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."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's GUI is very good...The product's scalability is good."
"If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is status reporting."
"The user interface is simple and it helps me in planning what needs to be accomplished."
"The user interface is very clean."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"Microsoft Project is easy to use and helps our teams visualize the evolution of our projects."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are the availability of being online and within Teams. My entire team can use it and see it, versus the full Microsoft Projects, such as Project Professional, you need to have a license."
"The customization ability of Monday is unmatched."
"Timeline and countdown systems have been great for us as well as the ability to "@" team members in comment sections to have collaborative conversations, give feedback, and share files."
"I like the update feature. It's almost like you can replace email with it. You can communicate on a particular item within monday.com, and then you can see the history of who commented, when they commented, what they said, and the reply to what they said. It's much easier to follow up on a particular item than have a thousand emails going back and forth. In a big project, you can usually have a ton of emails. If you use monday.com as a communication tool, you can almost eliminate email and have better tracking on what was done, when it was done, and what was said about the items. That's probably my favorite feature."
"Monday.com increases the transparency of project management and team management."
"I love the time-tracking feature."
"The notification system is well done."
"The tagging and notification features are great."
"The automation makes moving items around the boards easier and saves us time."
"Planview FLEX licensing gives us a central repository where all the projects are stored so you can check the finances, resources, etc. It's quite useful to have everything connected. We don't have that for Microsoft Project. It's disconnected. The reporting capabilities could also be better, especially with finance and resources. Everybody complains about reports. That's why we need another tool."
"I would like to see an entire baseline, like in JIRA."
"This solution needs more customization."
"The full suite would be pretty expensive."
"In a future release, the dashboard should improve because there isn't one, I had to create my own."
"This solution needs more templates focused on types of projects to ease setup."
"The stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Microsoft Project should include more visualization, queries to filter out data, and more reporting structures."
"In my main table, I changed sometimes the timeline values mistakenly. That should be prevented via a smart warning or some sort of coloring."
"It would be beneficial to consider incorporating features that enhance the platform's customization capabilities in the next release."
"The ability to implement a timetabling functionality would be really useful for an education provider."
"Monday.com is always upgrading its features. I struggle to keep up with it all as I am not a tech expert."
"I've had trouble trying to link or merge together a board with my team in which we can collaborate and comment on each task or file without having our client in on the early stage conversations."
"There are a lot of ways that monday.com does not work, for example, when it comes to HRMS. A particular employee can't apply for leave or check the status of a leave request or check his 401(k) status. Those are things that are missing in monday.com."
"The documentation must be available in French."
"We have difficulties playing with automation."
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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