of logs: Action Items, Change Requests, Risks, Issues, and Support Logs. These items can be associated with Projects or Programs, and appear in a variety of reporting. Each of these items can have time tracked to it, and appear in various reports. Program Management Projects can be associated with programs, so that the metrics of several projects can be considered together in a larger context. In addition, programs can have their own milestones, change requests, action items, issues, and risks. Programs can also track financial metrics across the scope of many projects. Like projects, they also have a Status, which indicates on a Red, Yellow, or Green scale what state the program is in. VPMi allows feedback to be requested from program team members. Reports VPMi offers a large number of pre-built reports that generate useful metrics about items within VPMi, all of which can be downloaded to a Microsoft Office format (Excel or Word). In addition to these pre-built reports, VPMi offers the Ad Hoc Report Writer, which is a tool that allows users to create reports using a wide variety of data sources. The User Documentation includes a tutorial on how to use the Ad Hoc Report Writer. Time Tracking VPMi allows users to track time to any item through assignments and time tracking. Time can be approved or rejected by specified users. Time periods can be locked so no additional time can be tracked for that period. Users can be designated as delegates to enter or approve time for other users. Additionally, VPMi offers a wide variety of reporting based on this time entry data. Financials and Forecasting VPMi tracks a variety of financial indicators, including labor costs, and offers three kinds of labor forecasting sources: workplan, team and resource plan. VPMi breaks these down into labor and non-labor costs, breaking it out into actuals, planned, baselined and budgeted. Additionally, VPMi can track and forecast expenses for projects. Forecasts are updated based on time entry data. User Management VPMi's user management tracks roles and skills for all users. Skills are broken out into five levels, represent differing degrees of expertise. A large number of user attributes can be managed, including email addresses, what organization they belong to, their manager, their start and end dates and billing and cost rates, among other attributes. Other Features Search Filters: Filter pages allow you to disseminate information to make finding things