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Microsoft productivity products

  • Microsoft Office 365

  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

  • Microsoft Lync Server 2010

  • Project Professional 2010

  • Microsoft Visio 2010

Manage complex information and projects better.

What are your current needs for diagramming complex information? How do your teams effectively plan, visualize, collaborate on and execute projects?

  • Do you need to create diagrams of your IT systems, processes, organization, facilities or other complex information?

  • Do you need to create intuitive dashboards?

  • Are your projects delivered on time and on budget to meet strategic needs?

  • Do you have an effective tool to plan, schedule, communicate, and realize project results?

Visualize, plan, and produce.

It all starts with Microsoft Visio for advanced diagramming, dashboards, and processes. Once processes have been documented, your people can manage them in Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office 365 and create SharePoint workflows without coding. Then link diagrams with data to create visual dashboards that can be shared in a browser using SharePoint or Office 365.

Create, manage, and collaborate.

When it's time to meet crucial deadlines, utilize scarce resources, collaborate with diverse teams and deliver project results, give them a familiar and intuitive experience with Project Professional 2010. This enables teams to get started quickly, collaborate on schedules and effectively manage resources—at a glance. "What if" scenario planning and essential functions that work like Office, Excel and with SharePoint to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget, to realize business results.

Case Study: Austrian Ministry of the Interior

Publication Date:

  • 6/4/2010

Industries:

  • National Government Agencies

Country/Region:

  • Austria

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

  • Microsoft Visio Premium 2010

  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010

  • Visio Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Austrian Ministry of the Interior

Ministry Reduces Purchasing Time by 66 Percent with Productivity Software Upgrade

The Austrian Ministry of the Interior provides law enforcement and public security services. The Ministry faced two distinct challenges: a slow, paper-based order process for vital equipment, and no method for field officers to update and share case information. To give its staff the latest technology to help address these challenges, the Ministry deployed Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio Premium 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Business analysts at the Ministry have since created a new electronic order process 80 percent faster than with previous tools. The solution is helping to decrease purchase cycle time by 66 percent, reduce paper and printing costs, and provide more visibility into order status. The Ministry also deployed SharePoint Workspace 2010 so that officers can share and update case files, which helps them resolve cases more quickly.

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Case Study: Virgin Mobile (India)

Publication Date:

  • 5/4/2010

Industries:

  • Telecommunications Industry

Country/Region:

  • India

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft Visio Professional 2010

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Virgin Mobile India

Mobile Telecommunications Provider Improves Call Centre Management with Visual Performance Dashboard

Virgin Mobile India's call centre management needed to review important performance indicators in real time to ensure effective operations. However, their performance-report development processes were cumbersome, requiring manual data extraction, manipulation, and conversion to a visual form for presentation. To address this challenge, Virgin Mobile India developed a visual performance dashboard using Microsoft® Visio® Professional 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 to dynamically link Visio to its external contact centre data. The new solution provides users with dynamic, data-driven call centre dashboards that graphically illustrate performance through out-of-the-box functionality. Virgin Mobile India expects to realize a number of benefits, including 2,880 annual labour hours saved, a 5% improvement in percentage calls answered, and an increase in customer satisfaction.

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Case Study: Volvo

Publication Date:

  • 9/8/2010

Partner(s):

  • Teamsquare

Industries:

  • Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing Industry

Country/Region:

  • Sweden

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003

  • Microsoft Project Professional 2010

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

  • Microsoft Project Server 2010

  • Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010

Volvo Group

Volvo Group Increases Project Visibility and Control While Saving Employees Time

The Volvo Group is a leading supplier of commercial and consumer transport solutions and customer financial services. Volvo IT, which provides solutions to the Group to manage its projects, wanted to improve employee efficiency by extending current resource management, time reporting, portfolio management, and other project management processes. The Volvo Group implemented Microsoft Project Server 2010 and made customizations to adapt to various internal processes and software applications. The Group is using Project Server 2010 to improve capacity planning to build its long-term strengths. Because of the customizations and the rich but simple user interface of the Microsoft Project Web App technology, the Volvo Group has cut the time spent entering project data by 40 percent. It also has improved project visibility and control, and can now provide more transparent resource management.

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Case Study: Kemira

Publication Date:

  • 6/10/2011

Partner(s):

  • Tietotalo

  • TPG The Project Group

Industries:

  • Chemical Industry

Country/Region:

  • Finland

Software and Services:

  • Microsoft Project Professional 2010

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

  • Microsoft Project Server 2010

  • Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010

Kemira

Chemical Company Actively Manages Project Resources and Costs for R&D

Kemira, a global chemical company, is initiating hundreds of projects to fulfill its new mission to help customers efficiently use and reuse water. To safeguard its investment, Kemira needed new project management processes and software. Kemira deployed Microsoft Project Server 2010, assisted by two Microsoft Gold Certified Partners: Tietotalo, which developed workflows to automate its new processes, and TPG The Project Group, which developed a link to its SAP enterprise resource planning solution. Kemira is using the rich reporting features of Project Server 2010 to improve decision making and its relationships with funding sources. By linking Project Server 2010 and SAP, Kemira can manage resources and costs by comparing budgets with actual performance. With Project Sever 2010, Kemira saves users time in entering timesheet information and saves managers time in collecting project data.

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Solutions: Projects and diagramming

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Simplify and succeed.

Visualize success. Microsoft Visio 2010 advanced diagramming tools can help your people simplify complexity with dynamic, data-driven visuals and new ways to share on the web in real-time. The new tools and more intuitive interface in Visio 2010 make it easier for teams to create an organizational chart, a network diagram, or a business process.

To share with others, people can connect a diagram to one or more data sources (such as Excel) and then, with a few clicks, publish the diagram to SharePoint Server. Online users can then see the real-time information in their browsers at a high level or delve into the details – even if they don’t have Visio.

Plan and conquer.

Realize business results. Project Professional 2010 gives your team new and intuitive ways to create, plan and manage projects better. Essential functions and visual enhancements help teams communicate and execute throughout the project lifecycle to be more productive. Teams can collaborate and manage projects with SharePoint Online and Project Professional 2010 out-of-the box integration, saving time and effort—from virtually anywhere. Achieve unified project and portfolio management across all types of work by adding Project Server 2010.

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Create quickly

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Create quickly

  • Start quickly with templates and pre-drawn shapes.

  • Find and access tools you need quickly.

  • Simplify large and complex diagrams.

Make it rich

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Make it rich

  • Create rich and interactive dashboards.

  • Sell ideas by creating, publishing and sharing information.

  • Get a real-time view of processes.

Say no to code

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Say no to code

  • Model and monitor SharePoint workflows with no coding.

  • Import and export workflows between SharePoint Designer and Visio.

  • Monitor real-time workflow in SharePoint.

See it now

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See it now

  • Link directly to SCOM.

  • Monitor your network in real time.

  • Improve team-wide accountability.

Be flexible

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Be flexible

  • Manually schedule tasks with the information you have right now.

  • Automatically schedule tasks with calculated dates and durations as you learn more.

  • Gain insight with the Task Inspector to recognize issues—solve problems before they occur.

  • Perform what-if analysis with inactive tasks using Project Professional 2010.

See and share

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See and share

  • Simply create the ultimate graphical timeline to express your plan.

  • Drill into details and get a clear view of tasks, milestones, and phases.

  • Swiftly share in an email, presentation, or any other document with formatting retained.

Drag and drop

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Drag and drop

  • Simply drag-and-drop to effectively plan tasks and optimize resources.

  • Quickly identify unassigned or unscheduled tasks to solve problems.

  • Hover over tasks to instantly view task-level details to plan with ease.

  • Visualize the right mix of resources and assignments.

Get status

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Get status

  • Enhance team collaboration by sharing information more efficiently with SharePoint 2010.

  • Convert SharePoint 2010 task lists to realize project plans.

  • Publish your plan to a SharePoint 2010 task list—be more connected with Project Professional 2010.

  • Team members update status and you synchronize to receive updates directly into your plan.

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