We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity 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."Visibility to where we are on projects. It tells someone where we are; if we're in trouble or not."
"The dynamism of the application where you can modify it to fit your needs is valuable. For example, you can create fields, metrics, and measures on the fly. You don't have to be limited to what the out-of-the-box format would be. It allows you to generate fields, metrics, and reports off of that with relative ease."
"Project Management features that are excellent in managing the Project Management Life-cycle, along with other related details like Financials, Resources and flexibility to customize, as per requirement."
"The most valuable feature is the portfolio functionality because we have the ability to work with different scenarios and many kinds of financial management. We can integrate with ERP, and with other solutions from third-party vendors. The financial model in Broadcom Clarity PPM, it's the most valuable aspect."
"Absolutely, the most active community I have ever been on."
"I appreciate the report that shows how utilized a person is set to be within the coming months. I use that feature a good bit."
"We just put all the data into one place and hopefully, after we have accurate data, we can make more decisions based on real data rather than gut feeling."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM is robust and flexible, and all the functionality sets are in one place."
"The solution's ease of use is its most valuable aspect."
"Microsoft Project Server is simple to use."
"The stability of the 2019 version is quite good."
"Technical support is good."
"Project schedule management is very good. Basically, it sits on SharePoint. So, every time we create a project, a new project site is created within that SharePoint environment, which is a very good document repository. It allows us to create issues and risks lists and additional functionality to keep track of what's going on with projects."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the tool's reporting is very good."
"It's stable and reliable."
"SharePoint site integration"
"The forms (e.g., project properties page) need to be more attractive, colorful, and field more flexibility for validations."
"The look and the feel of 14.4 is a bit antiquated."
"Clarity PPM would be improved by developing better support for the Agile framework."
"Look and feel of the user experience."
"The only real improvement from my side - I'm spoiled by things like Trello, with the very easy user interface, things like Basecamp - it's very much a static software project. If I was to focus on something it would be that user interface; making that something that is a joy to use, instead of something that feels like data entry."
"A little bit better financial management. Right now it is more accountant-related, the financial management - of course, it's finance, it has to be financial. But it should be a little bit easier for project managers."
"Could be using more updated technologies."
"One of the things that have always been a bit painful is the integration with reporting utilities. The current integration is with Jaspersoft, and there are a number of difficulties with that. If you're using out-of-the-box fields and everything, it is a bit slow and clunky. It has a drag-and-drop interface for the users. On the backend side, there is a report designer. They haven't given or allowed me any training on it yet. So, it has been a bit limited in its features. On one of the earlier report utilities, they had one called Actuate, which had VBA as its base programming language, and you could do quite dynamic things behind the scenes, whereas the Jaspersoft interface seems rather locked. So, you're limited in your options. Being a programmer, you like to have room to be able to invent and create rather than just being limited to a few selection boxes."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The price of the product must be improved."
"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."
"We are on the on-prem version. The cloud, however, gives more regular updates that we can take advantage of."
"It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization."
"The solution must provide Agile and AI features."
"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."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 2nd in Project Portfolio Management with 136 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". 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". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and SAP Portfolio and Project Management, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and Jira. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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