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Full supervision – for trains and for our portfolio management 

Discover how Hitachi Rail’s German team went from 10 fragmented tools to one transparent PPM platform — and reached go-live with 300 users in just 12 months.

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What cplace delivered

The first go-live version already covers a powerful set of capabilities.

  • Three tailored workspaces—for commercial projects, system development, and product development, with flexible data aggregation across organizations.
  • Project homepages & portfolio overviews—relevant live data per project, aggregated into portfolio views for project and portfolio managers.
  • Enterprise scheduling—a minimum scheduling template with export functions to manage road maps along the development lifecycle.
  • Milestone change management workflow—committed milestones are changed on purpose, not by accident, via a structured change-request and approval process.
  • Best-practice handbook—documented project management practices, linked to the cplace manual available online to all users.

300 users

live on cplace

 

12 months

from start to go-live

86%

of use cases via no-code / low-code

10→1

tools consolidated into one platform

The 12-month journey to go-live

September 2023

Strategy defined

After identifying the problems through a design thinking process, the team sat down with senior management to define a way out of the situation.

Late 2023 / Early 2024

Demo & Proof of Concept

A hands-on PoC on the Enterprise Scheduling module in the cloud — testing schedules and running use-case workshops with end users involved from day one.

May 2024

Business case verified

12 midsize projects managed in cplace proved the case: little training needed, real transparency created, and potential for future use cases everywhere.

January 2025

Go-Live

A cross-functional team, 300+ gathered use cases, an on-premise instance, and Solution Templates brought Hitachi Rail live with cplace and 300 users.

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One year ago we were part of the audience, not even able to imagine that we’d be on this stage a year later. Today we’re live with cplace and 300 users—full supervision for our trains and our projects.

Project Portfolio Management Team, Hitachi Rail Germany

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