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Public Investment Management See how these organizations are using this Artemis solution
Urban Community of Bordeaux – CUB 
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The Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux (CUB) is a French regional public agency incorporating Bordeaux and 26 other smaller size towns. It’s investment policy for a budget of 246 Millions Euros (US$ 280 M), impacts a population exceeding 670 000 inhabitants and covering 55 000 hectares (135 850 acres) of urban and rural territory.
In September 2003 the CUB chose the Public Investment Management solution to ensure alignment between the objectives and priorities of the towns with the actual allocation of funds and resources at the portfolio level; and for each project to provide on-going consistency between costs, schedule and goals to ensure optimized use of capital and human resources and timely delivery of committed public value. The solution has also helped to improve internall communication, planning practices and resource management, and is used by over 400 people.
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Urban Community of Dunkerque – CUD
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The Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque (CUD) is a French regional public agency which includes Dunkerque and 18 other smaller size towns. The CUD is accountable to all the towns within the community for the use of the 182 Million Euros (US$ 200 M) investment and operational budget.
The Artemis Public Investment Management solution was acquired to provide both a strategic view of their portfolio of investments, and the ability to control execution without getting over burdened too much detail. This choice was based on the solution’s ability to deal with CUD specific budget and funding structure, and its full integration with Microsoft® Project for managing the most complex projects.
Today 70 people ranging from financial managers and strategic managers to project managers are using the Artemis solution
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UK Regional Development Agencies – RDA 
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The United Kingdom Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) were established in 1999 to invest in the eight English regions by furthering their economic development. The RDAs report to the Department of Trade and Industry and have their performance measured against targets agreed at a number of levels.
In July 2003 the RDAs executives decided to implement Artemis as a common solution for Program management for public investments to fit the new culture based on measuring the value for money (as opposed to controlling the spending of the budget) and on quality of data and transparency. The solution must support their objectives of Improved Program and Project delivery (IPPD) across a broad geographically and financially distributed group of agencies. The Artemis Public Investment Management solution has been integrated with several other existing systems and is now embedded in the RDA’s management practices.
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The Carbon Trust (UK)
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The Carbon Trust is a UK Government not-for-profit company, launched in April 2001 with the aim of accelerating the UK’s transition to a low carbon economy and assisting UK business and the public sector reduce carbon emissions now, and capture the commercial opportunities of low carbon technologies.
With a small number of core staff working out of 4 offices throughout the United Kingdom, The Carbon Trust was faced with the challenge of managing over 1500 government funded projects a year delivered by 6 main contractors.
After a review of some 50 products, the Artemis solution was selected from a short list of 6 to address Carbon Trust’s overall program management requirements, and provide financial and resource management. A key requirement was the ability to support the complex multi-source project funding structure.
Following the initial implementation to address the urgent needs of a limited number of users (40% of the Organization), the Artemis solution has now been extended throughout Carbon Trust (100 users), and integrates with the Delivery Partners (150 users).
The primary benefit for the Carbon Trust has been the increase in visibility throughout the organisation. With monthly budget forecasts, actual data for each cost type and for each project, and the ability to collate that through various layers of funding structure, business area managers and their supporting staff can see how their projects, managed day to day by the Delivery Partners, are progressing.
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VR Track (Finnish Railroads) 
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VR-Track is the leading railway construction and maintenance company in Finland. VR-Track´s excellence covers the entire spectrum of track construction, from design to implementation. The company is extremely competitive in projects requiring complete railway engineering expertise, special machinery and adapting construction work to rail traffic.
In 2004, the turnover generated from track construction and maintenance within the VR Group approached EUR 235 million. VR-Track employs about 2,400 track construction specialists, some 800 of whom work in electrical engineering and electronics.
The company had a major requirement to implement a strategic solution to support both resource capacity planning and resource allocation in track maintenance, track building, planning, design and track development services. In addition, VR-Track wanted to promote a project management culture so as to improve communication, risk and planning practices and provide more efficient resource management.
The Program Management and resource allocation solution based on Artemis 7 and PlaNet Server proved a perfect fit for VR-Track’s needs. VR-Track chose Artemis over 7 other systems on the basis of ease of use, integration possibilities, reliability, maintainability and the overall performance of the solution.
Today Artemis 7 is used by 50 project managers and 50 resource managers and has been integrated with VR-Track´s personnel system and with PlaNet Server and Voyant for online analysis and reporting of resource allocation data.
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Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance - Revenue Agency 
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Created in 1999, the Revenue Agency is a non-profit public body acting under the supervision of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. The Agency carries out all functions related to the management, assessment, litigation and collection of taxes. The Agency employs approximately 35.000 people and is organized into 4 divisions , 7 central directorates, 19 regional directorates and 2 provincial directorates (for the autonomous provinces) and a network of 383 operational local offices throughout the country.
The Revenue Agency chose Artemis to efficiently support their investment governance processes and their new project management approach. The solution provides different levels of visibility and roles along with data validation procedures within a complex workflow process enabling each stakeholder to efficiently fulfill their role. Artemis indicators and report sets on both project and resource planning and budgeting allow strategic assessment of all investments. The solution provides overall visibility of projects giving managers more opportunity to provide project guidance and to propose specific strategies for further tax information system improvements.
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Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport
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In Italy, new legislation was passed to ensure that infrastructure projects of national interest are guaranteed an approval cycle within a limited timeframe. With more than 100 such projects, worth 125 billion Euros ($149 billion U.S.) over a 10-year period, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation (MIT) sought a system that offered a consolidated view of all investments and a repository for project information that would be shared with multiple stakeholders from local authorities to the ministry level.
The Artemis solution was selected by the MIT and has become the de-facto monitoring system offering alerts on incoming approval events and funding needs which require action; rapid status analysis on project schedules, financials and performance; aggregation of financial needs for government entities; flexible views into available sources of financing for initiatives; and the ability to monitor the progress of projects. This solution provides a governance and assurance framework to the Ministry allowing them to comply with legislative objectives and focus on ensuring the success of major impact projects.
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State of Mato Grosso do Sul 
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Mato Grosso do Sul achieved statehood in 1977 and has grown substantially since then. It is located in south central Brasil, close to the geographic center of South America and has 77 counties and a size of approximately 385,000 km2. The main industries today are livestock and tourism, and the current yearly budget is approximately US$ 1 billion.
In 2003 the State Government put in place a plan to modernize the infrastructure and administration, establish a sustained growth model that integrates the population, and become a reference for efficiency in Brazil.
To achieve these goals, a plan supported from the very top of the State, was initiated to define a project management methodology and a central project office for the State. This involved consulting, training and tools, and by 2004 started producing impressive results. In 2003 there were 120 high priority projects and only 3% of the investments were planned in the annual budget. The State was next to last in Federal funds allocation, and the budget was "incremental". By 2005 there were only 15 high priority projects and 15% of the projects were planned in the annual budget. The State was fifth in Federal Funds allocation, and the budget for 2006 is now project based.
The Artemis solution was installed in 2005 and extensions were developed for local validations and interfaces to the corporate accounting and cost system. The portfolio vision and budget simulation capability enable the Government to select, rank and prioritize the projects, and the web architecture lets the Brasilia regional office access project data for negotiating Federal funds allocation. All project documentation is maintained centrally in the system and the State Governor has a strategic dashboard and investment map enabling top-down, informed decision making. The Artemis solution supports the State methodology and all funding sources, including the Federal Government can be identified and tracked.
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