Project Professional 2007 includes all the innovative capabilities available in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007, as well as a Client Access License (CAL), which enables connection to Office Project Server 2007 and thus provides additional collaborative enterprise project management capabilities. Project 2007 helps you effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes, while also allowing you to benefit from better financial control and richer analytics. This application now offers the ability to quickly determine factors that are affecting task dates and easily trace the source of issues. Specifically, improved Task Drivers help you determine the factor (such as task dependency, calendar constraints, schedule date, or vacation time) driving the start date of the task, so you can follow a chain of factors back to find the root cause of a particular delay. Project 2007 also automatically highlights all items that shift as a result of the most recent changes made. You can even undo actions or sets of actions from macros, and that gives you the ability to test several what-if scenarios in order to fully understand the implications of each choice while making scope alterations.
Project Standard 2007 offers scheduling power and enhanced capabilities that can help improve the organization of your projects. Easily report and communicate information in various formats according to the needs of stakeholders. New leverage charts and diagrams will capture attention, thanks to the Visual Reports feature, which uses Excel and Visio Professional to produce PivotTable views, charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data. You can also enjoy the option of changing the background color of a cell or row with Background Cell Highlighting. Shade cells, similar to how you can in Excel, in order to convey additional meaning. In addition, any user can easily define custom report templates and share these with other Project users.
Main Features
Single-user solution helps you stay informed, keep project teams aligned, and control project work, schedules, and finances
Includes all the capabilities in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007, plus a Client Access License (CAL), which enables connection to Office Project Server 2007 and thus provides additional collaborative enterprise project management capabilities
Helps you effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes; benefit from better financial control and richer analytics
Improved Task Drivers help you determine the factor (such as task dependency, calendar constraints, schedule date, or vacation time) driving the start date of the task
Automatically highlights all items that shift as a result of the most recent change; delivers flexible project tracking and analysis by helping you to compute and track core metrics unique to your project.
Office Project Standard 2007 provides a wealth of assistance to novice and experienced users. It includes a robust Help search engine, smart tags, and wizards. Further enhancements include online access (requires Internet connection) to training courses, templates, articles, and more.
With Office Project Standard 2007, you can easily assign resources to tasks and adjust their assignments to resolve conflicts over allocations. Control finances by assigning budgets to projects and programs. Improve your cost estimates with Cost Resources.
Analyze and report Project data in professional reports and charts by using the Visual Reports engine, which generates templates for Visio diagrams and Excel charts based on Project data. You can share templates you build with other users. Or you can choose from a list of customizable, ready-to-use report templates.
The Project Guide, an interactive step-by-step planning aide, helps you quickly master the project management process. Customizable for different methodologies, this tool walks you through creating a project, assigning tasks and resources, tracking and analyzing data, and reporting results. Intuitive toolbars, menus, and other features enable you to quickly master project management fundamentals.
Set realistic expectations with project teams, management, and customers using Office Project Standard 2007 to build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets. Understand the schedule with features such as Task Drivers for tracing the source of issues, Multiple Level Undo for testing scenarios, and Visual Cell Highlighting for automatically shading the tasks affected by a change.
System Requirements
Hard Disk
1.5 GB; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Memory
512 MB RAM or higher.
Processor
700 MHz processor or higher.
Platform
Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system.
Other
CD-ROM or DVD drive.
Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor recommended.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP2 or later required to use the Import Outlook Tasks feature.
Visual Reports require Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP2 or later and Microsoft Office Vision Professional 2007.
Project Professional and Project Server 2007 are required for enterprise project and resource management capabilities.
Microsoft Office Project Web Access and Outlook 2003 SP2 or later required for importing tasks to the Outlook calendar or tasks list.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (installed as part of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007) is required for publishing projects, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Project Tasks List.
Microsoft.Net Framework Version 2.0 is required for the Resource Substitution Wizard.
Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only.
