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Taming Complexity and Mastering Change to Deliver Success Primavera for IT Organizations Primavera Project and Portfolio Management Solutions— Only from Oracle Today’s IT organizations face pressure from all sides. They are expected to deliver the applications and infrastructure that enterprises need today, but they must also deliver the technological innova­ tions required to maintain their leadership position. These already complicated tasks are made even more dificult by an economy that’s forcing everyone—IT included—to do more with less and an IT environment that has grown increasingly complicated as applications and infrastructure have proliferated. This environment makes it increasingly dificult to make the intelligent IT investment decisions that are required throughout the IT lifecycle. But unless those investment decisions are made—and made wisely—IT goals will go unmet, portfolio visibility will remain poor, and IT investments and project performance will be dificult to evaluate. Add to these woes ineffective business processes, outdated IT assets, outmoded development methods, and poor resource usage, and IT projects—which should serve as catalysts of growth for the enterprise—are instead doomed to failure. And fail they have in recent years. According to Boston-based research irm the Standish Group, only around 30 percent of IT projects typically succeed—meaning they’re completed on time, within budget, and with the required features and functions. While some of these project failures can be attributed to luctuating markets and changing conditions, the truth is that IT project failure rates have been high for years, and the primary culprit is lack of IT governance. Without it, project portfolios (and, in fact, portfolios of all types of investments) lack the right resources and skill sets, risks are neither anticipated nor mitigated, dependencies go unrecognized, and an “us-versus-them” attitude d