We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and Planview Portfolios 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."The scheduling and the customization are very powerful."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"A single place for all our organisation's project records."
"One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"The scheduling feature is the most useful."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"The usability is excellent."
"Deliverables List: Most useful to enable meaningful status reporting at an enterprise level."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ease and customizability of reporting."
"It maps back to our SDLC process pretty well. I'm able to see the stage of where things are at. We also use Azure DevOps for all of our requirements and our coding."
"We use time reporting. We convert time reporting into financial costs and do contractor and capacity planning for our resources. We track our work. So, that's the module we use extensively. As a matter of fact, we have upwards of 300 open projects at this given moment. It is pretty close to 300 open activities that are working."
"It gives us the vast ability to churn out-of-the-box reports and have an overview about approach rates and resource utilization."
"The data is the most valuable because the reporting that we provide out of Planview is priceless when compared to any other tool. The reporting has a variety of reports. It has the capabilities of Power BI. It gives us all these dashboards that we can show to our executive leadership, and they have been very well-received."
"The most valuable features are the control and visibility that you have for portfolio management in terms of projects and capacity planning for resources along with strategies and outcomes, etc. It's so easy to access information for sharing analytics and reporting."
"It has been effective for our delivery. It's given us much better visibility into what is being delivered and when."
"The integration stuff from tool to tool, like Projectplace to Planview, to manage projects is the most valuable feature. It keeps all our tasks up-to-date. It closely follows up with everything, which is really cool."
"We think that calculations are not working correctly, and there is a need to enter data a couple of times in order to give the correct calculations."
"It would be better if the solution had some more training or resources available for a person who is new to Microsoft Project Server."
"The deployment aspect of the product is a bit tedious."
"Permission management needs improvement."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"There are certain shortcomings in the documentation part where improvements are required."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"The user interface looks quite old and needs to be improved."
"The lack of templates harden the initial learning curve."
"We are not very happy with the customer service. This is one of our main pain points. It doesn't cover the entirety of customer service, as there are reps who are really great and we've had good experiences. Many times, we've had people give us attitude, there was a delay in the response, or just a lack of interest. This got to the point where if there was a problem, we would rather try to solve it ourselves then call customer support."
"The technical people are very competent, but there is so much turnover in the people that we talk to, and that's frustrating. They will say, "We can make this work." Suddenly, that guy has left, and we have no one. Then, we have to start all over."
"When we first deployed, there were some issues. We never got to the root cause of why they happened. Since we didn't have any history with it, we weren't quite sure if this was a standard operating procedure or it truly was a glitch."
"I would like to be able to integrate with Oracle to supplement what we're currently doing with reporting."
"We've been using it for a while, so it's about maturity. It's about being able to build out things in Agile groups and teams and some of that. Then really trying to drive into the direction of Lean Portfolio Management and more Agile program management, I think is where we're heading."
"Even though Enterprise One is easy and user-friendly, it could provide better training like a demo. Providing more tutorials or sessions would really help."
"The solution is stable. However, it's so robust, there's so much data, that it has the tendency to lag."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while Planview Portfolios is ranked 8th in Project Portfolio Management with 63 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while Planview Portfolios is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planview Portfolios writes "Helps prioritize projects, share the big picture with management, and has a great planning capacity". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and Knovos eZManage, whereas Planview Portfolios is most compared with Broadcom Clarity , Planview PPM Pro, LeanIX, SAP Portfolio and Project Management and Planview AdaptiveWork. See our Microsoft Project Server vs. Planview Portfolios report.
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