Company Profile Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and a Big

4 accountancy firm. It provides a range of services, including accounting and auditing, tax reporting and operations, tax advisory, business risk services, technology and security risk services, transaction advisory and human capital services. Its country practices also provide legal services in those parts of the world where permitted. EY is the auditor for a large number of major global corporations. Project Objective The objective of the project was to develop an intelligent system using which any user can set up a project and report day to day activities. The system should resolve the issues associated with resource utilization, accounting, monitoring and control during a project. The client, Ernst & Young, was looking for a system which gives a fair indication of the existence and the extent of the projects and shows the deviation between expected (saving and investment) and target (saving and investment). Managers and top level people should be able to analyze the performance of each project in terms of savings, investment and time incurred, using the system. Solution Provided GrayCell developed an application called Cost Manager for Ernst & Young to help them identify the scope of the project, estimate the work involved and create a project schedule. It allows managing an unlimited number of projects within an organization. Cost Manager keeps the team and management up to date on the project's progress. The focus of the application is on fulfilling the original design plans and indicating deviations from these plans. The project was developed using the .NET technology framework specifically ASP.Net with C# and SQL Server. Feature List Planning the work or objectives Organizing the work Analysis & Design of objectives While creating new project, the Project Owner would have to specify the name of Approver who would approve the project Set up and Change in Plan Parameters Estimating and allocating resources Controlling project execution Approve and Send Back options to the approving authority The function Approver/Reviewer could escalate the approval to higher level Audit trail of person who made the approval is available On Time Status of projects Role driven system, the hierarchy and access rights (both edit and view) are defined in system Allows for change in Plan Parameters such as Project Start Date, Project End, Savings, Investment, Year Search facility for projects Analyzing the results based on the facts Tracking and Reporting progress Feature to export the reports to Excel

Result The Cost Manager application has made Ranbaxy achieve business success. They can now automate, integrate and simplify the business processes that lie at the very core of their business using the application. Managers and executives are able to track the health of their project portfolio at any given time for optimizing portfolio performance. Cost Manager application offers a comprehensive project management and delivery management capabilities to ensure that service engagements are executed effectively.