Proteus: building the Delivery module of a project platform for oil, gas and engineering

Engineering consultancies and energy companies often win work in one system and run it in another: bids in spreadsheets, timesheets in a separate tool, budgets and invoices in finance, and progress reports assembled by hand. By the time a project manager sees that cost or schedule is drifting, the margin has usually gone. Xergy set out to build Proteus as one platform that carries a project from bid to close-out on the same data.

The Delivery module is the part of Proteus that takes over once a bid is won. It turns the work breakdown and estimate into a baseline, puts the right people on each work package, and captures timesheets, progress and scope changes as the work happens. From that data it calculates project controls such as earned value, CPI, SPI and estimate at completion, raises early warnings, and feeds invoicing and client reporting.