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Lyon, September 29, 2022 – Faced with the shortage of IT talent and the strain on resources already in place, Abraxio offers users of its solution new, advanced features for managing IT teams. For CIOs and IT managers, this is a concrete response that relieves the pressure on their shoulders, and effectively assists them in managing, steering and communicating their business.
- Abraxio, a valuable ally for the CIO in making the most of existing Resources
- 5 key assets to support CIOs in their mission
The noose is tightening on CIOs, who are in the front line when it comes to managing the shortage of IT resources. A galloping increase in the number of Projects entrusted to them, the need for agility, tight Budgets, and a scarcity of IT Skills… Whatever the time scale, the equation seems insoluble. In this tense context, human resources steering is key, and CIOs, who are expected to address these issues, are rarely equipped to do so effectively.
Since this summer, Abraxio has enabled its customers to integrate Resources management into its multi-dimensional CIO steering platform, providing substantial help in overcoming the scarcity of IT talent.
Abraxio, a valuable ally for the CIO in making the most of existing Resources.
Recruiting is particularly difficult, and outsourcing is not a panacea. Faced with a shortage of Resources, CIOs still have one trump card to play if they are to steer their business with the speed they expect: making the most of the talent on hand. A goal which seems self-evident, but which comes up against the fact that CIOs are chronically ill-equipped to manage their business.
To check the viability of short-term planning, or to anticipate medium- or long-term recruitment or service reinforcement needs, CIOs clearly feel the need to plan activity and capacity, which will enable them to achieve a high level of steering,” testifies Samuel Revenu, CEO of Abraxio and himself a former CIO. Many people hesitate to get started because they know the process can become a nightmare if it’s done usingcountless spreadsheets—or, conversely, tools that are far too complex for their needs. It is to provide this comprehensive and practical solution that we have integrated team management into Abraxio, guided by the same philosophy that has shaped our other modules: meeting all management needs—from the simplest to the most advanced—and allowing everyone to progress at their own pace toward their goals.
For the past 3 years, Abraxio has been offering IT departments a complete solution for managing their activities (Budgets, Project portfolios, suppliers). Teams management (Workload, Availability, Assignments, Capacity planning) is now the final component of this 360° management solution.
5 key assets to support CIOs in their mission
- Optimize resource allocation by planning employee activity and workload: this is the basis of operational efficiency: allocating resources more effectively. Having a real-time view of employees’ current and forecasted workloads enables us to anticipate bottlenecks and overheating, as well as air gaps, and exploit optimization levers: reorganizing a schedule, reassigning an employee, chronic shortage of a specific skill that may require training, recruitment or outsourcing, etc.
- Building loyalty by providing visibility and involving each employee: While capacity planning provides managers with a macro view of activity, it gives each employee a concrete view of his or her assignments. In the short to medium term, each employee can visualize the Projects on which he or she will be working, project himself or herself, and understand his or her role within the organization. This is a key component of loyalty-building, promoting Teams’ retention, limiting turnover and thus responding concretely to the talent shortage. Abraxio goes one step further, enabling all the different profiles within the CIO to play an active role in this planning process. Everyone at his or her own level is involved and committed, whether it’s estimating the Workload for a given Project as a CP or PMO, or inputting times to create charts.
- Facilitate exchanges by objectifying arbitration: Capacity planning’s predictive capabilities make it a key decision-making tool, since it objectifies a situation. However, the complexity of a CIO – number and duration of Projects, diversity of profiles, mix of internal and external Resources, etc. – makes it difficult to provide a simple, accessible overview. – However, the complexity of an IT department – number and duration of projects, diversity of profiles, mix of internal and external resources, etc. – makes it difficult to provide a simple, accessible summary view. Abraxio’s Dashboards, which present, combine and interrogate data, and use highly intuitive visual representations (green, orange and red lights), make it easier to become aware of the situation and make the right choices.
- Saving management time for redeployment: when the data needed for capacity planning is entered by some, consolidated by others in a new file, reconciled by a3rd party looking to remove inconsistencies… it’s easy to see how a simple attempt to manage time better can prove counter-productive. Thanks to the unprecedented integration of all the data needed for IT department steering into a single tool, with a single, collaborative data entry system updated in real time, Abraxio makes a fundamental difference, saving time on all management tasks – and therefore reducing the need for FTEs that can be reallocated elsewhere.
- Facilitating handover and business continuity: When there is a change of Teams – especially in positions of responsibility – the time needed for handover and “getting on board” should not be neglected, but is not always possible. Abraxio facilitates this Business continuity by centralizing all useful information in a single, intuitive and collaborative tool, with harmonized nomenclatures and data historization. The result is a tool that absorbs many of the side-effects associated with staff turnover.
Press contact
Émilie Chanussot, Marketing and Communications Director
+33 6 52 55 73 81 – emilie.chanussot@abraxio.com
About Abraxio
Anchored in the daily life of CIOs, Abraxio is the benchmark platform for managing, steering and leveraging the impact of IT departments at the service of organizations. Abraxio is a 100% affinity-based turnkey solution developed by former CIOs for IT decision-makers and their Teams in SMEs and public institutions. By enabling them to manage all aspects of their business in real time – Budgets, Projects, Suppliers and Contracts, Teams – Abraxio eases their daily tasks, boosts performance and facilitates collaboration with all stakeholders.
Launched in 2019, Abraxio has already been adopted by over 400 organizations and 7,000 users.