Description
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 helps your organization realize its potential by identifying, selecting, managing and delivering portfolios that align with your strategic priorities. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a key component of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and helps ensure that you gain visibility, insight and control across your project, program and application portfolios.
Key Features:
* Automate and enforce PPM governance processes
An intuitive workflow designer helps you quickly define and automate your project portfolio management (PPM) governance processes.
- Define workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle;
- Employ best practice methods and use out-of-the-box templates to effectively manage all project, program, and application portfolios.
* Consolidate and standardize data collection
Customize forms to streamline and standardize the collection of data for each investment across your organization.
- Define templates to standardize the collection of data and metrics for each investment project, program, and application;
- Consolidate all investments in a central repository to help ensure executives gain visibility, insight, and control across the entire portfolio;
- Capture all project requests and develop detailed business cases in accordance with your organizations governance processes.
* Prioritize and effectively evaluate competing investments
Use best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores and develop intuitive charts to help you effectively evaluate the competing investments from varying angles.
- Objectively define and prioritize your organizations business strategy;
- Automatically derive prioritization scores such as strategic value, financial value, risk, architectural fit, and operational performance to objectively assess projects, programs, and applications;
- Use prioritization scores to build intuitive charts to effectively evaluate the competing investments within the portfolio.
* Select portfolios that best align with your business strategy
Optimize and select portfolios that best align with your organizations strategic priorities. The interface is easy to use, and embedded best practice methods and analytical techniques help ensure you select the right investments for your business.
- Employ sophisticated optimization algorithms to select the optimal portfolio under varying budget constraints, such as costs and full-time equivalents (FTE);
- Identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier;
- Automatically calculate the portfolios alignment with your organizations business strategy;
- Enforce a rational rather than emotional approach to selecting portfolios.
* Manage portfolio performance effectively
Measure and track the performance of each investment throughout its life cycle to help ensure you realize the forecasted benefits.
- Create multiple portfolio scorecards to manage and track the active portfolios;
- Drill down from the portfolio level to view the latest status report for each investment;
- Complete periodic status reports to measure performance of a project, program, or application over time;
- Use flexible report generators to create and publish templates to standardize and streamline reporting across the organization.
System Requirements:
* Supported OS: Windows Server 2003;Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1;Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2;Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2008;Windows Server 2008 Datacenter;Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V;Windows Server 2008 Enterprise;Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V;Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems;Windows Server 2008 Standard;Windows Small Business Server 2003
Component Requirements:
* Computer and processor 700 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher;
* Memory 512 megabyte (MB) of RAM or higher;
* Hard disk 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive;
* Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive;
* Display Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor recommended.
Key Features:
* Automate and enforce PPM governance processes
An intuitive workflow designer helps you quickly define and automate your project portfolio management (PPM) governance processes.
- Define workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle;
- Employ best practice methods and use out-of-the-box templates to effectively manage all project, program, and application portfolios.
* Consolidate and standardize data collection
Customize forms to streamline and standardize the collection of data for each investment across your organization.
- Define templates to standardize the collection of data and metrics for each investment project, program, and application;
- Consolidate all investments in a central repository to help ensure executives gain visibility, insight, and control across the entire portfolio;
- Capture all project requests and develop detailed business cases in accordance with your organizations governance processes.
* Prioritize and effectively evaluate competing investments
Use best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores and develop intuitive charts to help you effectively evaluate the competing investments from varying angles.
- Objectively define and prioritize your organizations business strategy;
- Automatically derive prioritization scores such as strategic value, financial value, risk, architectural fit, and operational performance to objectively assess projects, programs, and applications;
- Use prioritization scores to build intuitive charts to effectively evaluate the competing investments within the portfolio.
* Select portfolios that best align with your business strategy
Optimize and select portfolios that best align with your organizations strategic priorities. The interface is easy to use, and embedded best practice methods and analytical techniques help ensure you select the right investments for your business.
- Employ sophisticated optimization algorithms to select the optimal portfolio under varying budget constraints, such as costs and full-time equivalents (FTE);
- Identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier;
- Automatically calculate the portfolios alignment with your organizations business strategy;
- Enforce a rational rather than emotional approach to selecting portfolios.
* Manage portfolio performance effectively
Measure and track the performance of each investment throughout its life cycle to help ensure you realize the forecasted benefits.
- Create multiple portfolio scorecards to manage and track the active portfolios;
- Drill down from the portfolio level to view the latest status report for each investment;
- Complete periodic status reports to measure performance of a project, program, or application over time;
- Use flexible report generators to create and publish templates to standardize and streamline reporting across the organization.
System Requirements:
* Supported OS: Windows Server 2003;Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86);Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1;Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2;Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86);Windows Server 2008;Windows Server 2008 Datacenter;Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V;Windows Server 2008 Enterprise;Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V;Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems;Windows Server 2008 Standard;Windows Small Business Server 2003
Component Requirements:
* Computer and processor 700 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher;
* Memory 512 megabyte (MB) of RAM or higher;
* Hard disk 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive;
* Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive;
* Display Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor recommended.