Microsoft Project Online Overview

In this video we walk attendees through some of the key functionality of Microsoft's Project and Portfolio Management solution, Microsoft Project Online.

Microsoft Project Online is a powerful and effective project management tool built for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), as well as planning work of all types that is performed each and every day. Project Online is provided through Microsoft Office 365 and helps organizations of all types and sizes to manage project and resources, as well as select portfolios of projects that deliver the value required by the business.

Plan and Manage Resource Demand
It's a fact that projects demand resources. Project Online provides robust enterprise resource planning tools (ERP) to help organizations deal with resource allocation and ensure the ability to manage the demand of resources across all types of projects. Business processes are streamlined when the taking on of new initiatives is determined by evaluating resource need against ongoing demand. Microsoft Project Online gives organizations the tools to make information decisions based on real-time data. Power BI enhances the analysis of data with robust reports and dashboards.

Effectively Manage All Types of Work
The ability to see potential issues ahead of time in order to prevent missed milestones is what project management is all about. The Microsoft PPM solution enables project managers and the organization to evaluate all risks and deal with them effectively, ensuring project success.

Visibility
With a centralized view of all project and program work across the organization, management can get the big picture analysis to make information decisions. No more project management based on stale, inaccurate data. Visibility is key to the organizations ability to run a success project management office.

Effective Project Planning
With familiar tools like MS Project and the Gantt Chart, task dependencies, and timeline views, project planning is simplified with the project management software to better equip the organization to manage complex initiatives. The project schedule is able to be viewed many different ways when managed as an enterprise project.

Real-time collaboration
Communication is key to successful project management. The real-time collaboration capabilities in MS Project Online and Microsoft Project Professional integrate with Microsoft Teams and Skype to let you see who's available. Each member of the project team: project managers, team members, resource managers, are able to use Microsoft's collaboration tools to communicate the project schedule and other important information effectively, in order to ensure project success.

Reporting
Project Online contains built-in reports like resource availability, or resource overview, which help project managers and the organization gain insights and communicate effective information to all stakeholders. This helps achieve results that work!

Drive Portfolio Analysis and Selection
Use the project and portfolio management solution to model various portfolio scenarios using resource and cost constraints. Project requests are ranked against strategic business drivers to determine those that help the organization achieve desired business results.