MS Project Server Versions Compared (PDF)

Version/Edition Comparison |

Included:

Improved:

A flexible online or on‐premises solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work.

New:

PPM 2007

PPM 2010

Project Server 2007+ Project Professional 2007+ Project Portfolio Server 2007

Most Recent PPM Release or Service

Project Server 2010+ Project Professional 2010

Project Server 2013+ Project Professional 2013

Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365

Getting Started • Project enables your organization to quickly start projects, prioritize project portfolio investments, and deliver results with the intended business value. Demand Management • Help your organization gain visibility into projects, operational activities, and everyday work. Standardize and streamline project initiation while enhancing decision making and subjecting initiatives to the appropriate governance controls throughout their life cycles. Portfolio Analytics & Selection • Effectively identify, select, and deliver project portfolios that best align with your organization’s business strategy and maximize ROI. Best practice portfolio selection techniques provide a handshake between value optimization and resource utilization. Together you can recommend not only which projects to undertake, but to forecast when projects can be delivered. Resource Management • Proper management and optimal use of resources is key for your organization to realize its business strategy. Deliver results with your current workforce and plan for the future to manage surplus and deficit skills across a planning horizon. Schedule Management • The schedule represents the tasks and deliverables that need to be completed to deliver the project on time. It provides your teams with a map for execution and delivers a framework for tracking progress and managing change. Financial Management • Adopt financial management processes to improve cost and benefit estimating. Effectively track cost performance to ensure that each project is delivered within budget and that the portfolio realizes the forecasted benefits.

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Version/Edition Comparison Included:

Improved:

New:

PPM 2007

PPM 2010

Project Server 2007+ Project Professional 2007+ Project Portfolio Server 2007

Most Recent PPM Release or Service

Project Server 2010+ Project Professional 2010

Project Server 2013+ Project Professional 2013

Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365

Time and Task Management • Utilize a centralized and common approach to time reporting and task management. Capture work and nonworking time for payroll, invoicing, and other business purposes. Efficiently communicate status on project tasks or everyday work, and ad hoc requests to gauge utilization peaks and valleys or progress on tasks to anticipate the effect on planned effort, cost, and timeframes. Collaboration • In traditional project management, focus has always been on project schedule, budget, work, scope, and the quality of deliverables. Team collaboration, however, is the backbone that supports and drives overall project success and execution effectiveness. Team collaboration has evolved from informal techniques into a recognized discipline that helps organizations more effectively find and share information. In turn, tools that support collaboration have evolved from the early concept of a shared server to the sophistication of solutions like Microsoft SharePoint. Issue and Risk Management • Prevent, identify, and mitigate potential business or project‐related risks and issues. Project delivery can be significantly affected if organizations do not adopt best‐practice risk and issue management processes to stay informed and in control. Reporting and Business Intelligence • With an immense amount of data located in a variety of systems, one of the great challenges organizations face is how to collect, categorize, understand, and make decisions about project data. Conventional reporting offers tools and methods for collecting, aggregating, displaying, and communicating data. Business Intelligence (BI) takes that concept to the next level by providing visibility and helping organizations with decision support for proactive work management. Program Management • Each project within a program has its own set of goals that when combined with each other deliver the forecasted benefits of the overall program. Derive visibility and control across underlying in‐flight projects and the additional benefit of establishing techniques that provide a program initiation and selection framework before breaking down the program into its underlying projects. Administration, Deployment, and Extensibility • When vetting Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions, evaluation committees assess competing products from a business perspective, and through an IT lens. PPM solutions must score well in both categories to be successful, to help ensure that the product’s functionality meets business requirements, aligns with the organization’s IT requirements, and integrates seamlessly with line‐of‐business applications. © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. | Page 2 of 2