EPM --> MS Project --> MS Project Server

EPM:

1. Enterprise Project Management (EPM), is the field of organizational development that supports organizations in managing Projects, Resources and the Cost of the projects.
2. EPM provides the proper governance for the projects which are running under the organizations in terms of Schedules, Cost and Resources.
3. Schedules meant for creating tasks related to the project to be completed in a particular timeframe. Cost includes the money and the time spent to the project and Resources stands for the people and resources needed for completing the project.
4. EPM is very useful to make life easier for the managers to manage, monitor, and assess the status of all projects under them.
5. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is also a part of the EPM which is used to create a portfolio (per budget size, per calendar year, per budget year, per business line, etcetera) for projects.
6. Project Portfolio Management also includes the creation of various scenarios to decide which is the most optimal portfolio (for a certain year, business, budget, etcetera)
7. There is already number of tools available for EPM in the market. "Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Sever" are the tools which have been provided By Microsoft for adopting EPM Capabilities.

Microsoft Project:

1. Microsoft Project (or MSP or WinProj) is a project management software program developed and sold by Microsoft which is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads.
2. MSP is a Microsoft Office tool the can be used to create applications that creates critical path schedules, and critical chain and event chain methodology Schedules can be resource leveled, and chains are visualized in a Gantt chart. Additionally, Project can recognize different classes of users. These different classes of users can have differing access levels to projects, views, and other data. Custom objects such as calendars, views, tables, filters, and fields are stored in an enterprise global which is shared by all users.
3. Microsoft Project 2010 features the Ribbon user interface; the current Version for the MSP is 2010.
4. The following diagram shows the basic look of a project which has been created using project sever 2010.
   

1. The above diagram shows the project which has been created by manager which contains all main Phases involved in that project. The Gantt chart shows the Schedules for each phase.
2. This contains Menu with all the capabilities includes task scheduling Resource management.
   
   
   All these above can be done when we have been installed with MS Project Software. These files cannot be useful if we don't have project. This leads Microsoft to Develop Microsoft Office Project server 2010.

Microsoft Office Project Sever 2010
1) Microsoft Office Project Server is a project management server solution made by Microsoft. It uses Windows SharePoint Services as its foundation, and supports both a web interface and Microsoft Project as the client application.
2) Microsoft extends the capabilities of Microsoft Project with Project Server and Project Web Access. Microsoft Project Server stores project information in a central SQL Server database, protected from unauthorized access and corruption. A Project Administrator can control security defining users and access rights.
3) Being it built on Sharepoint, We can extend its capabilities by developing the Webpart programming and can use Sharepoint object model for programming from other applications using SP API's.
4) The following screen shows a project created by the manager in the Project Sever 2010 Web application.

5) We can sync this application with MS Project by creating project service application in Sharepoint.