We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server 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."I find the planning features the most valuable to me."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are you can create critical paths pretty easily, and you can import from an Excel spreadsheet to your task list as you create it during your working sessions with your team."
"We use Microsoft Project for its timeline and task management capabilities. The primary advantage is the easy application of tasks in sequence, confirming dependencies, and establishing relationships between tasks. It simplifies handling conditions, significant dates, and dependencies between various tasks."
"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."
"It's most useful feature is that it interfaces with Project Server so we can, from my perspective, from a portfolio perspective, we can see across the organization."
"The user interface is very clean."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is scheduling. The solution is useful on a daily basis."
"It is well-established, reliable, and compatible."
"The most valuable features are the gantt charts. It's easy to use for me."
"Capacity management and task baselining are the most valuable features of Microsoft Project Server."
"Resource allocation is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Project Server."
"The most valuable feature of the Microsoft Project Server is the level of detail with which I can break down a task and check the dependencies."
"The solution scales well."
"It's stable and reliable."
"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"The solution could be more flexible when it comes to integration."
"The tool's deployment is complex. Integration and automation also need to be improved."
"Microsoft Project has much room for improvement. The solution is still stuck where it was in 2013. Not much has changed since then. There is a lot that can be changed in the enterprise segment."
"I would like to see both Time and Team based options improved."
"I find the setup a little bit cumbersome."
"The solution's interface seems to be an outdated one. So, I would like its interface to be improved."
"The scalability is co-dependent on the stability of the product. We have 4000 users, and at times the product is slow."
"It would be better if Microsoft Project were included in the DevOps stack. That is, I'd like to see this tool integrated to a different stack of the applications that we normally use in DevOps, such as in Jira, for example, to deploy a different version related to the different tasks that are included in Microsoft Project."
"The solution needs to be much more stable."
"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 solution could improve the ease of access could improve. It can be time-consuming."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"The reporting aspects can be improved, which is one of the reasons why I'm using Qlik Sense. In the older on-prem versions, reporting was lackluster, to say the least. Project Online has a better handle on that. However, we will still be using Qlik Sense. We're also looking at an add-on app from a company called OnePlan that adds some additional functionality where Microsoft is not as clean in its approach for things such as portfolio management and some of the trends analysis."
"The check-in, check-out feature makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use."
"Improvements are needed in the technical support process, aiming for a better user experience."
"This is a good product but we have struggled with stability from time to time. The service has stopped intermittently and it has been difficult to find a reason why."
Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews. Microsoft Project is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". 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". Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Smartsheet, Broadcom Clarity and monday.com, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio and Broadcom Clarity . See our Microsoft Project vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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