MS Project Server Beneficial Features

By: Softvative Inc 2008

Agenda

MS Project Server 2007 (MSPS 07)

Features Highlight

Features Beneficial to everyone

Integration with other systems

Q&A

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Issues / Limitations

Limited out of box reports

Growing Problem

Project Update Process

Single level of undo

Task Change Tracking in Project

View Processing / Notification Service (VNS)

OLAP Cube process & single cube

ODBC Connectivity (client - Server)

Single DB model

ASP Architecture

Clumsy Web Interface

# of resources & tasks in a project

Citrix Dependency & its Issues

Miscellaneous Issues (Deleted Task, Renaming project etc)

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Features Highlights

*Portfolio Builder

*Portfolio Governance Workflow Engine

*Portfolio Prioritization

*Portfolio Optimization

*Advanced Portfolio Analytics

*Portfolio Dashboard

*Business Alignment Framework

Proposal Management (Initiate projects from web)

Activity Plans (for O&M tasks)

Resource Plans (for forecasting resource availability)

Administrative Time (Global configuration on server, appears on all timesheets)

* Features of Portfolio Server 2007. Requires additional licensing.

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Features Highlights (contd.)

Visual Reports (Using Excel / Visio 2007 for charts, graphs)

Budget (define it at program / project level then PM can allocate funds)

Reporting Data Service (data warehouse that is updated in real time)

Cube Building Service

Server Side Queuing Service (VNS in MSPS03, single consolidated update)

Cost Resources (planned & actual cost for a task, support integration with accounting systems)

Task Status (also enables comments to be exchanged, export to timesheet)

Multiple Currency

Proposed Resource Assignment

Build Team & assign tasks in PWA

Desktop OLAP Cube (Reports / archive data in Access 2007 & OLAP cubes, 5 cubes)

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Task Driver Pane (shows dependencies & resource constraints that drive a task)

Background Cell highlighting

Change Highlighting

User friendly PWA (WSS 3.0 based)

Auto-accept Rules

Task Updates using PWA

Project Guide

Active Cache (efficient data transfer to server, better offline experience)

Programs (hierarchy of master project. KPI & analysis at program level)

Deliverables (Use MOSS to create & manage across project dependencies)

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Team Resources

Assignment Owner

Multiple level Undo

Baseline Lockdown

Flexible MSPS Administration (Delegation)

Safe Mode

Project Server Interface (PSI – for easier integration with LOB applications)

Server Side Events (200+ events that can be used with Windows workflow Foundation)

Server-side scheduling (in MSPS03 scheduling was on client side)

ASP .Net architecture

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Outlook 2007 Integration (PWA Tasks added to Outlooks tasks, not to Calendar)

Excel 2007 Integration (import / export)

Forms Authentication (Project Authenticated users in MSPS03)

VBA, COM add-ins, OLE DB, XML file format

Uses SQL 2005 as backend database

Rename project from MS Project Professional

Improved Performance & Scalability ( Test showed MSPS07 is 6x faster than MSPS03 when saving / publishing projects)

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Features Beneficial to Everyone

Server Side Scheduling

Multiple Undo

Task Driver Pane

Change Highlighting

Active Cache

Programs (Hierarchy of master projects)

Task Updates (no round trip required)

Auto Accept Rules

Multiple Database (as oppose to single DB in MSPS03)

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Features Beneficial to Everyone (contd.)

*Portfolio Builder (Build repository quickly to consolidate all business and IT investments entities (i.e. projects, programs and applications))

*Portfolio Governance Workflow Engine (Define multiple workflows to standardize, communicate and enforce the portfolio governance framework across organization)

*Portfolio Prioritization (Use best practice techniques to prioritize and evaluate competing investments within the portfolio.)

*Portfolio Optimization

* Advanced Portfolio Analytics

*Portfolio dashboard (analyze the investments from varying dimensions)

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Features Beneficial to Everyone (contd.)

Admin & O&M Actuals Processing (Automatic Approval of actual hours, Activity & resource plans reduce RM effort to create and manage O&M plans)

Improved Performance (With improved communication between server & client & other features, there is no need to use of Citrix for MSPS07)

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Integration with other Systems MS Project Server 2007 (MSPS 07) Softvative, Inc.

Integrations with Microsoft Systems

SharePoint (WSS 3 / MOSS)

Active Directory

SQL Server 2005

SQL Analysis Services

SQL Reporting Services

Portfolio Server 2007

MS Office 2007 System (Project, Excel, Access, Visio)

MS Operations Managers (MOM)

Exchange Server

MS Team Foundation Server

MS GreatPlains

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Integrations with LOB Systems

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Q&A Contact Softvative Inc for services on MS Project Server & MS Portfolio Server 2007. [email_address] or check our website http://www.softvative.com/ Softvative, Inc.