We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and Microsoft Project 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."The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the ease of use, many developers are familiar with it."
"The way to manage cards as a KANBAN, is really easy but when you need to track hundreds of projects, you need to be very clear in which way the things must be completed."
"The documentation is very well done."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"Resource leveling is very useful. We like this feature. We like to be able to expand tasks and look at different resources and tasks usages. It is good at assigning tasks to teams. It is pretty compliant with the Project Management Institute approach, which is useful for being comprehensive. It allows us to make little Gantt charts and network diagrams."
"The reporting and national resource capacity planning are the most valuable features."
"They have begun to improve with the new cloud integration."
"I like that I can change the task and include different resources related to the task."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to define timelines with Microsoft Project."
"The initial setup could use improvement."
"JIra is very poor at reporting."
"Currently lacks AWS integration."
"Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up."
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"The integration needs to be done with different tools."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
"The solution's look and feel could be a bit more intuitive and user friendly."
"We'd like to be able to see different timelines as a part of one task."
"I would like to see the inclusion of multi-currency support."
"Microsoft Project should provide better documentation regarding the usage of the solution."
"The packaging of Microsoft Project Professional is pretty simple as a product. But, the end-to-end enterprise is complex."
"The Microsoft license is relatively expensive."
"There have been some drawbacks with customization. Some users want it to be an automation tool."
"I find that MS Project has limited control in comparison to other solutions in the same sphere."
"They could also work on integrations with solutions like Teams. We have all of our project files in Teams and it is much easier to use for communication than MS Project, but there is no integration of the two solutions."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 46 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Asana, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Accelo. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Microsoft Project report.
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