Dynamics 365 Project Operations
Dynamics 365 Project Operations overview
- Model robust pricing and costing variations on geography and local market economics that influence your global workforce and exchange rates.
- Create fixed-price, time and materials, or retainer-type contracts for your projects using adaptable billing models.
- Use standardized templates to quickly develop detailed estimates, schedules, and pricing for quotes.
- Consolidate your customer data using the built-in interoperation with Dynamics 365 Sales to get actionable insights.
- Improve productivity with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. Use AI to generate status reports, identify risk assessments, and build project task plans.
- Develop accurate estimates for labor, expenses, and materials, and track budget-to-actual consumption as projects progress.
- Bring your teams together around project plans, scope, and budget while capturing conversations, sharing content, and using apps.
- Use built-in insights to understand how your projects are trending and drive timely decisions for course correction.
- Create budget and time snapshots for forecasting in resource and non-stocked deployments to get a clear view of spending and progress targets.
- Easily distribute workloads across your resources to optimize project delivery.
- Maintain resource profiles to easily match people’s skillsets with projects and rate skills using proficiency models.
- Streamline scheduling and get visibility into resources’ availability using universal resource scheduling.
- Use the mobile app or a browser to itemize expense entries, approve and review expenses, and receive expense-related notifications.
- Give your teams easy-to-use time and expense tracking tools to support policy compliance.
- Use configurable rules and automated workflows for time and expense submissions, approvals, and reporting.
- Support your global teams’ adherence to accounting standards and practices, including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Manage billing queues, subscriptions, and progressive billing. Add details and group transactions to customize invoices for easy reconciliation.
- Set up project cost and revenue profiles for fixed-price or time and materials billing using accounting rules for cost and revenue, accruals, and postings.
- Interoperate with Dynamics 365 Finance or external ERP systems via open APIs to extend financial capabilities.
- Use built-in dashboards surfacing KPIs such as resource utilization, forecasting, and budgeting to quickly adapt to changing business conditions.
- Use Microsoft Power BI to easily visualize and share business intelligence with your project teams to help drive better customer outcomes.
- Generate budget and time snapshots to forecast in resource and non-stocked deployments.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations features
Increased productivity with AI
Improved accuracy
Optimized resource utilization
Enhanced collaboration
Simplified time and expense processes
Enhanced project visibility
Simple, straightforward pricing
Dynamics 365 Project Operations
See how Dynamics 365 can help your business
Get a business assessment to find your ideal Dynamics 365 solution.
Begin rolling out Dynamics 365 within your organization.
Get a briefing on the benefits of Dynamics 365 to your specific industry.
How customers are using Project Operations
“Project Operations fits the way we think and the way our business operates. It speaks the same language as our everyday product development.“
Products
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Power Automate
“Dynamics [365] makes it much easier for us to work with data, manage our projects, and get a better overview on progress.”
Products
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations
- Power BI
Products
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations
- Azure
- Dynamics 365 Finance
Products
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations
“The global team can now accurately and efficiently follow standardized business processes across the … project cycle.”
Products
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations
- Dynamics 365 Finance
- Outlook
Explore e-books, webinars, and other resources
Gartner
IDC
Nucleus Research
SPI Research
Adaptive project delivery lifecycle playbook
Gain a competitive advantage
Professional services webinar, episode 1
Professional services webinar, episode 2
Copilot in Dynamics 365
Get started
Project sales management
Resource management
Modernize project operations
Request a call
Get started
[1] Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises, Greg Leiter, Robert Anderson, Dixie John, Tomas Kienast, David Penny, 3 October 2023.
GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
