What is PDWare Portfolio Desktop?

PDWare Portfolio IS:

The purpose of this application is to help the organization define and manage an achievable portfolio of projects.

It does this by

capturing and analyzing what resource managers know about the deployment of their resources
capturing and analyzing what project managers know about the status and critical parameters of their projects
providing views and reports to the management team showing problem areas for discussion and resolution.

Identifies portfolio resource and balance issues

Highlights resource contention problems in the portfolio and provides methods for examining alternative solutions.
Stimulates discussion of exceptions among project managers, resource managers, and portfolio/pipeline managers.
Low overhead method for resource managers to plan the deployment of their resources.
Simple rollup of resource deployment plans
Captures history (baseline, forecasts, actual) for analysis and improvement
Uses resource allocation by priority to highlight portfolio planning problems
Uses baseline (contract) versus resource forecast (staffing plan) to highlight execution problems

Not about detailed project planning and execution
Not automated resource leveling (allocation is NOT leveling).
PDWare Portfolio allocation does NOT produce a recommended solution to resource contention problems.