Category: Reporting

The Reports Nobody Trusts: Why Manual Status Updates Are Killing Executive Confidence

Posted on by Kaly Samadi

When status reports are stitched together by hand from six different sources, two things happen. They’re always late, and nobody believes them. I’ve sat in a lot of executive meetings in the last seventeen years. The pattern that comes up more than any other has nothing to do with strategy or budgets. It’s this: An Read more about The Reports Nobody Trusts: Why Manual Status Updates Are Killing Executive Confidence[…]

Resource Management or lack of, can make or break your company’s project portfolio.

Posted on by Laura Holder

INTRODUCTION A project’s success rests significantly on its team, making resources one of the most important investments in the project. Yet in most cases, Resource Management is practically non-existent. How do you ensure that the right resources, are working on the right thing, at the right time? There are 2 things that must come into Read more about Resource Management or lack of, can make or break your company’s project portfolio.[…]

Leveraging the MS Project Organizer

Posted on by Michelle Chambers

The ‘Organizer’ within Microsoft Project (Standard and Professional) allows one to quickly copy various Microsoft Project objects (fields, groups, filters, calendars, tables, modules, reports, and views) from one Microsoft Project file or Enterprise Project schedule to another. Learn how leveraging the MS Project Organizer will help with your templates and elements. In a Microsoft Project Read more about Leveraging the MS Project Organizer[…]

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How To Use Deadlines in Microsoft Project

Posted on by Michelle Chambers

When you’re working on a project, you need to understand how your different tasks will affect when your project ends in order to reach important deadlines. To help manage those important dates, Microsoft Project offers functionality to allow Project Managers the option to enter/set a deadline for any task in the project schedule. Deadlines in Read more about How To Use Deadlines in Microsoft Project[…]

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Configure Rollup of Timephased Reporting Data in Project Online

Posted on by Karam Mohammed

Many organizations need reports that retrieve Tasks and Assignments timephased data. The problem is performance issues, especially in organizations that have a lot of Project Online reporting data. Microsoft acknowledged that not all organizations would need the timephased data to be reported by day. So they introduced an option to roll up the data on Read more about Configure Rollup of Timephased Reporting Data in Project Online[…]

Configuring SSRS 2016 in SharePoint/Project Server 2016

Posted on by Sunil Guntupalli

The process of setting up SSRS in SharePoint/Project Server 2016 integrated mode has changed a little bit when compared to earlier versions of SharePoint/Project Server. The process consists of installing SSRS on the SharePoint servers, creating SSRS service application and configuring the Reporting libraries to contain report elements. Installing SSRS 2016 on SharePoint/Project Server 2016 Read more about Configuring SSRS 2016 in SharePoint/Project Server 2016[…]

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How To Create PowerApps In SharePoint Online

Posted on by Karam Mohammed

Introduction Microsoft introduced the PowerApps service back in November 2017. This service allows administrators to build apps that can run on a browser or phone or tablet with no coding knowledge needed.  PowerApps has drag and drop features and Excel like expressions that enables end users to work with data. In this blog, I will Read more about How To Create PowerApps In SharePoint Online[…]