Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that helps your organization realize its potential by identifying, selecting, and delivering a set of investments that best align with your business strategy. The top 10 ways Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 can help you gain visibility, insight, and control across your project, program, and application portfolios are:

Automate and enforce governance processes.
Define multiple workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle — from proposal to post-implementation.


Employ best practice methods.
Use out-of-the-box templates and embedded best practice methodologies to more effectively manage project, program, and application portfolios across the organization.


Capture all investments within a central repository.
Consolidate business and information technology (IT) investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility, insight, and control. Flexible configuration forms help administrators quickly build and publish templates, standardizing and streamlining the collection of data for all portfolios.


Objectively prioritize business strategy.
Employ proven techniques to define and prioritize your organization’s business strategy for the upcoming planning period.


Effectively prioritize and evaluate competing investments.
Utilize best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores — such as strategic value, financial value, and risk — and develop investment maps to effectively evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions.


Optimize budget and align selected investments with the business strategy.
Run optimization what-if scenarios to identify tradeoffs and select the optimal portfolio under varying budgetary and business constraints that best aligns with your organization’s business strategy.


Reach the Efficient Frontier.
Take advantage of advanced portfolio analytical techniques — for example, insight analysis — to identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier.


Measure and track portfolio performance.
Monitor the performance of each investment to help ensure you realize the forecasted benefits. Reoptimize the portfolio in accordance with your governance process to help maintain continuous alignment with your organization’s business strategy.


Benefit from tight integration with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
Quickly deploy world-class portfolio analytical techniques that are tightly integrated with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, providing your organization an end-to-end project portfolio management solution.


Consolidate and analyze projects across federated Microsoft Office Project Servers.
Link federated Microsoft Office Project servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to consolidate all projects within an enterprise repository, helping you to quickly gain visibility, insight, and control across all project portfolios.



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