Version 2002
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade
Upgrade now to Microsoft Project 2002, the industry-leading project management application, and discover how new Web-based collaboration tools, resource management features and powerful reporting can help you manage your projects across the enterprise.
The Microsoft® Project 2002 family of products brings you a comprehensive, easy-to-use project management solution. Its collaborative tools and shared data enable workgroups and stakeholders to stay informed and ensure initiatives support company goals. The customizable platform and tools can be extended and integrated across systems to achieve companies’ project and knowledge management needs.
1.Intuitive planning. Learn and use Microsoft Project more easily with the help of new features such as Interactive Project Guide, a wizard-like project planning tool, as well as Smart Tags that provide timely feedback about potential changes to your project plan.
2.Collaboration. Collaborate with your entire team through improved Web-based access. Team members and stakeholders with permission can view, update and run queries on project information.
3.Centralization. Easily organize, track and store project-related details in a shared, central location. New integration with Microsoft SharePoint™ Team Services lets you link documents to projects, share documents and track issues on individual projects posted to Microsoft Project Server.
4.Enterprise standardization. Get consistent reporting and analysis across your organization. New enterprise project management tools allow your organization to standardize and customize your use of Microsoft Project.
5.Enterprise resource management. Get accurate information about resource availability so you can assemble the optimal team for each project. Manage resources visually through availability and usage graphs, or let the automated Resource Substitution Wizard analyze the skills required for a project and match the personnel who possess those skills to that project.
6.What-if analysis. Gain insight into your organization’s operations and make more informed decisions with the assistance of simulation and analysis tools that evaluate resource assignments, scenarios and general project data.
7.Improved Microsoft applications integration.Get tighter integration and a smoother transition between Microsoft Project and other Microsoft applications. Import task lists created in Microsoft Excel, the Microsoft Outlook® messaging and collaboration client and Microsoft Project Web Access directly into Microsoft Project. Plus, the familiar Microsoft Office interface and toolbars in Microsoft Project 2002 help you get up to speed quickly.
8.Scalability.Let Microsoft Project Server handle your company’s increasing demands with its multitier architecture, load balancing and online analytical processing — all based on Microsoft SQL Server™ technology.
9.Increased customization. Develop custom Microsoft Project applications with greater flexibility thanks to a new XML-based file format, an extended object model, support for COM add-ins and an enhanced OLE DB provider.
10.Open architecture. Integrate Microsoft Project with other line-of-business applications and databases using its full support for industry standards such as XML messaging and SOAP.
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