Project Online scope
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Hi Hugo,
First of all, it might take a full day of discussion to explain the solution versus your concern. It will be quite fastidious to have this meeting here on the forum so I'd suggest you to contact either MS with a sale representative or a consulting firm with a Project expertise.
That being said, let me try to answer your questions, and I'm sure some other experts will also bring their valuable knowledge.
1- Here is the Project Online boundaries article, you'll find all the relevant information about the limitations : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Project-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-5a09dbce-1e68-4a7b-b099-d5f1b21ba489
2- Project Online comes together with a set of reporting tools such as PowerBI with odata protocol. Using PowerBI which is very user friendly, you can consolidate any data (assignments, resources, tasks, projects, portfolio) from your Project Online instance. You might also need to replicate the DB in a local SQL DB or in Azure so you can all your data locally to use any kind of reporting tool.
3- Quite related to the previous point, you can create dashboards focused on a single projects, many projects, a portfolio... with the reporting tools.
4- As far as I know, no, but the planner tool is being deployed currently and will bring a new experience.
5- Project is actually a Sharepoint application thus for example, for each project created, you can have a sharepoint team site. This site supports the team collaboration (blog, discussions, documents, risks, issues, lists...) and is linked with the project itself. That being said, as far as I know, you cannot use your on site Sharepoint Server with your Project Online instance.
6- You can add external team members but they'll need to have a Project Online/Project Lite license. Then you can site by site customize the permission for the sharepoint sites or have a Project Online security model to prevent the external user to see what they should not see.
As you can see, there are many aspects to take into account, and a meeting with a Microsoft representative or partner would bring you a huge added value.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, MCC |
- Marked as answer by Hugo Jorgensen Friday, January 8, 2016 9:09 AM
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Hi Hugo,
First of all, it might take a full day of discussion to explain the solution versus your concern. It will be quite fastidious to have this meeting here on the forum so I'd suggest you to contact either MS with a sale representative or a consulting firm with a Project expertise.
That being said, let me try to answer your questions, and I'm sure some other experts will also bring their valuable knowledge.
1- Here is the Project Online boundaries article, you'll find all the relevant information about the limitations : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Project-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-5a09dbce-1e68-4a7b-b099-d5f1b21ba489
2- Project Online comes together with a set of reporting tools such as PowerBI with odata protocol. Using PowerBI which is very user friendly, you can consolidate any data (assignments, resources, tasks, projects, portfolio) from your Project Online instance. You might also need to replicate the DB in a local SQL DB or in Azure so you can all your data locally to use any kind of reporting tool.
3- Quite related to the previous point, you can create dashboards focused on a single projects, many projects, a portfolio... with the reporting tools.
4- As far as I know, no, but the planner tool is being deployed currently and will bring a new experience.
5- Project is actually a Sharepoint application thus for example, for each project created, you can have a sharepoint team site. This site supports the team collaboration (blog, discussions, documents, risks, issues, lists...) and is linked with the project itself. That being said, as far as I know, you cannot use your on site Sharepoint Server with your Project Online instance.
6- You can add external team members but they'll need to have a Project Online/Project Lite license. Then you can site by site customize the permission for the sharepoint sites or have a Project Online security model to prevent the external user to see what they should not see.
As you can see, there are many aspects to take into account, and a meeting with a Microsoft representative or partner would bring you a huge added value.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, MCC |
- Marked as answer by Hugo Jorgensen Friday, January 8, 2016 9:09 AM
