The flexibility and complexity of the Pension Administration product presents obstacles for implementation teams. Implementation project teams face the challenges of a steep parameterization learning curve, debugging faulty parameterization, laborious parameter documentation efforts, parameter migration, and requirement changes and parameter maintenance. All these challenges can cause resources to be diverted from design efforts and extend project timelines.

PensionSmart has developed a comprehensive suite of utilities to assist implementation teams and facilitate quicker implementations. These utilities complement a rapid implementation methodology to distinguish PensionSmart as a premier implementation service provider. In practice, these utilities simply help implementation teams work smarter. These utilities enable all team members with a means to complete tasks more efficiently, accurately, and earlier in the learning curve.
 

Parameter Management Tool
This tool allows users to manage and maintain Pension Administration parameters through PeopleTools panels/pages. 

COBOL Array Analysis Tools
This tool will analyze parameter data to predict array size requirements and prescribe array size adjustments.

Advanced Parameter Import/Export Scripts
This tool will allow all parameter dependencies to be exported for a particular benefit plan, function result, or other parameter. These scripts will not be dependent on naming conventions.

Parameter Renaming
The Parameter Renaming tool allows a user to change the name of a parameter and automatically update all references to the parameter.

Regression Testing Tools
These tools provide automated functionality to capture and store calculation results for a "baseline results set", capture and store "comparison" calculation results, compare all calculation results, and report all comparison results.