Case Study: Adeaca PBA™ for Defense Contractors

Executive Summary

Northrop Grumman needed to standardize and automate. It sought to streamline its project processes in its international subsidiaries while ensuring accurate and timely data flow to US management.

Key findings in this case study:

• Northrop Grumman deployed a PBA in its UK subsidiary
• Adeaca Project Business Automation with Microsoft Dynamics is easier to use and support than its primary SAP system
• Adeaca’s PBA built-in project management processes are more robust than any system on the market

The Project Business Automation Solution

After an extensive search, NG decided Project Business Automation built on Microsoft Dynamics from Adeaca was the best choice.

Adeaca PBA satisfies the business needs of the international operating entities of Northrop Grumman and can roll up financial and operational data into the SAP system.

“In SAP, we use the heck out of something called Project Systems, but still Project Systems doesn’t get us the full earned value management capability,” says Bissell Smith, Dir. Enterprise Solutions Grp. at Northrop Grumman. “So we bolt on another solution to SAP. Well, Adeaca PBA offered more functionality from a project management standpoint than what the SAP solution does. And there aren’t too many competitors [that do that].”

“It was just easier to take our international operations and put them on Microsoft Dynamics and Adeaca,” Smith continued.

Adeaca PBA provides the lean solution required because it delivers a tightly integrated system that gives NG subsidiaries a common enterprise operations management framework with a much smaller IT support footprint.