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Shanoop Krishnan

Solution Specialist - Project

Microsoft India

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)

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Project & Portfolio Management Value Proposition

2

Executive alignment on

strategy

Management of risks and

resources

Investment guidance to

maximize ROI

Quick, objective decision-

making

Enhanced visibility and

communications

Customer Needs

Maximize resources

utilization. action wherever

you need.

Immediately communicate

with others project

participants.

Execute strategic priorities

Reduce costs with

collaborative decision making

Keep your business secure

and reliable

Benefits RealizedOur SolutionMicrosoft introduces flexible online PPM

and client subscription services to achieve

strategic priorities and manage tactical

project execution and everyday work.

Built on SharePoint, Project provides new

choices for teams, departments, and large

organizations to adopt lightweight or

rigorous approaches to PPM.

More secure and reliable service delivered

through Microsoft Office 365 or enhanced

on-premises performance and management

options reduce IT complexity while helping

all types of people, including those with

limited PPM experience, to get started,

define, and prioritize project portfolio

investments and deliver with the intended

business value.

The Microsoft philosophy

Comprehensive Toolset Devices Cloud & On-Premises

A comprehensive set of tools delivered to almost any device through cloud or on-premises

ProjectA user added every 20 seconds Used in over 10,000 organizations Leader in various analyst reports

Over 20 million users of Project…

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Collaboration & Reporting

Manage

Portfoliomanagement

Select

Demand management

Create

Work Planning

Plan

End-to-End Project & Portfolio Management

Solution/Proof: Solution Schematic

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Utilize a smarter PPM solution

Get started quickly with a familiar experience that

improves participation and helps teams get more done

Use the new visual tiles in Project Web App (PWA) to

quickly begin or flex project portfolio management

capabilities.

Choose between devices and browsers – Internet

Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and more – to view,

edit, submit, and collaborate on project, portfolio, and

everyday work.

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Stay up to date everywhere with

Project Web Apps (PWA)

See and act on your tasks (including business and

personal) in one location.

Effectively plan and manage tasks in PWA with the help

of new scheduling capabilities.

Keep your teams organized in one location – their

project site – where they can view project summaries,

documents, tasks, newsfeeds and calendars.



Flexible project management

Align vision and effort to prioritize initiatives, select

optimal project portfolios, and deliver on your business

strategy.

Effectively evaluate ideas or measure the strategic

contribution of competing requests to determine

alignments and streamline project initiation.

Easily create workflows in Visio and SharePoint Designer

to standardize project progression or rejection and

improve governance and control.


Manage resources effectively

See what your teams are doing – even when they’re managing

everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint.

Better manage your project pipeline and what your people are

working on by capturing your team’s ideas in SharePoint task

lists and measuring them in PWA.

Accurately measure resource utilization and better manage

resource allocation that aligns with your strategy.

Seamlessly flow information from team member calendars in

Exchange to Project Server 2013, simplifying project scheduling

and task status updates while enhancing task-sharing

capabilities.



Strengthen everyday collaboration

With the social experiences of SharePoint, which facilitate

discussions, information sharing, and your team’s ability to get

work done.

Easily share and curate what teams are talking about and

working on by following people, sites, tags, and documents

with newsfeeds.

Utilize the search capabilities of SharePoint to execute everyday

work and projects more effectively and find the right

information.

Take advantage of powerful security features to share

information and collaborate with trusted business partners on

projects and everyday work.



Communicate with project team

easily

Seamlessly communicate with new ways to share

conversations across time and space to improve overall

teamwork.

Hover over an individual’s name in your project plan to

see if a team member is available to talk or instant

message (IM) with Skype for Business.

Collaborate with your team quickly by dragging and

dropping them into a Skype for Business meeting for

group conferencing, instant messaging, screen sharing,

and shared workspaces.



Make data driven decisions

Equip team members and stakeholders with the

information they need to stay informed and effective.

Optimize utilization and plan allocation for your

organizations resource requirements through the

resource center in PWA.

Use summary dashboards to help gain insights and make

better decisions.

Quickly mine and aggregate data on many dimensions

via self-service access with Excel Services.


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