Microsoft Enterprise Solutions
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions enable you to allocate financial and human resources with projects that best align with your overall business strategy.
By enabling increased employee productivity, faster cycle times, reduced costs and improved time management, EPM helps to provide a positive and sustainable return on your investment.
Catapult Systems employs a personalized approach to ensure that solutions are implemented and configured optimally to address your enterprise project management needs and map to your vision for improving your Project Management Maturity.
We combine your prioritized business needs with our experience implementing EPM solutions. And we work with you to adapt the technology to your business, helping you install, configure, customize, extend and integrate the Microsoft EPM solution that will serve your organization in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
EPM's value proposition can be broken down into four key areas:
- Better visibility and insight
- Fast adoption
- Enterprise ready
- Extensible and Programmable
1. Providing better visibility and insight
Microsoft EPM enables organizations to gain visibility into all project and non-project work within their organization. It supports capturing, tracking and managing work at all levels of complexity.
2. Driving broader adoption
Microsoft EPM promotes ing much broader adoption while lowering the barriers to entry. By leveraging in-place technologies, like Outlook and Excel, and integrating with line of business systems, you'll get the most out of existing investments while improving decision making.
3. Building enterprise solutions
Microsoft EPM is ready for the enterprise, with a scalable high performance infrastructure that includes:
Active Cache that enhances data transfer efficiency from Project Professional to Project Server.
Server-Side Queuing that delivers better control of server resources and improves performance.
The ability to create programs, which eases management of multiple projects and cross-project dependencies.
4. Extending and integrating EPM
Catapult can integrate, automate and connect your EPM solution with other enterprise applications. Built on .NET and the SharePoint platform, the EPM infrastructure includes Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint Services and Office Servers and provides a rich application programming interface (API) for extending project management capabilities into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, financial applications, timesheets and other line of business systems.
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 form the Microsoft EPM solution. Project Portfolio Server 2007 integrates with Project Server 2007 via a bidirectional gateway to provide an end-to-end project portfolio management solution. The gateway enables administrators to link multiple Project Servers to Project Portfolio Server, providing executives with a consolidated view of all projects within the organization.
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