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Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 Benefits
The following describe the top 10 benefits of using Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 in
your organization.
#1 Automate and enforce governance processes.
Define multiple workflows to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls
throughout its life cycle—from proposal to post-implementation.
#2 Employ best practice methods.
Use out-of-the-box templates—such as a business driver library or risk assessments—and
embedded best practice methodologies to more effectively manage project, program, and
application portfolios across the organization.
#3 Capture all investments within a central repository.
Consolidate business and IT investments within an enterprise repository to improve
visibility, insight, and control. Flexible configuration forms help administrators quickly
build and publish templates, standardizing and streamlining the collection of data for all
portfolios.
#4 Objectively prioritize business strategy.
Employ proven techniques to define and prioritize your organization’s business strategy
for the upcoming planning period.
#5 Effectively prioritize and evaluate competing investments.
Use best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores—such as
strategic value, financial value, and risk—and develop investment maps to effectively
evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions.