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BAE Systems Division Streamlines Processes and Saves Time with New Project Solution
“With Project Professional 2007, you can see the effects of your task updates with Change Highlighting and run what-if scenarios, which can save a lot of time reviewing the impact of changes.”
Sam Graber, Project Planner, BAE Systems Inertial Products
BAE Systems is one of the largest defence and aerospace contractors in the world, and its Inertial Products division is an award-winning supplier of gyroscopes, inertial measurement units, and integrated navigation solutions to many of the world’s major defence and aerospace programmes.
The Project Support Office Team at Inertial Products decided to participate in a pilot for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system following the successful deployment of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003. Paul Barlow, Project Support Office Manager for Inertial Products, says: “We are one of the few companies to create a complete time sheet and overtime system in Project Server 2003 and are pleased to see this is now enhanced with the 2007 release of Office Project Server and Project Professional.”
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Corporate Project Solutions helped install and configure Project Server 2007 as part of the pilot, which also saw the division’s project support office test the improved integration with Microsoft Office Excel® 2007. Project Support Office employees have found Office Project 2007 saves time and allows them to make better decisions. Project Planner Sam Graber says features such as the improved Gantt View and Change Highlighting show how the solution helps planners and managers.
“In the past, I’ve spent an hour updating a project, and the last change could alter dates throughout the plan without warning,” he says. “With Project Professional 2007, you can see the effects of task updates with Change Highlighting and run what-if scenarios, which can save a lot of time reviewing the impact of changes.”
An outside contractor is responsible for tasks such as backing up, restoring projects, and accessing error messages. With Project Server 2007, project planners and managers now can complete these tasks themselves from an administration page, saving the business time and money.
Paul Barlow says other new features of Project Server and Project Professional 2007 could help the Inertial Products division reduce the number of custom-built systems it uses and, if needed, operate more independently of BAE Systems. “At a group level, BAE Systems provides solutions for project information management and resource aggregation,” he says. “But we could use Project Server 2007 to replace these, in addition to giving our project planners and managers the benefits of moving from Project Professional and Project Server 2003 to the latest release.”
This case study is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Document published February 2007
