Microsoft Project Portfolio Server 2007 - ExtCon, OLP-NL, GOV Government (GOV)

Project Portfolio Server 2007 - External Connector, Open License Program-No Level, Government Project Portfolio Server 2007
Microsoft® Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top-down portfolio management solution that helps organizations to realize their potential by identifying, selecting, managing, and delivering portfolios that best align with their business strategy. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, a key component of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, can help executives gain visibility, insight, and control across their project, program, and application portfolios. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 can help organizations to:
- Automate and standardize governance processes to subject projects to appropriate controls;
- Consolidate business and IT investments within an enterprise repository to improve visibility and insight;
- Objectively evaluate and prioritize competing investments from multiple dimensions;
- Optimize budget utilization and select investments that best align with the organization’s business strategy;
- Tightly integrate with Office Project Server 2007 to track the performance of each investment throughout its life cycle, from business case to benefits realization.

Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is optimized for enterprise and upper midmarket (UMM) organizations that require portfolio analytical tools to improve decision-making and help ensure that selected portfolios align with the organization’s strategic priorities. The solution is intended for the following stakeholders:
- Executives and business decision-makers;
- Portfolio analysts and project management office staff;
- Program managers and project managers;
- Application managers.

Gain Visibility and Control
Quickly gain visibility and control across your project, program, and application portfolios by automating governance processes, standardizing, and streamlining the collection of data, and tracking portfolio performance to maximize return on investment (ROI) and improve operational efficiencies.
- Consolidate the collection of essential data for all business and IT investments in a central enterprise repository;
- Define multiple workflows to standardize, communicate, and enforce the portfolio governance framework across the organization;
- Create personalized scorecards to track investments throughout their life cycle.

Objectively Prioritize and Evaluate Competing Investments
Employ proven best practice techniques to help objectively prioritize your organization’s business strategy for the upcoming planning period. Automatically derive prioritization scores to evaluate the project, program, and application portfolios from multiple dimensions.
- Define and prioritize business strategy and drive consensus among executives using the pair-wise comparison matrix;
- Derive prioritization scores such as strategic value, financial value, risk, architectural fit, and operational performance to objectively assess projects, programs, and applications;
- Generate charts to effectively evaluate potential investments within the portfolios.

Optimize Budget and Align Investments with Business Strategy
Use embedded best practice methodologies, including the Business Alignment Framework, to optimize budgets and recommend portfolios that best align with the organization’s business strategy. This objective process enforces a rational rather than emotional approach to portfolio selection, to help ensure that the selected investments deliver the maximum business value.
- Employ sophisticated optimization algorithms to determine the optimal project or program portfolio under varying budget and business constraints;
- Use advanced portfolio analytical techniques, including insight analysis, to identify and break the constraints prohibiting the portfolio from reaching the Efficient Frontier;
- Undertake a business alignment assessment to help ensure that the selected portfolios are optimally aligned with the organization’s business strategy.

Tightly Integrate with Office Project Server 2007
Tight integration between Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and Office Project Server 2007 provides organizations with an end-to-end project portfolio management solution. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a key component within the Microsoft EPM Solution, providing the following benefits:
- Help ensure that customers and partners can quickly deploy world-class portfolio analytical techniques and tools within the EPM Solution;
- Maintain data integrity between the two environments through regular synchronization events;
- Enable portfolio analysts to link federated computers running Office Project Server 2007 to Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 and consolidate projects into an enterprise repository;
- Provide organizations with a scalable end-to-end project portfolio management solution.