Project Server 2013

Microsoft Server 2013 is a flexible on-premises solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Team members, project participants, and business decision makers can get started, prioritize project portfolio investments and deliver the intended business value from virtually anywhere. Requires SharePoint 2013, sold separately.

Utilize a smarter PPM solution

Get started quickly with a familiar experience that improves participation and helps teams get more done

• Use the new visual tiles in Project Web App (PWA), your web app to access Project Server, to quickly begin or flex project portfolio management capabilities.
• Choose between devices and browsers – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and more – to view, edit, submit, and collaborate on project, portfolio, and everyday work.

Take action and stay up to date in more places and on more devices than ever before.

• See and act on your tasks (including business and personal) in one location.
• Effectively plan and manage tasks in PWA with the help of new scheduling capabilities.
• Keep your teams organized in one location – their project site – where they can view project summaries, documents, tasks, newsfeeds and calendars.

Flexible project portfolio management

Align vision and effort to prioritize initiatives, select optimal project portfolios, and deliver on your business strategy.

• Effectively evaluate ideas or measure the strategic contribution of competing requests to determine alignments and streamline project initiation.
• Easily create workflows in Visio and SharePoint Designer to standardize project progression or rejection and improve governance and control.
• Quickly promote a SharePoint task list to an enterprise project in PWA.

Effectively manage resources to see what your teams are doing – even when they’re managing everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint.

• Better manage you’re your project pipeline and what your people are working on by capturing your team’s ideas in SharePoint task lists and measuring them in PWA.
• Accurately measure resource utilization and better manage resource allocation that aligns with your strategy.
• Seamlessly flow information from team member calendars in Exchange to Project Server 2013, simplifying project scheduling and task status updates while enhancing task-sharing capabilities.

Take advantage of new ways to collaborate and act quickly

Strengthen everyday collaboration with the social experiences of SharePoint, which facilitate discussions, information sharing, and your team’s ability to get work done.

• Easily share and curate what teams are talking about and working on by following people, sites, tags, and documents with newsfeeds.
• Utilize the search capabilities of SharePoint to execute everyday work and projects more effectively and find the right information.
• Take advantage of powerful security features to share information and collaborate with trusted business partners on projects and everyday work.
• Promote visibility with collaborative tools to seamlessly flow calendar, presence, and capacity information across your organization.

Seamlessly communicate with new ways to share conversations across time and space to improve overall teamwork.

• Hover over an individual’s name in your project plan to see if a team member is available to talk or instant message (IM) with Lync.
• Collaborate with your team quickly by dragging and dropping them into a Lync meeting for group conferencing, instant messaging, screen sharing, and shared workspaces.

Increase agility and control

Make data driven decisions by equipping team members and stakeholders with the information they need to stay informed and effective.

• Optimize utilization and plan allocation for your organizations resource requirements through the resource center in PWA.
• Use summary dashboards to help gain insights and make better decisions.
• Quickly mine and aggregate data on many dimensions via self-service access with Excel Services.

Simplify IT with an integrated admin experience with SharePoint.

• Utilize Active Directory (AD) synchronization in PWA to choose which AD group contains the teams that you want to assign to projects.
• Easily give your teams and trusted business partners the right level of access through a new SharePoint integrated security model in PWA.
• Utilize industry standards such as ODATA (open data protocol) for data mining and business intelligence.

Quickly innovate with a flexible PPM platform.

• Utilize apps from the new SharePoint Store to meet unique business needs.
• Quickly develop and deliver apps that help you shave time off discrete processes or connect to proprietary software systems.
• Take advantage of integrated experiences across Project Server, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and Office to help you quickly act and respond to opportunities.
• Bring together different disciplines such as ALM, NPD, and IPM through a connected and scalable PPM platform.