Air Liquide manages IT projects and workload with Visual Planning

Company

Air Liquide specialises in industrial and medical gases and related services. The reference relates to Air Liquide Healthcare’s IT systems, which, according to the source, supported around 2,500 users across more than 100 sites and approximately 20 applications.

Background

The growing scope of projects, regulatory changes and a broad application landscape called for better management. The company was looking for a tool to record time spent and to assess project workloads and costs.

Solution

After testing several products, Visual Planning was chosen on the basis of its configurability, price and user-friendliness. Project times are recorded in half-day increments using drag-and-drop. Following a pilot phase, the configuration was refined and rolled out to the workstations.

Results

The IT department reports more reliable effort estimates and precise tracking of project times. Reports distinguish between activities such as development, testing, training, maintenance, documentation and meetings. The source does not specify any quantified savings.

“User-friendliness was crucial in ensuring that the product and the new way of working were embraced by the whole team.”

Marc Lerich, Head of IT, Air Liquide