How to buy the Enterprise Project Management Solution
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is an end-to-end collaborative project and portfolio management environment that helps your organization gain visibility, insight, and control by enhancing decision making, improving alignment with the business strategy, maximizing resource utilization as well as measuring and increasing operational efficiency. The EPM Solution enables effective communication and collaboration within project teams. The EPM Solution’s extensible, enterprise-scale architecture helps enable effective integration with other line-of-business (LOB) solutions and Office system applications.
The table below highlights the core products that comprise the EPM Solution, as well as required enabling technologies and recommended complementary products that an enterprise should consider.
Note The products that comprise the EPM Solution are offered only through Volume Licensing. Find out more about Volume Licensing.
Core products
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License Information |
| Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 |
This desktop client to the EPM Solution helps enable users to stay informed, control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, while becoming more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting options, as well as guided planning, wizards and templates. |
Each licensed copy includes one Project Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL). Requires Project Server 2007 for enterprise project management functionality. |
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Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 |
Project Server 2007 provides the core services for the EPM Solution. It helps enable users to centralize and standardize information on work and resources from across their entire organization which enables analysis and reporting to facilitate management, accelerate time to market and improve quality. Project Server is enterprise-ready and customizable with its comprehensive API and support for workflow. |
You can acquire additional Project Server 2007 CALs through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements.
Requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for hosting and function of Windows Server System. Requires Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for enterprise project management functionality.
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| Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL)
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Project Server 2007 Client Access Licenses (CALs) are required for each device or user that accesses the features and services of Project Server 2007, for example to use the thin Web client Project Web Access, Project Web Parts in SharePoint, or connecting customized client interfaces.
The CAL enables Project Web Access, the web client to the EPM Solution, which enables users to view, analyze and report on information including timesheets as well as create project proposals and activity plans. This also includes the administrative user interface.
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Please refer to the licensing brief “Multiplexing — Client Access License (CAL) Requirements” and the Product Use Rights agreement for additional details on CALs. |
| Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 External Connector
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The Project Server 2007 External Connector is an optional product for the EPM Solution that permits non-employees such as partners to collaborate on projects. |
If you would like to allow your business partners or customers to access your network, you have two licensing options:
- Acquire Windows CALs for each of your external users.
- Acquire External Connector (EC) licenses for each server that will be accessed by your external users.
An external user is a person who is not an employee, or similar personnel of the company or its affiliates, and is not someone to whom you provide hosted services using the server software. |
| Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007
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Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a top down portfolio management solution that helps organizations identify, select, manage, and deliver portfolios that align with their business strategy. Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 is a key component of the EPM Solution and helps ensure that you gain visibility, insight, and control across your project, program, and application portfolios. This includes a bi-directional link with Project Server 2007. |
You can acquire additional Project Portfolio Server 2007 CALs through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements.
Requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for hosting and function of Windows Server System. Requires Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for enterprise project management functionality.
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| Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL) |
Project Portfolio Web Access is a web client used to access the information stored in Project Portfolio Server 2007. Using Project Portfolio Web Access requires a Project Portfolio Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL). Project Portfolio Web Access provides users with access to the following modules:
- Portfolio Builder
- Portfolio Optimizer
- Portfolio Dashboard
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Please refer to the licensing brief “Multiplexing — Client Access License (CAL) Requirements” and the Product Use Rights agreement for additional details on CALs. |
| Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 External Connector |
This optional license is an alternative to CALs for an unlimited number of business partners or customers to access Project Portfolio Server 2007. |
If you would like to allow your business partners or customers to access your network, you have two licensing options:
- Acquire Windows CALs for each of your external users.
- Acquire External Connector (EC) licenses for each server that will be accessed by your external users.
An external user is a person who is not an employee, or similar personnel of the company or its affiliates, and is not someone to whom you provide hosted services using the server software. |
Note Project Portfolio Server 2007 and its CALs can be purchased and deployed on their own and do not have any dependencies on Project Server 2007 or the other core products within the EPM Solution. To gain a true end-to-end project portfolio management solution, customers should deploy Project Portfolio Server 2007 in conjunction with Project Server 2007 and Project Professional 2007.
See the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution system requirements.
Enabling technologies
For more details on enabling technologies, please refer to the EPM Solution system requirements.
Recommended products
| Offering |
Functionality |
License Information |
| Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 |
Personal information manager and communication program that provides a unified place to manage e-mail, calendars, contacts, and other information. Integration of Outlook with Project Server 2007 enables:
- Viewing Project tasks directly in the Outlook Calendar and Outlook To Do Bar
- Time and status reporting through Outlook
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Please visit the Microsoft Office Volume Licensing page for more information on licensing Outlook 2007. |
| Additional products in the Microsoft Office system
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The Microsoft Office system is a comprehensive and integrated system of programs designed to work together to analyze, publish, and share business data. Project 2007 has been designed to work with programs in the Microsoft Office system, specific points of integration include:
- Copy Picture to Office Wizard in Office Project Professional generates reports in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Import tasks from Excel wizard into Office Project Professional
- Visual Reports publish cubes of data from Project Professional into Excel 2003 or higher and Visio Professional 2007
- Import a Microsoft Office Outlook task list into Project Professional
- Import Project Task Lists from SharePoint into Project Web Access
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Please visit the Microsoft Office Volume Licensing page for more information on licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office system. |
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