We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity 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.
"It's pretty much the source of "the truth." Everything is together, everyone can see all the resources, financial projects, how long a project's going to take. Anybody can go in there and see any information they need about the organization as a whole."
"The competency and available support are quite good, therefore we do not have any issues with support. Every time that we have a case where we need support, it is clarified right away."
"I appreciate the report that shows how utilized a person is set to be within the coming months. I use that feature a good bit."
"We have flexible scrum teams, developers that will serve on one scrum team for a few sprints or for a project. Being able to track where people go with the resource management features, and making sure that our teams are fully staffed, is important."
"The solution is technically fine and user friendly."
"It allows me to keep track of the projects, residual location, it gives me the ease of getting status reports out, and checking risks and issues."
"Transparency and just having the ability to procure information that is pertinent."
"The product is flexible."
"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 scheduling feature is the most useful."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"It is well-established, reliable, and compatible."
"The technical support for Microsoft Project Server and the support is very good. Microsoft support is working very well."
"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."
"Technical support is good."
"The scheduling and the customization are very powerful."
"I'd like to see blueprints. I'd also like to see the user interface simplified, and to have a lot of templates available on each blueprint."
"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 limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio."
"The risks issues and changes are not in the new UX yet."
"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."
"I think user-friendliness is the key. Right now it's really clunky. We're also looking to upgrade, but an upgrade is not going to fix everything. The new UX is good, but there are still a lot of limitations. Once they work through those kinks and get those limitations removed, we'll be able to upgrade."
"I would really like a modern UI. I do not want to get on a user interface and feel like I am in the 1990's."
"Financials are okay, but there's a lot of room for improvement in financials.Financial plans, if those could be made so that you're not always grouping your financial data by predefined attributes, that would be helpful for us."
"It would be better if the solution had some more training or resources available for a person who is new to Microsoft Project Server."
"The user interface looks quite old and needs to be improved."
"This is a good product but we have struggled with stability from time to time. The service has stopped intermittently and it has been difficult to find a reason why."
"Collaboration within the tool is lacking when you compare it to online or cloud-based tools."
"It may be considered expensive."
"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."
"Microsoft Project Server's user interface is pretty average, and sometimes it can have bugs."
"We are on the on-prem version. The cloud, however, gives more regular updates that we can take advantage of."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 2nd in Project Portfolio Management with 136 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 56 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project Server 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 Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios and SAP Portfolio and Project Management, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and Jira. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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