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Microsoft has now officially
announced the various products that will make up the Microsoft
Office Project 2007 suite. With an anticipated release
date of quarter 4/2006, the Microsoft description of these
products is as follows:
Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007
- Office Project Standard 2007 will deliver robust project
management tools with the right blend of usability, power and
flexibility allowing people to manage projects more efficiently
and effectively. Customers will be able to more
effectively manage project work, schedules and finances; keep
project teams aligned; and be more productive as a result of
tools integrated with familiar Microsoft Office system
programs, powerful reports, guided planning and flexible tools.
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
- For more advanced project management and collaboration needs,
Office Project Professional 2007 can connect with Microsoft
Office Project Server 2007 and will include all the stand-alone
functions offered in Office Project Standard 2007.
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
- Office Project Server 2007 will help organizations align
people and work with business priorities, automate project
management processes, enable effective communication and
collaboration across the organization, and manage work from
ad-hoc projects to complex programs across the entire project
life cycle.
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 (New!)
- Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 will be a top-down
portfolio management governance solution. The solution has
been designed to help ensure that organizations gain visibility,
insight and control over their project, program and application
portfolios. Project Portfolio Server's analytical modules
will help ensure that organizations can prioritize, optimize and
select the investments that are best aligned with their
strategic priorities, and proactively schedule the selected
projects to maximize resource utilization across the planning
horizon.
Microsoft Office Project Web Access
- Project Web Access, the Web-based interface to Office Project
Server 2007, enables people to view, analyze and report on data
as well as enter schedule status, create proposals and work on
projects' resources.
"The 2007 release is the
productivity breakthrough that customers have been asking for,"
said Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of the
Information Worker Product Management Group at Microsoft.
"Today, we're revealing new products in the Microsoft Office
system and a number of new options that provide customers with
flexibility in how they purchase our products. That's
great news for businesses eager to provide their workers with
the best productivity tools possible for information management
and collaboration."
For more information about the
Project 2007 suite of systems, take a look at:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx |