Microsoft Office Project 2007 part of the 2007 Microsoft Office System, is a family of products that provides powerful and flexible project management tools for organisations to manage projects more efficiently and effectively. It offers robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility, helping users to control project finances and schedules, stay informed and keep teams aligned. Productivity is maximised through Project’s integration with familiar 2007 Microsoft Office system programs and powerful reporting options, as well as guided planning, wizards and templates.

Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions of Microsoft Office Project 2007 are available, extending the benefits from an individual level across organisations. Project enables the alignment of corporate resources with business strategy, by helping managers to identify, prioritise, invest in and track projects. The enhanced business intelligence it provides drives greater visibility, insight and control, improving the coordination and management of resources across organisations’ project portfolios.

Target Customers
Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 is for individual users who manage projects independently. The Microsoft Office EPM Solution addresses the needs of a variety of organisational roles, including:

- Executives who allocate funds and oversee projects, programmes and portfolios
- Project managers and staff
- Resource managers
- Team members
- Administrators and IT staff

Target Industries And Functions

- IT governance
- Product development
- Quality management with Six Sigma
- Professional services automation
- Project, resource, and risk management
- Industries such as construction, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, government, retail, financial services and healthcare

Three simple questions to start the customer conversation:

1. Do you have employees who are responsible for delivering projects to time and budget?

- Project 2007 helps workers quickly master the process, with The Project Guide - a step-by-step interactive aid for setting-up, tracking, managing and reporting on projects.
- Help is quickly available via the Project 2007 Help search engine, smart tags, wizards, and online access to training and more.
- Predefined templates are included, or users can create their own, re-using successful projects as the basis for future ones.

2. Do your project teams have the best tools to stay on track, monitor resources and manage finances?

- The Project 2007 Task Drivers feature provides fuller understanding of project timings. Multi-Level Undo allows scenario testing, without making permanent schedule changes.
- Project 2007 aids financial control with Top-Down Budgeting and Cost Resources.
- The Change Highlights tool gives an overview of how schedules react as resources and tasks alter.

3. Does you organisation need to improve team communication?

- Project 2007 promotes effective communication with Gantt charts, schedules, predefined reports and task sheets.
- Easy selection, preview and printing of key project information.
- Files can be posted and progress and best practice shared, via Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Workspaces.

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How do the products in the Office Project 2007 family work together and who should use which?
Office Project 2007 has two types of offerings designed for different needs:

- Office Project Standard 2007 is a desktop program for individual users who manage projects independently
- The EPM Solution combines Office Project Server 2007, Office Project Professional 2007, Office Project Web Access, Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and Office Project Portfolio Web Access to form a business solution for organisations, departments and teams

What languages is Office Project 2007 localised in?
Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simple), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

What languages is Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 localised in?
English only.

What new features are in Office Project Standard 2007 and Office Project Professional 2007?

Background cell highlighting: Change the background colour of cells in the table portion of the view.

Change highlighting: When you change a project, all affected tasks can be automatically highlighted (e.g. dependencies and summary task). The highlights reflect the most recent change.

Cost resources: The resource type for fixed costs assignable to a task. Cost resource accurately monitors project financials by assigning multiple costs to a task, tying costs to account codes and rolling up costs against budgets.

Desktop Online analytical Processing (OlaP) Cube: Create customer reports or archive Office Project Standard 2007 or Office Project Professional 2007 values with data exported from Office Project 2007 into a Microsoft Office Access 2007 database and OLAP cubes.

Multiple level undo: You can reverse your most recent series of changes to views, data and options.

Task drivers pane: This pane appears to the left of the table portion of the view, showing prerequisite tasks and resource constraints that drive the start data of the selected task. Click these drivers to link to relevant information.

Budget tracking: A manager can define a budget at a high level (programme or project) so that the project manager can allocate funds and track costs against the budget.

Visual reports: Use Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (or later) spreadsheet software and Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2007 drawing and diagramming software to produce charts, graphs and diagrams based on Office Project 2007 data.

What is new in Project Web Access?
The new Project Web Access features include an enhanced user interface, a recycle bin, list item versioning and history, the ability to track work lists and then promote or publish these into full projects and great access to desktop and administrative functions. Office Project 2007 streamlines the process for provisioning project workspaces.

EPM Solution System Requirements: Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server CALs, Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0 (a component technology for Windows Server 2003), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or newer versions and SQL Server CALs, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Office Project 2007 and the Office EPM Solution Web site: www.microsoft.com/office/project
EPM Business Solution Web Site: www.microsoft.com/business/epm/mspx
EPM Hosted Web site: www.epmconnect.com