Project 2010 New Feature Summary

Project Professional 2010
  • Microsoft Fluent User Interface - Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Microsoft Fluent user interface, saves time and makes it easier for new project managers to get up to speed quickly.
  • Excel-Like Flexibility & Ease – many new features make Project work more like Excel, but still give you all the power and flexibility to manage scope, resources, and money
  • Timeline View - Simply create the ultimate graphical timeline to express your schedule and plan and share via email or PowerPoint
  • Team Planner - Visualize the right mix of resources and assignments with a simple and intuitive resource view.
  • Connected Teams - Publish your project plans to SharePoint® 2010 task lists so team members can update task status—automatically synchronize to receive updates directly into your project plans.
Project Server 2010
  • Unified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) - In Project 2010, the best-of-breed portfolio management techniques of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 are included in Project Server 2010, providing a single server with end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities. These two licenses are now combined into one, with a price point much lower than the two combined.
  • Built on SharePoint Server 2010 - Project Server 2010 is built on top of SharePoint Server 2010, 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.
  • Project Initiation & Business Case Development - Project Server 2010 provides a new demand management module to capture all work from simple tasks to complex projects and programs, then develop and deploy effective governance workflows to manage project investments throughout their lifecycle and drive accountability and control.
  • Portfolio Selection - Project Server 2010 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.
  • Capacity Planning - Gain insight into generic resource demand and availability across the planning horizon, reschedule projects within the horizon to maximize resource utilization while adhering to schedule dependencies and model headcount decisions and compare scenarios.
  • Web-Based Project Editing - Project Server 2010 brings the power of Project Professional 2010 to the browser with Web-based Project Editing. This translates to substantial cost savings as less people will need to purchase and use Project Professional.
  • 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 2010 and SQL Reporting Services.
  • Simplified Administration – Project Server 2010 has centralized administration with user delegation, departmental fields and many other new features designed to save administrative time.
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