Microsoft Project is the world's most popular and user friendly project management software developed and sold by Microsoft.

The application is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads.

Resources (Work, Material & Cost) can be shared between projects using a shared resource pool. Each resource can have its own calendar which defines what days and shifts a resource is available. Resource rates are used to calculate resource assignment costs which are rolled up and summarized the resource level. Resources can have inflation modeling also such as Time Phase Resource Costing and Time Phase Resource Availability. Resource leveling across multiple projects can be done by using various options of the Resource Leveling functionality and as well as using the Priority between various projects

Project Web Access allows user to display and update this data over the Internet. Web Access allows authorized users to access a Project Server database across the Internet. Web Access includes timesheets, time sheets with gantt chart, planned assignments for a resource on various tasks and administrative privileges to the administrator and users.