We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server, Planview Portfolios, and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Broadcom, ServiceNow and others in Project Portfolio Management.
"The solution's ease of use is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is stable to use, especially since I work with Microsoft for an extended period."
"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."
"It's fine to navigate for a layperson."
"The scheduling and the customization are very powerful."
"It can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the tool's reporting is very good."
"The solution, overall, is excellent for project planning."
"It has been effective for our delivery. It's given us much better visibility into what is being delivered and when."
"The most valuable features are scheduling, resource management, and, from a project perspective, the functions like issues that change orders. They are valuable because, from a project management perspective, we use the workflows that we build for project management and do active risk management and issue management for the projects that we want for our agencies."
"In my opinion, the financial planning feature is the most valuable feature of Planview Enterprise One."
"I like that it's an enterprise environment. I can look across everything that's going on and have a sense of what is going on within the organization."
"Enterprise One provides end-to-end work management for the full spectrum of types of work in one tool."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting."
"I would say it works really well for forecasting remaining effort, especially in terms of forecasting the dollar amounts. We've gotten pretty good at adjusting rates because we have a lot of contract workers."
"The look and feel of it is pretty clean."
"The dashboard and the layouts are quite good."
"Smartsheet is a really good tool for collaboration."
"The tool creates shareable dashboards. These dashboards allow us to display project deliverables' status, their position in the queue, expected delivery timelines, and more. The best part is that these dashboards can be shared with our clients without a license."
"The product is easy to use."
"The dashboard feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Smartsheet is easy to use."
"To me, one of the most powerful features of Smartsheet is being able to email others."
"The management aspect is the most valuable. You can also prioritize tasks and then view tasks by priorities as passports."
"We want to expand to the local level where we lack strong IT expertise, we are considering making it more user-friendly."
"We are on the on-prem version. The cloud, however, gives more regular updates that we can take advantage of."
"The solution's synchronization with Jira Projects should be improved."
"Microsoft is going to integrate the Co-Pilot features into Microsoft Project. The AI feature is an additional feature. It can look at the plan and identify risks early on from any part of your project."
"I'd like it if we could divide out the project calendars. On one project server, we might follow five projects or more at one time, and we'd like to see all of the items at once so that it becomes a long loop, but one where we can identify different projects in tandem and then focus on which we need to at the time. While I only have visibility into one, I'd like to see several at a time."
"In terms of tech support, it took a long time for them to resolve a ticket."
"We need to be able to compare milestones, calls, and other variables regarding the projects we are working on. I have to contract developers to make reports, which is where things get complicated. They need to develop personal and custom fields for us."
"The solution should be made more collaborative."
"The lack of templates harden the initial learning curve."
"When I started working with Planview, I didn't know anything about project or resource management. I had to learn everything: the admin side, then the user side of it. Probably, in the beginning, I would implement in the blueprint or workshops more demos. A live demo of how the system works because we would like a little deeper dive in how the application works for us to understand what we need to provide, what we are doing, what we will be doing. Because in the beginning, it was so overwhelming, and we didn't know anything about the tool."
"The administrative tabs are very confusing, especially in terms of configuring screens and users. It's not very intuitive versus many other applications that I have worked in the past. I have to go to separate sections than I think I have to in order to get to the place that I need to adjust something."
"The technical people are very competent, but there is so much turnover in the people that we talk to, and that's frustrating. They will say, "We can make this work." Suddenly, that guy has left, and we have no one. Then, we have to start all over."
"When we first deployed, there were some issues. We never got to the root cause of why they happened. Since we didn't have any history with it, we weren't quite sure if this was a standard operating procedure or it truly was a glitch."
"The resource area needs improvement. The improvements that have been made recently in the later versions have been good improvements, but I think there are some more improvements needed there."
"It would be great to see Planview incorporate agile interfacing/methods in it. Like CA Clarity and other leading PPM tools – Planview should enhance or develop the interfaces to ingrate with other market leading Agile tools."
"While Planview Management provides robust reporting and analytics capabilities, further enhancements could include more advanced data visualization options, predictive analytics features, and customizable dashboards to provide deeper insights into project performance and trends."
"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."
"The product must include more modules for project management."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"The downside of Smartsheet is that there are some security concerns. We were able to restrict people from sharing sheets with anyone who was not in our domain, but it could be easier. We also found it hard to restrict certain user groups from adding attachments to sheets."
"The system can become more challenging to use in more complex scenarios, requiring additional add-ons that can be quite costly."
"They provide a limited number of sheets which is not enough."
"The integration with Microsoft products should be improved."
"Smartsheet needs to improve the user interface."
