SharePoint Partners - Grow Your Business with Microsoft Project 2010

Arpan ShahDirector, Microsoft Project

Microsoft Corporationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/arpansTwitter @arpanshah

BP10

Lisa SlimMicrosoft Alliance Business Manager

Hewlett-PackardMPN partner since 1989HP Enterprise Business

Ro Kolakowski

Company Partner

6th Street Consulting

MPN partner since 2006

SharePoint

Jan KalisWW PPM Competency Lead

Microsoft Corporationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jkalis Twitter @MSFTProject

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP, MVPManaging Partner

Innovative-ehttp://sp.meetdux.com/ Twitter @meetdux

Agenda

SharePoint and Project Management OpportunityProject and Portfolio Management CategoryMicrosoft Project 2010Partner Case StudyNext Steps

Unstructured org looking to

improve project management? COLLABORATION

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Portal

Enterprise Content Management

CollaborativeWorkspaces

Business Process and Forms

Business Intelligence

Search

Program Management

Collaboration

Reporting

ResourceManagement

FinancialManagement

Portfolio Management

SharePoint Deployed – Now What?

The Value of Microsoft Project 2010 To You

Expand SharePoint business casesOpen business-level conversations around advanced and consolidated SharePoint workloads

Idea/innovation managementPortfolio managementGovernance and complianceRisk managementOther key business scenarios

Grow the services businessIncrease SI revenue and profit

Delivers higher value professional servicesDrives new Project and Project Server deploymentsUnlocks ECAL services opportunities for BI, Search, and ECM

Build on the robust, integrated platform Build innovative, compelling business applications that use advanced workloads such as Project and Portfolio Management capabilities

Reduces time to market Increases customer adoption with a consistent user experience

Unlock advanced workloads on SharePointIncrease the momentum of SharePoint adoption

Rapidly meets Project and Portfolio Management scenarios Drives ECAL for BI, Search, and ECM Improves SharePoint life-cycle management

Scenarios and Key Audiences

Exec StakeholdersProject portfoliomanagement,

reporting

Team MembersUse familiar tools to

collaborate and report status

Project ManagersIntuitive project management

Resource ManagersSkills-based resourcemanagement

ITSharePoint Lifecycle

Management

Project and Portfolio Management Matters

94% reported implementing project management added significant value to their organizations

ROI improved by 25%Productivity improved by 15%Time to market improved by 15%Project/process performance improved by 20%

Center for Business Practices

Remember – IT averages only about 5% of the total cost in a business. Shrinking IT costs by 50% will generate fewer savings than cutting business operation costs by 3%

MIT SloanFirms pursuing their defined business strategies with above-average IT governance processes had more than 20% greater profits than those with poor governance

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (MIT)

Companies doing portfolio management report saving 2 percent to 5 percent annually in their IT budgets

AMR Research

Each year roughly $55 billion wasted on failed projects in U.S. alone

The Standish Group

Gartner Gives Highest Ranking to MicrosoftGartner MarketScope for project and portfolio management applications

Source: “MarketScope for Project and Portfolio Management Applications” GartnerResearch, June 2011The MarketScope is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The

MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This MarketScope graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Microsoft.

Microsoft received the highest rating possible with a Strong Positive rating,

– June 2011

IDC Ranks Microsoft as a “Leader” in IT PPMIDC MarketScape for IT Project and Portfolio Management

“Microsoft ranks in the leader segment, with excellent capabilities as a result of its close coordination between Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Project Server 2010, the combined collaboration capabilities with SharePoint 2010, and emerging agile support.”

Source: “IDC MarketScape Excerpt: IT Project and Portfolio Management 2010 Vendor Analysis - Four Views to Enable Effective Evaluation”, IDC, December 2010

Microsoft Project 2010 Project management solutions for individuals, teams, and the enterprise

Single server, end-to-end capabilitiesCentralized demand managementFlexible governance and workflowEnhanced capacity planning

Ribbon UI and BackstageExcel-like behaviorTimeline View and Team PlannerWeb-based project editing

Built on SharePoint Server 2010Powerful dashboards and BIWork group collaborationImproved time sheeting

Better InteroperabilityExchangeVSTS for ALMDynamics AX and SL

Developer platformCentral administration

Project Management Solutions

Project and portfolio managementApplication lifecycle management

Integration with TFS

SharePoint lifecycle managementLifecycle solution for SharePoint IT departments

Innovation Process Management (IPM)

SharePoint and project solution

Project collaborationProject professional integration with SharePoint tasks

Workflow solutionAnd many more!

More information @ http://www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/solutions.aspx

Low Medium High

Ind

ivid

ual

Team

En

terp

rise

Project Managers

Project Collaboration

Project and Portfolio Management

Project Pro Synch to SharePointWeb-Based Project Editing (Project Server)

Project ProfessionalSharePoint

Level of Complexity

Project Server 2010(Built on SharePoint® Server)

With Project Pro

Microsoft Project and SharePoint Technology StackSolutions for Individuals, Teams and the Enterprise

Project 2010 Demo

Jan Kalishttp://blogs.msdn.com/jkalis/

WW PPM Competency Lead, Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Project

5 Ways Partners Can Grow Their Business with Project Portfolio Management Competency

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP, MVPManaging PartnerInnovative-e

partner

Why PPM Competency

“Corporate programs that are not managed by an EPM function are often poorly executed, missing deadlines, or budgetary requirements. But with a program management function in place, the success rate is much higher. “

The Value of Project ManagementInc., July 2010

PPM Competency Value

Increased credibility

Gain access to a growing market

Boost revenues by 22 percent

Add value to clients

Innovative-e attained the PPM competency

Complemented our background in the project management discipline

Innovative-e wanted to increase our project management business by highlighting its expertise in Microsoft® Project Server 2010

Sought to build on its Microsoft SharePoint® expertise

Partner Results/Benefits

1. Identify Key Business Processes

2. Assess Organizational PM Maturity

3. Maximize SharePoint for Project Management“Project management and internal IT support are the two most popular business processes to be automated with SharePoint, followed by proposals and contracts, and customer service.”

Using SharePoint for ECM AIIM Report, June 2011

4. Effectively Support Customer PM Initiatives

Serve as the trusted adviser for project management needs

Demand managementResource managementBI and reportingCost managementChange management

5. Proactively Promote PPM Competency

Thought leadershipPublicationsConferencesSocial media

Community involvementPMIMPUGSharePoint user groups

Next Steps

PPM Competency information on Microsoft Partner Network

Here at WPC - talk to myself (PPM Competency Lead) or Kevin Custer for any competency-related questions

Sign-up your technical consultants to Project 2010-Pre event at SharePoint Conference

More information

Project 2010? Look at your conference pen and browse http://www.microsoft.com/projectSummary of Project 2010 resources SharePoint Governance with project – TechEd recorded sessionSharePoint Partner case-studies on added value of project and portfolio management competency to their business

Content and Code (UK-based partner, added PPM Gold Competency, Content Management Partner of the Year 2011 finalist)Innovative-e (U.S.-based, added PPM Gold Competency, traditional SharePoint partner)

Customer case-studies

Project 2010 Resources at WPC

Project 2010 Booth – Exhibit hallBP10 – SharePoint Partners – Grow your business with Microsoft Project 2010BP24i - Best practices selling the Microsoft Project 2010 platform Business Productivity Theatre - next to the Project 2010 booth in the Expo Hall – presentations by our top partners, including PPM Partner of the Year 2011 winners and finalists!

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