Integration scenarios, functionalities and processes surrounding the Microsoft Project Server

Business processes in project management extend today across the most variegated of IT systems whose data have to be consolidated. In most cases, a central project management tool is deployed replacing various isolated applications so as to network the remaining systems with one another. The effort by employees is reduced, and the data quality of the individual systems is increased. Consequently, redundant maintenance requirements are to be excluded with the use of the remaining different systems.
Many companies deploy Microsoft Project Server in order to meet these requirements. “Through the use of Microsoft Project Server, project management tasks can be realised on a tool-supported basis, from project initiation to project and resource planning up to cost controlling. More tools beside the Microsoft Project Server are available during the entire project management cycle in order to support processes and activities as efficiently as possible,” says Stephan Fasshauer, Product Marketing Manager Project and Visio, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Information Worker Division.
Concrete technical possibilities for integration with the Microsoft system landscape as well as application options, using the examples of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Team Foundation Server, Exchange Server and a tool not based upon Microsoft technologies, e.g. SAP, will be presented in this whitepaper.