Many organizations have discovered the need to consolidate the many projects being done across the organization into one tool to more effectively see the impacts and costs or just to get better control of their resources. The compliance issues surrounding Sarbanes Oxley makes these issues even more important. One of the most powerful tools available to meet these needs is Microsoft's industry leading enterprise management solution, Microsoft Project Server®.

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The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution enables organizations to more effectively manage and coordinate their people, projects, and processes. Through familiar tools and ease of integration with a broad range of programs in the Microsoft Office System, the EPM Solution promotes broad participation for greater accuracy, accountability, and acceptance. The key benefits of the EPM Solution include:

• Alignment of people and projects with strategic objectives - Reaching your long-term business goals in the future means investing in the right business activities now. With the EPM Solution, you can identify, prioritize, and select projects that support your strategic objectives and align your resources accordingly. And, by routinely evaluating and adjusting your portfolio of projects, you can ensure continuous alignment with your objectives for optimal efficiency and productivity.



• Faster, more-informed business decisions - Making accurate decisions quickly is critical in today's fast-paced business climate. The EPM Solution provides visibility into your work portfolio for monitoring performance, visualizing trends, and identifying investment gaps. With these capabilities, you can make informed decisions on how to proceed with existing projects, make tradeoffs, and pursue new opportunities.



• Continuous process improvement - Organizations are increasingly standardizing their processes to improve operational efficiencies and more effectively manage project complexity. With the EPM Solution, you can implement consistent, repeatable processes and refine them into proven best practices, resulting in lowered costs, faster cycle times, and increased quality.



• Increased customer satisfaction - Successful project delivery is more than finishing projects on time, within budget, and within scope. The delivery process must also meet customer expectations. The EPM Solution enables you to create plans that reflect realistic schedules, resource requirements, and budgets, so you can set, communicate, and meet achievable milestones for better delivery and higher customer satisfaction.



• Smooth collaboration and coordination - As organizations become more geographically and culturally diverse, clear communication is vital to ensure teams share common goals and work together effectively. The EPM Solution provides Web-based access to timely business-critical project information, so teams can share knowledge, collaborate smoothly to complete tasks and deliverables, and adjust activities quickly to accommodate project changes and updates.



• Empowered project teams - Businesses are increasingly relying upon project team members to make high-impact decisions as part of their daily routines. With the EPM Solution, the latest project information is quickly available and transparent to team members, resulting in more efficient time management, better decision-making and increased accountability.



• Effective resource deployment - Businesses are increasingly relying upon project team members to make high-impact decisions as part of their daily routines. With the EPM Solution, the latest project information is quickly available and transparent to team members, resulting in more efficient time management, better decision-making and increased accountability.



• Strategic hiring - Without understanding long-term workloads and capacity, companies can experience inefficient hire-fire cycles, resulting in higher overhead, lost knowledge, and poor employee morale. By providing visibility into overall work commitments and resource capabilities, the EPM Solution helps you achieve the right balance of strategic recruiting and outsourcing to achieve long-term business objectives.



• More from existing technology investments - The EPM Solution leverages technologies that many organizations already have in place, so you can get the most out of your existing investments in training and infrastructure. By customizing and integrating the EPM Solution with your line-of-business systems, you can get a comprehensive view of your organization's activities for better decision-making.



• A sustainable return on investment - The value of any investment depends on what types of improvements are gained and how quickly they're realized. By enabling increased employee productivity, faster cycle times, reduced costs, and improved time management, the EPM Solution provides a positive and sustainable return on your investment.

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