Enterprise Project Management (EPM)

Microsoft Project Server Solutions

EPM Customization

We specialize in Enterprise Project Server development, meaning that we can perform customizations that go way beyond what you get “out of the box”. As an enterprise product, Project Server provides some built-in customization abilities, but for many of our clients this isn’t enough because they:

• require project server integration with various systems and applications
• require custom metrics and reporting
• use different risk and issue management

At Hebbian we can extend the features and functionality of Microsoft Project Server to custom-fit the needs of your Enterprise Project Management Solution.

Here are some of the things we can develop for your EPM solution:

• Provide real time synchronization between custom data in project workspaces, external systems and Project Server databases. This data that can be used for custom indicators, reports, etc.
• Provide custom cubes that integrate with the standard project server cube build process.
• Customize and extend the built in EPM data archival process to allow for things like rule-based data archival, migration to read only media and rule-based deletion of old/inactive projects.
• Implementation of custom reports

We can also extend Project Server Web Access, Project Workspaces and Project Professional client:

• Integrate third party applications into Project Web Access(PWA)
• Embed custom reports into Project Server Web Access
• Develop custom web parts, dashboards and forms
• Create custom permissions (extend project server permissions) for your new custom PWA pages and features
• Implement custom branding for your project workspaces
• Develop add-ons for your Microsoft Project Professional client

Automating Installations

Our experience has shown that many of our clients who did their own customization work tended to deploy them manualy. While this approach can sometimes work for very minor customizations, it tended to be error prone and difficult to troubleshoot and maintain.

At Hebbian we use MSI deployment projects that will install your customizations on your Project Server SharePoint servers/farm, automatically integrate with Project server, and automatically apply all required configuration changes. This eliminates one of the biggest sources of trouble on a manual deployment process – human error – and creates a consistent, repeatable deployment process for your custom EPM solution.