Project Information Management with Microsoft SharePoint

FREE BREAKFAST SEMINAR

In many organizations, Sharepoint has become the default environment for information management and collaboration –which makes the Microsoft platform the logical environment for managing project information too. That way, project management teams could use technologies  that are familiar and already in place. However, project teams already using Sharepoint will soon realize that the standard set-up has some significant limitations for managing project information in a flexible and efficient way. During this seminar, we will pin-point possible limitations of Sharepoint and explain how you can overcome these by adopting best practices or some technology add-ons.

So what makes information management for a project so specific? It boils down to three major things: managing your project documents, managing your team members and - last but not least - the project properties or metadata that give an overview of all your projects company-wide.

There are several solutions based on MS technology to tackle this - such as MS Office 365, SharePoint Server 2010 or MS Project Server 2010. The key components of enterprise project information management are:

• Project Metadata: central management of project properties.
• Document Management: inheritance of project metadata on the documents.
• Scalability: being able to manage hundreds or thousands of projects without hierarchy constraints
• Findability: quickly navigate to your projects in a flexible and user friendly way
• Security: allowing to extend your project sites to your customers (extranet set-up)

During this seminar, Amplexor will also showcase its proven solution and approach for a project information management system based on SharePoint.

To wrap-up, we will look into what Sharepoint 2013 has in store regarding project information management.