We performed a comparison between Basecamp and Broadcom Clarity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Microsoft, Asana and others in Project Management Software."The ease of use is valuable."
"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."
"With the new UI, CA is heading in the right direction, and fast. They're adding features, I would say major features, two times a year, which is fast. They're adding features, I would say major features, two times a year, which is fast."
"Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"It makes the whole lifecycle of project management a lot easier than using the legacy systems, which we are retiring every few months because of PPM."
"We just put all the data into one place and hopefully, after we have accurate data, we can make more decisions based on real data rather than gut feeling."
"There were probably about five or six metrics that we used. As a result, the groups that I supported were consistently ranked at the absolute top of the organization, as we were leveraging these built-in tools for tracking."
"Upgrades were pretty straightforward. CA took care of everything, we just did the testing."
"Right now, it's the PPM piece of it, the scheduling, the Gantt, the task view."
"The most valuable feature is the portfolio functionality because we have the ability to work with different scenarios and many kinds of financial management. We can integrate with ERP, and with other solutions from third-party vendors. The financial model in Broadcom Clarity PPM, it's the most valuable aspect."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"In terms of what could be improved, the end user interface could be improved to be more intuitive, because we sometimes have issues with customization. Sometimes we are not able to customize everything for the end user's interface, and they require more customization. We should be able to perform a deeper customization here."
"It would be good for them to work on the user interface to make it more interactive."
"Their online documentation is okay. It is not great. It is hard to get to some of the answers to the things that we may be running into, such as use cases that we are trying to fix. So, frequently we have to put in tickets."
"The Work Breakdown Structure in the Tasks: I should be able to drag and drop to a level three instead of just stuck at level two."
"There is a lack of seamless integration with industry standard products."
"I would like to see more team-based management, and less people-based management; as far as the resource management goes, to do it per team and not per person."
"We use a product called TFS and we would definitely like to see integration with that. It's not there right now. Agile Central is the one that is integrated with."
"Whenever that second instance of Clarity came about, it was overwhelming even to people who were accustomed to working with program management tools."
Basecamp is ranked 22nd in Project Management Software with 3 reviews while Broadcom Clarity is ranked 6th in Project Management Software with 136 reviews. Basecamp is rated 7.6, while Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Basecamp writes "Easy to navigate and good for communications but needs better documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". Basecamp is most compared with Planview Portfolios, Smartsheet, Jira and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and Smartsheet.
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