Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: Overview

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Learn: What is New for Office Project Server 2007 How Office Project Server 2007 Addresses Pain Points Found in the Current Version Agenda: What is Office Project Server 2007? How Microsoft Solve Current Version Pain Points Investment Areas Overview

What is Office Project Server 2007?

Key Component of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution Project, Program, Portfolio Management Centralized Resource Management Enterprise Business Intelligence Collaboration

The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution Today

Easily Create Enterprise Project Plans

Line of Business Systems

Project Documents,
Issues/Risks & Tasks

More Productive Projects

Get more from your

IT Investments

Centrally Store Projects,
Resources & Reporting

Team Participation

User Feedback - The Growing Pains

Project Desktop behavior is hard to understand Latency-sensitive client 00/font> WAN issues Peak arrival rates cause problems Infrastructure is visibly complex Troubleshooting is time consuming Customization is expensive and hard Reporting isn't fully "joined up" Data extraction is hard

Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution Key Areas

Align all work with your strategic objectives

Enable faster and
broader adoption

Easily integrate and automate your processes

Scale to support
distributed organizations

In 2007, an Enterprise Solution

Timesheet

Reporting

Resource Plans

Data Warehouse

Security

Event/Notifications

Task Assignment

Scheduling

Budgeting

Capabilities

Portfolio Selection

Portfolio Gov

LOB:

ERP CRM

Platform

Front-

end

Services

Capabilities

Easier to Get Started
Enable faster and broader adoption

Features

Scenario

Deep 2007 Office System Integration Visual Reports Outlook Add-in

Integrate with familiar
end-user tools

Share best practices and
accelerate use

Project Guide Enterprise Templates

Simplify resource planning

Resource Substitution Wizard Build Team

Online help and training

Smart Tags Assistance Center
Microsoft Office Online Help Pane
Microsoft SharePoint Based Projects Microsoft SharePoint Task Lists Promotion to Project Server

Simplify Task Scheduling,
Project Creation

Beta software screenshots

Communication and Collaboration
Project Management in Windows SharePoint Services

Project Task List in SharePoint sites for ad-hoc projects

Promote to Project Server

Gantt
Chart

Simple List of Tasks and Dependencies

Connect to Teams

Beta software screenshots

Communicate Results: Visual Reports

Beta software screenshots

Create library of custom reports

Integration with
Microsoft Office System

New User Interface
Collaboration
Visual Reports

Visibility and Insights
Align all work with your strategic objectives

Analytics for end-users with
Microsoft Office tools

Project Center Visual Reports PWA Portfolio Analyzer
Budget Tracking Cost Resources Multi Currency

Financial control

Cube Building Service Reporting Data Service

Enterprise reports with
Microsoft SQL Server

Reporting Wizard Enterprise Reports PWA Proposals

Organizational visibility

Operations Work Resource Plans

Microsoft Portfolio Server (UMT)

Builder Optimizer Dashboard
Change Highlighting Task Drivers

Transparent scheduling

Background Cell Highlighting Multiple Level Undo

Features

Scenario

Multiple Level Undo

Beta software screenshots

Select set of actions to Undo

Transparent Scheduling

Beta software screenshots

Improved

Gantt bars

Task

Drivers

Background cell formatting

Top down budgets

Financial analytics

Beta software screenshots

Control Finances

Microsoft Office

SQL Server

Portal

(Microsoft SharePoint)

End-user Analysis

(Microsoft Office)

Team and

End User

Tools

Scalable Reports

(Reporting Services)

Organizational

Tool

Business Performance

(Business Scorecard Manager)

Data Warehouse

(SQL Database Management System)

Integrate

(Integrated Services)

Analyze

(Analysis Services)

Platform

Report

(SQL Server Reporting Services)

Microsoft00 BI Framework
Complete, accessible, designed for broad usage

Risks

Issues

Deliverables

WSS

Project

OLAP

Database

Timesheet

Microsoft Office Enterprise
Project Management Timesheet

Timesheet

Project Non Timephased

Assignment Non Timephased

Task Non Timephased

Resource Non Timephased

Assignment Timephased

Resource Timephased

Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management

Project Server 2007 OLAP Cubes

Project Client Enhancements
Project Web Access
Reporting

Features

Scenario

Enterprise Ready
Scale to support distributed and larger organizations

Better support for WAN and
offline scenarios

Active Cache Server Side-queue
Programs Deliverables Custom Fields

Support for larger, more
complex projects

Timesheets

Enable time tracking for all work

Assignment Owner Resource Contract

Resource Management

Centralized Administration Easier Installation & Deployment

Enterprise Deployment & Operations

Project Server 2007 Architecture

Server

Eventing

System

Server

Queuing

System

Draft

Published

Reporting

Archive

Project
Server Platform

PSI

Microsoft Office Project

Professional 2007

Microsoft Internet

Explorer 6

Web

Services

UI Tier

HTTP/SOAP

SOAP

Cache

Project Web Access

Project Client Local Cache

Microsoft Project Pro reads/writes to cache Cache service sends differences to/from
Project Server Differences sent as SOAP messages Messages are transacted Results Project Pro performs as if opening or saving a
file = FAST! Cache synchs to server as available = JUST WORKS! Messages are transacted = RELIABLE! All messages are over HTTP = SECURE!

Updates on Project Server 2007

Update via Project Server 2007 or PWA View submitted actuals Preview impact on project schedule Server-side Scheduling Server-Side Formula Field Updates Notifications of updates on project open

Deployment Topologies

Standalone Small Farm Medium Farm Large Farm Extranet Hosting

Administration
Server Scheduling

Extensible and Programmable
Easily integrate and automate processes

Features

Scenario

Rich development &
integration possibilities

ASP.NET ADO.NET
Eventing Service Windows Workflow Foundation

Workflow and business process integration

User Interface Customization

Microsoft SharePoint Web parts Microsoft SharePoint Templates
Project Server interface (PSI) Server side Scheduling

Integration

AD Synch Microsoft Operations Manager
(MOM) 2005 Pack PWA Server Settings

Project Server 2007 Programmability

New Server API Web Services Server Side Events Reporting Database Server Scheduling Engine Windows Sharepoint Services Platform Continued support for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications in Project Professional

Microsoft Office Project Server Interface (PSI)

New server API 00replaces Project Data
Service (PDS) Web Services Full Functionality Eventing Model Managed code (.NET Framework 2.0) Uses Datasets Intellisense Strong Types

Customizing the Project
Server Interface

Built on Windows SharePoint Services V3 ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts: Usable in WSS and in non-WSS ASP.NET 2.0 applications SharePoint Web Parts: Client side scripting & connections Web Part data caching Work Item infrastructure Where possible, build on base ASP.NET 2.0
Web Part model

A lot of improvements have been made

There00 a lot you can do with this

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