Microsoft Project Online (Government Pricing)

Characteristics

• Quickly focus on what matters, easily select actions to take, and seamlessly browse functions with an enhanced visual experience.
• Utilize the new Start screen in Project Pro for Office 365 to walk through project basics such as organizing tasks, linking tasks, and creating a timeline.
• Tap into the latest Project templates on Office.com from within Project to get started quickly.

• Stay in control of your project plans no matter the size.

• Rich, out-of-the-box reporting tools within a familiar Office-like experience help you quickly and easily measure progress and resource allocation.

• With Task Path highlighting in the Gantt chart, you always know how your tasks come together and identify which are most critical to your project's success.

• Focus on what matters most in a contextual user interface to organize tasks, link tasks, and create timelines.

• The Project multiple timeline view helps you visualize your project to deliver stellar presentations to your team, executives, and stakeholders.

• Easily share insights that help you better communicate progress and achieve results.

• Use out-of-the-box reports such as Burndown and Resource Overview, or create your own with a familiar Excel-like experience to quickly measure progress and communicate effectively with your team, executives and stakeholders.

• Easily copy and paste from Project to familiar Office applications like Word and PowerPoint without losing fidelity or the ability to make changes to labels and styles.

• Enhanced tools like Team Planner and Resource Engagements help you see and amend potential problems before they can impact your schedule.

• With Project, you can set tasks to "Inactive" and quickly analyze "what if" scenarios without recreating your entire project plan.

• Discover potential problems before they become real ones through new task path analysis.

• Deliver projects successfully by efficiently managing the details of project planning, scheduling, and execution.

• See whether a team member is available to talk or instant message with Skype for Business by glancing at their presence status in your project plan.

• Send instant messages to kick off real-time conversations and shared meeting spaces right from your project with Skype for Business Online integration between Project and Office 365.

• Deliver project information, effectively track status, and receive changes from virtually anywhere by using improved list synchronization between SharePoint and Project.

• Get users up and running quickly with application streaming technology.

• Simplify deployments by having the latest patches and updates installed automatically (with the option to delay installations using a centralized policy to allow for compatibility testing where necessary).

• Enable users to work from the computer of their choice with the option to install Project on multiple PCs and even temporarily install it on kiosk computers while travelling.

• Benefit from integration with other Office 365 services, such as presence and instant messaging (IM) integration through Microsoft Skype for Business and Skype for Business Online and the option to save and share your projects to SharePoint Online and Project Online.

Characteristics

• Share the latest status, conversations, and Project Timeline through a dedicated project site with improved integration between Project and Office 365 (or SharePoint).
• Create your project site with a few simple clicks to quickly share project details with your team, keeping everyone connected and organized.