Below are a few questions we are asked daily. From "What exactly does your product do?" to "Why did you develop PMADS?" we'll attempt to answer them all.
Why did we develop PMADS?
To empower people to improve business operations so that increased resources and support can be delivered to our war fighters. As we have helped our customers do the hard job of business transformation, it is our view that the workforce has been forced to work in a stove-piped fashion due to the implementation of stove-piped IT tools and systems over the years. These tools, portals, and systems have been heavily focused on reporting information. This approach has resulted in increased staff sizes and work loads in order to locate, to collect, to synthesize, and then to data input into the reporting tools. This has cost the AT&L business community and has not delivered the kinds of day-to-day business operations support that is needed by the workforce.
A PMADS implementation provides a proven way for organizations to adopt Business Process Management (BPM) into their business operations and helps to transform around a mission focus. We take customers through the process step by step. First, we help them determine what is important to them in terms of how they perform and deliver their mission or service. Then we give teams and entire organizations the ability to create process-driven structures. Finally, unlike traditional big-bang software implementations, we work hand-in-hand to help your organization learn how to leverage the full potential of PMADS in order to refine and evolve your business operations.
We believe that the heart of business improvement lies in providing the people who do day-to-day work and who own the deliverables, a business system focused on what they do day-to-day. That may sound simple – and it is.
Who are the developers of PMADS?
Based in technology rich Huntsville, Alabama, NMT features an integrated team of world-class software engineers, architects, and rich media user interface designers.
We uniquely provide a comprehensive approach to our client’s requirements; an approach that integrates every aspect of their business and marketing efforts. Our team understands and knows how to apply technologies and solutions that deliver competitive business advantages.
NMT was formed in 1998 by seasoned IT veteran and Huntsville native Larry Stolz. Over a 15 year period prior to forming NMT, Larry built and managed high skilled software development teams for various companies in the Huntsville and Nashville areas.
Everything we do is for the purpose of adding value to our customers' operation. By bringing industry thought leadership to the table and by keeping our customers interest in mind at all times, we are able deliver solutions that are customer-centric, business-driven and result-oriented. Our company operating model is straight forward, simple and can be summed up in one word – Integrity.
What is PMADS?
Let’s start first with what PMADS is not. PMADS is not an accounting system, it’s not a portal tool, and it’s not a dashboard. PMADS is a detailed business system that empowers organizations to achieve integrated business processes over their day-to-day PPBE business activities. It increases the OPTEMPO of organizations enabling them to deliver increased support and resources to the war fighter. PMADS has been built on industry standards with commercial best business practices and AT&L “Gray Beard” experience to support the unique needs of the AT&L business domain.
What is the supporting techology?
PMADS is a Java (J2EE) server-side thin-client web application. The application is hosted behind Army firewalls inside the .MIL domain on New Millennium Technologies supplied and maintained hardware servers. PMADS is built to a n-tier SOA. Modeled to support the PPBE process, PMADS provides complete data traceability from the Presidents Budget down to the lowest execution of funds.
What about Pricing and Implementation?
PMADS is available for license through a number of channels including the PMADS GSA contract. Please register with us for detailed information requests, or call us directly at and we'll be happy to answer all yoour questions.
Can PMADS help us with MIPRs?
Yes. PMADS has built in MIPR capability that completely automates the MIPR creation, authorization, and management process. It works like your email client with full routing capability. We've integrated with the DoD CAC for electonic signitures to be placed onto the MIPR documents in keeping with the E-SIGN legislation. Best of all, it happens in a 128-bit SSL encrypted environment making it totally safe and secure.
When you say PMADS will help my organizations OPTEMPO, what do you mean?
PMADS provides a framework for organizing around the mission and roles of your organization. It enables you to define these and then work in a collaborative enviornment. You have a business system that enables your technical staff to determin and request funding to support mission support tasks. Your business office and program managers then engage to approve/dissaprove, plan and execute those requirements. Everyone is engaged and informed. PMADS EventCast technology will even monitor business activities and notify users when something happens they need to know about or take action on. You have a business process working in support of the overall mission. Your operational tempo increases which helps you deliver increased support and resources to the war fighter.
How long will it take us to get implemented and operational?
Because PMADS is a 100% serve-side thin-client web application, there is nothing to install or configure. Your accounts, roles, and organizaational structures can all be set up in a few days depending on the size of your organization. We provide software traning and assit your organization in learning how to best leverage the software. Implementing and refining business processes takes time and varies by size and complexity of the organization. Within a few weeks you are using PMADS to support you business operations. We typically see the following general timelines of how organizations evlove and improve business process operations;
0-6 months - Learning to use the software, understanding and defining user roles, modeling/organizing the business system to support your programs
7-12 months - Adjusting user roles, refining organizational constructs in the system to better serve mission operations. Workforce begins to engage in collaborating on business activites.
13-18 months - Workforce is engaged and collaborating. The organization recognizes improved and smoother operational tempo.User's look for ways to leverage PMADS to increase it's usefulness.
