Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 helps organizations realize their potential by identifying, selecting, managing, and delivering portfolios that best align with their business strategy. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a key component of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and helps ensure executives gain visibility, insight, and control across their project, program, and application portfolios.

Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 integrates with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to provide organizations with an end-to-end project portfolio management solution. The bidirectional gateway enables administrators to link multiple Microsoft Office Project Servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, providing executives with a consolidated view of all projects within the organization.

Portfolio Dashboard Module: An example of a portfolio tracking dashboard in Office Project Portfolio  Server 2007.

Gain Visibility and Control

Consolidate all investments (for example, projects, programs, and applications) within an enterprise repository to help ensure that executives gain visibility, insight, and control over all portfolios. Define multiple workflows to standardize, communicate, and enforce the portfolio governance framework across the organization.

Automate and enforce governance processes. Define multiple workflows to help ensure each project is subject to the appropriate governance controls throughout its life cycle—from proposal to post-implementation.

Employ best practice methods. Use out-of-the-box templates and embedded best practice methods—such as the Business Alignment Framework—to effectively manage project, program, and application portfolios.

Capture all investments within a central repository.  Consolidate business and IT investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility, insight, and control. Define templates for each investment type (for example, project business case) to standardize and streamline the collection of data across the organization.

Measure and track portfolio performance. Monitor projects, programs, and applications throughout their life cycle to proactively identify potential issues, make decisions, and help ensure that your portfolios deliver maximum business value.

Objectively Prioritize and Evaluate Competing Investments

Use best practice techniques to objectively prioritize the organization’s business strategy, automatically derive prioritization scores, and build charts that effectively evaluate the competing investments from varying angles.

Objectively prioritize business strategy.  Employ proven techniques to define and objectively prioritize the organization’s business strategy for the upcoming planning period.

Build consensus among executives. Prioritize the business strategy with each executive individually (for example, CIO, COO, and CTO) to identify the divergence of opinion. Use the results to help facilitate a Business Driver Prioritization Workshop and drive consensus across the group.

Automatically prioritize competing investments. Employ best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores (such as strategic value, financial value, risk, architectural fit, and operational performance), helping to objectively assess projects, programs, and applications.

Generate charts to effectively evaluate the investments within each portfolio. Use the prioritization scores to build charts to evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions before finalizing funding decisions.

Portfolio Optimizer Module: An example of what-if optimization scenarios run under varying budgetary constraints in Office Project Portfolio Server 2007.

Optimize Budget and Align Investments with Business Strategy

Embedded best practice portfolio analytical techniques help analysts to optimize budgets and recommend portfolios that best align with the organization’s business strategy. This objective process enforces a rational rather than emotional approach to portfolio selection, helping to ensure that the selected investments are aligned with the organization’s strategic priorities and will maximize return on investment.

Select the optimal portfolio under varying constraints. Employ sophisticated algorithms and embedded best practices to quickly determine the optimal project or program portfolio under varying budget and business constraints (for example, cost, FTE, and inter-project dependencies).

Reach the Efficient Frontier. Take advantage of advanced portfolio analytical techniques—for example, insight analysis—to identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier.

Choose investments that best align with the organization’s business strategy. Perform a business alignment assessment to help ensure the selected portfolios are aligned with the organization’s strategic priorities.

Implement a rational rather than emotional approach to portfolio selection. Often it is the squeaky wheel or the executive who shouts the loudest that influences portfolio funding decisions. Use best practice methods (such as the Business Alignment Framework) to establish a rational portfolio selection process that can be easily standardized.

Portfolio Optimizer Module: An example of Efficient Frontier analysis used to maximize the selected portfolio’s strategic value in Office Project Portfolio Server 2007.

Tightly Integrate with Office Project Server 2007

Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 integrates with Office Project Server 2007 to provide organizations with an end-to-end project portfolio management solution. The bidirectional Gateway enables administrators to link multiple Office Project Servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, providing executives with a consolidated view of all projects within the organization.

Benefit from tight integration with Office Project Server 2007 Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 tightly integrates with Office Project Server 2007 to help ensure organizations can quickly deploy powerful portfolio analytical techniques within the EPM Solution to provide a world-class, end-to-end project portfolio management platform.

Consolidate and analyze projects across federated Office Project Servers. Link federated Office Project Servers to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to consolidate all projects within an enterprise repository, helping to quickly gain visibility, insight, and control across all project portfolios.

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For More Information

Learn more about Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and the Microsoft Office system at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/portfolioserver/FX101674151033.aspx