We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio 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."Portfolio's best feature is integration with other JIRA products."
"The feature that we like the most is that JIRA enables modules. Atlassian provides a lot of products around JIRA, such as compliance for the documentation, BitBucket for the Git version. We are new to these products developed by Atlassian, but they can integrate very easily. Generally, when an editor is developing a solution, they think about integrating with JIRA. When we are looking for any other solution, they plan to easily integrate with JIRA."
"The documentation is very well done."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visualization and organizing of the tasks. We can have a pick, and then we can stick the multiple issues under that, and then we can again have a sort of hierarchical installation, and that's very useful."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Technical support has been very helpful."
"It is very stable. I haven't had any kind of issues with it. It is also very scalable."
"I like that I can change the task and include different resources related to the task."
"The solution is stable."
"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."
"The user interface is very clean."
"A lot of valuable features have been added in the last three years, including scheduling automation and intelligence."
"Dependencies (not typically effectively used in "Agile" techniques) allow understanding of actual project status and challenges."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"I think that front-end development is a little bit buggy in some cases. Some of the features take a while to respond and some need to be more clear."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"If you want to generate a report for individual usage, it's difficult."
"Portfolio is easy to scale, but we've had some difficulties with it regarding compliance and support."
"The query features should improve in JIRA Portfolio. For example, if I would have to create my own queries for looking into something such as what business features we have released last month, or the last three months, I don't know if I can do it. The solution requires a certain level of expertise."
"If I get a feature but there is not a user story, and I want to know which epic it belongs to, it is really hard to figure out."
"The integration needs to be done with different tools."
"I would like to have more access to templates and tools that could be used to teach project management best practices."
"The solution's interface seems to be an outdated one. So, I would like its interface to be improved."
"Its user experience can be improved while configuring it. Its reporting can also be better. Reporting is not very easy. Reports do not always work. I was trying to download some reports, and they didn't work. I don't know if it was related to the configuration that I was using. I didn't go too deep to check if something was missing."
"I'd like the solution to be less expensive."
"The full suite would be pretty expensive."
"There needs to be better integration with other Microsoft products such as SharePoint, and the like."
"We'd like the solution to have better integration with other third-party and open-source solutions."
"It would be better if Microsoft Project were included in the DevOps stack. That is, I'd like to see this tool integrated to a different stack of the applications that we normally use in DevOps, such as in Jira, for example, to deploy a different version related to the different tasks that are included in Microsoft Project."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 47 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Planisware, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity . See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Microsoft Project report.
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