Project 2003 Presentation Ben Howard 15 th July 2003

Every Organization Has Projects… Application Development Hardware Configuration Software Development Consulting Integration Training Deployment Market Research Product Launches Sales Initiatives Marketing Campaigns Manufacturing Product Development Product Testing Idea Incubation Recruiting Corporate Initiatives Facilities Patent Management CEO, CIO… ITServices Sales and Marketing Research and Development Corporate

Project portfolio management, reporting Exec Stakeholders Project Managers Intuitive project management Team Members Use familiar tools to collaborate, report status Resource Managers Skills-based resource management IT Open, secure systems …And Productivity, Business Challenges Executive Stakeholders How can I see & prioritize initiatives across my org? What’s the status of our top 3 initiatives? What am I supposed to be delivering this week? How can I collaborate with people on my team? What am I supposed to be delivering this week? How can I collaborate with people on my team? Team Members Resource Managers Who’s available to staff our new projects? Who's working on what and do they have the skills? Resource Managers Who’s available to staff our new projects? Who's working on what and do they have the skills? IT Managers Can we link project data with our front & back office? What’s the best way to deploy and monitor? IT Managers Can we link project data with our front & back office? What’s the best way to deploy and monitor? Project Managers When will we really finish and what will it cost? Can we re-use best practices across projects? Project Managers When will we really finish and what will it cost? Can we re-use best practices across projects?

Project Value Proposition  VISIBILITY into project portfolio  High level view of all work across the dept or enterprise  Ensure work is aligned with strategy  Optimal resource utilization  Match right people to right jobs at right time  Skills tracking and matching  Team member PARTICIPATION  Deep Office integration let’s you use tools you know  Collaborate on Project documents, issues, risks  Dependability  Load-balancing, clustering, partitioning, secure, etc.  Broad platform and partner ecosystem

Evolution Of Project Technology Organizations Aggregation & Access Teams Desktop Project 98 Project 2000 Portals Project 1 – 4.x Individuals Users Communication & Collaboration Productivity Value Chain Project 2002 Web Services Customer & Partner connection Project 2003

Project 2003 Goals: A Customer Driven Release  Address key customer requests  Enhanced integration with Office tools  Provide platform for building solutions & integrating business applications  No major architecture changes to ease migration and deployment

Project 2003 Family  Project Standard 2003  Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM)* Solution  Project Professional 2003  Project Web Access  Project Server 2003 *EPM requires SQL Server 2000 or greater. Project Server requires Windows Server 2000 or later. If a customer needs the collaboration capabilities of WSS, Windows Server 2003 is required. To create Portfolio Analyzer views, Office 2003 is required.

Executives Resource Managers Team Members Project Managers Line of Business Systems Connecting Your Employees To Project Data Using Familiar Tools

Resource Management  Resource management in PWA  Multi-value resource fields (i.e. skills)  Ability to distinguish real versus potential work  Timesheet process enhancements  Locking down actuals  Adjusting actuals and tracking submitted actuals  Defining reporting periods and defining views  Parallel approval support  Add new assignment  Better non-project time support  Resource Center and Portfolio Analyzer improvements Better manage work and resource utilization across your organization to reduce costs, improve quality and shorten time to market

Collaboration  Outlook integration  Windows SharePoint Services integration  Document check-in, check-out and versioning  Risk management with links to projects and tasks  Additional collaboration capabilities including events, discussions, and announcements  Project Presentation through Word, Visio, PPT  Enhanced Printing  Project Guide for one page Project printing  PWA and Excel printing Empower team members to participate, report progress, and collaborate on projects with familiar, easy to use tools

Platform: Extensibility  Expanded set of PDS APIs to build solutions  Timesheet API  Resource pool creation API  Project data creation API  Enterprise custom fields API  Active Directory connector  Sync Project Server resource pool with AD  Sync security with AD group membership lists  Improved scale with DB partitioning support  Project Professional events, object model and Project Guide enhancements Flexible and open platform enables customization and data sharing with other systems to align with current processes

Platform: Performance  Improved enterprise save & open  Support multiple views processors for multi-site configuration  Partitioning of Project Professional, view & cube tables  Scripts for optimizing the database  Optimize stored procedures  Separate connect info for Pro and PWA  Pre-filter in Project Center to download only needed projects from database Robust platform that leverages the latest server technologies to ensure your EPM system scales with your business

Making EPM Real in Your Organization  Need to merge business requirements with technical capabilities  Implementation typically takes between 3 to 6 months  For more information refer to the Project Enterprise Implementation Framework (EIF)  QuickStart programs can help you evaluate EPM and plan your EPM deployment Define Requirements Phases of Deployment: Define System Define System Prototype System Prototype SystemPilotSystemPilotSystem Phased Rollout of System Phased Rollout of System

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Project 2003 Timeline  Today: Limited beta program  Fall: Pricing and Product availability  If your organization is interested in participating the beta program, contact a local partner