We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project and Planview AdaptiveWork 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."They have begun to improve with the new cloud integration."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is the reminder feature. This feature allows for the system to send notifications or reminders to individuals who have a task to complete once someone has finished their task. This has been especially useful in situations where multiple people are involved in a task. For example, if I have completed my task and the next person is just beginning, the system will send them a reminder to notify them of my completion. This feature has proven to be very beneficial and convenient for me in my tasks."
"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 integrates well with the Microsoft Office family of applications. It has plugins that interact with it and you can use it with Microsoft Teams. We can use plugins to communicate with JIRA, Projectplace, and Planview. It's not widely used in the company, of course, but it's something that can interact with the official tools that we have."
"The features I find the most valuable are scheduling and reporting."
"The most valuable features of this solution are dependency management, milestone progress, multiple resource rates, and RAG views."
"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."
"The solution is very useful for project planning."
"Clarizen Slide Publisher has helped increase transparency and communication with project stakeholders for us."
"I like the project management solution. It's really nice."
"The feature that has improved our project planning the most is the ability to create custom workflows, which allows us to automate manual tasks that project managers need to perform. The collaboration feature enhances our team's productivity by allowing individuals to see the impact of their decisions on projects owned and managed by other teams."
"Clarizen's strength is reporting. Aside from reporting, I also like the ability to create customized workflow and custom actions. The workflow rules are handy. For example, you can create custom fields and dependent picklists."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"What could have been better is the integration with Office 365 so that if you're discussing a project on Teams or there's an email related to the project, it can be tagged to the project in Microsoft Project. That functionality is currently not there."
"The setup and scalability can be somewhat difficult for new users until they gain knowledge."
"It would be better if there were more access to Agile implementations."
"Its price can be improved."
"It would be ideal if the solution integrated more with Azure DevOps and other work management platforms like Jira."
"Microsoft Project should include more visualization, queries to filter out data, and more reporting structures."
"The tool's most valuable feature is scheduling."
"It could be more user-friendly. I think it is too overwhelming, initially, in terms of possibilities and so on."
"I felt like the slide publisher isn't that user-friendly. I think it wasn't that easy to use or to figure out because of formatting constraints, or maybe we need to get better at understanding some of its limitations."
"If I start customizing too many things, Clarizen tends to get really slow in our environment and especially if I'm tunneled in an environment, like if I'm connected to my VPN."
"One specific area for improvement could be implementing a development environment to test workflows with live production data."
Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews while Planview AdaptiveWork is ranked 21st in Project Management Software with 8 reviews. Microsoft Project is rated 8.0, while Planview AdaptiveWork is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planview AdaptiveWork writes "Has resources management and timesheets but could be more flexible". Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity , whereas Planview AdaptiveWork is most compared with Planview PPM Pro, Broadcom Clarity , Jira and Smartsheet. See our Microsoft Project vs. Planview AdaptiveWork report.
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