We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project and monday.com 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."Time tracking and budget tracking are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"It is easy to define timelines with Microsoft Project."
"Microsoft offers good support."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"Technical support has been very helpful."
"If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this."
"I have found that the chart reporting feature is very helpful for us currently."
"I love how I can customize so many items on the boards to fit my exact needs."
"Dashboards serve as a visual command center, offering a comprehensive overview of project progress, deadlines, and key performance indicators. This visual representation enhances decision-making and facilitates a quick understanding of the project landscape."
"I like how you can trigger notifications and reminders automatically when different statuses are changed or updated."
"I found the task management features as the most useful and necessary."
"We really like the dashboards, automation, and spreadsheets."
"The feature I have found most valuable is the automation aspect."
"Creating super-smart to-do lists, intern management, and sales leads lists has been huge."
"It's helped us organize and collaborate with clients and has been a great foundation/framework to support our growth."
"Microsoft Project could improve the interface, it should be more intuitive. It could be adjusted a little bit to make it a little easier to use and more user-friendly. It is a very powerful tool and it takes people a while to get used to it."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"When moving resources between projects, it could be a bit more clear."
"Microsoft's solution isn't really a collaboration tool, however. If you need a collaboration tool, you can use Slack, which can be integrated with your JIRA."
"The Gantt set needs to be improved. The grid lines needs to be more interactive."
"It is positioned at the more high end. Sometimes it's more complicated than we need."
"The setup and scalability can be somewhat difficult for new users until they gain knowledge."
"Project availability and speed could always be improved."
"The inbox and notifications section is not great, therefore, we don't use the comments field to communicate with each other."
"We need more cross-API integration with creative apps in the Adobe Suite and other communication platforms."
"We have difficulties playing with automation."
"We need to have conversations within the platform."
"It would be helpful to have a direct comparison table/spreadsheet for Monday.com versus Asana and the many other project management software platforms."
"I do wish that admins could edit everything, no matter who created a post/board/subitems, etc."
"We would like to have less downtime as it happens now and then!"
"I would like to see an app version similar to Teams, or even have them integrate with Teams."
Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews while monday.com is ranked 1st in Project Management Software with 222 reviews. Microsoft Project is rated 8.0, while monday.com is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of monday.com writes "We can collaborate with our customers efficiently and professionally, and automation makes it easy for everyone". Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Freshservice, whereas monday.com is most compared with Wrike, Asana, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Zoho CRM and Odoo. See our Microsoft Project vs. monday.com report.
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