mpa meeting – philadelphia/de valley chapter january 29. 2007
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MPA Meeting – Philadelphia/DE Valley Chapter
January 29. 2007
Agenda Welcome (Ira Brown) Microsoft Project Certification Program
Update (Bob Cantwell) Feature Presentation – “Introduction to
Project Portfolio Server 2007” (Bob Cantwell)
Feature Presentation – “Reporting Using Project 2007” Intrinsic Reporting Features (Ira Brown) Add-on: DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft Project
(John Garay) Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks Wrap-up
Welcome Welcome to our second meeting! We encourage you to become a member
$119 membership rate $20 Application fee will be waived – limited
time offer.https://lv0.net/Form/MPA/Renew
Meetings will be every other month Our next meeting will be on March 26,
2007 Tonight’s grand prize is DecisionEdge
Suite for Microsoft Project – a $299 value!
Project 2007 Reporting Features
3-D Gantt bars and background cell highlighting.
Visual Reports - Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Visio Professional to produce pivot tables and charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data.
Project Center Project “drill-down” views Data Analysis 3rd Party reporting options
DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft Project
3-D Gantt Bars and Cell Highlighting
Visual Reports Analyze and report Project data in
professional reports and charts Visual Reports can produce Visio
diagrams and Excel charts based on Project data
Available in both Project Professional 2007 and Project Standard 2007.
Project Center
Project “drill-down” views
Master Schedule
Data Analysis Faster OLAP cube processing 11 pre-defined OLAP cubes
Project non-timephased Task non-timephased Two assignment cubes: non-timephased and timephased Two resource cubes: non-timephased and timephased Two timesheet cubes: Timesheet and EPM Timesheet Windows SharePoint Services: Risks, Issues, and Deliverables Three virtual cubes that combine data:
Combine data from the EPM cubes (Project, Task, Assignment, and Resource) with data from the Timesheet cubes
Combine data from the EPM cubes with data from the Windows SharePoint Services cubes
Portfolio Analyzer cube, for backward compatibility with reports in earlier versions
All baseline fields available in cube All new budget and cost fields available in cube Unlimited enterprise custom fields can be made
available in OLAP cube
Reporting Add-Ons for Microsoft Project
DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft ProjectUnderstand and communicate key
project information with embedded charts and reports
Tips and Tricks
Working with Hammock Tasks Get a free hammock task
download from www.projectwidgets.com
Easily Create Enterprise Project PlansEasily Create Enterprise Project Plans
Project Documents, Issues/Risks & Project Documents, Issues/Risks & TasksTasks
Integration withIntegration withTools People KnowTools People Know
Projects, Tasks, Resources, Projects, Tasks, Resources, Portfolio Portfolio Items, operations, initiatives, fiscal Items, operations, initiatives, fiscal
periods, budgets, stage-gates, workflow periods, budgets, stage-gates, workflow rules, timesheetrules, timesheet
Team ParticipationTeam ParticipationExecutive ReportingExecutive Reporting
XML-basedXML-based APIAPI
The Microsoft Office EPM SolutionThe Microsoft Office EPM Solution
Project Web Access Project Professional