Wednesday, May 9, 2012

A Guide to Microsoft Project Authentication

By Vic William


Find out more about Microsoft's Corporation project Management (EPM) offerings and their related authentications. In this post, writer Bud Ratliff, PMP, will provide you with an overview of Microsoft's Project offerings, and then familiarize you with the exams and authentications available for each.

If you're someone that uses Microsoft Project or Microsoft Project Server, you know that Project is one of the tougher Office products to learn by yourself. Like a Swiss army knife, many parts exist to help with a selection of conditions. Certification is a good way to better understand and take advantage of the all the product's features, including managing schedules, resources, costs, and collaborating on projects from tiny to massive. Showing you have documented experience in this product to your existing or potential employers does not hurt either.

Below, we shall have a quick look at Microsoft's Project offerings along with the exams and certifications available for each.

Enterprise Project Management Solution

Microsoft offers a complete Corporation Project Management (EPM) solution that is composed of more than simply your standard Microsoft Project desktop client. This solution consists of these three components:

Microsoft Project is a desktop program that enables scheduling, cost, and resource management for individual projects. There are 2 versions, Standard and Pro; there's some extra functionality in the Pro version (especially in 2010), the most serious being the Standard version won't work with Project Server.

Microsoft Project Server permits the assembly of different project plans, together with collusion, offered through Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Where 2003 and 2007 could use either Windows SharePoint Services or the more full-featured Microsoft SharePoint Server, 2010 requires the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Enterprise Edition platform, along with all of its rich reporting, collusion, and search functionality.

Project Portfolio Server provides the ability to capture, define, and select new projects by analyzing them based on the organization's strategic objectives, resource capacity, and financial restrictions. With 2010, Portfolio Server isn't separate but instead is totally integrated into Microsoft Project Server as a single product.

Microsoft's EPM solution has matured remarkably over the last three releases, from a loose confederation of products in 2003, thru a reconstruct of the products in 2007, into the robust and sleek 2010 solution that completely incorporated the Project Server and Project Portfolio products into a single product that competes well against pretty much any other EPM solution.




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