Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma Datasheet



A Better Way to Manage Your Six Sigma Enterprise

The Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma can relieve the complexities and expenses associated with Six Sigma projects by giving executives and managers powerful, flexible tools to increase business insight, project tracking, and control. The accelerator helps Six Sigma project teams more effectively manage a large number of projects, more easily track their financial impact, optimize and track resources, and share knowledge gathered across the enterprise.

Six Sigma Success with the Technology You Already Know

The Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma is an enterprise solution based on familiar Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office Project Server 2003, Microsoft Office Visio® 2003, and Microsoft Office 2003. Using these familiar, well-integrated tools enables Executives, Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts to leverage their current skills to be immediately productive in managing Six Sigma projects. The integrated innovation of the Microsoft platform, extensible through third-party products and services, and deployed by world-class partners, can also help reduce IT deployment and management costs and complexities of your Six Sigma deployment.

Knowledge Management

The Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma gives Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts a comprehensive and intuitive way to optimize resources and make data-driven decisions regarding project selection, resource allocation, management oversight and review, and tool selection.

• Make decisions based on accurate data available at any time from any Internet-enabled computer

• Change resource allocations for projects as progress information becomes transparent

• Store, access, and apply best practices projects

Enterprise Project Management

Master Black Belts and Black Belts can evaluate the progress of current Six Sigma projects, conduct what if scenarios, and make well-informed decisions to keep Six Sigma projects on track with stated goals. Organizations can use their Microsoft software tools to continuously improve processes by applying best practices learned over time by Six Sigma project teams.

• Collaborate with team members in the context of familiar Microsoft Office applications

• Perform real-time analysis of project status and resources with direct links to HR systems, and of financial data with direct links to financial systems

Use Microsoft InfoPath forms to rapidly enter project parameters, visually map projects to overall strategic goals, then easily review proposed projects based on standard criteria.

Six Sigma Tools Management

Enterprises can eliminate the cost of acquiring, deploying, and learning new software by enabling Six Sigma professionals to leverage investments and knowledge of Microsoft software for common Six Sigma tasks such as preparing management reports.

* Access templates, analysis, process simulation, and other Six Sigma tools from the accelerator

* Create, share, and reuse automated daily reports and free your teams to focus on their work

Business Scorecard Management

Executives can track the precise financial impact of Six Sigma projects in their familiar office environment and make sure Six Sigma projects align with key business performance metrics. Make decisions based on accurate data available at any time from any Internet-enabled computer.

* Review Six Sigma key performance metrics including financial performance, displayed in executive dashboards

* Customize browser-based dashboard views for all Six Sigma roles

Optimize your Six Sigma Enterprise

The Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma makes it dramatically easier and less costly to realize the full benefits of Six Sigma management in your organization. Developed using Six Sigma tools and in consultation with Six Sigma practitioners, the accelerator is the best choice for enterprise-wide Six Sigma deployments.

For management reports it’s easy to pull live data from Excel worksheets into PowerPoint® with the Data Assistant for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.

More Information

Microsoft Certified Partners can work with you to configure and deploy the Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma specific to your business needs. For additional information about the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma, please visit:

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Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator

for Six Sigma

Deliver faster financial and operational benefits from your Six Sigma investments

The Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma provides the visibility, productivity, and flexibility to enable companies to achieve and sustain operational excellence.

Integration with Microsoft Office Outlook® enables managers to pull project tasks into the familiar Outlook Calendar.

Get a single, enterprise-wide view of all Six Sigma projects with the Project Center

Use Microsoft InfoPath forms to rapidly enter project parameters, visually map projects to overall strategic goals, then easily review proposed projects based on standard criteria.

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