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Optimize Budget and Align Investments with

Business Strategy

Select the Portfolio Best Aligned with Strategic and

Financial Goals

When you are selecting your project or program portfolio for the upcoming planning

horizon, Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 helps optimize budgets and recommend

portfolios that best align with your organization’s business strategy. This objective

process enforces a rational rather than emotional approach to portfolio selection, helping

to ensure that the selected investments are aligned with the organization’s strategic

priorities and will maximize return on investment.

Determine Optimal Portfolio Under Budget and Business Constraints

Faced with limited budgets year after year, IT and business executives must thoughtfully

and effectively allocate resources to the highest value portfolio of project and program

investments. Using sophisticated algorithms and embedded best practices in the Portfolio

Optimizer module, you can quickly determine the optimal project or program portfolio

under varying budget and business constraints (for example, cost, FTE, and inter-project

dependencies) while helping to ensure that the selected portfolio aligns with your

organization’s business strategy and delivers the maximum financial value.

 Run What-If Analyses: Apply varying cost and resource constraints, optimize and

dynamically assess the impact on the proposed project or program portfolio. The

intuitive interface in Portfolio Optimizer enables analysts to run multiple what-if

analyses and compare the results in a side-by-side table (see Figure 12). The

optimization algorithm identifies the optimal portfolio under the given constraints,

selecting projects or programs that have the highest value/cost ratio.

 Consider Dependency Constraints: The Portfolio Optimizer optimization algorithm

identifies the highest value portfolio while considering complex inter-project

dependencies.