We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management 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."One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"We use Microsoft Project Server for project management."
"I like being able to manage the capacity in terms of the resources. I also like being able to share documents and information between teams. It's the best solution for collaboration."
"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"I found the portfolio management valuable."
"It is well-established, reliable, and compatible."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is user-friendly."
"We mainly use the solution to support operations and align our ITSM operations with our business goals. This involves coordinating between our application development, support teams, and network engineering teams. When there's an issue at the product or network level, we raise a ticket, and our team works together to resolve it."
"The most valuable feature of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is incident management."
"The interface is user-friendly. It's one of the most user-friendly on the market, and the most complete."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the one that lets you see how much time has been used in processing a ticket. This allows us to better monitor performance."
"The most valuable features of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management are the multiple methodology possibilities for projects. It has hybrid, traditional, and Agile capabilities. Additionally, the solution integrates well with other platforms, such as Microsoft Azure."
"The solution offers a lot of opportunities for integrations. We can integrate with Slack, Azure, all the API alternatives, etc. There's a lot of integration modules provided."
"Competitive in terms of research"
"The stability is excellent. ServiceNow is one of the leading platforms when it comes to stability."
"The user interface looks quite old and needs to be improved."
"There are certain shortcomings in the documentation part where improvements are required."
"I'd like it if we could divide out the project calendars. On one project server, we might follow five projects or more at one time, and we'd like to see all of the items at once so that it becomes a long loop, but one where we can identify different projects in tandem and then focus on which we need to at the time. While I only have visibility into one, I'd like to see several at a time."
"We need to be able to compare milestones, calls, and other variables regarding the projects we are working on. I have to contract developers to make reports, which is where things get complicated. They need to develop personal and custom fields for us."
"It appears that Microsoft's primary goal is to migrate as much functionality as possible from the legacy on-premises Microsoft Project Server to the new cloud-based Power Apps solution."
"The initial setup was complex."
"EPM 2010 UI seems a bit dated now that 2016 is available."
"The solution could have more compact dashboards, such as one finds with Planview."
"The cost could be improved. The solution is quite pricey."
"The portfolio managed is good for IT, but it's not good for non it's not necessarily great for construction projects, such as the building of physical infrastructure."
"The timing reporting module, and how it's used is a bit difficult to understand. Everything related to project management is quite extensive. It needs to be simplified. At first, our users didn't want to use it, because it seems a bit complex."
"The user interface could be more modern."
"ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management could improve by having more Agile features. Other solutions, such as Rally have more."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The product comes with little options out of the box."
"Dashboard interface is limited functionally and not very user friendly"
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Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is ranked 3rd in Project Portfolio Management with 27 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management 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 ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management writes "A very strategic demand management tool that visualizes risks and ratings in a bubble chart". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio and Broadcom Clarity , whereas ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity . See our Microsoft Project Server vs. ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management report.
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