1. MPA Meeting – Philadelphia/DE Valley Chapter January 29. 2007

2. Agenda Welcome (Ira Brown) Microsoft Project Certification Program Update (Bob Cantwell) Feature Presentation – “Introduction to Project Portfolio Server 2007” (Bob Cantwell) Feature Presentation – “Reporting Using Project 2007” Intrinsic Reporting Features (Ira Brown) Add-on: DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft Project (John Garay) Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks Wrap-up

3. Welcome Welcome to our second meeting! We encourage you to become a member $119 membership rate $20 Application fee will be waived – limited time offer. https://lv0.net/Form/MPA/Renew Meetings will be every other month Our next meeting will be on March 26, 2007 Tonight’s grand prize is DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft Project – a $299 value!

4. Project 2007 Reporting Features 3-D Gantt bars and background cell highlighting. Visual Reports - Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Visio Professional to produce pivot tables and charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data. Project Center Project “drill-down” views Data Analysis 3 rd Party reporting options DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft Project

5. 3-D Gantt Bars and Cell Highlighting

6. Visual Reports Analyze and report Project data in professional reports and charts Visual Reports can produce Visio diagrams and Excel charts based on Project data Available in both Project Professional 2007 and Project Standard 2007.

7. Project Center

8. Project “drill-down” views

9. Master Schedule

10. Data Analysis Faster OLAP cube processing 11 pre-defined OLAP cubes Project non-timephased Task non-timephased Two assignment cubes: non-timephased and timephased Two resource cubes: non-timephased and timephased Two timesheet cubes: Timesheet and EPM Timesheet Windows SharePoint Services: Risks, Issues, and Deliverables Three virtual cubes that combine data: Combine data from the EPM cubes (Project, Task, Assignment, and Resource) with data from the Timesheet cubes Combine data from the EPM cubes with data from the Windows SharePoint Services cubes Portfolio Analyzer cube, for backward compatibility with reports in earlier versions All baseline fields available in cube All new budget and cost fields available in cube Unlimited enterprise custom fields can be made available in OLAP cube

11. Reporting Add-Ons for Microsoft Project DecisionEdge Suite for Microsoft Project Understand and communicate key project information with embedded charts and reports

12. Tips and Tricks Working with Hammock Tasks Get a free hammock task download from www.projectwidgets.comwww.projectwidgets.com

13. Easily Create Enterprise Project Plans Project Documents, Issues/Risks & Tasks Integration with Tools People Know Projects, Tasks, Resources, Portfolio Items, operations, initiatives, fiscal periods, budgets, stage-gates, workflow rules, timesheet Team Participation Executive Reporting XML-based API API The Microsoft Office EPM Solution Project Web AccessProject Professional