Microsoft Project Server

With Microsoft Office Project Server your organization can more effectively manage and coordinate work ranging from one-time projects to complex programs across your entire project portfolio. Office Project Server is designed to be accessible by Microsoft Office Project Professional and Microsoft Office Project Web Access. Microsoft Project Server provides innovative capabilities across the entire lifecycle to improve your organization’s ability to effectively initiate, select, plan and implement projects on time and within budget.

Project & Portfolio Management

Now more than ever, executives are being challenged to "do more with less" and as a result you have to be judicious about where you spend your money and how you allocate resources. Microsoft's EPM solution improves your organization’s ability to select and deliver the right projects, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and ultimately plant the seeds to grow your business.

Microsoft Project Server brings together the business collaboration platform services of Microsoft® SharePoint Server’s business intelligence with structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Project Server unifies project and portfolio management aligning resources and investments with business priorities allowing you to observe and control your organization’s performance.

Built on SharePoint Server

• Easily create powerful intuitive reports and dashboards improving accountability and control.
• Develop and deploy effective workflows to manage project investments throughout their lifecycle.
• Enterprise search makes it easy to find people and effectively mine project data.
• Connect teams and enhance communication with wikis, blogs, discussion forums and My Sites.

Business Strategy and Portfolio Optimization

• Objectively prioritize business drivers and drive consensus across the executive team.
• Enhanced optimization interface provides powerful analytical views to improve decision making.
• Effectively select and prioritize projects from multiple dimensions – strategic value, financial value, and risk.
• Capture project information, cost estimates, resource estimates, strategic alignment assessments and more.

Unified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)

• Intuitive and simplified administration with end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities.
• Comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) including both project and portfolio capabilities.
• Standardized data collection through customizable and configurable forms.
• Display relevant Enterprise Project Types for each line of business using departmental fields.

With Project Server you can effectively align your project portfolios with your business strategy by providing techniques to prioritize competing requests, run optimization scenarios side by side under varying budgetary constraints, and maximize resource utilization across the entire planning horizon.