We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Microsoft Project based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Upgrades were pretty straightforward. CA took care of everything, we just did the testing."
"It's very good out of the box, without configurations required."
"It's pretty much the source of "the truth." Everything is together, everyone can see all the resources, financial projects, how long a project's going to take. Anybody can go in there and see any information they need about the organization as a whole."
"Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"The ability to have all of the data in one place from risks and issues to resource capacity and actual utilization."
"It allows me to keep track of the projects, residual location, it gives me the ease of getting status reports out, and checking risks and issues."
"Transparency and just having the ability to procure information that is pertinent."
"It is allowing us to keep track of what our projects are doing, and the idea module, what projects are coming into the pipeline."
"I find the planning features the most valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is the reminder feature. This feature allows for the system to send notifications or reminders to individuals who have a task to complete once someone has finished their task. This has been especially useful in situations where multiple people are involved in a task. For example, if I have completed my task and the next person is just beginning, the system will send them a reminder to notify them of my completion. This feature has proven to be very beneficial and convenient for me in my tasks."
"The project tracking, resource utilization and the cost are the most beneficial aspects of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the Auto resource leveling tool because it shows students that often, expert resources get over-scheduled, and that dealing with the issue by just using the auto-resource leveling tool would have a large impact on the delivery date."
"The solution is stable."
"Microsoft Project is one of the only solutions you can use in just about any industry. It's difficult to do that with most other project management tools. There is a lot of flexibility within the product assets. Most sectors can utilize Microsoft Project successfully because it doesn't have any generic adapters."
"The most valuable feature is probably the Kanban diagram. People are familiar with the Kanban tools. When they do their scrum meetings, they have that Kanban board where you can see the different tiles for all the queries and move them from left to right. IT is familiar with that because, for development, most of the tools have that capability. It could also be more graphical, like Asana."
"A lot of valuable features have been added in the last three years, including scheduling automation and intelligence."
"I would really like a modern UI. I do not want to get on a user interface and feel like I am in the 1990's."
"Look and feel of the user experience."
"The look and the feel of 14.4 is a bit antiquated."
"I wish patches would be quicker since we're a SaaS customer, and just be a non-event, so we don't have to go through a whole - essentially - upgrade cycle, just to do a patch. As a SaaS customer, I'd like the patch to just happen."
"Reporting is not good as they keep on changing reporting environment."
"There is a lack of seamless integration with industry standard products."
"In the timesheet UX, you can't do things like splitting time, managing overtime versus regular time, very easily. That would be helpful."
"When you are going to a more collaborative based approach, PPM does not support that."
"Project is not easy to scale. It isn't a cloud-based solution where everybody can utilize it at the same time without version issues when you save your file. We use it at the enterprise level, but you have to share the files to others within your organization through Teams or SharePoint. One improvement would be to transition to cloud-based functionality. However, that might limit the functionality in other ways."
"What could have been better is the integration with Office 365 so that if you're discussing a project on Teams or there's an email related to the project, it can be tagged to the project in Microsoft Project. That functionality is currently not there."
"It would be better if there were more access to Agile implementations."
"I would like to have more access to templates and tools that could be used to teach project management best practices."
"The technical support could be improved. They are okay, however, they could be much better."
"The licensing cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"In a future release, the dashboard should improve because there isn't one, I had to create my own."
"There have been some drawbacks with customization. Some users want it to be an automation tool."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 8th in Project Management Software with 136 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Jira, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios, Smartsheet and monday.com, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and monday.com. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project report.
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