Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)

Microsoft PPM Summit

Microsoft PPM provides a comprehensive solution for collaborative work, project, portfolio and resource management in the cloud.
Available anywhere on any device, it provides appropriate tools at all levels of your organization.

Actions and Insights for Everyone

Enhance productivity by providing every person in your organization
the most relevant capabilities and insights – whether it is a business
leader, portfolio manager, project manager or a team member.

Get Started Quickly

• Visual tiles identify important steps and provide a simple guide for you and your
organization to begin (or hone) project portfolio management capabilities.
• Project templates pre-populated with the right items (documents, tasks, calendars
etc.) for common types of projects.
• At-a-glance view of upcoming milestones, timeline of the entire project, list of late
tasks, and other relevant project information.

Cater to All Audience

• Summary dashboards to help portfolio managers glean insights and make better
portfolio level decisions.
• Enhanced multiple timelines enable project managers to view and communicate
project status with drill-down capability.
• Improved time and task management for team members so organizations have
greater visibility into recorded time for project or non-project work.

Make Data-driven Decisions

• Wide variety of pre-built, yet easily configurable OOB reports.
• Powerful business intelligence with flexible tools such as Excel PowerView, SSIS/SSRS
or Power BI (with natural language queries) to help your organization gain valuables
insights into projects, programs and portfolios.
• Standard OData interface enables you to quickly aggregate project and portfolio
data with other LOB systems for advanced reporting and/or LOB integration.

“With Microsoft PPM in the cloud, we have one tool for selecting, launching, managing,
and monitoring our IT project portfolio across the world. My team is saving 40 hours a
month creating reports.”
CAROLYN BUNDEY, MANAGER, GLOBAL IT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT OFFICE, ARUP
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Optimize Portfolio Outcomes

and Resource Utilization
Align portfolio investments with your strategic priorities and effectively
manage resources across the organization.

Align Vision and Effort

• Structured options to manage a project's progression or rejection through each stage.
• Helps organizations select optimal project portfolios in line with business strategy, by
providing best-in-class portfolio techniques.
• Run portfolio optimization scenarios under varying budgetary constraints, and maximize
resource utilization.

Effectively Manage Resources

• Project managers can systematically request resources from resource managers during
planning using their favorite tool - Project Professional or Project Pro for Office 365.
• Intuitive heat maps enable resource managers to better manage and forecast the
utilization of their resource pools.

“With Microsoft PPM in the cloud, we are able to continuously implement the right proj-
ects that align with Cascades business strategy and then execute those projects efficiently.”
ALAIN SIMARD, PROJECT CONTROL OFFICER, PORTFOLIO AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT, CASCADES CANADA

Strengthen Everyday
Collaboration
Benefit from contextual communication and sharing among all
members of the organization

Real-time Project Collaboration

• Enables teams to plan, schedule, and manage tasks more effectively in the browser
itself—keeping everyone updated of overall progress.
• Enables project teams to stay in sync by providing real-time co-authoring of project
documents by team-members.
• Built-in integration with Skype for Business, enables real-time conversations between
project participants.
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Seamlessly Communicate
• Add enterprise social capabilities such as Yammer newsfeed to your project sites to
facilitate discussions and information sharing.

• The search capabilities in Office 365 and OneDrive for Business enable you to find the
right information in the right context of everyday work and projects.

• Get a user experience consistent with widely used Office applications and easily
transfer data to and from them.

Work Anytime Anywhere

Experience connected, reliable and secure PPM experience
across devices

Access from Virtually Anywhere

• Extend your PPM experience to multiple devices, keeping you up-to-date while you’re
on the go.

• Work with a browser of your choice - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome to
view, edit, submit, and collaborate on project, portfolio, and everyday work.

• Project Pro for Office 365 streams the latest version of Project to your PC when
needed, providing quick access with robust security to your latest plans and roaming
personal settings.

Simplified IT Management
• Requires no upfront infrastructure costs and provides flexible service plans, resulting in
predictable monthly costs and an easy deployment.

• Separates functionality for IT and PMO, enabling IT to easily subscribe and set up
service while PMO focuses on managing business attributes, templates, and workflows.

• Enhanced Active Directory synchronization, enabling you to add resources quickly

and reliably.

• Utilize Office 365 Store to extend core PPM functionality through partner solutions.
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Based on World Class Office 365 Cloud

• Supported across a variety of special multi-tenant deployments such as Government
community cloud, Office 365 Dedicated among others.

• Offers enterprise-grade reliability with 99.9% financially-backed uptime Service

Level Agreement.

• Office 365 complies with world class industry standards verified by 3rd parties: certified
for ISO 27001, EU Model Clauses, HIPAA-Business Associate Agreement, Data
Processing Agreement, and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

• Offers continuous data back-up, disaster recovery, and globally redundant

data centers.

Try Microsoft PPM Today

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