gives you robust project-management tools with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 includes all the capabilities in Office Project Standard 2007.
Get productive quickly
Office Project 2007 helps you better organize work and people to help ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Communicate information
Easily present information in various formats according to the needs of stakeholders.
Manage and understand project schedules
Set realistic expectations with project teams, management and customers using Office Project 2007 to build schedules, allocate resources and manage budgets.
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The Office Project 2007 family includes Office Project Standard 2007, Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Web Access (a Client Access License for Office Project Server 2007), Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Web Access (a Client Access License for Project Portfolio Server).
Office Project 2007 has two types of offerings designed for different needs:
Office Project Standard 2007 is a desktop program for individual users who manage projects independently.
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution combines Office Project Server 2007, Office Project Professional 2007, Office Project Web Access, Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and Office Project Portfolio Web Access to form a business solution for organizations, departments and teams.
Office Project 2007 meets different user needs depending on the specific solution.Office Project Standard 2007 is for individual users who manage projects independently.The Office EPM Solution addresses the needs for collaborative project and portfolio management in an organization.
Executives who allocate funds and oversee projects, programs and portfolios by providing visibility, decision-making tools and control.
Project managers and staff who create and manage projects.
Resource managers who work with staff and assets, by providing rich, Web-based tools for tracking and planning.
Team members who work on projects, by providing access in familiar tools to view work and report status.
Administrators and IT staff who manage and extend the solution, by realizing decreased license-acquisition costs, a flexible platform and enterprise functionality
Yes. In addition to all the languages supported by Microsoft Office Project 2003, Office Project 2007 adds full support for Arabic and Hebrew. In addition to the client being Unicode enabled, Office Project 2007 supports Unicode for desktop client-to-server communications and delivers full Multilingual User Interface (MUI) compliance.
If you purchased Software Assurance on Project 2003, you will receive similar future versions of Project for the lifetime of your Software Assurance agreement. The specific software packaging options for the next release of the Microsoft Office system have not been determined at this time.
Yes, though details remain to be determined. The technology guarantee will give automatic upgrade rights to users who acquire software within a set time period (to be determined) prior to launch.
When you change a project, all affected tasks can be automatically highlighted (for example, dependencies and summary task). The highlights reflect only the most recent change.
Users can create customer reports or archive Office Project Standard 2007 or Office Project Professional 2007 values with data exported from Office Project 2007 into a Microsoft Office Access 2007 database and OLAP cubes. Five cubes are generated: Task Time Phased, Task Non-Time Phased, Resource Time Phased, Resource Non-Time Phased and Assignment Time Phased.
You can reverse your most recent series of changes (that is, undo and redo changes) to views, data and options. This functionality also enables undo actions or sets of actions from macros or compliant third-party extensions.
This pane appears to the left of the table portion of the view. It shows prerequisite tasks and resource constraints that drive the start data of the selected task. You can click these drivers to link to relevant information.
This means a manager can define a budget at a high level (program or project) so the project manager can allocate funds and track costs against the budget.
The plan of record is to try to support the same system requirements for each edition of Project. The plan of record is for Office Project Standard 2007 hardware requirements to remain the same. View the Project system requirements.
The plan of record is for Office Project Standard 2007 hardware requirements to remain the same.
The clients and server for Office Project 2007 are built on top of, and use, the Windows platform and will continue to do so for Windows Vista. Microsoft expects to continue enriching Windows infrastructure investments, like XML, ASP.NET and Web Parts. Customers and developers can develop and deploy Office Project 2007 today, knowing that those investments will be carried forward with additional customer value when Windows Vista comes to market.
No, they remain unchanged. Office Project 2007 adds substantial new capabilities in addition to these legacy reports, with Visual Reports on the desktop.
Yes, it is called Cost Resources. It helps you more accurately monitors Project financials by assigning multiple costs to a task, tying costs to account codes and rolling up costs against budgets. Additionally, the costs are not tied to the work contours, so changing the percent complete or end date of the task will not affect Cost Resources.
Material resources are expected to tie directly to the work contour. Cost Resources should be independent from the work contour and don't accrue in the same fashion as material resources.
After launch, the Project Resource Kit will include guides on configuration, security, administration and more.A documentation including summaries and links to information about planning, developing and deploying solutions based on Project is available at Microsoft Office Developer Center for Project
Microsoft has a large and diverse community of experienced solution providers that will be ready to help you after the Project conference. Locate a Project solution provider.
