ProgressMaker® SaaS

Features for every cycle of implementation with ProgressMaker^®

From chaos to steering – the always-on target landscape, in a Single Source of Truth

Access your entire target landscape at any time, with prioritized initiatives and their real-time status.

From clarity in target states to measurable initiatives: Unified understanding across all management and team levels

Vision-driven thinking instead of action-led planning

Define the target and map the path backward to reach it. No more random actions – all ambition drives purposefully towards defined outcomes and goals.

Tackle complex business challenges with unlimited OKRs and traditional projects

ProgressMaker^® aligns every initiative, from OKRs to traditional projects, to ensure each outcome drives meaningful progress and imposes outcome orientation, even on traditional projects.

“The implementation philosophy of ProgressMaker^® has convinced us. The focus on results and the implementation performance exert a clear attraction.“

Udo Wilcsek, Board member, ALH Gruppe

ProgressMaker^® for everyone involved

CxO & Board

Head of Strategy or Performance

Program
Manager

Initiatives
Owner

OKR/Project
Owner & Teams

Achieve faster impact, boost efficiency and elevate engagement

EPM provides the structures and processes to drive meaningful outcomes and lasting impact for your organization.

Strategic insights for driving agile decision making

Elevate enterprise impacts through clearly defined target states as well as correct and fast decisions for meaningful outcomes.

Oversee and steer company-wide strategy

Ensure alignment with long-term goals and integrate strategic direction, OKR implementation and program management across the entire organization.

Every employee knows about purpose, value, and the impact to be created for the company

Strategy broken down into clear target states that every employee understands and integrates into their decisions, thereby driving measurable progress.

Real outcome mindset in everyday habits

Shift daily routines from paperwork to purpose, embedding a culture of pure outcome-driven actions

Seamless execution, from target states to actions

Empower your team with a shared understanding of strategic goals, ensuring everyone moves in sync toward meaningful outcomes.

Real-time performance visibility

Drill-down process metrics reveal progress and confidence levels for achieving key goals, enabling precise adjustments to speed, scope and focus when needed.

Ensuring real-time alignment with impact targets

Maintain real-time focus on impact targets, ensuring every initiative stays aligned and contributes to measurable progress.

Empowering managers to lead with confidence

Effortlessly structure efficient meetings, manage escalations, follow up on risks and decisions, and support those who need help.

Ensure program success with strategic goal alignment

Optimize OKR processes to enhance transparency, foster collaboration, and drive the achievement of shared goals.

Outcome-driven metrics to achieve impact targets and goals

Break down goals into actionable metrics for clarity on progress, and avoid shifting targets and deadlines.

Streamline initiatives for impactful results

Empowering you to streamline your initiative, track progress efficiently and keep your team focused and motivated to achieve impactful results.

Drive strategic initiatives with clarity

Keep every strategic initiative on track with clear goals, transparent progress and actionable insights to ensure objectives are met efficiently.

Understanding contribution, awakening passion

Understand the bigger picture, recognize your role in it and see how your work drives the overall strategy – leveraging pride in your impact.

Craft outcome-driven OKRs that reach their objectives

Receive methodological feedback about your Excellence Level from OKR Champions to refine OKRs and key results for clarity, focus and measurable impact.

Drive faster progress with clear tasks and quick decisions

Make tasks transparent by attaching decisions and conditions, ensuring smooth escalations when needed.

Excel through collaboration with your team

Foster a high-performing team culture where collaboration drives results, decisions are clear, and workflows lead to impactful outcomes.

Drive execution performance towards impacts and profitability. At all times consistently along the strategic path.

From Input to Impact – The ProgressMaker Difference

ProgressMaker® transforms efforts into measurable outcomes and lasting impact, aligning every action with your strategic goals.

From Idea to Impacts and EBIT

Break down and turn strategy into outcome-oriented implementation

With ProgressMaker®, prioritize and focus on target states, implementing each with systematic precision. Empower your teams to shift strategy from target states into results, ensuring every step drives measurable outcomes.

The added values offered by ProgressMaker^®

Always keep the overview and perspective – everyone knows his contribution to the big picture

Intuitive implementation structuring Whether individual projects, strategies, or transformation: creating the basis for high-performing implementations through intelligent target state modeling.

Integrated control and clarity at all levels Everyone knows his contribution and how everything is connected, from the management board to the employees.

Prio Priorities and non-priorities always clear Setting priorities in a transparent way with a clear overview and build momentum where it is needed.

Focus: Different perspectives – always focused on what is needed

Team perspective, optimal work environment Whether individual tasks, resources, milestones, key results or dependencies: employees and project managers have always access to what is needed.

Steering perspective, overall management with effective dashboards Whether status meetings of a single OKR, project or the entire business transformation: With the ProgressMaker^® critical information is always in focus.

No more Excel & PowerPoint No more tedious preparation with Excel, PowerPoint and similar tools – ProgressMaker^® keeps all essentials at your fingertips for seamless team check-ins, cross-department coordination, performance reviews and progress reporting.

Result and progress orientation: Managing what matters – focus on outcome and impact

Key point Headline Creating an objective status image at an early stage via key results, critical milestones for success, and KPIs.

Intelligent status lights Automated indicators to check if progress is being made at the required speed.

Systematic, methodical feedback Progress achieved is focused on output or outcome measures, not activities.

Intelligent Roadmapping: Intelligent and automatic roadmapping for all levels and measures

Drill down & drill up Bird‘s eye view or zooming in to the smallest detail – everything clear, and no more Gantt charts and Excel planning.

Roadmapping for all levels and complexities Automated temporal classification and presentation of project phases in aggregated form in the project plans.

Never maintain individual project plans ever again Cross-dependencies are recalculated and re-evaluated at each level of the roadmapping – including highlighting the critical path.

Intelligent Roadmapping and Dependency Control

Dependencies: Intuitive management of content, time, and resource dependencies

Within the project or across programs: simple management of dependencies No more confusion. Everyone knows what needs to be done and who needs what from whom and when. Effective use of notifications and workflows.

Automatic up and downscaling No more project planning misunderstandings and automatic recalculations of roadmaps and related information.

Intuitive drag and drop of dependencies Create and manage various dependencies like time-based, resource-based, or content-based dependencies.

KPI-Management: Not simply more KPIs but targeted performance management

Navigate programs into the success corridor with KPIs Bird‘s eye view or zooming in to the smallest detail – everything clear, and no more Gantt charts and Excel planning.

Intelligent linking of peripheral systems Integrate KPIs of peripheral systems intuitively via drag and drop (SAP, data warehouses, data lakes, BI, etc.).

Optimal performance controlling KPI-based targeted planning and monitoring of the effects of projects and OKRs in performance dialogs.

Screen project effectiveness Evaluation of global measure effects through a KPI perspective: Eliminating redundant measures, promoting complementary measures, and addressing deficits in a targeted manner.

Productive Teamwork: Intuitive task and resource management

Whether project, program or strategy Each project manager or employee knows his contribution in the overall context.

Intuitive task management in the project Kanban board, to-do lists, integration of third-party tools like Jira, MS Teams, etc. – Efficient planning, coordinating, and controlling of tasks in the project.

Integrated progress management Effective management of progress, decision-making needs, risks, and necessary conditions for status meetings interlocked with overall project management.

Intelligent filters: Master any steering challenge with freely configurable filters

No more unresolved questions with freely configurable filters Whether ambiguities in project staffing, the status of individual tasks, KPI contribution, prioritization, or any other questions: No questions remain unresolved thanks to standardized evaluations.

Any desired lists/evaluationsfor any need. An excerpt:

Custom project lists
Display of methodically weak ORKs or projects
Sorting by dependencies
Measures without progress 3 months
Projects with resource-related issues
Risks > 20 kEUR
And many more

Use standardized lists of individual activities, projects, and OKRs to quickly find out exactly what is critical for your steering.

Connect with the tools you‘re already familiar with

ProgressMaker^® seamlessly integrates with the outstanding tools within your existing platform, ensuring a harmonious and productive experience.

Driving outcome behavior across the entire organization

Features for every cycle of implementation with ProgressMaker®