We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and OpenText Project and portfolio Management 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.
"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"The solution scales well."
"The solution is scalable and easy to expand."
"The most valuable features are the gantt charts. It's easy to use for me."
"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 solution is that it is easy to understand and navigate."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"It's stable and reliable."
"There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management."
"I like the ease of customization from an admin perspective. I'm really excited about some of the things that are coming in version 10.0.3 as far as what admins are able to do."
"I like the automated calculations, especially on the resource side. When project managers enter their resource requirements into their staffing profiles, they are automatically translated into labor forecast calculations. PPM automates a significant portion of the forecast calculations. Timesheets are also built-in. We automatically process time sheets and bill them accordingly."
"The portfolio management and the resource management are the key features."
"The data provided by PPM is trusted and is available almost immediately; without trusted data there is very less scope of any tool to be successful."
"It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on."
"Has a powerful workflow engine that allows creation of workflow complexities and processes."
"Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine."
"Microsoft is going to integrate the Co-Pilot features into Microsoft Project. The AI feature is an additional feature. It can look at the plan and identify risks early on from any part of your project."
"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."
"The solution's synchronization with Jira Projects should be improved."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"Microsoft Project Server's user interface is pretty average, and sometimes it can have bugs."
"We sometimes need support from the IT department for installing and deploying the Microsoft Project Server. It is not user-friendly, and users cannot install it themselves."
"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization."
"The user interface is very, very old and is missing some functions, such as, for example, re-do, follow, and share functions. The UI is not good."
"There are some limitations when it comes to attaching receipts. For example, if we are going to buy some non-labor-related assets such as hardware, we are not able to attach the receipts in the Financial Management module in version 9.41."
"We constantly put in requests for some of the things we need. One of those is being able to export just our standard request type to PDF."
"The solution can sometimes be a little inflexible and a bit caustic."
"Micro Focus PPM should be less dependent on coding. It could also benefit from some updates to the software architecture. These have been on the roadmap for years now, but they haven't been released."
"Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc."
"We had a couple of issues with stability or performance degradation about a year ago, around the time of the initial rollout. Since then, we've only had two unexpected outages that were quickly resolved."
"They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky."
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Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 56 reviews while OpenText Project and portfolio Management is ranked 10th in Project Portfolio Management with 24 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 8.0, while OpenText Project and portfolio Management is rated 7.8. 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 OpenText Project and portfolio Management writes "Gives management a cohesive place for tracking business strategies and goals, but cosmetic aspects need work". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and JIRA Portfolio, whereas OpenText Project and portfolio Management is most compared with Jira, Planview PPM Pro, Smartsheet and Teamwork . See our Microsoft Project Server vs. OpenText Project and portfolio Management report.
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