to our clients. Providing total programme visibility, via high level status tracking and advanced management information, Hydra will enable Corporate ICT Services to improve communication with project stakeholders and staff who are deployed at various office locations across the Council.

Hydra’s ability to allocate and report on resources and skill sets, and to forecast ahead based on future requirements, will provide increased benefits to the continued smooth running of Corporate ICT Services.”

Dave Rowson, Head of Projects and Resources for Corporate ICT Services at Leeds City Council

OCS is committed to delivering high standards and exceptional quality to our customers, and having the correct ICT in place is vital to ensuring that we can achieve this. The complex demands of our multiple lines of business mean that OCS’s infrastructure needs to be able to drive numerous parallel projects.

Eighteen months ago, we realised that we had outgrown some of the more well-worn project management applications and sought a solution that would deliver a more sophisticated level of project and programme management, as well as optimising the utilisation of project resources. We are confident that Hydra meets our needs.”

Jenny Sener, OCS Director of ICT

" Newcastle already has an excellent project services department with an established project management methodology that has proven time and time again that we can deliver.

Hydra will give us an even more rigorous framework allowing us to better understand the resources being utilised throughout the business and give greater flexibility and visibility on how the overall programme can be flexed to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

The Financial Services marketplace is complex and fast moving but it is also full of opportunities. We are well positioned to take advantage of these opportunities and to deliver value for the Society and business partners".

Angela Russell , Newcastle Building Society Executive

"Hydra was chosen to enable Mamas & Papas to effectively manage resources.

Our criteria was for a solution, which encompassed portfolio and project planning at the highest strategic level giving total visibility across the entire collection of projects which vary in size and duration.

Hydra will ensure successful delivery of business as usual activities, project work and effectively manage our resources giving overall improvement on delivery capability."

Chris Greenwood, IT Director at Mamas & Papas

“We have more control over projects than we have ever had. Not all projects are going well but we now know the ones that are not”

Steve Sewell, Programme Manager - North Cumbria Acute Hosptials NHS Trust

“Many thanks for a wonderful product, great support and all your effort in the past year.”

Herman Vanlommel, Barco.