We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Project Server helps organizations in collaboration."
"Capacity management and task baselining are the most valuable features of Microsoft Project Server."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"SharePoint site integration"
"Technical support is good."
"I like the way you can build the schedule by the Don't Start Before or Don't Start After values. You can use it to build your schedule based on how you change your dates. This is how it actually builds the schedule."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"We use the tool in our IT-related projects. All IT efforts are managed using the Microsoft Project Server. Every week, we have a project status meeting where we demonstrate the project's status using the tool. We track tasks and progress, assign owners, and monitor milestones and all project-related work using it."
"The interface is extremely user-friendly."
"Everything is valuable. It is tough to choose a particular feature, but project portfolio management along with agile 2.0 are two key product features that I would suggest for services companies like us."
"The solution offers a lot of opportunities for integrations. We can integrate with Slack, Azure, all the API alternatives, etc. There's a lot of integration modules provided."
"As a product, the primary reason we like it is it gets integrated with our ITSM solution so that we don't have to go for an external product for project management like Jira."
"The solution was quite easy to use. The interface was quite user-friendly, and I've become quite familiar with it."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very intuitive to set up."
"The PPM module is an excellent service."
"The demand management tool is very strategic because it helps assess risk, gives you a visual of different demands, and rates those values."
"The cost could be lower."
"The price of the product must be improved."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"The deployment aspect of the product is a bit tedious."
"The solution's synchronization with Jira Projects should be improved."
"EPM 2010 UI seems a bit dated now that 2016 is available."
"It needs to be more collaborative from inside the application. It only does project scheduling for me. It would be good if it could do other things and be more collaborative, such as sharing tasks for users. It is not really incorporated into MS Office, so you can't copy-paste stuff. It is on its own, doing its own thing. It is only used for scheduling, and it doesn't work well with anything else."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"The cost could be improved. The solution is quite pricey."
"The setup is a bit complex. It depends on the organizational needs, and sometimes, we make customizations based on those needs."
"We track salaries or paychecks of the resources. They change from time to time, such as every six months or every year. If they can come up with a default or out-of-the-box feature to manage those multiple payable costs so that we can automatically calculate the project costs rolled up. That would be the coolest feature that we can expect from ServiceNow. We would like to have an automatic feature to manage the payable costs. We should be able to manage or maintain multiple pay costs so that while calculating the project roll-up costs for individual projects, the respective pay costs in a particular period are picked up automatically from the backend. Currently, we have to customize that. It is doable. We have done it but through customization."
"When we import a really big project with a lot of tasks on it, we face some issues with dependencies. The links between tasks are not working very well. There is definitely room for improvement there. Microsoft Project, in my opinion, is the best option for such a use case."
"The configurations are fine, but the user interface could be improved."
"ServiceNow IT Business Management could improve by adding better artificial intelligence."
"A major improvement we would like to see is definitely around agile management."
"When we originally set it up, we had some kind of success manager free of charge, and now it's an additional charge over and above what we're paying."
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Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 56 reviews while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is ranked 3rd in Project Portfolio Management with 27 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 8.0, while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management writes "A very strategic demand management tool that visualizes risks and ratings in a bubble chart". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio and Broadcom Clarity , whereas ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity . See our Microsoft Project Server vs. ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management report.
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