MIcrosoft Portfolio Server

Microsoft Project Portfolio Server 2007 is designed to improve the way organisations select, approve, manage and coordinate projects. Portfolio Server 2007 integrates with Project Server 2007 through the use of a gateway interface. Portfolio Server ensures that your organisation will:

  • Objectively prioritise projects and competing investments
  • Maximise value with resources (money, man-power, time, etc.)
  • Align investments with business strategies
  • Approve investments subject to resource constraints
  • Ensure that the decision process is consistent and transparent, with high visibility and buy-in

Microsoft Project Server 2010 unifies the portfolio and project management functions and techniques of the separate 2007 products into a single platform that truly supports the complete, end-to-end project lifecycle.

Features include:

  • A single SharePoint user interface throughout the solution
  • Common data store eliminating the need for the Project Server Gateway
  • Intuitive and simplified administration
  • Localised portfolio selection capabilities
  • Comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) including both project and portfolio capabilities

The well-used project management adage says that if project management is about doing projects right then portfolio management is about doing the right projects.  If the correct projects are selected - based on defined processes and objective data - the result can be enviable portfolio of high-value projects: a portfolio that is properly balanced and, most importantly, supports the business strategy.

Microsoft Project 2010 was built with the business user in mind.  It uses advanced technology that provides end-users and project stakeholders with the ability to:

  • Identify and map key business drivers that encourage the concise definition of strategic goals and objectives for an organisation
  • Ensure project and program selection is an objective, data-driven process
  • Select, execute and manage the appropriate initiatives
  • Illustrate the value of PPM no matter what type or size of organisation