Based On Ms Project Project Management Software Customization And Its Applications

For the complexity and unpredictability of software development, there is a great demand on professional project management software to improve the efficiency and skill of project management. This paper introduces a project management software solution of how to customize Microsoft project to meet requirements of customer such as flexible business flow, specific privilege model and data analysis of project.We build a workflow platform based on Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft InfoPath to meet the requirement of flexible business flow. We solve the problem of document storage, triggering of workflow event and event handler by utilizing the features of SharePoint. And the powerful ability of form customization of InfoPath makes us implement the workflow form customization easily. And we build a graphic workflow template define tool and a workflow instance monitor based on Microsoft Visio. It makes the system administrators define the workflow template easily. And it is easy for the system administrators to monitor the status of those running workflow instances.We build customized privilege model and customized view to meet the requirement of specific privilege model.On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a way to organize large business databases. OLAP databases are organized to fit the way you retrieve and analyze data so that it's easier to create the reports you need. OLAP databases organize data by level of detail, using the same categories you use to analyze the data. For example, we use year, season, month and day for time. We can create dimensions and cube in Analysis Service and show the data via Portfolio Analyzer on Project Web Access. Better assess resource efficiency and activity across projects by accurately and consistently tracking resource use and workload.By customizing Microsoft Project, we can shorten development cycle. And the solution has good Scalability and maintenance.