We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server, Planview Portfolios, and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is stable to use, especially since I work with Microsoft for an extended period."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the tool's reporting is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand and navigate."
"Project schedule management is very good. Basically, it sits on SharePoint. So, every time we create a project, a new project site is created within that SharePoint environment, which is a very good document repository. It allows us to create issues and risks lists and additional functionality to keep track of what's going on with projects."
"A single place for all our organisation's project records."
"The solution scales well."
"We can easily see which functions are overcapacity. Before, we did not have visibility into that."
"Our transparency is increasing a lot. It is helping us to get people together. There are no dark rooms anymore. In some areas or concepts, we want to add more light to every single concept. That's the big impact that the tool is having. It allows conversations between people."
"The financial planning capabilities are very useful. We have integration for an SAP system, and so we load financial data from SAP into Planview for prior months. And then we use the forecasting capabilities to get a complete picture of the cost of a specific project. The financial management is very useful."
"The overall interface is very easy to use. It puts together strategy and execution across all your investments."
"It has been effective for our delivery. It's given us much better visibility into what is being delivered and when."
"Planview Management integrates seamlessly with other tools and systems used within the organization, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and collaboration platforms."
"The Kanban board has really helped us be more agile and we can keep track of everything that is ongoing."
"It gives us the vast ability to churn out-of-the-box reports and have an overview about approach rates and resource utilization."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"What I found most valuable in Smartsheet is its project customization feature. It's a great solution because you can add in your own WBS. You can see it in Jira style, Kanban, and you can even do Agile and Waterfall. Another feature that's valuable in the solution is when you have those connections, you have that API, you have a sandbox, and you can make a solution, it's a tremendous product because you can pull data."
"The tool reduces manual labour and it is user-friendly."
"As I am in the corporate legal department, I have to deal with a number of contracts and sometimes it's hard to keep up with email transactions. Having the tracker sheet and being able to build dashboards and workflow has been quite valuable."
"Smartsheet is a really good tool for collaboration."
"The solution is straightforward. Whenever a requirement arises, we create three things in Smartsheet: a project plan, a dashboard, and internal documents. It is done through the form and Smartsheet's automation services. This process shortens the time to market from seven days to less than 12 hours."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is it can be highly customized."
"Smartsheet does a really good job of creating Gantt charts. Export to Excel feature was also very useful."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"The product is difficult to use for complex projects."
"It would be useful if the solution allowed us to share files or project schedules. You may get that with the cloud version. However, it's not available on the on-premises versions."
"It is not updated in real-time. Sometimes it, therefore, is not accurate."
"It may be considered expensive."
"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."
"The solution's desktop version is not compatible with the MacBook."
"Their off-shore support is something new that they're laying out and the team just needed some development in terms of skill and experience."
"When we first deployed, there were some issues. We never got to the root cause of why they happened. Since we didn't have any history with it, we weren't quite sure if this was a standard operating procedure or it truly was a glitch."
"The only area that I can see currently needing improvement is just the modernization of the look and feel of it."
"While Planview Management provides robust reporting and analytics capabilities, further enhancements could include more advanced data visualization options, predictive analytics features, and customizable dashboards to provide deeper insights into project performance and trends."
"The solution is stable. However, it's so robust, there's so much data, that it has the tendency to lag."
"When I started working with Planview, I didn't know anything about project or resource management. I had to learn everything: the admin side, then the user side of it. Probably, in the beginning, I would implement in the blueprint or workshops more demos. A live demo of how the system works because we would like a little deeper dive in how the application works for us to understand what we need to provide, what we are doing, what we will be doing. Because in the beginning, it was so overwhelming, and we didn't know anything about the tool."
"Some of the out-of-the-box reporting is not immediately useful and although it can be configured or customized, there are still improvements that can be made."
"The content management definitely needs to improve. We don't really use content management for projects inside Enterprise One. We have actually switched to a SharePoint site. We have a feed from Enterprise One every night of all the projects that are created."
"An area for improvement in Smartsheet is that if you're in the government or you're a regulated customer, you're not allowed to use APIs due to internal restrictions, so there are specific things that you cannot connect to it. Another area for improvement in the solution is that because there's a capacity of how many records you can have, and there's a capacity of how many functions you can apply, Smartsheet has set up their system where they can force people into purchasing a $20,000 additional module that is called Control Center, that will create documents for them on the fly, so they don't use so many functions and automation. Smartsheet also needs to improve on training, because the training that is out there is very little. The solution requires a steeper learning curve. You have to do your own training and you have to work on your own solution."
"The product must include more modules for project management."
"The downside of Smartsheet is that there are some security concerns. We were able to restrict people from sharing sheets with anyone who was not in our domain, but it could be easier. We also found it hard to restrict certain user groups from adding attachments to sheets."
"Lacks the ability to edit attachments within the solution."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"Smartsheet could improve by having seamless integration with Azure Board."
"Areas for improvement in Smartsheet include better integration capabilities with other technologies through APIs and addressing limitations in reporting functionalities."
"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."
