We performed a comparison between Asana and Microsoft Project Server 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."Asana is a very simple interface for project managers to figure out, providing all the functions they need."
"It is very good for managing the timeline. I'm a quality manager, and I have different testing projects running with different work breakdown structures. Asana makes it very easy to implement and monitor the plans. It is easy to move the tasks and complete them, break them down, and assign them to people."
"Asana has a wonderful user experience that is very easy to interact with and has tons of integrations with other products and tools."
"This solution is easier and faster to use compared to Jira. It's not very structured and you can add sub-tasks and issues easily."
"The solution scales well."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It was just a few clicks to get started and to integrate Asana into our existing business system. It took 15 days to fully implement our projects using Asana."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the tracking of comments and documents in one place."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the ease of navigation."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the gantt charts. It's easy to use for me."
"SharePoint site integration"
"Microsoft Project Server is simple to use."
"The most useful feature of Microsoft Project Server is you can select a function to see the baseline."
"The key things are managing interactions, resource allocation, resource-leveling (enterprise) and as a collaborative tool, because we use it across multiple projects at a time."
"The most valuable feature of the Microsoft Project Server is the level of detail with which I can break down a task and check the dependencies."
"There are many valuable features of this solution. It is very advanced and once you understand and learn how to use it, it can be quite powerful. The whole package can be quite powerful."
"The product must reduce the information on the interface."
"The mobile application of Asana has to be improved a lot because no one wants to do a complete project management task on mobile."
"The product's page is not user-friendly."
"We have not used Asana on our private server. We have been using the cloud solution. We need an on premise solution for government agencies."
"This solution has a learning curve, where it is initially difficult to use."
"We'd like the capability to be able to set up weekly reminders."
"There could be some improvements in terms of how projects or day-to-day work is organized. One of the challenges when it comes to rolling out to an enterprise is the way the projects are organized. It has a kind of setup where you have different projects and tasks, but it is not as organized as Smartsheet when it comes to organizing projects or different teams. It can get really cluttered really fast. JIRA has another suite to submit the support tickets. It would be good if Asana could branch out to incorporate some kind of workflow. It is great for collaboration and recording work, but there isn't any workflow. It would be useful if they can map out a workflow of who approves what. This is kind of a big ask, and it is not geared towards that."
"More features can be added."
"It is not updated in real-time. Sometimes it, therefore, is not accurate."
"Permission management needs improvement."
"When we started using this solution from scratch, we got lost. Microsoft should provide some templates for configurations for certain use cases."
"The solution needs to be much more stable."
"It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization."
"The solution must provide Agile and AI features."
"The cost could be lower."
"The solution's desktop version is not compatible with the MacBook."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Stands out with portfolios, easy setup, and real-time information, but needs big improvement when it comes to workflows, automation, and dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com and Jira, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and JIRA Portfolio. See our Asana vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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