Buenas,
Volvemos a la carga con los “white papers”; y seguimos con Project Online . Esta vez es Emmanuel Fadullon, un Principal Consultant, el autor de esta guía, la cual puede descargarse del siguiente enlace:
A Comprehensive Guide to Project Online
La introducción es bastante explícita, y pensamos no está de más hacer una breve traducción, para que quien no pudiera estar familiarizado con algunos conceptos, empiece a tener las cosas más claras a este respecto:
Office 365 es una plataforma de servicios en la nube con “Software as a Service (SaaS)” que ofrece acceso desde cualquier lugar a aplicaciones de office, como el correo, calendario, video conferencias en alta definición, redes sociales empresariales, documentación actualizada, etc desde ordenadores, tabletas y/o teléfonos inteligentes. Project Online es el servicio en Office 365 del componente de de la Administración de la Cartera de Proyectos.
Con estos dos criterios claros: Office 365 y Project Online, ya estamos en condiciones de tener una idea más clara acerca del mundo “online” de Project. Las ventajas del mundo “online” sobre el “on-premise” (el que estamos acostumbrados de versiones anteriores, e incluso la última está disponible en este modelo) son las siguientes:
En la siguiente tabla se ofrece una comparativa de las mejoras y novedades:
Feature/Function
New
Improved
Notes
User Interface
l
Simplified: reduced ribbon, add-line improvements
User Interaction
Carry-forward admin lines, grouping and sorting
Non-project time tracking
Filter categories by department
Control view defaults
Grouping and sorting, Always show admin categories
Timesheet managers list
Non-fixed approval routing
Close tasks for update
Log level manager
Eventing model
Feedback (OnUpdating, OnSubmitting) Adjustment (OnReviewing, OnSubmitting)
Performance
Data Retention
Timesheet jobs out of queue
Work Management Service
Aggregate tasks centrally: view work and to-dos, newsfeed tasks caching OOB task aggregation with SharePoint, Exchange and Project Server No config options in Central Admin Provider model implementation dependent to enable future integration of additional systems
Web Tier
Reduced Page load time WAN optimizations Direct Business Objects database queries for non-queue jobs
Application Tier
Queue service optimization Reduced DB requests AD Synchronization Improvements
Database Tier
Optimized security validation Data transfer improvements (i.e. using Table Value Parameters) SQL best practices (i.e. daily maintenance jobs)
Homepage
72% improvement of page load times
Project Schedule
90% improvement of page load times
Resource Center
71% improvement of page load times
Timesheet
50% improvement of page load times
Multi-browser support
Full PWA support for: Internet Explorer 10, 9, 8 FireFox 10 Safari 5 Google Chrome 17
Server-side scheduling engine
Implemented as a Windows service - Microsoft Project Server Calculation Server 2013 On par with Project 2013 client scheduling engine
SharePoint and Project app model
An app is typically a self-contained, interactive program that performs a small number of related tasks SharePoint applications no longer live in SharePoint. Within apps, SharePoint 2013 decouples server-side code from the server, enabling you to run server-side code from outside SharePoint, in the cloud
Custom code executes in the client, cloud or on-premises Apps are granted permissions to SharePoint via OAuth Apps communicate with SharePoint via REST / CSOM Acquire apps via centralized Marketplace Apps are for End Users Cloud & Web-Oriented
SharePoint Tasks List Project
Team site is in control, tasks are managed in SharePoint Enterprise Project Type This is when Project Server has full control of the Projects and Tasks
New “grow-up” mode
Activate/Deactivate PPM Features
Connected SharePoint Site
Authentication and Authorization
Default is Claims authentication Claims authentication cookie (“FedAuth” cookie) is tracked at the Distributed Cache Service level Classic authentication enabled via Windows PowerShell (not through UI) No need to re-authenticate at each WFE like in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Permission Mode
SharePoint Permissions Mode: Permissions managed in SharePoint Resources managed in Project Server Project Server Permissions Mode: Permissions and Resources managed in Project Server Default for upgraded sites
Lo mismo para esta tabla, relativa a escenarios de migración:
Scenario
Project Server 2007
Project Server 2010
Project Online
On-premises Project Server 2013
N/A
Migrate
Existing hosted 2010 customers
Existing 2007 customers
Upgrade
Existing 2003 customers
Project Desktop only customers
New customers
Subscribe
Existing 2010 customers
Esperamos os resulte de interés, y resuelva las posibles dudas que os pudieran quedar con este tema.
Un saludo
Jorge Puig