With Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and its clients, your organization can more effectively manage and coordinate work ranging from one-time projects, to complex programs across the entire project life cycle.
Budget Tracking and Cost Resources permit better financial insight and tracking.
The Proposals capability in Office Project Web Access manages plans and activities prior to project approval.
The Activity Plan capability of Office Project Web Access helps manage ongoing operations activities after project completion.
The Reporting Data Service permits easy user reporting with common business reporting tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
With the Cube Building Service, users can easily select data to build portfolio analyzer cubes, for sophisticated analysis and reporting.
Figure 1. Submit new project ideas for approval using Proposals to better capture the full lifecycle
For simple task tracking, use the new Project Task List in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology then import this into Office Project Web Access.
Enterprise Templates and the Project Guide establish repeatable processes that capture best practices.
Use familiar tools such as Microsoft Office Outlook for entering progress or Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 for creating dynamic reports.
Office Project Web Access and Project Workspaces enable your team to collaborate over the Web.
Figure 2. Project workspaces provide a central location for teams to collaborate on their projects
Get information about high-level resource allocation for proposed projects with Resource Plans.
Individuals other than the assigned resource can provide status updates on tasks by using the Assignment Owner feature.
Timesheets now support fiscal periods. New financial fields, such as cost codes, enable you to report on hours that are separate from the progress made on tasks, and more.
The Active Cache makes it possible to more efficiently transfer data from Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and provides a better offline work experience.
The Queuing Service provides controlled use of server resources, which means better performance for users.
With Server-Side Scheduling, users can build a custom Web user interface without requiring process schedule changes to be made in Office Project Professional 2007.
Programs enable easy management of multiple sub-projects and their cross-project dependencies in a coordinated fashion.
Deliverables help track and manage cross-project dependencies.
Figure 3. Effectively manage proposals, projects, and programs
Office Project Server 2007 now uses the Microsoft .NET Framework to offer your developers a more flexible experience.
By moving the scheduling engine to Office Project Server 2007, custom front ends no longer require the full winproj.exe on each client machine.
The Event Model in Office Project Server 2007 supports use of Windows Workflow Foundation to integrate business processes with your project work.
The application programming interface, Project Server Interface, exposes the functionality and data that your client applications need to integrate with Office Project Server 2007 or to extend its functionality.
Figure 4. An improved administrator interface offers you better control and configuration