Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 helps you stay informed, keep project teams aligned, and control project work, schedules, and finances. Integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting options, and guided planning, wizards, and templates help you become more productive. This version upgrade of Project Professional 2007 is available to those who have one of the following qualifying applications: Microsoft Project Professional 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003; Microsoft Project 2000; Microsoft Project Standard 2000-2002; and Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003-2007.
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
Upgrade available on these qualifying applications: Microsoft Access 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Access 2003; Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or later; any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office suite; and any Microsoft Office XP suite
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.
If a project seems to be getting off track, you can easily trace the source of the issue to a particular task or assignment, thus improving accountability. Follow the reasons for the delay (personal error, calendar constraints, vacation time, etc) to the root cause.
Assign different budgets to certain projects or programs, and stay on track with new cost estimation and tracking functions.
Define custom fields that apply to your particular project, and calculate and track metrics with this new flexible function.
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 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 Visio 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. Internet functionality requires Internet access.
