What’s New in Project Server
Microsoft Project Server brings together the business collaboration platform services of Microsoft® SharePoint Server with structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Project Server unifies project and portfolio management to help organizations align resources and investments with business priorities, gain control across all types of work, and visualize performance through powerful dashboards.

Unified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)
In Project, the best-of-breed portfolio management techniques of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 are included in Project Server, providing a single server with end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities.
- Familiar SharePoint user interface throughout the solution.
- Common data store eliminating the need for the Project Server Gateway.
- Intuitive and simplified administration.
- Localized portfolio selection capabilities.
- Comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) including both project and portfolio capabilities.

Built on SharePoint Server
Project Server is built on top of SharePoint Server, bringing together the powerful business collaboration platform services and structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Gain additional value from the Microsoft platform.
- Take advantage of the Business Intelligence platform to easily create reports and powerful dashboards.
- Control document review and approval through workflow.
- Enterprise search makes it easy to find people and effectively mine project data (resources, tasks, documents etc.).
- Connect teams and enhance communication with wikis, blogs, discussion forums and My Sites.

Project Initiation & Business Case Development
Project Server provides a new demand management module to capture all work from simple tasks to complex projects and programs.
- Develop and deploy effective governance workflows to manage project investments throughout their lifecycle and drive accountability and control.
- Define Enterprise Project Types for all requests and associate with workflow, a project plan and a custom workspace template.
- Standardize data collection through configurable business case forms. Capture project information, cost estimates, resource estimates, strategic alignment assessments and more.
- Display relevant Enterprise Project Types for each line of business using departmental fields.

Portfolio Selection
Project Server helps organizations select project portfolios that align with their business strategy by providing techniques to prioritize competing requests, run optimization scenarios under varying budgetary constraints and maximize resource utilization across the planning horizon.

Business Strategy Prioritization
- Objectively prioritize business drivers and drive consensus across the executive team.
- Intuitive and visual interface for completing the business driver prioritization assessment.

Enhanced Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI)
Experience the strength and depth of Microsoft Business Intelligence platform. Gain transparency and control with Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, PowerPivot for Excel andSQL Reporting Services.
- Get started quickly with predefined best practice and localized report templates in the new Business Intelligence Center.
- Intuitively customize reports in a familiar Excel editor and publish through Excel Services.
- Simply create powerful audience-based dashboards to effectively monitor portfolio performance.
- Satisfy line of business reporting requirements with Departmental Cubes. Allow decision makers to focus on their data, eliminate unnecessary clutter and ensure faster cube build times.

Simplified Administration
- Project Permissions – Empower project managers to control who can view or edit their projects with Project Permissions.
- User Delegation – Enhanced delegation enables users to easily specify colleagues to act as their delegate when on vacation, without assistance from the administrator.
- Departmental Fields – Provide a level of autonomy while maintaining enterprise standardization and control. With Departmental Fields administrators can associate Enterprise Project Types, Resources and Custom Fields to specific departments, eliminating unnecessary clutter and allowing departments to focus on their data.
- Centralized Administration – One stop administration console for managing both project and portfolio management capabilities.
- Administer Reporting Cubes – Enhanced administration interface for displaying the status and managing available cubes. Quickly take action and intuitively add, edit, delete, copy and refresh cubes.

Extend Interoperability
Integration with related Microsoft technologies provides a familiar and connected work management platform. Empower teams to wor

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