February, 2007

Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They can be applied to a task, such as managing a help desk or tracking a marketing campaign, to easily create a dedicated Web-based application for a more efficient and effective way of working.

While application templates can be used to solve particular business needs, they also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper SharePoint-based solutions. The templates make use of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 capabilities and are compatible with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to help make customization easier.

 Available here: New Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

By default Project Server 2007 gets deployed on top of WSS V3. I've listed below reasons why one should consider deploying Project Server 2007 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

• Three State Workflow for Proposals, see Brian post Project Server, Office SharePoint Server and Workflow
• Business Intelligence & Reporting: see Deliver Business Intelligence through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Key Performance Indicators (KPI), see Create and publish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Excel Services, give you the ability to create nice looking reports off Analysis Services data (Cube), see Excel Services Overview
• Dashboards, can easily drag and drop KPI/Excel/Reporting Services webpart onto a page to create project tracking dashboard
• Infopath Form Services, combined with Windows Workflow Foundation can be tailored to fulfill your business processes, see Introduction to InfoPath Forms Services
• Business Data Catalog (BDC) for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Integration (SAP for instance), see BDC
• Office SharePoint Search to index Project Server content, see Searching in Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM), see Microsoft Enterprise Content Management
  

Ever wondered what would be the advantages?

How about installing SQL x64 on a Windows 2003 x64 server?

Joel Oleson has written an excellent post on this subject: Why WSS 3.0 x64 and MOSS 2007 x64... What's the deal?