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

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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