We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Microsoft Project 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.
"What has been valuable are the workflows that are there today in order to keep our executive staff informed as well as our program managers and department managers."
"It is a scalable, easy-to-deploy, and user-friendly solution for enterprise businesses."
"Right now, it's the PPM piece of it, the scheduling, the Gantt, the task view."
"Transparency and just having the ability to procure information that is pertinent."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the XFlow, that interface is pretty cool."
"Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"Having information all together in one single source."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM's most valuable feature is the plenty of modules, such as portfolio, project, resource, and time."
"Microsoft Project is easy to use and helps our teams visualize the evolution of our projects."
"We use Microsoft Project for its timeline and task management capabilities. The primary advantage is the easy application of tasks in sequence, confirming dependencies, and establishing relationships between tasks. It simplifies handling conditions, significant dates, and dependencies between various tasks."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are you can create critical paths pretty easily, and you can import from an Excel spreadsheet to your task list as you create it during your working sessions with your team."
"The pricing is pretty good on the enterprise agreement we have."
"The integration between SharePoint and Power BI has been great."
"The user interface is very clean."
"I use Microsoft Project to manage project timelines."
"We value all the features. Previously, we used Jenkins for similar purposes, but Microsoft Projects works fine. We're looking to improve integration with different clusters on production and automate various aspects of software development. This includes integration for alerting, monitoring, and pricing purposes, among other things."
"Clarity PPM would be improved by developing better support for the Agile framework."
"I think user-friendliness is the key. Right now it's really clunky. We're also looking to upgrade, but an upgrade is not going to fix everything. The new UX is good, but there are still a lot of limitations. Once they work through those kinks and get those limitations removed, we'll be able to upgrade."
"Financials are okay, but there's a lot of room for improvement in financials.Financial plans, if those could be made so that you're not always grouping your financial data by predefined attributes, that would be helpful for us."
"It should be integrated with CA Service Desk Manager so that, when you have time for a ticket or when someone gets assigned a ticket, in PPM it automatically shows that they have to account for that: that they would both enter time in the past and, also, that this is going to take them time in the future."
"One of the limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio."
"Could be using more updated technologies."
"The only real improvement from my side - I'm spoiled by things like Trello, with the very easy user interface, things like Basecamp - it's very much a static software project. If I was to focus on something it would be that user interface; making that something that is a joy to use, instead of something that feels like data entry."
"I'd like to see blueprints. I'd also like to see the user interface simplified, and to have a lot of templates available on each blueprint."
"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."
"When moving resources between projects, it could be a bit more clear."
"Could be more user-friendly, and forecasting could be better."
"When you start getting into the more advanced features, it can become unstable. The more you use the advanced features, the more exposure you have to an unanticipated result. I think we need to add the Kanban Board capability to the product that would help them advance that board into the project management methodology that's being used in the industry today. Being able to depend on Scrum management is key."
"Project availability and speed could always be improved."
"Its user interface could be a little bit more intuitive. Not everybody has the luxury of going to training and understanding which button does what and the functionality. The user interface should be improved to make it a little bit more intuitive. It is not user-friendly. I've dealt with it for a number of years, so it is not hard for me to figure it out, but you would need a quick reference guide or something to say, "Here are the basics. This is how you do X.""
"In the next release, Microsoft should include cross-project integration."
"The packaging of Microsoft Project Professional is pretty simple as a product. But, the end-to-end enterprise is complex."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 6th in Project Management Software with 136 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Jira, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Smartsheet and monday.com, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and monday.com. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project report.
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