While Project Professional is deployed in various businesses and can operate in a silo, Project Server allows you to bring all the various projects together, and give View, Access, or Edit rights to team members and executives across the organization.įrom a licensing standpoint, Project Server deployment also requires you to license Windows Server, SQL Server and Sharepoint Server. Project Server gives you the ability to execute your business at a project portfolio level. In addition to delivering portfolio-level capabilities, Project Professional also provides the ability to manage resources and collaborate with your team via Skype for Business. Connecting to Project Server enables you to gain a portfolio-level view and give View, Update, or Edit access to project team members. One of the major reasons for choosing Project Professional over Project Standard is its ability to connect to Project Server. Project Professional provides more features than Project Standard.
A more efficient route to solve this problem is to upgrade to Project Professional and Project Server/Project CAL (see below).
In that case, project managers will typically print out copies of the project plan and get status updates on paper, or during regular team meetings, and update the project plan themself. Project Standard is a standalone product and does not have the capability to connect to Project Server for a portfolio-level view.Īs far as getting status updates from your team, you could purchase Project Standard for each team member however, giving each of your team members a license of Project Standard can be prohibitively expensive. Project Standard is only available on-premise and is targeted at project managers who are managing small team projects.