Microsoft Project Professional 2010 gives you a
powerful, visually enhanced way to manage a wide range of projects
and programs. With all of the new updates and visual enhancements of
Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 delivers more with
at-a-glance resource management and team collaboration tools using
Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010, to successfully complete all
types of projects. And, utilizing Project Professional 2010, you and
your organization can realize the results of unified project and
portfolio management by adding Microsoft Project Server 2010.
- 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: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: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: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: 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.
System Requirements for Microsoft Project 2010 Professional
Display
1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor
Browser
Windows Internet Explorer 7 or later, 32-bit browser only
Connectivity
Internet functionality requires an Internet connection
Hard Disk
2 GB available disk space
Memory
512 MB RAM or more
Operating System
Windows 7, Windows Vista with SP1, Windows XP (must have SP3) (32-bit),
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, or later
32- or 64-bit OS