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Enterprise Project & Program Management

The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution allows you to effectively manage and prioritize projects and resources across your organization.

Microsoft designed the Enterprise Project Management Solution for organizations needing strategic portfolio capabilities, strong team coordination, standardization in managing projects and programs, centralized resource management, as well as high-level analysis and reporting.

Project provides a central repository of project and resource information so that organizations can consistently manage and report across the enterprise.

Top 10 benefits of using Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 in your organization

Automate and enforce governance processes.
Define multiple workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle-from proposal to post-implementation.

Enterprise Project Management Solution

Employ best practice methods.
Use out-of-the-box templates-such as a business driver library or risk assessments-and embedded best practice methodologies to more effectively manage project, program, and application portfolios across the organization.

Capture all investments within a central repository.
Consolidate business and IT investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility, insight, and control. Flexible configuration forms help administrators quickly build and publish templates, standardizing and streamlining the collection of data for all portfolios.

Objectively prioritize business strategy.
Employ proven techniques to define and prioritize your organization's business strategy for the upcoming planning period.

Effectively prioritize and evaluate competing investments.
Use best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores-such as strategic value, financial value, and risk-and develop investment maps to effectively evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions.

Optimize budget and align selected investments with business strategy.
Run optimization what-if scenarios to identify tradeoffs and select the optimal portfolio under varying budgetary and business constraints that best aligns with your organization's business strategy.

Reach the Efficient Frontier.
Take advantage of advanced portfolio analytical techniques-for example, insight analysis-to identify and break the constraints that can prohibit the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier.

Measure and track portfolio performance.
Monitor the performance of each investment to help ensure you realize the forecasted benefits. Reoptimize the portfolio in accordance with your governance process to help maintain continuous alignment with your organization 's business strategy.

Benefit from tight integration with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
Quickly deploy world-class portfolio analytical techniques that are tightly integrated with Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, providing your organization an end-to-end project portfolio management solution.

Consolidate and analyze projects across federated servers.
Link federated computers running Office Project Server 2007 to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to consolidate all projects within an enterprise repository, helping you to quickly gain visibility, insight, and control across all project portfolios.

Contact us today to learn more about our Enterprise Project & Program Management solutions.