Microsoft Project 2002/2003, tightly integrated
with the Spitfire Project Management System (sfPMS), will allow you to maintain
better control of your business and its projects, increase resource
utilization, capture costs more accurately, and better understand
the profitability of your project portfolios.
The combination of Spitfire Project Management fully
integrated with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 provides all project stakeholders
with the tools they need to be successful. This end-to-end solution
delivers powerful functionality for managing people, money and projects
in your organization.
Microsoft Project 2002/2003 allows you to
manage your project plans, communicate project status, and report
project information quickly and efficiently. When used with Microsoft
Project Server, it also includes enterprise resource management capabilities
and portfolio management features, such as real-time reporting and
scenario analysis tools. These tools enable project managers and
business decision-makers to view project and resource information
across their department or entire organization.
Seamless Integration with the Spitfire Integration between Microsoft Project and Spitfire
provides you with real-time data synchronization of data while providing
you with the option to control that integration.
In Spitfire, you can choose to integrate the
following items with Microsoft Project:
Budgets: Make the budget you've established
in Spitfire available in to view in Microsoft Project
Labor Costs: Update Microsoft Project Actual
costs with Spitfire Labor Costs
Resource Cost Rates: Make your Spitfire
Resource Cost Rates available in Microsoft Project
Projects: Spitfire Projects can be integrated
with Microsoft Project on a project by project basis; and if integrated,
which employees will have access to charge time to the project's tasks
Tasks: If a project is integrated with
Microsoft Project, individual tasks may be selected for no integration
with Microsoft Project
Employees: Make your Spitfire Employee
list available in Microsoft Project on an employee-by-employee basis
Project Employees: Make employee assignments
to projects available to Microsoft Project
Account Categories: Each account category
can be selected for integration to one of Microsoft Project categories
(Actual Work, Other Project Expense, or Project Revenue) on a category-by-category
basis
Time Card Entry: Employees assigned to
tasks in Microsoft Project can have those tasks inserted into the
employees' timecards
Microsoft Web Project Analysis: Provides
schedule and resource information with the integrated Spitfire data
in a web browser in a real-time
In Microsoft Project, integration to the Spitfire
Project Management System (sfPMS) is available in the following areas:
Toolbar: Buttons added for Project Information,
Task Information, View Profit Pain, and Synchronize Project with Spitfire,
and About Spitfire Integration.
Project Information: Uses sfPMS project
numbering format, Project Manager, Business Manager, Customer, and
Subaccount information is displayed.
Task Information: Uses sfPMS task numbering
format and includes contract type, revenue, other expenses, and status.
Profit Pane: A split screen with the Gantt
Chart view in the upper pane and the account categories in the lower
pane grouped by Total Work, Total Other Expenses, Total Revenue and
Total Profit. As tasks are selected in the upper pane, the lower pane
refreshes with the selected task's data.
Synchronize Project with sfPMS: Triggers
a refresh of information from Spitfire to Microsoft Project. This
function is also triggered automatically whenever the project is saved.
Benefits Manage projects smarter and more efficiently.
Microsoft Project Professional includes all the core project management
features included in Microsoft Project Standard, so you can easily
and quickly set up task and resource assignments and track and report
project progress.
Manage resources across your organization. Get
accurate information about resource utilization and skills across
your organization.
Share Information. Give team members and stakeholders
the ability to view, update and analyze project information right
from their Web browsers. Microsoft Project Server provides a central
location for organizing and tracking project-related documents and
issues.
Analyze and report project information. Microsoft
Project delivers portfolio management, real-time reporting, analysis,
and modeling capabilities. Once project plans have been published
from Microsoft Project Professional to Microsoft Project Server, project
managers, executives, and other stakeholders can use Microsoft Project
Web Access - the Microsoft Project Server Web interface - to analyze
project data across their organization.
Promote Standardization. Deploy enterprise
templates and custom fields that enable consistent reporting across
your project portfolio.
