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.
Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 integrates with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to provide organizations with an end-to-end project portfolio management solution. The bidirectional gateway enables administrators to link multiple Office Project Servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, providing executives with a consolidated view of all projects within the organization. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is optimized for enterprise and upper midmarket organizations that require portfolio analytical tools to improve decision-making and help ensure that selected portfolios align with the organization ’s strategic priorities. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 can help organizations to:
- Automate and standardize governance processes to subject projects to appropriate controls.
- Consolidate business and IT investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility and insight.
- Objectively evaluate and prioritize competing investments from multiple dimensions.
- Optimize budget utilization and select investments that best align with the organization ’s business strategy.
- Tightly integrate with Office Project Server 2007 to track the performance of each investment throughout its life cycle, from business case to benefits realization.
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.