Project Professional 2003 is the Microsoft desktop enterprise project management program that is used with Microsoft Office Project Web Access and Microsoft Office Project Server 2003. Project Professional 2003 provides all the core scheduling tools in Project Standard 2003, plus powerful portfolio and resource management capabilities when connected to Project Server 2003. Project Professional is used by project managers who need to schedule projects, assign team members from a central resource pool to project tasks, and save their information centrally to Project Server 2003 to share with others. 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) is ideal for organizations that need strong coordination and standardization between projects and project managers, centralized resource management, or higher-level reporting about projects and resources. The Microsoft EPM solution enables entire organizations, departments, or teams to work together to manage projects and processes effectively. Microsoft Office Project 2003 is used by project managers who need a desktop tool to manage their projects independently but who do not require strong coordination with other project managers or the ability to manage resources from a central repository. Project 2003 is designed to improve your ability to organize work and communicate effectively and succinctly through familiar, easy-to-use tools. Project Professional 2003, the enterprise project management program, works along with Project Server 2003 and Project Web Access to help you more effectively plan projects, better manage resources, and establish organization-wide repeatable processes.
Used with Project Server 2003 and Project Web Access.
Offers all the tools found in Project Standard.
Provides powerful enterprise project management capabilities when used with Project Server.
Better organize and manage work and people to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget. Track and evaluate the impact of schedule and resource changes to your overall project plans. Customize plans to capture information specific to your projects.
Compelling Communications. Convey your project plans and status effectively and succinctly by easily transferring information from Project Standard 2003 into other Office programs such as Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003, and Microsoft Office Visio® 2003.
Communicate more clearly using new printing enhancements to print one-page printouts of project schedules.
Ease of Use. Enhance your productivity and effectiveness by learning and applying project management practices easily. Access online help for relevant, up-to-date support and assistance and navigate and learn Project Standard 2003 quickly with an updated interface that is consistent with Office 2003 programs.
Efficiently manage projects. Leverage best practices by using a central repository of project templates. Efficiently create, staff and manage projects using step-by-step guides.
Download a template from Templates on Microsoft Office online, rather than starting a project from scratch Use familiar tools to do work that is more sophisticated and has more of an impact without the need for extensive training.
Save time by moving project information easily between Project 2003 and other Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Navigate and learn Project Professional 2003 quickly with an updated interface that is consistent with Office 2003 programs.
Microsoft EPM solution: The Microsoft EPM solution helps organizations, departments, or teams better analyze, manage, collaborate, and administer projects.
Have visibility into your work portfolio across your organization for better analysis and decision making Monitor consistent business metrics through a customizable scorecard view of projects across your portfolio and drill into the details as needed.
Evaluate and model schedules, resources, and cost data over time and across projects to identify trends and address problem areas.
System Requirements
Hard Disk 130 MB.
Memory 128 MB RAM.
Processor Pentium II 233MHz Processor.
Platform Microsoft Windows XP SP2 / Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later.
