We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server and Planview AdaptiveWork 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."The key things are managing interactions, resource allocation, resource-leveling (enterprise) and as a collaborative tool, because we use it across multiple projects at a time."
"The scheduling feature is the most useful."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is stable to use, especially since I work with Microsoft for an extended period."
"The most valuable features are the gantt charts. It's easy to use for me."
"The stability of the 2019 version is quite good."
"Technical support is very responsive - particularly on critical tickets."
"Microsoft Project Server is easy to use compared to other similar solutions, such as Primavera. It functions similar to Excel or others Microsoft solutions which makes it simple for most people to be able to use right away."
"Clarizen Slide Publisher has helped increase transparency and communication with project stakeholders for us."
"The feature that has improved our project planning the most is the ability to create custom workflows, which allows us to automate manual tasks that project managers need to perform. The collaboration feature enhances our team's productivity by allowing individuals to see the impact of their decisions on projects owned and managed by other teams."
"Clarizen's strength is reporting. Aside from reporting, I also like the ability to create customized workflow and custom actions. The workflow rules are handy. For example, you can create custom fields and dependent picklists."
"I like the project management solution. It's really nice."
"It has to be more user-friendly. For instance, there should be some assistance, like when you go to certain sites, people pop up and say, "Can we help you? What are you looking for?" It's not interactive enough."
"The solution could have more compact dashboards, such as one finds with Planview."
"It needs to be more collaborative from inside the application. It only does project scheduling for me. It would be good if it could do other things and be more collaborative, such as sharing tasks for users. It is not really incorporated into MS Office, so you can't copy-paste stuff. It is on its own, doing its own thing. It is only used for scheduling, and it doesn't work well with anything else."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The product's UI is not very user-friendly."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"Microsoft Project Server's user interface is pretty average, and sometimes it can have bugs."
"One specific area for improvement could be implementing a development environment to test workflows with live production data."
"It could be more user-friendly. I think it is too overwhelming, initially, in terms of possibilities and so on."
"If I start customizing too many things, Clarizen tends to get really slow in our environment and especially if I'm tunneled in an environment, like if I'm connected to my VPN."
"I felt like the slide publisher isn't that user-friendly. I think it wasn't that easy to use or to figure out because of formatting constraints, or maybe we need to get better at understanding some of its limitations."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while Planview AdaptiveWork is ranked 21st in Project Management Software with 8 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while Planview AdaptiveWork is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planview AdaptiveWork writes "Has resources management and timesheets but could be more flexible". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and JIRA Portfolio, whereas Planview AdaptiveWork is most compared with Planview PPM Pro, Broadcom Clarity , Planview Portfolios, Jira and Smartsheet. See our Microsoft Project Server vs. Planview AdaptiveWork report.
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