Monday, March 26, 2012

A Guide to Microsoft Project Authorization

By Ben Travis


Find out about Microsoft's Firm project Management (EPM) offerings and their related certifications. In this post, author Bud Ratliff, PMP, will give you an outline of Microsoft's Project offerings, and then familiarize you with the examinations and licenses available for each.

If you are someone that uses Microsoft Project or Microsoft Project Server, you know that Project is among the more complicated Office products to learn by yourself. Like a Swiss army knife, many elements exist to help with a variety of conditions. Authorization is a great way to better understand and take advantage of the all of the product's features, including handling schedules, resources, costs, and collaborating on projects from little to enormous. Providing proof that you have documented experience in this product to your present or potential employers doesn't hurt either.

Below, we may take a quick look at Microsoft's Project offerings , as well as the exams and licenses available for each.

Establishment Project Management Solution

Microsoft offers a total Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution that consists of more than simply your standard Microsoft Project desktop programme. This solution consists of these 3 components:

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

Microsoft Project Server permits the assembly of different project plans, with partnership, offered through Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Where 2003 and 2007 could use either Windows SharePoint Services or the more full-featured Microsoft SharePoint Server, 2010 needs the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Company Edition platform, together 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 primarily on the organization's strategic objectives, resource capacity, and monetary constraints. With 2010, Portfolio Server is now not separate but rather is completely integrated into Microsoft Project Server as a single product.

Microsoft's EPM solution has matured exceptionally over the past three releases, from a loose confederation of products in 2003, thru a rebuild of the products in 2007, into the powerful and sleek 2010 solution that completely incorporated the Project Server and Project Portfolio products into a single product that competes well against almost any other EPM solution.




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