Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects the commercial and delivery sides of a project based business inside the Microsoft stack. Its purpose is visibility, collaboration and agility across a project centric organisation, from the deal through to the financial result.

Deal management is where the product starts rather than ends. Costing and pricing can be modelled against geography and local market economics, accounting for the exchange rate effects that distort margin in a global workforce. Deal structures are adaptable across fixed price, time and materials, and retainer contracts, and standardised templates shorten deal cycles by producing detailed estimates, schedules and pricing for quotes quickly.

Pipeline management uses built in interoperation with Dynamics 365 Sales, consolidating customer data so that services forecasting draws on the same records as the sales forecast. That connection is the main structural advantage for organisations already running Dynamics, in the same way Salesforce native platforms benefit Salesforce customers.

The published rate is 135.00 US dollars per user per month, paid yearly. Note that a 200 dollar figure appearing elsewhere on Microsoft pricing pages is an Azure free account credit rather than anything to do with Project Operations. Buyers should also account for the wider Dynamics 365 and Power Platform licensing that a deployment usually involves.