We performed a comparison between Jira 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."The way it interfaces with Bitbucket and other things like that is valuable. Reporting and being able to link various issues or stories together are also valuable. We call them stories, and they're general reports."
"Has a good dashboard with good tracking features."
"I have found Jira to be stable."
"The solution offers up great transparency that makes it possible for everyone inside the departmental organization to see what's happening."
"The user interface is simple."
"I have found the most valuable features of Jira to be ticketing, life cycle workflow, definition, and creation. Many of the features are useful."
"The timeline management is great."
"It handles all of the issues that we need it to do."
"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the tool's reporting is very good."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"SharePoint site integration"
"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."
"It is a scalable solution. We have been able to manage larger scale projects easily using this solution."
"Microsoft Project Server is easy to use compared to other similar solutions, such as Primavera. It functions similar to Excel or others Microsoft solutions which makes it simple for most people to be able to use right away."
"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."
"It's also difficult to migrate through, things don't always tie-up. It's not easy to use."
"Some of the customizations are definitely a little challenging."
"Jira lacks easy capacity calculation compared to TFS, making it harder to know how much work to allocate to each specialist."
"I have to go through a lot of processes to consider it done. I have to log in then change the logins and make it interesting. It's not so good for testing."
"The performance and stability are visibly degrading since the database has been growing every year."
"Once a story is closed, all the records, versions, and documentation associated with it are gone. We lose the traceability of what was done."
"When we use the plugin in Jira so, there are two different systems which we are working on, Jira and the X-ray plugin. The X-ray plugin should be incorporated into Jira because we have to fetch two reports. One report is faxed through Jira, and one can be faxed through X-ray. So there needs to be clarity about which the Jira team should reflect."
"Jira could provide more insight into sprints such as how did we perform in the last sprint compared to other sprints. It would be helpful to have metrics and a dashboard feature for others to see."
"Collaboration within the tool is lacking when you compare it to online or cloud-based tools."
"The price of the product must be improved."
"The solution's synchronization with Jira Projects should be improved."
"The cost could be lower."
"Resource management has room for improvement because it uses a lot of resources."
"The product's UI is not very user-friendly."
"There are certain shortcomings in the documentation part where improvements are required."
"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."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 265 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". 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". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and SAP Portfolio and Project Management. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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