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."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."
"Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"It makes it easier to compare different opportunities, and to track the metrics though the process. It helps us make better choices of which opportunities to go after and not go after."
"The most valuable features are the project, resource, and portfolio management processes are combined in one solution. The data is possible to use either in the one or the other process, and we do not need to enter the data multiple times."
"I appreciate the report that shows how utilized a person is set to be within the coming months. I use that feature a good bit."
"Within the SaaS environment (since CA is supporting it), it has been extremely stable and reliable."
"The interfaces for project management, portfolio management, and reporting services are always helpful."
"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."
"The standard project planning features and charts are most valuable."
"The Gantt chart view is great."
"One of the best features is that it is easy to use."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"They have begun to improve with the new cloud integration."
"I like that I can change the task and include different resources related to the task."
"I have found that the chart reporting feature is very helpful for us currently."
"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."
"One of the areas that we would improve upon is not necessarily with the tool, but having more tips/tricks on adoption. How to get people outside of the PMO to use the tool and get the information."
"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."
"There is a lack of seamless integration with industry standard products."
"We're looking at adding the Agile piece to it. I want to make sure that that integration is very smooth."
"When you are going to a more collaborative based approach, PPM does not support that."
"When we upgraded to 15.1, we had some challenges around Jaspersoft, and also some issues with supporting some of the complex process work flows that we had designed internally, that were affected by some changes in the process engine."
"I want to see integration for SMS functionality."
"The risks issues and changes are not in the new UX yet."
"The stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution's interface seems to be an outdated one. So, I would like its interface to be improved."
"Microsoft Project should include more visualization, queries to filter out data, and more reporting structures."
"We'd like the solution to have better integration with other third-party and open-source solutions."
"The full suite would be pretty expensive."
"Its price can be improved."
"Microsoft's solution isn't really a collaboration tool, however. If you need a collaboration tool, you can use Slack, which can be integrated with your JIRA."
"I would like to see both Time and Team based options improved."
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.
See our list of best Project Management Software vendors.
We monitor all Project Management Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.