The Next Generation of the Microsoft Project Accelerator
The Project Accelerator is a Project Portfolio Management app based on Project for the web and the Microsoft Power Platform that will innovate your project portfolio management capabilities.
Set the right direction on every Project!
The Next Gen Project Accelerator provides you with a solution to manage your entire set of projects, portfolios, resources and their alignment to strategic goals. You can detect challenges and opportunities quickly to then start working on solutions faster.
Plan and track the performance of any project, program or portfolio with the Microsoft Project Accelerator.
Plan, control and coordinate projects and portfolios in one centralized hub in the cloud, from anywhere, by using tools such as dashboards, charts, reports and schedules.
Build collaborative environments for business units and functional areas to keep track of every instance to achieve high level goals in your organization.
Increase accountability across your organization and provide a high-level companywide guidance by aligning to Objectives and key results.
Manage project resources with an easy-to-use solution that allows you to handle a large volume of projects.
The Power Platform allows you to have several Data verses (data stores) in the same tenant as you need so that each business unit can have its own space to work and detailed performance reports.
New and Extended Capabilities
The Next Generation Project Accelerator includes important upgrades to the original Project Accelerator. It provides a complete set of capabilities to enable an organization in a collaborative environment for data driven decisions aligned to all projects, programs and portfolios.
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This is a personalized brief report for every team member that contains all tasks assigned to them.
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A space designed for your team members to approach challenges, suggest new ideas or request innovative solutions within any current project.
Requests can then be converted to Projects through out of the box workflows. -
This capability allows you to define your strategic goals based on the Objectives and Key results (OKR’S) framework.
You can define your milestones within a collaborative environment and track their progress and outcomes. -
Define your projects, programs and portfolios in a nested hierarchy. Plan and track your Projects’ dates, status, and efforts as well as all the information related to your programs, such as their overall health, status (on track, at risk and in trouble).
Portfolio attributes such as portfolio types, priority portfolio goals, and state among others are included in the solution. -
View a summary list of all types of resources (people, material, equipment) available to be assigned on Projects.
Define resource reservations for team members on Projects through a request and approval process by a Project Manager and a Resource Owner.
View reporting in Power BI that compares the Resource Plans (reservations) against the Resource Assignments made in Project Plans in Project for the web. -
Power BI reports for the Next Gen Accelerator are a core part of the solution that provide visualizations of all of the data within the solution.
Specific reports are available for Requests, Strategy, Portfolios, Projects, Resources and Tasks. -
Project level planning and tracking of risks, issues and change requests is done by any team member in the organization.
Other artifacts such as Assumptions, Decisions and Dependencies can also be created. -
View summary costs for all projects is provided in this area.
Costs are also tracked in the Project record solution to keep track of cost and expenses. Get powerful financial reports to make better decisions.
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Solutions
Every PMO requires innovative tools to increase the efficiency of its teams and PPM activities. The use of cloud-based PPM solutions is a key to success. Here’s how you can take advantage of The Next Gen Accelerator!
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The Next Gen Accelerator is a solution aimed to centralize project, portfolio and resource data, so you can create project plans and workflows to manage IT projects and portfolios with your internal and external resources, reducing the time and cost to deliver projects through improved planning and status reporting as well as resource utilization.
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With the Next Gen Accelerator, you can manage individual business unit Project and Portfolio solutions. The Next Gen Accelerator, a centralized application that allows you to visualize all your projects in real-time using one single interface provides a business unit the flexibility to model project lifecycles and project portfolio management according to their specific requirements. Using the Next Gen Accelerator as a template, change can be made so you can accommodate your unique requirements while maintaining project and portfolio management standards.
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Create bridges across any team by building a collaborative environment with easy to access project information, task management, reports and resources available for your team members and other stakeholders. Establish easy to follow project planning and tracking workflows that lead to problem resolution by encouraging your team to collaborate in Project for the web and the Next Gen Accelerator. Create agile environments with democratic access to information and transparency with The Next Gen Accelerator.
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The Enterprise PMO’s mandate to monitor project portfolios delivery aligned to business goals and objectives is met using the Next Gen Accelerator. An Enterprise PMO can leverage the Next Gen Accelerator to serve the entire company project and portfolio management needs, align strategies and standardized project and portfolio management processes to increase accountability across your organization.
