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Optimize Resources Across Your Organization for Sustained Competence
People are the most valuable—and often the most expensive—assets of your organization. To maximize productivity and be cost-effective, it is critical to assign the right people to the right project teams.
Managing people across an organization, however, is complex. Resource information is often controlled in various departments, making it difficult to forecast short- and long-term resource needs accurately. Without a complete understanding of the skills and availability of its staff, your organization cannot strategically hire, deploy, and develop resources that match the needs of your project portfolio.
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution provides you with powerful resource management capabilities to assist you in achieving the greatest return on your investment in your employees. |
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Better assess resource efficiency and activity across projects by accurately and consistently tracking resource use and workload. |
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Assemble high-performing project teams using staffing tools that help your organization optimize resource allocation and assignments from a central resource pool. |
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Effectively determine hiring needs by forecasting short- and long-term resource capacity and project demands. |
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Streamline Project Management Performance for Competitive Advantage
Whether delivering products or services, all organizations need to meet project deadlines, budgets, and stakeholder expectations. To maintain customer satisfaction and meet customer expectations, no room exists for project errors or delays.
To stay competitive, companies are increasingly implementing initiatives to improve their project delivery by continually reducing cycle times, minimizing costs, and controlling quality. These initiatives require skilled people, standardized processes, and superior technology—unified and driven by effective project management.
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution enables your organization to streamline project management processes for greater performance: |
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Achieve organization-wide compliance and greater efficiencies in project delivery by capturing and deploying best practices and continually improving processes. |
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Consistently meet project goals and attain higher customer satisfaction by creating plans that reflect realistic schedules, resource requirements, and budgets. |
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Gain a deeper level of project governance and control through project performance, issue, and risk tracking capabilities. |
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Comply with government and regulatory requirements by integrating standardized methodologies with your existing project management processes. |
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Strengthen Collaboration Across the Enterprise for Improved Productivity
Effective communication is essential to achieve project success. With clear communication processes, team members can share knowledge, work together smoothly to complete tasks and deliverables, and respond quickly to change.
Project teams, however, are becoming more dispersed—both organizationally and geographically—threatening productivity and elevating the need for technology that can meaningfully connect team members to maintain coordination and quality.
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution provides an infrastructure that strengthens collaboration and accountability among all levels of the organization. |
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Empower managers and project teams to make timely, informed decisions by giving them Web-based access to real-time business-critical project data. |
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Increase participation in the project management process by enabling team members to easily manage, track, and report on their project activities through familiar tools, like the Web and e-mail. |
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Realize greater accountability through a central tracking system that enables project teams to record, assign, and resolve issues. |
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Gain higher quality and efficiency by jointly developing and organizing project-related deliverables using a central document repository with version and editing control. |
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Drive Business Value
The Microsoft Office EPM Solution is built on a flexible platform that can be customized to support your existing processes and integrate with your line-of-business systems, so you can get the most out of your current technology investments. With the Microsoft Office EPM Solution, your entire organization can work together to continually improve processes, increase efficiency, and facilitate knowledge sharing, driving a sustainable return on your investment.
Ten Compelling Reasons to Invest in Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution enables organizations to more effectively manage and coordinate their people, projects, and processes. Through familiar tools and ease of integration with a broad range of programs in the Microsoft Office System, the EPM Solution promotes broad participation for greater accuracy, accountability, and acceptance. The key benefits of the EPM Solution include: |
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Alignment of people and projects with strategic objectives
Reaching your long-term business goals in the future means investing in the right business activities now. With the EPM Solution, you can identify, prioritize, and select projects that support your strategic objectives and align your resources accordingly. And, by routinely evaluating and adjusting your portfolio of projects, you can ensure continuous alignment with your objectives for optimal efficiency and productivity. |
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Faster, more-informed business decisions
Making accurate decisions quickly is critical in today's fast-paced business climate. The EPM Solution provides visibility into your work portfolio for monitoring performance, visualizing trends, and identifying investment gaps. With these capabilities, you can make informed decisions on how to proceed with existing projects, make tradeoffs, and pursue new opportunities. |
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Continuous process improvement
Organizations are increasingly standardizing their processes to improve operational efficiencies and more effectively manage project complexity. With the EPM Solution, you can implement consistent, repeatable processes and refine them into proven best practices, resulting in lowered costs, faster cycle times, and increased quality. |
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Increased customer satisfaction
Successful project delivery is more than finishing projects on time, within budget, and within scope. The delivery process must also meet customer expectations. The EPM Solution enables you to create plans that reflect realistic schedules, resource requirements, and budgets, so you can set, communicate, and meet achievable milestones for better delivery and higher customer satisfaction. |
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Smooth collaboration and coordination
As organizations become more geographically and culturally diverse, clear communication is vital to ensure teams share common goals and work together effectively. The EPM Solution provides Web-based access to timely business-critical project information, so teams can share knowledge, collaborate smoothly to complete tasks and deliverables, and adjust activities quickly to accommodate project changes and updates. |
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Empowered project teams
Businesses are increasingly relying upon project team members to make high-impact decisions as part of their daily routines. With the EPM Solution, the latest project information is quickly available and transparent to team members, resulting in more efficient time management, better decision-making and increased accountability. |
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Effective resource deployment
Many organizations struggle to deploy resources effectively, leading to higher costs and project delays. The EPM Solution helps you accurately assess resource commitments and effectively deploy resources across your organization, so you can put the right people on your high-priority projects for optimal delivery. |
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Strategic hiring
Without understanding long-term workloads and capacity, companies can experience inefficient hire-fire cycles, resulting in higher overhead, lost knowledge, and poor employee morale. By providing visibility into overall work commitments and resource capabilities, the EPM Solution helps you achieve the right balance of strategic recruiting and outsourcing to achieve long-term business objectives. |
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More from existing technology investments
The EPM Solution leverages technologies that many organizations already have in place, so you can get the most out of your existing investments in training and infrastructure. By customizing and integrating the EPM Solution with your line-of-business systems, you can get a comprehensive view of your organization's activities for better decision-making. |
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A sustainable return on investment
The value of any investment depends on what types of improvements are gained and how quickly they're realized. By enabling increased employee productivity, faster cycle times, reduced costs, and improved time management, the EPM Solution provides a positive and sustainable return on your investment. |
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