We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server, monday.com, and Planview Portfolios based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Broadcom, ServiceNow and others in Project Portfolio Management."The solution has easy integration with Excel."
"One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"The ability to track a project's progress using Microsoft Project Server is the most valuable aspect. It depends, especially when managing multiple projects."
"A single place for all our organisation's project records."
"The stability of the 2019 version is quite good."
"It is easily adaptable. In addition, it is easily used on mobile applications."
"Technical support is very responsive - particularly on critical tickets."
"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"The features I found most valuable are the Kanban boards."
"The stability is good."
"The mobile application is an absolute breeze to work with."
"The most valuable tools are the search function, automated email reminders, and the ability to track changes through the activity log."
"The analytics view is very powerful with Gantt charts and multiple chart visualizations."
"When you have a tool that anybody can use from all devices, it spares some time so that you could do and handle way more things."
"The time savings alone is worth every penny and man-hour it took settings up the business profile."
"Monday has been really beneficial in allowing us to place all of our records in one place."
"The biggest impact for using Planview currently would be to understand the true costs of projects. We are trying to get to a point where not only do we take into account technical costs, but what the business cost is. Trying to integrate our business right now into Planview is helping us identify the true cost of the investments that we make so we can try and understand their value."
"The biggest impact has been the visibility into our IT assets."
"Another good thing is that we can create custom reports, which is great. If I created a custom report, a tile that tells me how many people have logged in today. We currently have a little under 2000 users, and that's only users, we actually have integrations, that we created a custom form that sends hours directly to Planview. They're not using Planview directly, but they're sending their hours to Planview through an API."
"The solution view into resource capacity and availability helps us to manage work."
"We provided whatever feedback we had to the Planview team, and they went in and built those additional features that we requested. For example, they created a great way for our users to search for a specific resource, project, program, or role. We were not using some of the features, and we wanted them to not be visible, and they helped us with that. They also brought a feature to provide visibility into when a resource was never assigned to any task. There was no visibility to this before. This feature was really very good for visibility into the resource portfolio."
"We are able to see where everyone in the team is in terms of hours, where there is capacity, and where we can actually add them, e.g., other projects that they're not currently staffed to."
"The flexibility on offer is very helpful in meeting the organization's needs."
"It maps back to our SDLC process pretty well. I'm able to see the stage of where things are at. We also use Azure DevOps for all of our requirements and our coding."
"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."
"The product is difficult to use for complex projects."
"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"EPM 2010 UI seems a bit dated now that 2016 is available."
"It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization."
"When a lot of users logged onto the site, it took a big toll on the service. Therefore, there is a scalability issue."
"The check-in, check-out feature makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use."
"The solution must provide Agile and AI features."
"Monday could be improved if it could be linked with Google Calendar."
"The solution needs easier automation."
"Having more pre-defined formats and/or templates or having the ability to make public some formats/templates (not the information on them) would be useful."
"Adding more features would be ideal since there are limitations as far as scalability."
"Managing project status and product development may be quite difficult unless you have a project manager."
"The product could have more templates."
"I would really like to see the reporting functionality updated."
"The docs could be improved."
"I think some of the administrative aspects of it could be a little easier, especially when it comes to designing reports. The reporting coming out of it could be a little bit better."
"Being the IT development manager who implements the upgrades for Planview, I would love to see more thorough testing of expenditures and more thorough testing in general. When we do an upgrade, we have to do quite a bit of testing because we can affect the bottom line."
"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."
"Support is still a challenge. We find it challenging more due to the responsiveness and getting a case or ticket assigned to an analyst. That's what I was just doing. I was following up on an email that we opened last week. We haven't heard anything, so following up on that."
"The resource area needs improvement. The improvements that have been made recently in the later versions have been good improvements, but I think there are some more improvements needed there."
"I think the capabilities are there, but it seems difficult for me to even create a report as I am not a Planview technical expert. It is not particularly intuitive. It slows us down in reporting the big picture to management."
"When it comes to reporting there are some challenges with integration."
"We have almost like a third-party group who has to do a lot of our configurations. It's a bit painful for us anytime we want to make a change. The other issue is that we have different groups all in the same instance. So, if one group wants to make a change, it impacts everyone. Then, we all have to come together, to say, "Yes, we approve this change, or no, we do not." Thus, it has not been as flexible for us."
