We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server, monday.com, and OpenText Project and portfolio Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Broadcom, ServiceNow and others in Project Portfolio Management."We are able to know what we are doing, how much we have spent, how much time we've taken, and it tells us how much money is left for the project. It also tells us whether we are below or above our expenditures, whether we are below or above our budget."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"Resource allocation is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Project Server."
"The product is user-friendly."
"One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"The solution, overall, is excellent for project planning."
"The scheduling feature is the most useful."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution is easily scalable."
"Monday.com has allowed us to organize our workload in a much more efficient way."
"monday.com increased the efficiency of the teams using it, thereby decreasing costs. We needed fewer people to do the same amount of work once the tasks were organized and presented in a simple way."
"monday.com is very easy to use and very user-friendly. I can give non-technical people access to their respective boards and that enables them to focus on their objectives and their targeted items or customers... No other CRM is this user-friendly for non-technical end-users."
"The product gives the whole team an overall view of the status of every single project that we develop, alongside budget management and support triage."
"Monday.com increases the transparency of project management and team management."
"Guest access for the client significantly increases their loyalty and understanding of the value of what we do for them."
"I use the templates function to create standard templates for my project plans that I can easily duplicate and disperse organizationally."
"Has a powerful workflow engine that allows creation of workflow complexities and processes."
"I like the ease of customization from an admin perspective. I'm really excited about some of the things that are coming in version 10.0.3 as far as what admins are able to do."
"I like the automated calculations, especially on the resource side. When project managers enter their resource requirements into their staffing profiles, they are automatically translated into labor forecast calculations. PPM automates a significant portion of the forecast calculations. Timesheets are also built-in. We automatically process time sheets and bill them accordingly."
"Resource management: The resource management module is very complete and covers most of the time all needs of customers."
"Micro Focus PPM is flexible and easy to use. It's simple to customize and configure workflows."
"There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management."
"It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on."
"The data provided by PPM is trusted and is available almost immediately; without trusted data there is very less scope of any tool to be successful."
"The initial setup was complex."
"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 solution must provide Agile and AI features."
"Microsoft Project Server could improve by making the solution more user-friendly."
"In terms of tech support, it took a long time for them to resolve a ticket."
"The reporting aspects can be improved, which is one of the reasons why I'm using Qlik Sense. In the older on-prem versions, reporting was lackluster, to say the least. Project Online has a better handle on that. However, we will still be using Qlik Sense. We're also looking at an add-on app from a company called OnePlan that adds some additional functionality where Microsoft is not as clean in its approach for things such as portfolio management and some of the trends analysis."
"The check-in, check-out feature makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use."
"The user interface looks quite old and needs to be improved."
"In my main table, I changed sometimes the timeline values mistakenly. That should be prevented via a smart warning or some sort of coloring."
"They need to add more data values and fields, such as currency and functional fields, as well as more trigger functionality for automation and time-based management."
"Alongside the integrations, a Mailchimp one would help to add tags directly from Monday to the Mailchimp account."
"I'm unclear about the notifications feature in that I receive way too many emails."
"We would like to have less downtime as it happens now and then!"
"Currently, we run our accounting on Quickbooks Online and we are forced to use their reporting tools to bring out the data we want to see. I would much rather have Quickbooks integration that allows us to more seamlessly pull transactions into Monday in real-time and allow us to manipulate that data on the Monday interface."
"monday.com could benefit from deeper integration with other products that are prevalent within the industry, such as Google Sheets, HubSpot, social media platforms, and various ad services."
"There are occasional glitches in the system that cause the website to be down temporarily."
"We had a couple of issues with stability or performance degradation about a year ago, around the time of the initial rollout. Since then, we've only had two unexpected outages that were quickly resolved."
"I was not involved in the initial setup. I know that the project involved a lot of consulting that took a long time."
"User interface continues to be poor. The product does not have a similar view in the different modules, e.g., staffing vs financial management, it looks like you are working with a different product and it is not easy to use or intuitive."
"Portfolio scenarios: This is a very powerful feature. However, it’s limited to analyses."
"Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc."
"Sometimes features in PPM don't work as expected, or our users request a new feature. Typically, our partner vendor can deploy those changes. But there have been a few instances when we had to raise it with Micro Focus because it's beyond the ability of our partner vendor. When we raise the issue with Micro Focus, it sometimes takes time because it needs support from other customers using PPM, not just our bank. It goes through a voting system. Other customers need to vote for the feature. The features that get the most votes will possibly be added."
"The user interface is very, very old and is missing some functions, such as, for example, re-do, follow, and share functions. The UI is not good."
"There are some limitations when it comes to attaching receipts. For example, if we are going to buy some non-labor-related assets such as hardware, we are not able to attach the receipts in the Financial Management module in version 9.41."
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