Microsoft Project Professional
2010 delivers a project
management system with powerful,
visually enhanced ways to
effectively manage a wide range
of projects and programs.
From meeting
crucial deadlines to selecting
the right resources and
empowering your teams, Project
Professional 2010 helps project
management professionals by
offering easier and more
intuitive experiences to be more
productive and realize amazing
results.
Top ten features and
Benefits:
Familiar and intuitive.
The Ribbon
makes finding and using your
favorite tools simpler with new
graphical menus and a familiar
experience to help you easily
create and manage projects.
Tooltips and contextual guidance
provide information and
shortcuts so you can accomplish
more in less time. In the new
Microsoft® Office Backstage™
view, simply save, share, print,
or publish your projects from
one location.
Save time and effort.
Save time
and effort with familiar and
essential functions like text
wrapping, filtering,
auto-complete, scroll and zoom,
and more. Insert new columns on
the fly—data types are readily
identified so that you can
quickly and effectively organize
and analyze details. Quickly
share schedule details through
enhanced copy-and-paste, and
retain key formatting between
Project 2010 and other Microsoft
Office applications.
Flexible and powerful.
User-controlled scheduling puts
you in control and brings
together the flexibility and
ease of use of a tool like
Microsoft Excel® 2010 and the
power of the Project 2010
scheduling engine. Create
project schedules at the level
of detail that’s right for your
project. Work with summary data
initially or shift to a more
detailed approach when it’s
convenient. Place notes as
reminders of where additional
schedule information is needed,
or simply add information as it
becomes available.
Easier to see and
share.
With a
completely new and visually
enhanced timeline view, you’ll
have a clearer view of tasks,
milestones, and phases. Newly
expanded color palettes and text
effects help you make every
timeline and plan look their
best—and help you to swiftly see
and share important dates and
deliverables.
At-a-glance.
(Team
Planner – Pro only)
See the
right mix of people and
resources: simply drag tasks to
effectively plan work for your
entire team and project. The new
Team Planner view in Project
Professional 2010 shows
resources and work over time, to
help you spot problems and
resolve issues. New in Project
2010, the Task Inspector offers
additional analysis and
intuitive guidance to resolve
scheduling conflicts derived
from a task’s attributes and
assigned resources, which you
can choose to act upon or not.
Control and
deliver.
Quickly
compare budget versus actual
versus forecasted values to
measure an initiative's progress
with the flexibility of setting
multiple baselines. Create
high-level time-phased budgets
with user-defined categories for
costs and labor. Validate
budgets against bottom-up
estimates built by using labor,
material, and cost resources.
Control project costs by
comparing budgets to completed
tasks and forecasted totals. Use
built-in earned-value metrics
for predictive analysis and
integrated performance
management.
Evaluate possibilities.
(Inactive
Tasks – Pro only)
Often you'll
need to evaluate scenarios and
consider options when planning
new projects or monitoring
ongoing work. Using inactive
tasks, new in Project
Professional 2010, you can
easily experiment with your
project plan and perform what-if
analysis. A simple toggle
removes or inserts one or more
tasks, along with their effect
on the project schedule. Project
2010 also offers more built-in
tools to help support what-if
analysis and scenario
comparison, including
multiple-level undo and change
highlighting.
Collaborate with
others.
(Task Status
Updates – Pro only)
Connect your
teams by synchronizing with
Microsoft SharePoint® Foundation
2010. Using Project Professional
2010, you can synchronize
SharePoint Foundation 2010 and
Project Professional 2010
project task status updates for
you and your team members. You
can also save your project files
to SharePoint Foundation 2010
team sites to communicate plans
and collaborate on progress.
Grow capabilities.
(Connect to
Project Server 2010 – Pro only)
Realize the
power of unified project and
portfolio management by
combining Project Professional
2010 with Microsoft Project
Server 2010. Together, Project
Professional 2010 and Project
Server 2010 create the Microsoft
Enterprise Project Management
(EPM) Solution, and deliver
end-to-end capabilities to help
organizations prioritize
investments and optimize
resources, gain control of all
types of work, and visualize
performance by using powerful
dashboards.
Enhance
performance.
Use the
64-bit options of Project 2010
to enhance performance and
support very large projects and
programs. Project Standard 2010
and Project Professional 2010
are offered in 32-bit and 64-bit
options to support a diverse
range of project types and
sizes. 64-bit options take
advantage of the expanded memory
and optimized capabilities of
the latest processors and of the
64-bit versions of Windows 7 and
Windows Vista. 64-bit Project
Professional 2010 also offers
enhanced performance and handles
extremely large project files
with ease when connected to
Project Server 2010.
