Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server

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Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server is a project portfolio management application from Microsoft. It is part of their Enterprise Project Management suite which includes Microsoft Office Project Server.

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[edit] Versions for Windows

  • 2007 - Project Portfolio Server 2007
  • 2006 - Project Portfolio Server 2006
  • Previous Years - UMT Portfolio Manager

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Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 allows creation of a project portfolio, including workflows, hosted centrally, so that the information is available throughout the enterprise, even from a browser. It also aids in centralized data aggregation regarding the project planning and execution, and in visualizing and analyzing the data to optimize the project plan. It can also support multiple portfolios per project, to track different aspects of it. It also includes reporting tools to create consolidated reports out of the project data.

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Microsoft announced the acquisition of the UMT Portfolio Manager 3.3 Server on January 19, 2006. The driving factor behind the acquisition was to gain a leading portfolio management solution that would help clients quickly deploy world-class portfolio management tools integrated with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to expand the capabilities of the Office EPM Solution.[1].

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