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Project Server

Microsoft Project Server is a flexible, on-premise solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. As part of SharePoint (licensed separately), Project Server enables team members, project participants, and business decision makers to get started quickly, prioritize project portfolio investments, and deliver the intended business value from virtually anywhere.

Key features:

• Getting started
  Project enables your organization to quickly start projects, prioritize project portfolio investments, and deliver results with the intended business value.
• Anywhere access
  Be productive from virtually any device from nearly anywhere.
• Work management
  Easily manage and collaborate on work as a team without the structure of a project, but have visibility into the work for planning and reporting purposes.
• Demand management
  Gain visibility into projects, operational activities and everyday work. Streamline project initiation and progression by applying appropriate governance and control.
• Portfolio analytics & selection
  Effectively identify, select, and deliver project portfolios that best align with your organization’s business strategy and maximize ROI.
• Resource management
  Deliver results with your workforce today and plan for the future to manage surplus and de?cits across a planning horizon.
• Schedule management
  Deliver the project on time with a map for execution and delivery framework to tracking progress and managing change.
• Financial management
  Adopt financial management processes and effectively track cost performance to ensure delivery within budget and that the portfolio realizes the forecasted benefits.
• Time and task management
  Utilize a centralized and common approach to time reporting and task management.
• Collaboration
  Strengthen team collaboration and improve project success with enterprise social capabilities, easy communication with instant messaging, team sites and other easy-to-use collaboration capabilities.
• Issue and risk management
  Prevent, identify, and mitigate potential business or project-related risks and issues.
• Reporting and business intelligence
  Collect, categorize, understand, and make decisions about project data. Utilize business intelligence (BI) to provide visibility and decision support to proactively manage projects, programs and portfolios.
• Program management
  Deliver the forecasted benefits of the overall program and across underlying in-flight projects with the additional benefit of establishing and utilizing techniques that provide a program initiation and selection framework.
• Governance
  Easily create workflows in Visio and SharePoint Designer without coding to standardize project progression or rejection and improve governance and control.
• Extensibility
  Install Apps from the SharePoint Store to meet your business needs, easily write custom Apps and integrate with line of business systems.
• Active Directory integration
  Manage user credentials and permissions.
• Administration
  Easy to use and control. You can add and remove users in minutes. Use PowerShell for creating custom scripts and automating processes.
• Support
  Plans for 24/7 phone support for advanced IT issues. Microsoft community support provides online answers, how-to resources, and connections with other Project customers.
• Project and Portfolio Management Partner ecosystem
  Microsoft PPM solution is backed by hundreds of Microsoft Partners who earned the PPM Competency, undergone relevant exams and conducted 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.