Empower PPM Components
Empower PPM is an evolution of Project Online deployment to leverage advances in the Online Services available to most existing Office 365 subscribers.
Complimentary Sensei components are deployed with Project Online inside Office 365 to enhance the functionality available and promote best practices.
Additional Sensei Components include:
- Project Online Configuration Empower PPM best practice Project Online configuration is pre-loaded.
- Project Groups Integration is used to provision O365 Groups and Teams.
- Power Apps and Flows Various PowerApps for project related information are deployed into the customer environment to allow an intuitive user experience when managing and updating Project related information, workflows and financials.
- PPM Essentials is a suite of webparts to improve user experience inside Project Online.
- Learning Hub enables users to quickly learn about Microsoft Project and Project Online features, functions and best practices. It is available directly inside Project Web App from the Knowledge Center.
- Reports are provided by the Reporting Hub and Embedded Power BI Modules.
- Project Online Sync for Word is utilised in the O365 Group Sites for acquiring and synchronising Project related information into Word documents.
BYOD
Empower is also available in Bring Your Own Database configuration, for customers with high regulatory requirements for data sovereignty. It is typically not recommended because it is more expensive to run and relies on the customer to actively manage the database.
See Reporting Hub BYOD Preparation for deployment requirements.
