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- Best-in-class templatesUse one of the many pre-built templates from within Project client and on Office.com to get access to best-in-class project plans.
- Project reportsPowerful built-in reports, like Burndown and Resource Overview, can help you gain insights, communicate information to stakeholders, and achieve results.
- Smart automation for great efficiencyReduce inefficiencies with automated features. Auto-populate start and end dates based on dependencies, and use the Task Inspector to identify more efficient task and resource arrangements.
- Multiple timelinesBuilt-in multiple timelines help you visually represent complex schedules and understand all aspects of a project. Easily share timelines using familiar Office tools like PowerPoint. (Office, including PowerPoint, is sold separately)
- Baselines for better decisionsYou can use baselines to help decision makers track and compare actual progress to the original project plan.
- Visualized relationshipsTask path highlighting in Gantt charts helps you understand the relationship among tasks and identify which are most critical to the project’s success.
- What-if planningSet tasks to “inactive” and run what-if scenarios to determine the best-fit assignments without re-creating your entire project plan.
- Connected appsEasily copy information from Project and paste it into familiar Office applications like PowerPoint and Word. And OneDrive for Business provides handy online cloud storage for project artifacts.
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Project Online is a flexible online solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Delivered through Office 365, Project Online provides powerful project management capabilities for planning, prioritizing, and managing projects and project portfolio investments — from almost anywhere on almost any device. Project Online can be used by administrators, portfolio managers and viewers, project and resource managers, and team leads and members.
Project Online is available in three plans — Project Online Essentials, Project Online Professional, and Project Online Premium.
To compare features across plans, see Compare Project Online plans.
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Project Online boundaries and limits
There are some limitations to the Project Online service. For details, see Project Online software boundaries and limits.
Data Backup
Project Online has the same data backup and retention policy as Office 365. For details, see Data Retention, Deletion, and Destruction in Office 365.
Use of SharePoint Online
Your Project Online service requires the use of SharePoint Online, which will be provisioned for you as part of the Project Online service. Rights to the SharePoint Online functionality provided with Project Online Professional or Premium are limited to storing and accessing data to support Project Online.
Licensing considerations
Internal users
Any interaction on a Project Online site requires a Project Online license.
- Project Online Essentials is a team member add-on license for customers who are already using Project Online Professional or Project Online Premium in their organization.
- For more advanced use cases, users need to have appropriate licenses. Project managers require at minimum a Project Online Professional license. Portfolio managers require a Project Online Premium license.
Important
Project Online Essentials is a team member add-on license for customers that have Project Online Professional or Project Online Premium.
When your last Project Online Professional or Project Online Premium license expires, your Project Web App instances will be deleted after 120 days.
For Project Online trial subscriptions, your Project Web App instances will be deleted 30 days after your trial period ends.
When your last Project Online Professional or Project Online Premium license expires, your Project Web App instances will be deleted after 120 days.
For Project Online trial subscriptions, your Project Web App instances will be deleted 30 days after your trial period ends.
External users
Project Online licensing for external users follows the same policy as that for internal users. Any interaction on a Project Online site requires a Project Online license.
Project Online plans
The following Project Online plans are available. To learn more about Project Online, see Getting Started with Project Online.
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Plan | Target users | Description |
Project Online Essentials1 | Team members | Web-based interface for team members Update tasks, issues, and risks Submit timesheets Share documents and collaborate with Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business presence |
Project Online Professional1 | Project managers | All of the Project Online Essentials functionality, plus: Anytime/anywhere access through Web interface Project scheduling and costing Resource management Publishing projects to the cloud Includes the most current version of the Project desktop application, instantly streamed to your Windows PC. Each subscription license allows for up to five concurrent installations of the Project desktop application. |
Project Online Premium1 | Portfolio and resource managers | All of the Project Online Professional functionality, plus: Portfolio selection and optimization Demand management Enterprise resource management Out-of-box portfolio reports |
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1 Project Online Essentials, Project Online Professional, and Project Online Premium are also offered as part of Office 365 operated by 21Vianet, a version of Office 365 that is specific to China.
Feature availability across Project Online standalone plans
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Feature | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Core functionality (desktop client) | |||||
Add columns | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Backstage | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Click-to-Run | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Contextual right-click menus | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Custom fields | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Enhanced copy and paste across Microsoft Office applications | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Gantt chart, calendar, and task sheet views | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Microsoft Fluent user interface, the ribbon | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Multiple-level undo | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Network Diagram view | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Office Store | No | Yes2 | Yes2 | Yes2 | No |
Online help | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
PDF and XPS output | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Placeholder text in Project fields | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Project templates | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Start experience | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Text wrap | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Timeline view | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Zoom controls | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Project planning (desktop client) | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Baseline rollup | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Budget planning | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Compare project versions | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Deadlines | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Filtering | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Formulas and graphical indicators | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Group and sort Project data | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Reports | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Team Planner | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Task management (desktop client) | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Active and inactive tasks | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Auto-complete | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Automatic scheduling | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Calendar date extended to 2149 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Cross-project critical path | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Task inspector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Task Path analysis | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Top-down summary tasks | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Update progress | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
User-controlled and manual scheduling | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Project resource management (desktop client) | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Cost resources | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Manage nonworking time | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Resource leveling | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Resource sheet and usage views | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Resource substitution | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Team resources | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Work, generic, and material resources | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Project publishing (desktop client) | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Create a Project site | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Master projects on SharePoint | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Presence with Skype for Business | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Publish Projects to Project Server or Project Online | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Save a Project MPP file to SharePoint | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Task List Sync to SharePoint | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Core services functionality | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Active Directory integration | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Administration, Deployment, and Extensibility | Yes23 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Getting Started | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Issues and risk management (for team members) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Office 365 Trust Center | Yes2 | Yes2 | Yes2 | N/A | N/A |
PPM Partner ecosystem | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Service reliability | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
Service updates | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
Team member collaboration | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Time and task management (for team members) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Project management | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Issues and risk management | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Manage project resources | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Schedule management | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Time and task management | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Home | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Portfolio management | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Analyze projects and optimize portfolio | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Create and edit projects | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Financial management | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Participate in workflow | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Portfolio analytics and selection | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Program management | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Roadmap | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Reporting and business intelligence | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
OData feeds | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Out-of-the box portfolio dashboards | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Project desktop reporting | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Time-phased reporting | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Resource management | Project Online Essentials | Project Online Professional | Project Online Premium | Project Professional 2019 | Project Server 2019 |
Approve/reject/modify incoming resource engagement requests | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Manage resource pool | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Plan resource capacity | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Request resource agreements | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
View available resources and build teams | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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1 Active Directory integration includes Project Online Essentials users. However, a Project Online subscription is required to manage Active Directory integration.
2 Not available in Project Online for Office 365 operated by 21Vianet.
3 Only extensibility for team member scenarios is supported.
2 Not available in Project Online for Office 365 operated by 21Vianet.
3 Only extensibility for team member scenarios is supported.