The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is ideal for organizations that need strong coordination and standardization between projects and project managers, centralized resource management, or higher-level reporting about projects and resources. The Microsoft Office EPM Solution is unique among project management systems because it promotes widespread participation through familiar, closely integrated tools and programs. The EPM Solution empowers organizations in five key areas:

Portfolio Management

• The Microsoft Office EPM Solution provides visibility and insight into your organization’s work portfolio for better analysis and decision making.
• Monitor the performance of your project portfolio through a scorecard view of consistent business metrics and drill into the details as needed.
• Evaluate schedule, resource, and cost data over time and across projects to identify trends, and model “what-if” scenarios.
• Integrate key Project data as Web Parts into your own portal alongside other critical business information.

Work Management

The Microsoft Office EPM Solution helps you better manage your work, establish consistent and repeatable processes, and optimize resource utilization across your organization.

Resource Management

• Efficiently assign people to projects with skill-based resource assignment tools, and track and manage resources from a central resource pool.
• Establish processes for reporting and approving time worked on projects to ensure accuracy of data.
• Ensure that your organization has the right people and capacity to take on future projects.

Project Management

• Efficiently manage projects and track progress.
• Effectively communicate and share project information to project stakeholders.
• Improve project management processes by establishing standards and best practices across your organization.

Collaboration and Communication

• The Microsoft Office EPM Solution enhances information-sharing and coordination among project teams for better participation, progress reporting, and collaboration on projects.
• Improve coordination across teams through automated notifications and portal access, so users can easily view, update, and analyze project information through the Web.
• Reduce administrative work while maintaining up-to-date status on project schedules and budgets through Web-based time reporting and Microsoft Outlook® Calendar integration.
• Manage team documents centrally with check-in/check-out and versioning capabilities through the integration of Project Server 2003 with Microsoft Windows SharePoint™ Services (requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003).
• Centrally store, link, and share project-related issues and risks for collaborative tracking and resolution.

Extensible Platform

• The Microsoft Office EPM Solution provides the flexibility to meet your needs as your business requirements evolve.
• Compile up-to-date project-related information via better integration with existing systems using industry-standard XML
• Customize and integrate Project Server data through enhancements to the Project Data Service (PDS), VBA/object model changes, and an improved Project Guide.

Administration

The Microsoft Office EPM Solution reduces the burden of administration with setup improvements, database partitioning, and more. Improvements have been made to facilitate setting up and deploying Project Server and Windows SharePoint Services, distributing database load across separate database servers, and maintaining up-to-date information.

For more information about the various aspects of this solution please feel free to download these datasheets, brochures and whitepapers: To download, right click and select 'Save Target As'

EPM Collaboration and Communication Brochure
EPM Portfolio Management Brochure
EPM Project Management Brochure
EPM Resource Management Brochure
EPM Solution Datasheet
EPM Licensing Brochure
EPM Solution Guide
EPM Solution Customer Research Report
EPM whitepaper - IT Governance and the Program Management Office
EPM whitepaper - Adopting Quality Management for Business Success

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