Capabilities

What ValueSpoc does, question by question

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Strategy and alignment

Does ValueSpoc cover strategy from vision down to task?: Yes; Vision, mission, strategy, goals, initiatives, programmes and projects down to the single task, each level linked to the one above.
Can strategic initiatives be prioritised and run through stage gates?: Yes; Every initiative has stage gates and a priority.
Can assumptions and guardrails be recorded per initiative?: Yes; Assumptions and guardrails sit on the initiative they belong to.
Are goals, objectives and KPIs tracked with measurement series?: Yes; With a series per KPI and a four-eyes check on recorded values.
Are there milestones and a Gantt view?: Yes; Milestones and Gantt with scheduling logic between activities.
Can scenarios be played through?: Yes; With the scenario planner.

Does the structure cover portfolio, programme and project?: Yes; Portfolio, programme, project, workstream, work package and task.
Is there a cockpit for executives?: Yes; Executive cockpit and portfolio dashboard.
Can new initiatives come in through demand management?: Yes; With a check of the expected value before approval.
Are there templates for starting a project?: Yes; Project packages and blueprints to start from.
Are risks, issues and dependencies tracked?: Yes; On a board that shows how a delay affects dependent initiatives.
Does ValueSpoc support collaboration within an initiative?: Yes; RACI, stakeholder register, comments, wiki and lessons learned.
Can existing plans be brought in?: Yes; The import hub takes strategy, structure, plan, RAID, people and history, as a dry run first.

Can any later change to the audit log be detected technically?: Yes; Decisions and security-relevant events are recorded in a hash chain.
Are there status reports with approval?: Yes; Along with change requests and a decision log.
Is there a governance calendar?: Yes; Status meetings, reporting deadlines and board sessions come from the configuration and appear in the calendars of everyone involved.
Can a board report be generated?: Yes; From decision to impact, as PowerPoint and as a link board members open without an account.
Can every item be traced back to its source?: Yes; Evidence package and a trace per item.
Is there a compliance overview across all initiatives?: Yes; One overview shows the state across the whole portfolio.

Are benefits measured per initiative?: Yes; Plan, forecast and actual, measurements with evidence and proof of realisation.
Are budget and forecast tracked?: Yes; Budget, forecast, EAC, cost capture and instalments.
Is there a business case?: Yes; With probability of realisation and frozen baselines to compare against.
Can benefits be attributed to the initiatives that produce them?: Yes; Benefit attribution, value leakage and what-if simulation.

Is team utilisation visible?: Yes; Utilisation heatmap, skills catalogue and skills gaps.
Can people be requested for initiatives?: Yes; Staffing requests with approval and suggested candidates.
Is there time tracking?: Yes; Time tracking is part of the platform.

Is the change load per audience visible?: Yes; With a collision warning when several initiatives reach the same group.
Can readiness for a rollout be measured?: Yes; Readiness scorecard with a rollout gate, anonymous pulse survey and champions.

Can requests and tenders be created and sent?: Yes; To the providers you invite.
Are bidder questions and negotiation rounds covered?: Yes; Along with framework agreements and the procurement file.
Is there provider management?: Yes; Profiles, qualification and a block list.
Can bids be evaluated in a structured way?: Yes; RFX builder and evaluation with criteria, matrix and conflict declaration.
Are contracts and statements of work managed?: Yes; Contract management and statement of work with payment gates, linked to the project the award created.

Is there a document room?: Yes; With versions, classification, retention, legal hold and share links.
Does ValueSpoc support the data protection function?: Yes; Records of processing, DPIA, data subject requests, breaches and deletion routine.
Is there a register of AI use?: Yes; Each AI use with its record of processing.
Can several legal entities be represented?: Yes; Legal entities with hierarchy, addresses and documents.

Can Excel, CSV, Word, PDF and PowerPoint be imported?: Yes; All five formats.
Can content be exported?: Yes; As Excel, CSV, PDF and PowerPoint.
Is there a connection to Jira Cloud, ServiceNow and Microsoft Dataverse?: Yes; Work packages go to the system where delivery happens, and the status comes back on schedule.
Is there a connection to Teams, Outlook and Google Calendar?: Yes; Notifications reach the Teams channel, appointments the calendars of everyone involved.
Can Confluence be used as a knowledge source?: Yes; Pages are taken in as a source and turned into proposals a person approves.
Are there webhooks?: Yes; A signed event feed with inbound and outbound webhooks.
Is there a REST API?: Yes; With a documented OpenAPI description, including export of the core objects.

Is there an AI agent?: Yes; It cites its sources and drafts reports and decision papers.
Does the AI support day-to-day work?: Yes; Pending approvals and due measurements are sorted each morning, with meeting briefs, early warnings and anomalies.
Can a strategy be taken from documents?: Yes; From documents and websites, as a proposal for approval.
Can the AI be controlled per organisation?: Yes; Field list, blocked terms, own model and kill switch.
Is personal data protected before it reaches the language model?: Yes; Names of recorded people and organisations leave as placeholders, and e-mail addresses, phone numbers and IBANs are masked. Actions that change data need a human confirmation.
Do the language models run in Germany?: Yes; The default is the IONOS AI Model Hub in Germany. Other OpenAI-compatible providers and your own keys can be added.

Are there roles and permissions?: Yes; Roles and permissions per organisation, with users and any number of readers.
Is the platform available in German and English?: Yes; With a help centre and support straight from the product.
Is single sign-on supported?: Yes; Through OpenID Connect, for example with Keycloak, and with two-factor sign-in per account.
Is each tenant's data kept separate?: Yes; Separation is enforced in the database and checked on every request.
Is it hosted in Germany?: Yes; At IONOS in Germany, on infrastructure certified to ISO 27001.
Can the data be exported at any time?: Yes; Lists and reports as files in every plan, the core objects over the REST interface in Enterprise.
Is data protection documentation available?: Yes; Data processing agreement, technical and organisational measures under Art. 32 GDPR and security concept.

Which capabilities each plan includes is shown in the plan comparison on the pricing page.

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