Case Study: Sepura achieves timely, accurate R&D planning and project prioritization with Sciforma

Prioritizing R&D Projects with Timely and Reliable Data

Sepura, a Cambridge-based global leader in TETRA digital radio products for public safety, military, transport and utilities, was running 30–40 R&D projects (plus operations and approvals) using disconnected Microsoft Project files and spreadsheets. This fragmented approach made consolidation slow and error-prone, produced outdated and questioned data, left no cross-project dependency or resource-pool visibility, and prevented standard portfolio-level management.

Sepura launched an Integrated Project Management Programme under Program Manager Michael Schmitt, selected Sciforma (PSNext) after trials, and rolled it out for R&D with targeted consultancy and user training. The new PPM delivers reliable, timely project, resource and budget data, dashboard visibility, and faster management reports (from three weeks to days), enforces funding discipline, freed staff from manual project accounting, and improved transparency and prioritization — with plans to extend the system into operations and more strategic portfolio comparison.

Sepura

Michael Schmitt

Program Manager