We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project and Zoho Projects 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."Dependencies (not typically effectively used in "Agile" techniques) allow understanding of actual project status and challenges."
"Time tracking and budget tracking are the most valuable features of the solution."
"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 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."
"If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is planning."
"The built-in dashboards are powerful because they show both project and overall progress."
"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."
"We were able to track each department's work and what they were doing inside the actual department. Gantt charts are useful to track departmental progress and operation, or we are that item stuff."
"The most valuable feature of Zoho Projects is all integrated into one. We don't have to start using multiple tools, such as Projects, CRM, Marketing, Automation, Finance, and setting up Meetings. It's all in one solution. I don't have to go to multiple different platforms to have all the features I need."
"It integrates so well with other Zoho applications, and that really helps to extend the features of Zoho Projects."
"Timesheets and the ability to add attachments are very valuable features to us."
"The product can be seamlessly integrated into our CRM."
"We can customize the tool."
"While integrating a voice solution with Zoho Projects, the focus was on creating a unified interface for voice and customer engagement across various platforms like Facebook, social media, and emails. The primary goal was to seamlessly merge the two platforms into a single interface. To achieve this, we engaged in API integrations and worked on aspects such as initializing, authentication, and access control."
"We can integrate Zoho Projects with Zoho CRM."
"Project is not easy to scale. It isn't a cloud-based solution where everybody can utilize it at the same time without version issues when you save your file. We use it at the enterprise level, but you have to share the files to others within your organization through Teams or SharePoint. One improvement would be to transition to cloud-based functionality. However, that might limit the functionality in other ways."
"Its user experience can be improved while configuring it. Its reporting can also be better. Reporting is not very easy. Reports do not always work. I was trying to download some reports, and they didn't work. I don't know if it was related to the configuration that I was using. I didn't go too deep to check if something was missing."
"Project availability and speed could always be improved."
"The licensing cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"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."
"Microsoft's solution isn't really a collaboration tool, however. If you need a collaboration tool, you can use Slack, which can be integrated with your JIRA."
"It needs to be more comprehensive."
"I would like to have more access to templates and tools that could be used to teach project management best practices."
"The solution’s interface should be improved."
"Zoho Projects' time log addition part can be improved."
"The only room for improvement over here is a feature related to the trend, like AI-related things that we can expect need to be introduced."
"Sometimes the solution does not work."
"We'd like to have milestone features."
"The solution should improve on integration and customization."
"The UI and UX must be improved."
"The telephone support provided by the support team should become better."
Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews while Zoho Projects is ranked 14th in Project Management Software with 14 reviews. Microsoft Project is rated 8.0, while Zoho Projects is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoho Projects writes "A scalable solution with great features that enable efficient collaboration". Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity , whereas Zoho Projects is most compared with Trello and monday.com. See our Microsoft Project vs. Zoho Projects report.
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