What is Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.
Integration with E-Business Suite
Microsoft Project Integration is a component part of Oracle Project Management; it links Microsoft Project and Oracle Projects, so that you can work with a project in both Oracle Projects and Microsoft Project. The two applications share project information while maintaining the security setup in Oracle Projects.
You can use Oracle Projects for Enterprise Project Management and Microsoft Project for scheduling. The two applications share project information while maintaining the security setup for projects, functions and roles in Oracle Projects as follows:
- The project manager creates a project in Oracle Projects from a project template that contains information for deliverables, work breakdown structures, and resource assignments. The unscheduled resource and workplan data is downloaded to Microsoft Project for scheduling.
- The project is scheduled in Microsoft Project based on task assignments, task dependencies, task constraints and other attributes.
- The project workplan in published in Oracle Projects. The project is now accessible to all team members assigned to the project. Team Members report their progress in Oracle Projects.
- The team members’ progress on the tasks is collected for updating the project plan.
- The project plan is updated with the progress. The project is now unscheduled. The unscheduled project plan is downloaded to Microsoft Project for rescheduling.
- The project plan is rescheduled in Microsoft Project and the task information is updated. The rescheduled workplan is uploaded to Oracle Projects for publication.
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This video clip shows the creation of a project in MSP based on a template from Oracle Projects. A work plan is created and synchronised with OP, then resources and costs are allocated in MSP and synchronised with Oracle. |
Benefits of Microsoft Project
- Standalone, desktop application
- Widely used in many project management organisations
- User interface is simple and easy to navigate
- Quickly add, copy and move multiple records together
- Users can save, share and manage individual project files for consolidating
- Costs to implement and train users are generally less
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