Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)

[Pages:23]Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management (PPM)

When you have a vision for your project, a plan in place, and a team ready to make it work, all you need is a project management platform to ensure you take advantage of your investments, manage resources, and stay in complete control of your tasks.

Plan | Manage | Deliver with Microsoft Project

Accelerate Digital Transformation

The digital age calls for a change in the way organizations think, how they interact with customers, partners and suppliers, and how the business works inside. It requires processes to become crisper and more streamlined. This can be made possible when those involved in the project are provided the right tools, technology and opportunity to do their best, and contribute.

Microsoft Project is a vital step towards the digital transformation of your organization. It lets you reduce costs and optimize time by creating, managing and executing projects seamlessly. It can be customized across industry needs to add value to business verticals. It helps you address some key challenges and trends in your industry and enables better optimization of time, resources and cost through effective project management.

Enabling every element of the process, and every stakeholder in the project journey is critical to any organization's digital transformation.

INTRODUCTION

Meet Microsoft Project Microsoft's project management software is designed to help project managers align their resources and timelines to ensure enhanced productivity and overall success.

Add structure to your teamwork Create a new plan in just a few clicks. Build a team, assign tasks, and set deadlines.

Work together Keep a tab on how busy everyone in the team is. Easily attach files and discuss tasks. Synch files to your device and work from anywhere.

Always stay informed With Planner setup across all your devices, know where things are with a single glance. Receive notifications about job status and new conversations.

Organize Teamwork Easily

Drive Strategic Alignment and Execution Excellence

Make the right strategic decisions Define and prioritize business drivers, measure strategic impact of competing ideas, and make the right funding decisions.

Achieve execution excellence Easily govern and execute portfolios, programs and projects with built-in collaboration and communication capabilities.

Manage organizational resources effectively Accurately manage resource allocation and measure utilization with overall strategy and vision.

Microsoft Project across different verticals

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management is a solution that can be applied across all verticals. It is capable of handling any kind of a project with planning tools to help you stay organized.

VERTICALS

Microsoft Project for IT enabled Services

While the Indian information technology industry contributes significantly to the overall economic growth, sustaining this level of growth and achievement poses a host of unique challenges in terms of productivity, customer engagement, and lack of talent and innovation. It is important for the ITeS industries to be consistently competitive, effectively manage skilled workforce, and maintain quality of innovation in products and services.

Strategic presentation Microsoft Project built on SharePoint Server provides a solution stack to a wide range of challenges faced by Indian information technology companies - supporting best practices and providing intuitive features to enable project execution, visibility across varied platforms, strategic prioritization, and team collaboration to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Resource management and capacity planning With a central view into resources use and budget allocations, Project Managers in the Indian information technology industries can focus on the optimal utilization of infrastructure and talent, coupled with scalability.

Innovation and transformation By providing collaboration and project prioritization capacities, Microsoft Project helps IT organizations formalize innovation process and prioritize strategic business growth objectives ? bringing all ideas to one place.

Compliance and efficiency Microsoft Project ensures regulatory compliance and quality improvements by providing best practices templates and governance workflows. Also, by supporting integration with ALM tools, Project helps implement process improvement frameworks.

Microsoft Project for Banking and Financial Services

Financial services professionals wear many hats, from commercial lending to M&A transactions. With robust tools for scheduling, collaboration, and more, Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) is the one solution anyone in your institution can use.

Commercial lending Use tried-and-true lending processes by importing existing workflows. Increase customer transparency with customizable timelines that you can share using familiar Office apps.

Mergers and acquisitions Improve efficiency and collaboration with automated scheduling and integrated communication tools. Use metrics to decide which projects to start based on strategic value and cost.

Regulatory compliance Manage all compliance projects, and develop strong regulatory processes to avoid fines and bad press. Use integrated collaboration features to keep everyone on the same page.

New product introduction Develop products with data-driven tools that examine objectives, budgets, and required resources. Implement products using tools that provide insights across time and task entries.

Microsoft Project for Healthcare

The nature of the healthcare industry is such that it demands the very best of everything, be it managing existing patient data or funding research for new treatments. Privacy of medical data is of vital importance, but so is the high capital cost of implementing electronic health records for convenient access. While there is a need to look after a growing number of aging patients, there is also a need to move from volume-based care to value-based care.

New services implementation Compare new initiatives and select the portfolio with the best returns and build teams based on the capacity and demand of clinical and external resources. Gain control across your chosen portfolio and oversee all current and upcoming implementations from a single site.

Healthcare compliance Increase insight across all compliance initiatives in a single location and optimize resources to implement compliance projects. Develop workflows to drive governance and help ensure all compliance requirements are met and also manage costs for implementing compliance projects with built-in financial tools and reports.

Grants and clinical trials coordination Streamline the grant application process across the organization and ensure that the clinical trial protocol is adhered to. Monitor trial progress with better access to project information, with the ability to manage all trials from a single location. Optimize your portfolio by shortlisting trials that will continue to receive funding.

Clinical guideline development and implementation Ensure smooth guideline development by assigning approvers to develop new clinical guidelines, prioritizing them based on ROI and collaborating among teams to gain insights on them. Improve portfolio management by reducing medical errors.

Microsoft Project for Manufacturing and Resources

With the primary aim of driving new products and services into the market, it is important for all manufacturing related activities to be meticulously planned. Equally vital is being prepared for unexpected project changes, should the planning have a flaw. It is all about accelerating product development and completing projects under budget with the best available resources.

Innovation management Streamline the idea submission process, increase visibility across submitted ideas, and improve quality control. Reduce subjective decision-making and enable faster what-if analysis to realize a portfolio with optimal ideas.

Resource management Assess human and material resources against project requirements. Share suggested resource assignments with the executive team for funding allocation based on budgets and build teams that align to project requirements. Assign tasks and monitor resource activities in real time. View competing projects to understand resource priorities and deadlines.

Product portfolio management Analyze resources, costs and more for all existing and upcoming products. Define, assess, escalate and resolve risks throughout the product lifecycle. Help ensure that products are delivered on time, reduce scheduling conflicts, and increase production efficiencies.

Operational cost management Anticipate changes in expenses and deliver profitable, projects on time. Improve data organization, analysis, and enable access to reports and other project data from multiple devices.

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