Microsoft Project For Executives and PMO
Communicate more effectively by connecting efficiently with others

Work virtually anywhere

Go Online with flexible plans that help you quickly and easily sign up for the service that best fits your business needs.

• Get up and running with enterprise-grade reliability and zero up-front infrastructure costs
• Add teams and projects within minutes with a web-based portal.
• Immediately glean insight about your portfolio with new point and click reporting capabilities.

Get started quickly with easy onboarding, provisioning, and ramp-up in a web-based environment designed to optimize time and help teams get more done.

• Use the new visual tiles to quickly begin or flex project portfolio management capabilities.
• Enable your teams to work within a familiar environment. Project Online includes SharePoint Online and comes to you through Office 365.
• Choose between devices and browsers — Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and more — to view, edit, submit, and collaborate on project, portfolio, and everyday work.

Take action and stay up to date in more places and on more devices than ever before.

• See and act on your tasks (including business and personal) in one location.
• Effectively plan and manage tasks with the help of new scheduling capabilities.
• Keep your teams organized in one location — their project site — where they can view project summaries, documents, tasks, newsfeeds and calendars.

Flexible project portfolio management

Align vision and effort to prioritize initiatives, select optimal project portfolios, and deliver on your business strategy.

• Effectively evaluate ideas or measure the strategic contribution of competing requests to determine alignments and streamline project initiation.
• Easily create workflows in Visio and SharePoint Designer to standardize project progression or rejection and improve governance and control.
• Quickly promote a SharePoint Online task list to an enterprise project in Project Online.

Effectively manage resources with Project Online to see what your teams are doing — even when they're managing everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint Online.

• Sync SharePoint Online task lists with Project Online to report on your team's activities.
• Better manage your project pipeline and what your people are working on by capturing their ideas in SharePoint Online task lists and evaluating them in Project Online.
• Accurately measure resource utilization and better manage resource allocation that aligns with your strategy.

Take advantage of new ways to collaborate and act quickly

Strengthen everyday collaboration with the social experiences of SharePoint Online, which facilitate discussions, information sharing, and your team's ability to get work done.

• Easily share and curate what teams are talking about and working on by following people, sites, tags, and documents with newsfeeds.
• Utilize the search capabilities of SharePoint Online to execute everyday work and projects more effectively and find the right information.
• Take advantage of powerful security features to share information and collaborate with trusted business partners on projects and everyday work.
• Promote visibility with collaborative tools to seamlessly flow calendar, presence, and capacity information across your organization.

Seamlessly communicate with new ways to collaborate and have conversations improve overall teamwork.

• Hover over an individual's name in your project plan to see if a team member is available to talk or instant message (IM) with Lync Online.
• Collaborate with your team quickly by dragging and dropping them into a Lync meeting for group conferencing, instant messaging, screen sharing, and shared workspaces.

Increase agility and control

Make data driven decisions by equipping team members with the information they need to stay informed and make better decisions.

• Use summary dashboards to help gain insights and make better decisions.
• Optimize utilization and plan allocation for your organizations resource requirements through the resources center.
• Quickly mine and aggregate data on many dimensions via self-service access with Excel Services.

Simplify IT with leading cloud services to add flexibility and security while easing technical complexity.

• Sign up directly for Project Online in a straight forward and immediate provisioning experience and choose from a variety of subscription plans that best fit your business needs.
• Easily give your teams and trusted business partners the right level of access through a new SharePoint integrated security model in Project Online.
• Separate IT and business settings – your Project Management Office (PMO) or business sponsor can manage PPM settings without additional assistance from IT.
• Ensure your business stays more secure and available through 24/7 IT support and compliance with an ever-growing list of regulatory certification standards, such as FISMA, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
• Utilize Active Directory (AD) synchronization in Project Online to choose which AD group contains the teams that you want to assign to projects.
• Utilize industry standards such as ODATA (open data protocol) for data mining and business intelligence.
• Rest assured with continuous data backup, disaster recovery, and globally redundant data centers.

Quickly innovate and respond to opportunities with a unified Microsoft cloud services experience in SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office 365.

• Utilize apps from the new SharePoint Store to meet unique business needs.
• Quickly develop and deliver apps that help you shave time off discrete processes or connect to proprietary software systems.
• Bring together different disciplines such as ALM, NPD, and IPM through a connected and scalable PPM platform.

Utilize a smarter PPM solution

Get started quickly with a familiar experience that improves participation and helps teams get more done

• Use the new visual tiles in Project Web App (PWA), your web app to access Project Server, to quickly begin or flex project portfolio management capabilities.
• Choose between devices and browsers – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and more – to view, edit, submit, and collaborate on project, portfolio, and everyday work.

Take action and stay up to date in more places and on more devices than ever before.

• See and act on your tasks (including business and personal) in one location.
• Effectively plan and manage tasks in PWA with the help of new scheduling capabilities.
• Keep your teams organized in one location – their project site – where they can view project summaries, documents, tasks, newsfeeds and calendars.

Flexible project portfolio management

Align vision and effort to prioritize initiatives, select optimal project portfolios, and deliver on your business strategy.

• Effectively evaluate ideas or measure the strategic contribution of competing requests to determine alignments and streamline project initiation.
• Easily create workflows in Visio and SharePoint Designer to standardize project progression or rejection and improve governance and control.
• Quickly promote a SharePoint task list to an enterprise project in PWA.

Effectively manage resources to see what your teams are doing – even when they’re managing everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint.

• Better manage you’re your project pipeline and what your people are working on by capturing your team’s ideas in SharePoint task lists and measuring them in PWA.
• Accurately measure resource utilization and better manage resource allocation that aligns with your strategy.
• Seamlessly flow information from team member calendars in Exchange to Project Server 2013, simplifying project scheduling and task status updates while enhancing task-sharing capabilities.

Take advantage of new ways to collaborate and act quickly

Strengthen everyday collaboration with the social experiences of SharePoint, which facilitate discussions, information sharing, and your team’s ability to get work done.

• Easily share and curate what teams are talking about and working on by following people, sites, tags, and documents with newsfeeds.
• Utilize the search capabilities of SharePoint to execute everyday work and projects more effectively and find the right information.
• Take advantage of powerful security features to share information and collaborate with trusted business partners on projects and everyday work.
• Promote visibility with collaborative tools to seamlessly flow calendar, presence, and capacity information across your organization.

Seamlessly communicate with new ways to share conversations across time and space to improve overall teamwork.

• Hover over an individual’s name in your project plan to see if a team member is available to talk or instant message (IM) with Lync.
• Collaborate with your team quickly by dragging and dropping them into a Lync meeting for group conferencing, instant messaging, screen sharing, and shared workspaces.

Increase agility and control

Make data driven decisions by equipping team members and stakeholders with the information they need to stay informed and effective.

• Optimize utilization and plan allocation for your organizations resource requirements through the resource center in PWA.
• Use summary dashboards to help gain insights and make better decisions.
• Quickly mine and aggregate data on many dimensions via self-service access with Excel Services.

Simplify IT with an integrated admin experience with SharePoint.

• Utilize Active Directory (AD) synchronization in PWA to choose which AD group contains the teams that you want to assign to projects.
• Easily give your teams and trusted business partners the right level of access through a new SharePoint integrated security model in PWA.
• Utilize industry standards such as ODATA (open data protocol) for data mining and business intelligence.

Quickly innovate with a flexible PPM platform.

• Utilize apps from the new SharePoint Store to meet unique business needs.
• Quickly develop and deliver apps that help you shave time off discrete processes or connect to proprietary software systems.
• Take advantage of integrated experiences across Project Server, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and Office to help you quickly act and respond to opportunities.
• Bring together different disciplines such as ALM, NPD, and IPM through a connected and scalable PPM platform.