Project Portfolio Management

 

Applies to: Office 365

Microsoft Project Online and Microsoft Project Server 2013 include Project Web App, which offers a flexible online or on-premises solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work.

Active Directory integration

Manage user credentials and permissions from one central location.

Service reliability

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Administration, Deployment, and Extensibility

When vetting 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. Learn more about what’s new for IT pros in Project Server 2013.

Service updates

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Getting Started

Project enables your organization to quickly start projects, prioritize project portfolio investments, and deliver results with the intended business value. Learn more about getting started with Project Online.

Project On Demand

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Demand Management

Help your organization gain visibility into projects, operational activities, and everyday work. Standardize and streamline project initiation while improving decision-making and subjecting initiatives to the appropriate governance controls throughout their life cycles.

Portfolio Analytics and 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 combine value optimization and resource utilization. Together you can not only recommend which projects to undertake, but also forecast when projects can be delivered.

Resource Management

Proper management and optimal use of resources is very important 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. Learn more about adding a resource to Project Web App.

Schedule Management

The schedule represents the tasks and deliverables that must 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 make sure that each project is delivered within budget and that the portfolio realizes the forecasted benefits.

Time and Task Management

Use 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 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 timeframe. Learn more about tracking time and task progress.

Collaboration

In traditional project management, the 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. Learn more about SharePoint task lists in Project Web App.

Issues 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. Learn more about using Excel 2013 to create a new Project Web App report.

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 techniques that provide a program initiation and selection framework before breaking down the program into its underlying projects.

Project and Portfolio Management Partner Ecosystem

Microsoft PPM solution is backed by hundreds of Microsoft Partners who earned PPM Competency, undergone relevant exams and numerous deployments in over 80 countries world-wide. When help is needed with assessment, envisioning, deployment or training and you are ready to engage with Professional Services organizations—reach out to a PPM partner in your region.

Project Portfolio Management features

Feature

Project Server 2010 with Project Professional 2010

Project Server 2013 with Project Professional 2013

Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365

Project Lite

Active Directory integration

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Service reliability

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Office 365 Trust Center

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Administration, Deployment, and Extensibility

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Service updates

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Getting Started

No

Yes

Yes

No

Project On Demand

No

No

Yes

Yes

Demand Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Portfolio Analytics & Selection

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Resource Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Schedule Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Financial Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Time and Task Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Collaboration

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Issues and Risk Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Reporting and Business Intelligence

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Program Management

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Project and Portfolio Management Partner Ecosystem

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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