Project Portfolio Management
Project Portfolio Management
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that helps organizations to realize their potential by identifying, selecting, managing, and delivering portfolios that best align with their business strategy. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, a key component of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, can help executives gain visibility, insight, and control across their project, program, and application portfolios.
Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 can help organizations to:
Automate and standardize governance processes to subject projects to appropriate controls.
Consolidate business and IT investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility and insight.
- Objectively evaluate and prioritize competing investments from multiple dimensions.
- Optimize budget utilization and select investments that best align with the organization’s business strategy.
- Tightly integrate with Office Project Server 2007 to track the performance of each investment throughout its life cycle, from business case to benefits realization.
Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is optimized for enterprise and upper midmarket (UMM) organizations that require portfolio analytical tools to improve decision-making and help ensure that selected portfolios align with the organization’s strategic priorities. The solution is intended for the following stakeholders:
- Executives and business decision-makers
- Portfolio analysts and project management office staff
- Program managers and project managers
- Application managers
Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 integrates with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to provide organizations with an end-to-end project portfolio management solution. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a key component of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, helping to ensure that executives gain visibility, insight, and control across their project, program, and application portfolios.
Tight integration with Office Project Server 2007 can help ensure that customers and partners can quickly deploy world-class portfolio analytical techniques and tools within the Microsoft EPM Solution. The out-of-the-box integration between the two solutions provides the following benefits:
- End-to-End Project Portfolio Management: Provides organizations with a scalable end-to-end project portfolio management solution.
- Help Ensure Data Integrity: Maintains data integrity between the two environments through regular synchronization events.
- Consolidate Across Project Servers: Enables administrators to link federated Office Project Server computers to a single instance of Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and consolidate the collection of essential data for all business and IT investments in a central enterprise repository.
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint® Services 3.0 Integration: Integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for document management.
