Microsoft Office Project Future Direction

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Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
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The Microsoft Office EPM Solution

• Gain visibility, insight, control of all
  aspects of your project portfolio
• Ensure initiatives align with your strategic
  objectives
• Bring your organizational parts together get
  a clear big picture view
• Realize participation from all project
  stakeholders

Deliver sustainable value to your business
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EPM Solution
Feedback and Trends

• Tight resources drive need for productivity/accoun
  tability
• Better coordination with the project team
• Broader audience, minimal need for PM expertise
• Richer business intelligence for resource
  optimization and alignment of investments with
  corporate objectives
• Integrate systems with bus. processes via
  workflow
• Broader time tracking for resource management
• Deployments require greater scale performance

EPM Solutions Future DirectionSupport
distributed organizations, increase participation
for better execution, and more informed decisions
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EPM Solution Advantages
Align all work with your strategic objectives
Enable faster and broader adoption
Scale to support distributed organizations
Easily integrate and automate your processes
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The Microsoft Office EPM Solution
Integration with Tools People Know
Team Participation Executive Reporting
Easily Create Enterprise Project Plans
Project Web Access
Project Professional
XML-based API
Project Documents, Issues/Risks Tasks
Projects, Tasks, Resources, Portfolio Items,
operations, initiatives, fiscal periods, budgets,
stage-gates, workflow rules, timesheet
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Infrastructure Changes

• .NET Framework 2.0
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• . SQL Server 2000 SP3
• SQL Analysis Services
• Windows Server 2003
• IIS6

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Project 2007 Team Evaluation

• In this two hour interactive session, a
  Microsoft Project certified consultant will
  deliver a complete demonstration of Microsoft
  Project Professional 2007 or Project Server 2007,
  tailored to your organization.

• Team Evaluation Includes
• Project 2007 Architectural Review
• Live hands on application demonstration
• Implementation and best practices overview
• Training and support recommendation

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Design Workshop for Microsoft Project Server 2007

• In this two-week workshop, PSG will partner with
  your team to develop a design and detailed
  implementation strategy for the Microsoft Project
  Server 2007 application.
• Workshop Deliverables Include
• An Application Design Document
• A Configuration Tables Document
• A Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Detailed Requirements Session Notes Summary
• An Implementation Project Plan
• Detailed Budgetary Time, Resource and Cost
  Estimates