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."The dynamism of the application where you can modify it to fit your needs is valuable. For example, you can create fields, metrics, and measures on the fly. You don't have to be limited to what the out-of-the-box format would be. It allows you to generate fields, metrics, and reports off of that with relative ease."
"The most useful feature for me as an implementer of Broadcom Clarity PPM is its extensibility. The tool is pretty extensible, and I haven't had any issues with it in terms of it getting used for multiple scenarios and for multiple clients where there's a need for high customization. Broadcom Clarity PPM is a very, very customizable tool, so you can pretty much implement any business process on it with no issues."
"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."
"It is allowing us to keep track of what our projects are doing, and the idea module, what projects are coming into the pipeline."
"It's definitely improving our ability to make better decisions, and improving the quality of data that we have, to make the decisions for the strategic good of the company."
"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."
"Visibility to where we are on projects. It tells someone where we are; if we're in trouble or not."
"We have a centralized view that we can have in our delivery and business organizations."
"Microsoft offers good support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is time management."
"Resource leveling is very useful. We like this feature. We like to be able to expand tasks and look at different resources and tasks usages. It is good at assigning tasks to teams. It is pretty compliant with the Project Management Institute approach, which is useful for being comprehensive. It allows us to make little Gantt charts and network diagrams."
"The most valuable feature is probably the Kanban diagram. People are familiar with the Kanban tools. When they do their scrum meetings, they have that Kanban board where you can see the different tiles for all the queries and move them from left to right. IT is familiar with that because, for development, most of the tools have that capability. It could also be more graphical, like Asana."
"The solution is very useful for project planning."
"The pricing is pretty good on the enterprise agreement we have."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is status reporting."
"The user interface is simple and it helps me in planning what needs to be accomplished."
"The classic UI is very cumbersome. It can do everything but it's hard to use. It's easy to use once you understand it, but it's intimidating at first for somebody to see the solution."
"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."
"The user interface (UI) needs to be improved. Right now, it's not the best."
"The look and the feel of 14.4 is a bit antiquated."
"I want to see integration for SMS functionality."
"We use Service Desk Manager as well. We have a custom tool to integrate the two. One of the reasons why PPM was chosen was because, "Well, it must integrate with SDM, because they're the same company." But that was not the case."
"One of the things that have always been a bit painful is the integration with reporting utilities. The current integration is with Jaspersoft, and there are a number of difficulties with that. If you're using out-of-the-box fields and everything, it is a bit slow and clunky. It has a drag-and-drop interface for the users. On the backend side, there is a report designer. They haven't given or allowed me any training on it yet. So, it has been a bit limited in its features. On one of the earlier report utilities, they had one called Actuate, which had VBA as its base programming language, and you could do quite dynamic things behind the scenes, whereas the Jaspersoft interface seems rather locked. So, you're limited in your options. Being a programmer, you like to have room to be able to invent and create rather than just being limited to a few selection boxes."
"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."
"The solution's interface seems to be an outdated one. So, I would like its interface to be improved."
"I would like to see the inclusion of multi-currency support."
"The solution could be more flexible when it comes to integration."
"I would like Microsoft Project to better align with our business needs, with improved consultant support for setup and integration features that show all relevant aspects at the top level."
"The tool's most valuable feature is scheduling."
"The packaging of Microsoft Project Professional is pretty simple as a product. But, the end-to-end enterprise is complex."
"Its reporting and its integration with some of the other related systems should be improved. It is not very easy to integrate."
"I am not that close to it anymore, but I know that there were some cut and paste issues when we were trying to move one group of roles to another, and they used to muck up the interdependencies between the tiers, rows, and other things."
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 Freshservice. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project report.
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