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The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is ideal for organizations that need strong coordination and standardization between projects and project managers, centralized resource management, or higher-level reporting about projects and resources. The Microsoft EPM solution enables entire organizations, departments, or teams to work together to manage projects and processes effectively.

Products and Technologies
The EPM solution consists of the following Microsoft Office Project 2003 products and technologies:

• Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003. Project Professional 2003 is the Microsoft desktop enterprise project management program that is used with Microsoft Office Project Web Access and Microsoft Office Project Server 2003. Project Professional 2003 provides all the core scheduling tools in Project Standard 2003, plus powerful portfolio and resource management capabilities when connected to Project Server 2003. Project Professional is used by project managers who need to schedule projects, assign team members from a central resource pool to project tasks, and save their information centrally to Project Server 2003 to share with others.
  
  
• Microsoft Office Project Web Access. Project Web Access is the Web portal that enables people to connect to the project and resource information in Project Server. Team members, executives, and resource managers—in other words, anyone who needs access to Project Server information but does not require the scheduling capabilities of Project Professional—use Project Web Access through a Web browser to view and update information. Project Web Access users require a Project Server client access license (CAL), a Microsoft SQL Server™ CAL, and (if using Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services capabilities) a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 CAL.
  
  
• Microsoft Office Project Server 2003. Project Server 2003 is the platform that supports the project and resource management and collaboration capabilities in the EPM solution. Users connect to Project Server through Project Professional and Project Web Access to save, retrieve, and interact with Project Server data.
  
  Project Server 2003 requires SQL Server 2000 as the server database for full enterprise project and resource management capabilities.
  
  Project Server 2003 requires Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (or later) as the operating system. To take advantage of Windows SharePoint Services capabilities, including document versioning and check-in or check-out, Project Server 2003 requires Windows Server 2003. Project Server 2003 integrates with Windows SharePoint Services for document management and project-related issues and risk tracking. Windows SharePoint Services is a component of Windows Server 2003 that enables users to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration.
  
  

• Monitor consistent business metrics through a customizable scorecard view of projects across your portfolio and drill into the details as needed.
  
  
• Evaluate and model schedules, resources, and cost data over time and across projects to identify trends and address problem areas.
  
  
• Integrate key Project Server views into your dashboard view of all your critical business information.
  
  

• Effectively assign people to projects, and track and manage across your organization with skill-based resource assignment tools.
• Ensure that your organization has the right people and the capacity to take on future projects.
• Improve project management processes by establishing standards and best practices across your organization.
• Establish processes and rules for cross-project reporting and approving time worked on projects to ensure accuracy of data.

• Reduce administrative work while maintaining up-to-date, accurate status on project schedules and budgets through Web-based time reporting and Microsoft Outlook® Calendar integration.
• Improve coordination across teams through portals and automated notifications for a more efficient and effective workforce.
• Centrally store, link, and share information such as documents, issues, and risks related to project plans.
• Collaborate effectively with document management capabilities such as check-in or check-out and versioning through the integration of Project Server 2003 with Windows SharePoint Services.

• Compile up-to-date portfolio-related information through better integration with existing systems using industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML).
• Customize and integrate Project Server 2003 data through extensive API connectors, Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) or object model changes, and an improved Project Guide.