Why The Microsoft Project Server And SharePoint Integration Comes In Handy
1. The Server and SharePoint integration aligns your vision and effort.
Prioritising initiatives, selecting optimal project portfolios, and delivering on your business strategy can become more effective when you have the integrated Server and SharePoint with you. Furthermore, you can make the most of other features which include the following:
- When you have a project on Server's web access (also called Project Web App, or PWA) - you can quickly promote a SharePoint task list to it.
- If you want to standardise rejection and project progression, and improve control and governance - you can easily do so with Visio and SharePoint.
- Measuring the strategic contribution of clashing requests or evaluating ideas can effectively be done the integration of the two solutions.
2. The Server and SharePoint integration helps you see what your teams are doing.
Whether your teams are managing ad hoc projects or other everyday work in SharePoint, you can better manage your resources with Microsoft Project Server. This means that you can:
- Capture the ideas of your team in SharePoint task lists, then measure them in Server.
- Better manage resource allocation, and accurately measure resource utilisation.
- Get information from the calendars of team members from SharePoint, and let them seamlessly flow through Microsoft Project Server. This way, task status updates and project scheduling are simplified.
3. The Server and SharePoint integration allows you to collaborate in new ways, and to act quickly.
You SharePoint's social experiences and Server's project management features - you can strengthen your organisation's everyday collaboration.
- Seamlessly flow capacity information presence, and calendar across your organisation with Server + SharePoint's collaborative tools.
- Share information and do business with your trusted partners on projects and everyday work using the powerful security features of Server + SharePoint.
- Find the right information by making the most of SharePoint's search capabilities. This will make effective project and work execution.
- Microsoft Project Server integrated in SharePoint allows you to easily share and curate the discussions and work of your teams - with the help of SharePoint's 'follow' feature.
4. The Server and SharePoint integration allows your admin enjoy a simplified IT experience.
Project Portfolio Management or PPM may seem intimidating for non-IT users. But with Server and SharePoint integration, your administration need not worry about it because:
- When it comes to assigning a project that you have on Microsoft Project Server, SharePoint makes it easy through the Active Directory synchronisation. This allows you to choose the group containing the teams that you want to be assigned to a particular project.
- When SharePoint is integrated to Server, you can control the level of access to give to your teams and trusted business partners.
- For data mining and intelligence, you can trust in Server + SharePoint's ODATA (Open Data Protocol) industry standards.