Microsoft Project vs Planview Daptiv comparison

"I especially like the reporting tools, which are visual tools and offer visual reports."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is status reporting."

"Microsoft offers good support."

"The reporting features are quite strong. Being able to do team reports and find out what work is pending, what work needs to be done are key in my day-to-day management of the team. The earned value analysis capabilities and critical path capabilities inside the tool help me make sure that I'm keeping the projects on track."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the scheduling, managing the resources, budgeting, tracking the progress, viewing the progress, reporting, and it is very easy to use."

"Microsoft Project provides benefits by helping monitor project activities effectively."

"The solution is well established and runs very accurately."

"It comes with our Office 365."

"It's difficult to pinpoint just one most valuable feature, as there are many features that can be beneficial. For the specific use case of my client's project management office, they found the project management features of the application to be particularly valuable, such as project boards, reporting, and the ability to customize views. Additionally, task management and project scheduling were also highly utilized. However, capacity planning was not used as much as the others, as there was a lack of support from executives to invest in training and implementing it due to a lack of processes in place. The project planning features, dashboard, and reporting capabilities were considered the most valuable."

"I like the reporting engine, IBM Cognos, especially the analytics. That's a good tool. It's quite strong on the ideation and capacity-planning side, which is a huge plus."

"The timekeeping features are great and very helpful."

"The powerful collaboration is definitely the most valuable and the fact that you can adjust flexibility to almost any methodology, and the easy creation of complete new functionalities without programming code."

"Changepoint gives us a view of the project status and needs very clearly, which are things that we used to miss with MS Project and Excel."

"The full suite would be pretty expensive."

"The solution could offer waterfall options for agile and sprint planning."

"There needs to be better integration with other Microsoft products such as SharePoint, and the like."

"The tool's deployment is complex. Integration and automation also need to be improved."

"The setup and scalability can be somewhat difficult for new users until they gain knowledge."

"It needs to be more comprehensive."

"Once we commit our status, changing it is hard."

"I'd like the solution to be less expensive."

"The areas that should be improved in Planview Daptiv are a subject that can be viewed differently depending on who you ask. I feel they should focus on excelling in one specific area rather than providing average capabilities in many areas. For example, their project planning software is satisfactory but not as advanced as Microsoft Projects. The same goes for the capacity planning tool and reporting capabilities, which can be improved upon by using custom Excel spreadsheets or by hiring a business analyst for additional support. In short, the biggest weakness of Daptiv is that it does not excel in any one area and only provides average performance."

"Expense management, simulation scenarios, and budget control could be great and useful features to include."

"It would also be nice to see some improvements on the IBM Cognos Analytics. There's still work to be done on the analytics side of things, like your condition formality."

"I find the solution has an excessive amount of features. Many aren't even kept current. Some aren't useful at all. There's an overall lack of coherence within the solution. It can make the execution difficult. Many features can easily be eliminated and it would help streamline the solution. They should get rid of 80% of the features and then really focus on the leftover 20% to make it a really great product."

"This solution needs more standard connectors to other solutions."

"The license is a one-time payment but it is expensive."

"The solution has a decent annual license subscription cost, which is not high."

"I believe the licensing for the solution is based on an annual fee."

"I am not aware of any additional costs apart from the standard licensing fees of the solution."

"The solution is expensive."

"The licensing model is somewhat complex."

"You only need a Team's license in order to use Microsoft Project within Teams, which is very helpful."

"I am not involved with this."

"The licensing is pretty complex. Each kind of user is a different price. It's approximately $300 per year. They charge additional fees for technical support and other additional services."

"It's a yearly license, but it's not an open license. It's based on users and their roles. So your administrator is priced differently from your timesheet user."