Microsoft Office Project 2003

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Microsoft Office Project 2003

• Chris Capossela
• General Manager
• Microsoft Project

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Introducing Project 2003 A Customer Driven
Release

• Address key customer requests
• Tighter integration with Office System
• Provide platform for building solutions
  integrating business applications
• No major architecture changes to ease migration
  and deployment
• Two offerings
• Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
• Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management
  (EPM) Solution

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Microsoft Office Project 2003Value Proposition

• Visibility into project portfolio for execs, PMO
• High level view of all work across the dept or
  enterprise
• Ensure work is aligned with strategy
• Optimal resource utilization for resource mgrs
• Match right people to right jobs at right time
• Skills tracking and matching
• Team member participation for leads, individuals
• Deep Office integration lets you use tools you
  know
• Collaborate on projects, documents, issues, risks
• Dependable platform for admins, developers
• Load-balancing, clustering, partitioning, secure,
  etc.
• Broad open platform and partner ecosystem

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Go Broad Strategy Connecting IWorkers To
Projects Using Familiar Tools
ExecutivesResource Managers Team Members
Project Managers
Line of Business Systems
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Connecting IWorkers To Projects Using Familiar
Tools

• Team Members
• Project Server and Outlook integration
• Print grid to Excel for most browser views
• Deep WSS integration for better doc management
• Resource managers, finance managers
• Staff projects in Project Web Access with team
  builder lite
• Non-project time support (and other top timesheet
  features)
• Partners, corp developers
• Extensive enhancements to Project Server APIs
• New web service to make LOB integration easier
• IT Managers
• Active directory synchronization
• Deep content for easier deployment,
  configuration, sizing

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Go Broad Additional Solutions Building On Our
EPM Platform
MS Accelerators EPMSix Sigma MBS PSA
ISV Embedded Business Engine Tenrox
Partner Solutions Pcubed Energy PM Solutions
Manuf.
Enterprise Project Management
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Big Focus On Great Content For Project 2003

• Lots of changes for 2003
• New downloadable and printable online books
• Follows Exchange format which admins love
• Content reviews done by MCS and partners
• Bulk of content ready by street date
• Content is customer driven from 2002 feedback
• Admin plan, deploy, maintain, support, disaster
  recovery
• Six typical customer scenarios for better
  sizing guidance
• Developer SDK plus 4 new solution starters
• New process in place to react more quickly to gaps