We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and ServiceNow Strategic 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."Deliverables List: Most useful to enable meaningful status reporting at an enterprise level."
"SharePoint site integration"
"The most valuable features are the gantt charts. It's easy to use for me."
"It is well-established, reliable, and compatible."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"I like the way you can build the schedule by the Don't Start Before or Don't Start After values. You can use it to build your schedule based on how you change your dates. This is how it actually builds the schedule."
"It is a scalable solution. We have been able to manage larger scale projects easily using this solution."
"The key things are managing interactions, resource allocation, resource-leveling (enterprise) and as a collaborative tool, because we use it across multiple projects at a time."
"We like the status report feature. It is something really valuable."
"The solution was quite easy to use. The interface was quite user-friendly, and I've become quite familiar with it."
"The program is stable."
"As a product, the primary reason we like it is it gets integrated with our ITSM solution so that we don't have to go for an external product for project management like Jira."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very intuitive to set up."
"Everything is valuable. It is tough to choose a particular feature, but project portfolio management along with agile 2.0 are two key product features that I would suggest for services companies like us."
"Stable and scalable solution."
"The solution offers a lot of opportunities for integrations. We can integrate with Slack, Azure, all the API alternatives, etc. There's a lot of integration modules provided."
"Permission management needs improvement."
"The solution's desktop version is not compatible with the MacBook."
"We are on the on-prem version. The cloud, however, gives more regular updates that we can take advantage of."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"Project Server could be improved by simplifying how tasks are assigned and reviewed on a daily basis."
"I'd like it if we could divide out the project calendars. On one project server, we might follow five projects or more at one time, and we'd like to see all of the items at once so that it becomes a long loop, but one where we can identify different projects in tandem and then focus on which we need to at the time. While I only have visibility into one, I'd like to see several at a time."
"Improvements are needed in the technical support process, aiming for a better user experience."
"In terms of tech support, it took a long time for them to resolve a ticket."
"The interface isn't user-friendly."
"When we import a really big project with a lot of tasks on it, we face some issues with dependencies. The links between tasks are not working very well. There is definitely room for improvement there. Microsoft Project, in my opinion, is the best option for such a use case."
"The solution needs a few things in terms of resource management."
"ServiceNow needs to invest more in integration. That's the only thing. It could always extend its portfolio a little bit."
"The product does not give us the freedom to capture all the instances, test cases, and evidence."
"A major improvement we would like to see is definitely around agile management."
"The portfolio management tool is not as good as DevOps or Jira because it requires a Russian site and BitLocker to train users or run projects."
"The setup is a bit complex. It depends on the organizational needs, and sometimes, we make customizations based on those needs."
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Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is ranked 3rd in Project Portfolio Management with 27 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management 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 ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management writes "A very strategic demand management tool that visualizes risks and ratings in a bubble chart". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio and Broadcom Clarity , whereas ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity . See our Microsoft Project Server vs. ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management report.
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