Efficiently organize and track tasks and resources to keep your projects on time and within budget

If you think that your needs will grow and you will want to collaborate with others, then you should consider obtaining Project Professional 2003, which can integrate with the Microsoft Office Project Server 2003. Project Professional 2003 provides all the capabilities in Project Standard 2003. In addition, when used with Project Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Project Web Access, it provides Enterprise Project Management (EPM) capabilities such as up-to-date information on resource availability as well as skills and project status.

Project Server 2003 is the platform that supports the project and resource management and collaboration capabilities in the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management EPM solution. Users connect to Project Server through Project Professional and Project Web Access to save, retrieve, and interact with Project Server data.

Project 2003 now is integrated with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to allow project tasks to appear in the Outlook Calendar view alongside appointments. Users can update progress on Calendar entries and report their status back to Microsoft Project Server directly from Microsoft Outlook.

Integration with Windows SharePoint Services provides business executives with an easier means to assess project risks and issues. In addition, the document management features in Windows SharePoint Services provide a more robust structure for organizing documents in folders and subfolders, as well as check-in, check-out and versioning support to protect documents from inadvertent or unauthorized changes.

Resource managers and project managers now have additional tools to help them find resources based on availability and their specific skills. Project 2003 also allows users to add resources to a project from within Project Web Access and enables them to highlight whether or not resources are tentatively assigned for potential work.

Project Server 2003 has an expanded set of APIs that enable partners and customers to develop custom solutions more easily and better integrate Project with line-of-business applications. Project Server also provides out-of-the-box synchronization with Active Directory to reduce the administrative burden of managing Project Server.