EPM Tours & Labs

Project & Portfolio Management
Project and Portfolio Management helps organizations gain visibility and control across all work, enhancing decision-making, improving alignment with business strategy, maximizing resource utilization and enhancing project execution to optimize ROI.
Take some time to view this demonstration to understand how the EPM Solution helps organizations to:

• Capture all project requests
• Develop detailed businesses cases
• Prioritize and select project portfolios that align with strategic priorities
• Maximize resource utilization
• Deliver projects on time and within budget
• Improve visibility and control with comprehensive reporting

Innovation Process Management
In today’s fast-paced global economy, innovation is the key to the next big breakthrough in products, services, and processes. However, businesses are often challenged with facilitating innovation due to governance, technical and other logistical pitfalls. The Microsoft Innovation Process Management (IPM) Solution is built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, enabling organizations to:

• Capture ideas from anyone within the organization
• Develop business cases for each idea
• Gather community feedback and ratings
• Run portfolio analytics to select the best ideas
• Successfully execute the resulting project

Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) for Government
For many government agencies, gathering accurate investment data is often an arduous and unsuccessful process. Agency data is often contained within several siloed and poorly integrated systems. Although many commercial project and portfolio data tools are available to government agencies, these tools often do not meet government agencies’ unique needs, leading government executives to purchase additional tools to complete their planning and investment responsibilities.

The CPIC solution, built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, provides government executives with powerful collaboration and analytical tools designed to:

• Provide visibility and control throughout a project’s lifecycle
• Standardize the collection of investment requests
• Enhance the portfolio selection process
• Meet the OMB 300 requirements
• Improve project execution and return on investment
• Evaluate and measure investments effectiveness

Connecting Project Portfolio Management (PPM) & Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Integrating Application Development and Project & Portfolio Management improves visibility and control throughout a projects lifecycle. It ensures project managers and developers can follow their own methodologies supported by different productivity tools, while remaining seamlessly connected with each other.

Integrating Microsoft’s EPM Solution with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server helps to ensure:

• Executives can make informed decisions about their portfolio
• PMO can better plan and utilize resources
• Project managers can more easily manage and track work
• Developers and testers can focus on releasing a high quality product without being over burdened with administrative tasks