Main Areas of PPM Administrator

Get acquainted with the basic areas of PPM Administrator.

Field Description
Hubs

Hubs provide you with a set of forms and corresponding tabs to help you manage all aspects of your data.

PPM Administrator has two hubs:
  • Administration: This hub helps you manage custom menu items for Cobra, communication across all PPM products, and process servers for PM Compass and Cobra.
  • Security: This hub helps you establish fundamental information such as security settings, password policies, user records, and so on.
Communication (Administration) This form helps you configure email settings that will be used in sending system-related emails.
Custom Menu (Administration) This form allows you to enable a custom menu as well as add, organize, and delete custom menu items in Cobra.
Process Servers and Queues (Administration) This form lets you manage the process servers and queues for PM Compass and Cobra.
Licenses (Security) The PPM Administrator application shares product license information across the entire Deltek PPM product suite.
Users (Security) This form helps you view and manage all users who are currently saved in PPM Administrator.
Groups (Security) This form lets you define and manage a profile for a group.
Roles (Security) This form allows you to view and define roles.
Locks (Security) This form lets you manage the list of objects that a user has opened and to remove the lock on one or more objects for a specific user.
Password Policies This form allows you to establish criteria for acceptable PPM product passwords before adding new users to ensure all passwords meet your organization's security standards.
System This form allows you to set authentication preferences, specify server job information, enable/disable user logins, and configure security-related options for each PPM product.