Comparing Microsoft Project Products



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The Microsoft® Project version 2002 product line includes Microsoft Project Standard, Microsoft Project Professional, and Microsoft Project Server with Microsoft Project Web Access. How do you know which product is right for your organization? You’ll find the answers here.

Microsoft Project provides flexible solutions that include the tools and platform to make information accessible to everyone across your organization. Because team members and stakeholders can now collaborate on projects and analyze project information in ways that fit their specific needs, your entire company becomes more efficient and agile. Both Microsoft Project Standard and Microsoft Project Professional integrate with Microsoft Project Server to extend project information and capabilities to your entire organization through Microsoft Project Web Access. Determining which Microsoft Project solution fits your needs is as easy as knowing what type of work you do.

( Microsoft Project Standard:

For Business Managers

Microsoft Project Standard helps business managers and project teams dynamically manage schedules and resources, collaborate on projects and analyze project information. The new Project Guide provides interactive wizard-like guidance to help you create and manage project plans so that you become productive immediately.

( Microsoft Project Professional: For Project

and Resource Managers

In addition to all the project management functionality found in Microsoft Project Standard, Microsoft Project Professional provides a scalable and customizable solution for your organization. Together with Microsoft Project Server version 2002, Microsoft Project Professional provides powerful enterprisewide project and resource reporting, scenario analysis, and resource management capabilities.

( Microsoft Project Server:

For Executives, IT Professionals and Team Members

Microsoft Project Server provides a leading technology platform for collaboration and enterprise project management with the scalability and flexibility to fit your company’s existing business systems. Microsoft Project Server extends real-time project information and capabilities through Microsoft Project Web Access to team members and stakeholders allowing them to view, update and analyze project information easily, report time, share documents, and track issues.

*Requires Microsoft Project Server 2002 and Microsoft Project Server Client Access Licenses.

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Comparing Microsoft Project Products

| |Project Management |Enterprise Project |

| |Solution |and Resource |

| | |Management Solution |

| |Microsoft Project |Microsoft Project |

| |Standard |Professional |

|Dynamic task scheduling |( |( |

|Gantt charts, calendars and task sheets IMPROVED |( |( |

|Project Guide, an interactive help tool NEW |( |( |

|Microsoft Office XP interface and smart tags |( |( |

|IMPROVED | | |

|Microsoft Excel and Outlook® messaging and |( |( |

|collaboration client integration IMPROVED | | |

|Resource pooling and leveling |( |( |

|Resource Availability Graphs NEW |( |( |

|Visual Basic® for Applications customization |( |( |

|Database save/load |( |( |

|XML save/load NEW |( |( |

|Web-based views of project information* IMPROVED |( |( |

|E-mail notifications* NEW |( |( |

|Web-based timesheets and status reports* IMPROVED |( |( |

|Document sharing* NEW |( |( |

|Issue tracking* NEW |( |( |

|Enterprise resource pool* NEW | |( |

|Skill-based resource assignment and replacement* NEW| |( |

|“What-if” scenario analysis* NEW | |( |

|Real-time reporting and analysis tools* NEW | |( |

|Enterprise codes and custom fields* NEW | |( |

|Enterprise templates* NEW | |( |

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