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."Demand, Resource, Project Portfolio Management, for my business consulting services, PMO services to other clients."
"The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity PPM are demand, project, and product management."
"We have a centralized view that we can have in our delivery and business organizations."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the XFlow, that interface is pretty cool."
"Easy to use, visually. The new UX is intuitive."
"The product is flexible."
"For a very long time, Broadcom Clarity had not developed the old interface that Broadcom no and we were not able to see any new features on the system because of the older UEX. We switched to the new UX at the end of March and it needs some time for the user to react to the new features. But if overall main features are being talked about, the financial part of Clarity is really appreciated."
"The app style of the new UI is absolutely fantastic. It's the right way to go. Our users will love it."
"The most valuable features of this solution are dependency management, milestone progress, multiple resource rates, and RAG views."
"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."
"Microsoft Project is easy to use and helps our teams visualize the evolution of our projects."
"It is easy to define timelines with Microsoft Project."
"The standard project planning features and charts are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is scheduling. The solution is useful on a daily basis."
"Microsoft Project is user-friendly and easy to use to do very complex project plans."
"The tool has a simple and excellent approach."
"Build more capability and unification into the reporting."
"The risks issues and changes are not in the new UX yet."
"The Broadcom Clarity PPM dashboard needs improvement , because it's too slow. The look and feel of the platform, including its UX, also need some enhancement."
"The solution could improve the way the workflow is developed. I think they could be more dynamic because they are in a way static. They're very powerful, but they don't have any interaction with end-users."
"One of the things that have always been a bit painful is the integration with reporting utilities. The current integration is with Jaspersoft, and there are a number of difficulties with that. If you're using out-of-the-box fields and everything, it is a bit slow and clunky. It has a drag-and-drop interface for the users. On the backend side, there is a report designer. They haven't given or allowed me any training on it yet. So, it has been a bit limited in its features. On one of the earlier report utilities, they had one called Actuate, which had VBA as its base programming language, and you could do quite dynamic things behind the scenes, whereas the Jaspersoft interface seems rather locked. So, you're limited in your options. Being a programmer, you like to have room to be able to invent and create rather than just being limited to a few selection boxes."
"One of the areas that we would improve upon is not necessarily with the tool, but having more tips/tricks on adoption. How to get people outside of the PMO to use the tool and get the information."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM could improve by adding advanced reporting in the tool. There are a lot of out-of-the-box reports, but I would like to see more advanced reporting."
"The Work Breakdown Structure in the Tasks: I should be able to drag and drop to a level three instead of just stuck at level two."
"This solution needs more customization."
"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."
"I would like to see more integrations with another software tool."
"I am not that close to it anymore, but I know that there were some cut and paste issues when we were trying to move one group of roles to another, and they used to muck up the interdependencies between the tiers, rows, and other things."
"I find the setup a little bit cumbersome."
"Microsoft Project should provide better documentation regarding the usage of the solution."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"We'd like the solution to have better integration with other third-party and open-source solutions."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 7th 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, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, 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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