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Microsoft Office Project Server 2010


Hosted Microsoft Office Project Server 2010 with SharePoint 2010 gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively.

You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.

Project Server 2010 runs within SharePoint for complete project management integration.

Features

• Effectively manage / understand project schedules.
Set realistic expectations with project teams, management, and customers using Office Project Server 2010 to build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets.

• Get productive quickly.
The Project Guide, an interactive step-by-step planning aide, helps you quickly master the project management process. Customisable for different methodologies, this tool walks you through creating a project, assigning tasks and resources, tracking and analysing data and reporting results.

• Leverage existing data.
Office Project Server 2010 integrates smoothly with other Microsoft Office system programs. Build projects with a few keystrokes by converting existing task lists in Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Outlook into project plans.

• Build professional charts and diagrams.
Analyse and report Project data in professional reports and charts by using the Visual Reports engine, which generates templates for Visio diagrams and Excel charts based on Project data.

• Effectively communicate information.
Easily present information in various formats according to the needs of stakeholders. Use the Copy Picture to Office Wizard to smoothly export Project data into Microsoft Office Word for formal documents, Office Excel 2007 for custom charts or spreadsheets or Microsoft Office PowerPoint for crisp presentations.

• Gain greater control of resources and finances.
With Hosted Office Project Server 2010, you can easily assign resources to tasks and adjust their assignments to resolve conflicts over allocations. Control finances by assigning budgets to projects and programs. Improve your cost estimates with Cost Resources.

• Quickly access the information you need.
You can group Project data by any predefined or custom field. This saves you time by consolidating data so you can quickly locate and analyse specific information.

• Track projects according to your needs.
A rich set of predefined or custom metrics helps you track data (percent complete, budget versus actual, earned value) relevant to your needs. You can track project performance over the project lifespan by saving project snapshots in up to 11 baselines.

• Customise Project Server 2010 to your needs.
Tailor Office Project Standard 2010 specifically to your project. Choose custom display fields that integrate with your project schedule. Modify toolbars, formulas, graphical indicators and reports. XML, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and Component Object Model (COM) add-ins facilitate data sharing and creation of custom solutions.