14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Office is magic... at least when it comes to the software solutions focused on project and portfolio management. Microsoft revealed that it is one of the presences in the "Leaders" quadrant in the 2007 IT Project and Portfolio Management Applications Magic Quadrant report put together by Gartner. According to the Redmond company, its Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is among the solutions and services analyzed by the Gartner report.
"We consider our positioning in the 'Leaders' quadrant by Gartner confirmation of Microsoft's mission to enable customers to manage complexity in the IT environment and drive down operating costs," said Irwin Rodrigues, director of Microsoft Office Project at Microsoft. "Our goal is to help people amplify their impact on their businesses by extending project-management capabilities and insight to the entire enterprise."
Windows SharePoint Services is at the heart of the Office EPM Solution. And with SharePoint services as its infrastructure, Office EPM is able to offer corporate users both collaboration and document management features. Together with advanced communication, sharing and management capabilities, Office EPM also brings to the table a collection of tools to built interconnectivity across the various tiers of a business in an ecosystem combining project and portfolio.
"According to Gartner, product depth in such core areas as advanced scheduling, resources and cost management distinguishes most leaders, and most offer a range of deployment options (for example, pilots, staged implementations and SaaS) to address customers' varying needs at different levels of PPM capability maturity," reads an excerpt of a Microsoft press release announcing the positioning of the Microsoft Office project in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2007. The Redmond company also added that Office EPM enjoys the support of strong system integration partners but also project and portfolio management that goes as far as to offer consulting services.
"The 2007 Microsoft Office EPM Solution, including Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, is an end-to-end collaborative project and portfolio management environment. The Office EPM Solution helps organizations gain better visibility, insight and control across all their work to enhance decision-making, improve business alignment, maximize resource utilization, increase operational efficiency, and ultimately help increase the return on investment," Microsoft added.