There are a whole host of new features in Project Server 2010 that users of Project Server 2003 and 2007 have been waiting for and will now get genuine benefit from. The key new features are outlined below.
In Project 2010, the best-of-breed portfolio management techniques of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 are incorprated in to Project Server 2010. Your organisation now gets a single server with full end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities.
- Common SharePoint user interface throughout the PPM solution.
- Shared data store removing the requirement for the Project Server Gateway.
- Intuitive and simplified administration.
- Localised portfolio selection abilities.
- Comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) incorporating both project and portfolio capabilities.
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Project Server 2010 is developed on top of SharePoint Server 2010, combining the robust business collaboration platform services and structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Gain additional value from the Microsoft platform.
- Take advantage of the Business Intelligence (BI) platform to create reports and powerful dashboards with ease.
- Gain control of document review and approval through the workflow capabilities.
- Enterprise search makes it painless to find people and effectively mine project data (resources, tasks, documents etc.).
- Connect teams and increase communication with wikis, blogs, discussion forums and My Sites.
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Project Server 2010 offers a new demand management module to capture all work ranging from simple tasks to complex projects and programmes.
- Develop and deploy powerful governance workflows to manage project investments throughout their lifecycle and drive accountability and control.
- Define Enterprise Project Types for all requests and associate them with workflow, project plan and custom workspace template.
- Standardise data collection with configurable business case forms. Capture project information, cost estimates, resource estimates, strategic alignment assessments and more.
- Display relevant Enterprise Project Types for each line of business using the departmental fields.
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Project Server 2010 allows organisations to select project portfolios that align best with their business strategy by providing techniques to prioritise competing requests, run optimisation scenarios under various budgetary limits and maximise resource utilisation across the planning perspective.
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- Objectively prioritise business drivers and drive agreement across the executive team.
- Intuitive and visual interface for completing the business driver prioritisation appraisal.
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- Successfully prioritise projects from several dimensions including strategic value, financial value, and risk.
- Select the optimal portfolio of projects whilst ensuring budgetary and other constraints are met.
- Improved optimisation interface surfaces powerful analytical views (e.g. Efficient Frontier) to enhancing decision making.
- Better understand trade-offs with Force In/Out descriptive values.
- Compare optimisation scenarios side by side with snapshot scorecard.
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Gain insight into generic resource demand and availability across the planning perspective.
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Reschedule projects within the perspective to maximise resource utilisation while adhering to schedule dependencies.
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Model headcount decisions and compare scenarios.
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Project Server 2010 brings the abilities of Project Professional 2010 to your browser with Web-based Project Editing.
- Easily build schedules online and make simple project edits from anywhere.
- Gain flexibility with user controlled scheduling – manually schedule tasks with the information you have available or automatically schedule tasks to have MS Project calculate durations and dates.
- Create projects with 100+ tasks, assign multiple resources, and effortlessly define task hierarchy and dependencies.
- Gain insight with change highlighting and multi-level undo.
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Microsoft Project 2010 provides a consistent feel across Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 and Project Server 2010 through the Fluent user interface.
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Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Ribbon, so the tools you need to plan and manage your project are always within easy reach.
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Task oriented tabs and context sensitive menu groupings make finding and performing activities easier.
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- Save time and unify task status updates and timesheet submissions by enabling Single Entry Mode.
- Flexible and consistent interface improves the time reporting experience.
- Easily approve timesheet and task status updates through the consolidated Approval Center.
- Simply delegate approvals with enhanced user delegation.
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- Opt to receive and update your project task status in Microsoft® Office Outlook.
- Project tasks are shown as Outlook tasks conveniently grouped by project name. NO Outlook add-in required.
- Stay connected with notifications and updates through Outlook and Outlook Web App.
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Experience the power and depth of Microsoft Business Intelligence platform. Gain transparency and control with Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and SQL Reporting Services.
- Get started fast with predefined best practice and localised report templates in the new Business Intelligence Center.
- Intuitively customise reports in a familiar Excel editor and publish through Excel Services.
- Simply create compelling audience-based dashboards to efficiently monitor portfolio performance.
- Satisfy line of business reporting requirements with Departmental Cubes. Allow decision makers to focus on their data, remove pointless clutter and ensure faster cube build times.
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- Project Permissions – Empower project managers to control who can view or edit their projects with Project Permissions.
- User Delegation – Enhanced delegation enables users to easily specify colleagues to act as their delegate when on holiday, without reliance on the administrator.
- Departmental Fields – Provide a level of autonomy whilst maintaining enterprise standardisation and control. With Departmental Fields administrators can link Enterprise Project Types, Resources and Custom Fields to specific departments, eliminating pointless clutter and allowing departments to focus on their data.
- Centralised Administration – Administration console for managing both project and portfolio management capabilities.
- Administer Reporting Cubes – Improved administration interface for displaying the status and managing available cubes. Quickly take action and intuitively add, edit, delete, copy and refresh cubes.
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tegration with related Microsoft technologies provides a recognised and connected work management platform. Allow teams to work in their preferred productivity tools and provide status updates to project stakeholders with minimal effort and administrative overhead.
- Microsoft® Exchange Server – Conveniently receive and update your project tasks in Outlook or Outlook Web App.
- Microsoft® Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Effortlessly connect the worlds of application development and project and portfolio management.
- SharePoint Server Sync – Effortlessly enhance productivity with bidirectional status updates between Project Professional 2010 and SharePoint.
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