Please join us from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 11, for our meeting at the Feather Sound Country Club where Michelle Thomas will present –
What’s New: Microsoft Project 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010
In this presentation, we will review the new features of Project 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, including Project’s new Fluid User Interface (Ribbon), Team Planner, Manual Scheduling Engine, Timeline View and other items that have comprised what many are calling the biggest change to the Project tool in the past 10 years! For SharePoint Server 2010, applications such as Project Server, Business Intelligence Dashboards and Performance Point Server are just a few of the services that are now integrated and completely dependent upon the SharePoint platform. We will discuss how this affects the end user and demonstrate the new Office Web Applications, which allow users to not only view but edit Microsoft Office documents directly in their browser, including Microsoft Project in Project Server. We will discuss SharePoint Mobile Access, which allows users to not only view but edit documents or lists directly from a SharePoint library on their mobile device, review the new social or People Connection and collaboration tools, such as tagging and My Site enhancements, and of course, view the reporting features of the new Visio and Excel Services, featuring Power Pivot, the new add-on to Excel that allows users to quickly and easily create and publish their own scorecards and dashboards directly to SharePoint sites.
About Our Speaker:
Michelle Thomas is the Microsoft Consulting Practice Director for Xcelligent, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, providing synergistic process and project management solutions to customers in the private and public sector.
She has designed and managed more than 100 Enterprise Project Management (EPM) engagements, including Microsoft Project and SharePoint Server 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Prior to joining Xcelligent, she held director-level positions with several Fortune 500 companies, focusing on Sarbanes Oxley compliance, Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Business Scorecard and Process Improvement initiatives.
A proud native of Pittsburgh, Pa, Michelle holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, performed her graduate work in statistics, methodology and the SEI-CMM at Carnegie Mellon University and wrote her Master’s thesis at the University of Ga. She is currently pursuing doctoral coursework.
In her free time, Michelle is an avid supporter of animal rescue and adoption organizations, including the Humane Society and the ASPCA. She works to help rehabilitate, foster and re-train homeless and abused dogs and cats. She has also volunteered at the American Red Cross, where as an undergraduate journalism student she covered the crash of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh, for which she wrote and published an article in The Pittsburgh Press. She continues to write freelance articles on a wide variety of topics and features.
Reservations Required for Month’s meeting.
It is simple to reserve your seat…see below for Google Check-out; it is quick and easy.
Please Reserve by Friday, August 6, 2010
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The Feather Sound Country Club is located just south of the Howard Frankland Bridge off Ulmerton Road. We look forward to seeing you there.
Online reservations can be made for the presentation with dinner or the presentation by itself, without dinner.
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