We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and Planview Portfolios 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.
"Deliverables List: Most useful to enable meaningful status reporting at an enterprise level."
"We are able to know what we are doing, how much we have spent, how much time we've taken, and it tells us how much money is left for the project. It also tells us whether we are below or above our expenditures, whether we are below or above our budget."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand and navigate."
"Capacity management and task baselining are the most valuable features of Microsoft Project Server."
"It is a scalable solution. We have been able to manage larger scale projects easily using this solution."
"SharePoint site integration"
"The scheduling feature is the most useful."
"Resource allocation is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Project Server."
"Its ability to create summary reports across multiple projects is one of the best features. They have very good data warehousing. You can put that out. You can tell that data warehousing from Planview Enterprise One is excellent."
"It gives us the vast ability to churn out-of-the-box reports and have an overview about approach rates and resource utilization."
"It maps back to our SDLC process pretty well. I'm able to see the stage of where things are at. We also use Azure DevOps for all of our requirements and our coding."
"The flexibility on offer is very helpful in meeting the organization's needs."
"The biggest impact has been getting all these global groups into one space so we can even have intelligent conversations about what are we trying to accomplish. Before, it was just different regions doing whatever. Now, we're all talking the same language, and that's good."
"I like that the data that we store is available for everybody. We're not trying to hide anything. Being an administrator, I know a lot about the tool. It is very easy to show somebody how to use the tool and get used to it. Hopefully that user doesn't come back and ask the same question twice is really what it is about. It's a very intuitive product as well. For what we use the tool for today, it's easy to learn and pick up."
"The solution is flexible. Planview is always introducing new releases and functionality, which ends up being beneficial to the company. We are able to do some customizations on our own along with our IT department, and that's very helpful."
"We can easily see which functions are overcapacity. Before, we did not have visibility into that."
"It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization."
"The check-in, check-out feature makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use."
"It appears that Microsoft's primary goal is to migrate as much functionality as possible from the legacy on-premises Microsoft Project Server to the new cloud-based Power Apps solution."
"We need to be able to compare milestones, calls, and other variables regarding the projects we are working on. I have to contract developers to make reports, which is where things get complicated. They need to develop personal and custom fields for us."
"The product is difficult to use for complex projects."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Resource management has room for improvement because it uses a lot of resources."
"The administrative tabs are very confusing, especially in terms of configuring screens and users. It's not very intuitive versus many other applications that I have worked in the past. I have to go to separate sections than I think I have to in order to get to the place that I need to adjust something."
"Their off-shore support is something new that they're laying out and the team just needed some development in terms of skill and experience."
"Sometimes within the application, when you pull a report, it takes awhile performance-wise for the reports to pull up."
"I would like to be able to integrate with Oracle to supplement what we're currently doing with reporting."
"Recently, we have gotten on a newer version. We're currently on version 15. Some of the things that we've been running into roadblocks on, it looks like the solutions will be coming out in versions 17 or 18. So, we have to upgrade before somethings can get completed."
"When it comes to reporting there are some challenges with integration."
"We've been using it for a while, so it's about maturity. It's about being able to build out things in Agile groups and teams and some of that. Then really trying to drive into the direction of Lean Portfolio Management and more Agile program management, I think is where we're heading."
"Even though Enterprise One is easy and user-friendly, it could provide better training like a demo. Providing more tutorials or sessions would really help."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while Planview Portfolios is ranked 8th in Project Portfolio Management with 63 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while Planview Portfolios 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 Planview Portfolios writes "Helps prioritize projects, share the big picture with management, and has a great planning capacity". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and Knovos eZManage, whereas Planview Portfolios is most compared with Broadcom Clarity , Planview PPM Pro, LeanIX, SAP Portfolio and Project Management and Jira. See our Microsoft Project Server vs. Planview Portfolios report.
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