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In a competitive business climate, your organization's ability to efficiently align resources and business activities with strategic objectives can mean the difference between succeeding and just surviving. To achieve strategic alignment, organizations are increasingly managing their activities and processes as projects—In essence, projectizing their business—to monitor performance more closely and make better business decisions about their overall work portfolio. By planning and tracking projects with clarity and precision, organizations can respond with greater agility to the demands of a fast-changing business environment.Microsoft® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies facilitate easy, connected collaboration throughout an organization. By using the combined collaboration features of Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint Services and the enterprise portal site capabilities of Microsoft® Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003, organizations can enable users to create and manage their own rich and easy-to-build SharePoint sites—and then enable the entire organization to organize, discover, and profit from these sites.
- Enterprise resource management
- Web-based time and status reporting
- Web-based views of portfolio and project performance and data
- Portfolio analysis and modeling
- Customization and integration with Line-of-Business (LOB) systems
Business Challenge
Project Server is the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is ideal for organizations that need strong coordination and standardization between projects, centralized resource management, or higher-level reporting about projects and resources. The EPM Solution integrates leading products, technologies, and services into a customizable solution designed to meet your unique business challenges
Solution
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution is built on a flexible platform that can be customized to support your existing processes and integrate with your line-of-business systems, so you can get the most out of your current technology investments. With the Microsoft Office EPM Solution, your entire organization can work together to continually improve processes, increase efficiency, and facilitate knowledge sharing, driving a sustainable return on your investment.Personal site strategy
- Manage Projects as a Collective Portfolio for Better Decision-Making
- Optimize Resources Across Your Organization for Sustained Competence
- Strengthen Collaboration Across the Enterprise for Improved Productivity
We will work with you on what is typically a three- or four-week engagement to implement a Project Server solution focused on delivering achievable benefits to the organisation and a rapid return on investment.
Business Benefits
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution provides you with powerful resource management capabilities to assist you in achieving the greatest return on your investment in your employees.
- Better assess resource efficiency and activity across projects by accurately and consistently tracking resource use and workload.
- Assemble high-performing project teams using staffing tools that help your organization optimize resource allocation and assignments from a central resource pool.
- Effectively determine hiring needs by forecasting short- and long-term resource capacity and project demands.sites.
Microsoft Project Server 2003 is designed as a true Enterprise Program/Project Management tool. Numerous companies have benefited from our total solution approach, and it will bring everything you need to your organization to ensure success in Project Server implementation and adoption.
VTL team will provide technical solutions to Enterprise Project Management includes the following areas of practice in addition to customized services for specific industries and business functions:
- Deployment Consulting
- Assessment & Planning
- Training
- Installation & Configuration
- Mentoring
- Customization - Line of Business (LOB) Integration with enterprise systems
- Business Value Analysis
- Support Project Server Hosting
EPM Solutions is continually evaluating and incorporating new technologies and services into our solutions – ensuring our customers benefit from the value-added solutions and get more from their EPM implementation.
Our team will prototype a solution on the new platform, building on the discovery and useability work. The engagement will produce the following deliverables:
- Introductory workshop - We gather information regarding current project practices, identifying sources of information and working with potential users to define working best practices and scenarios
- Installation and Configuration - In a development environment, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2000,Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Microsoft Project Server 2003 and Microsoft Project Web Access are all installed and configured. All required Service Packs and patches are also applied. Microsoft Project Professional 2003 is set up for all required clients
- Documentation and Testing - Documentation of the technical implementation for the prototype and all testing is conducted and completed
- Deployment - Once testing is completed Microsoft Project Server 2003 is deployed and there is ongoing review and planning to develop best-practice project management