We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Project Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution focuses on lean methodology which we have found useful and it can also be used on any device."
"I enjoy working with (and can recommend) Jira for a number of reasons. The best features are that it is friendly and provides good visibility. It's to the point and very effective."
"The level of stability is quite good."
"In terms of scrum teams, I find that usually, the product backlog depends on charts and especially reports like Sprint Reports. I find the reports to be very useful."
"Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively."
"I've never had a bug or a bug message that I needed to open a ticket for."
"Offers a common language set so we can bring people into projects and get them up and running almost immediately."
"This solution assists us with being able to quickly and easily start sprints and keep accurate track of them, including billing using a time-tracking add-on."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"In the competitive landscape of project management and portfolio management solutions, Microsoft Project Server stands out significantly."
"It is easily adaptable. In addition, it is easily used on mobile applications."
"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."
"The ability to track a project's progress using Microsoft Project Server is the most valuable aspect. It depends, especially when managing multiple projects."
"It's stable and reliable."
"It is a scalable solution. We have been able to manage larger scale projects easily using this solution."
"In Jira, sometimes developers are not getting alerts when Jira is moving out of the SLA to the product development team."
"The tool should improve its pricing."
"The Jira dashboards could be more useful. The dashboards have good widgets but the comparison of data over time or extraction of trends from the data is not easy."
"The integration of Jira could improve. The solution should be able to integrate easily with other solutions, such as ERPs. There are times the solution can be slow and we have to reset it over and over again."
"Scripts should be more readily available for implementing projects."
"The help desk and services management features are in need of improvement."
"The solution needs more integrations with Azure DevOps OnPrem."
"It can have a more high-level view of portfolios. It has quite detailed views, but I would like a high-level view of portfolios. We want to integrate Jira with Microsoft Active Directory, and I don't know how easy or hard it is going to be. I don't know if Jira supports this. We are starting that integration in the last quarter of this year. I hope to find all the required tools for this integration."
"We want to expand to the local level where we lack strong IT expertise, we are considering making it more user-friendly."
"When we started using this solution from scratch, we got lost. Microsoft should provide some templates for configurations for certain use cases."
"The price of the product must be improved."
"Project Server could be improved by simplifying how tasks are assigned and reviewed on a daily basis."
"It would be better if the solution had some more training or resources available for a person who is new to Microsoft Project Server."
"Collaboration within the tool is lacking when you compare it to online or cloud-based tools."
"It needs to be more collaborative from inside the application. It only does project scheduling for me. It would be good if it could do other things and be more collaborative, such as sharing tasks for users. It is not really incorporated into MS Office, so you can't copy-paste stuff. It is on its own, doing its own thing. It is only used for scheduling, and it doesn't work well with anything else."
"The product's UI is not very user-friendly."
Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 254 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and SAP Portfolio and Project Management. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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