Microsoft Project & Portfolio

Management (PPM)

Shanoop Krishnan
Solution Specialist - Project
Microsoft India

Project & Portfolio Management Value Proposition

Customer Needs

Our Solution

Benefits Realized

Executive alignment on
strategy

Microsoft introduces flexible online PPM

and client subscription services to achieve
strategic priorities and manage tactical
project execution and everyday work.

Maximize resources
utilization. action wherever
you need.

Built on SharePoint, Project provides new

choices for teams, departments, and large
organizations to adopt lightweight or
rigorous approaches to PPM.

Immediately communicate
with others project
participants.

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.

Execute strategic priorities

Management of risks and

resources
Investment guidance to
maximize ROI
Quick, objective decisionmaking
Enhanced visibility and
communications
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Reduce costs with

collaborative decision making
Keep your business secure
and reliable
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The Microsoft philosophy

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

Comprehensive Toolset

Devices

Cloud & On-Premises

Over 20 million users of Project

A user added every 20 seconds

Used in over 10,000 organizations

Leader in various analyst reports

Project

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End-to-End Project & Portfolio Management

Create

Select

Demand
management

Portfolio
management

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Plan

Manage

Work Planning

Collaboration &
Reporting

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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.

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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.

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Manage resources effectively
See what your teams are doing even when theyre managing
everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint.
Better manage your project pipeline and what your people are
working on by capturing your teams 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.

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Strengthen everyday collaboration
With the social experiences of SharePoint, which facilitate
discussions, information sharing, and your teams 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.

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Communicate with project team
easily
Seamlessly communicate with new ways to share
conversations across time and space to improve overall
teamwork.
Hover over an individuals 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.

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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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