Microsoft Project Server Reviews

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Microsoft Project Server helps us to manage our project plan.

It's a great tool for helping us manage our project's plan.

The cost could be lower.

I have been working with Microsoft Project Server for more than 15 years.

I believe that we are working with the most recent version.

Microsoft Project Server is a stable product.

It is a scalable solution.

It's not my area of expertise at the company because I'm not a project manager, but our project manager and BMO team, as well as the rest of the team, use it.

In our company, we have more than ten people who use this solution.

Technical support is good.

We have experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central.

We use SQL, Azure SQL, and Windows Server.

The initial setup is straightforward.

From what I understand, it doesn't take a lot of time to deploy.

This solution will be deployed and maintained by a team of 15 or more people.

It's not subscription-based, we purchased the on-premises version.

Everything can always be cheaper.

We do not work for Microsoft. We are a company partner for Microsoft.

For anyone who is working in project management, I would recommend this solution.

I don't have a lot of experience but I know this solution.

I would rate Microsoft Project Server a nine out of ten.

We are currently using the 2001 version. 

We use the solution for projects, with the goal of it being shared with more users, who can employ it as a single tool. 

The solution could have more compact dashboards, such as one finds with Planview. 

We have been using Microsoft Project Server for 20 years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

I cannot comment on the technical support as I was not directly aligned with it. 

I cannot comment on the price as I was not responsible for purchasing the solution. 

The solution is easy to use. My advice is that one first try it out, guage its look and feel. 

I rate Microsoft Project Server as an eight out of ten. 

We use this solution for reports for our project and program management. 

It is easy to use. 

The scheduling and the customization are very powerful.

Reporting is an area that needs to be worked on. It needs improvement.

It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization.

The deployment could be easier.

I have five to seven years of experience in Microsoft Project Server.

We are using the on-premises version but have also explored the Cloud version.

We are using version 2019. 

Microsoft Project Server is very stable.

It is scalable but is very expensive.

We have approximately 50 users in our company who are using this solution.

We have not contacted Microsoft technical support.

It is not an easy deployment. 

Once it is done it's good, but Microsoft Project Server is not easy to deploy.

It took approximately two weeks.

We have a team of three people to maintain this solution. They are made up of administrators and project managers.

We hired a professional consultant who was experienced to help us with the installation.

There is a licensing cost.

I would definitely recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Microsoft Project Server a seven out of ten.

We primarily use the solution to manage the project lifecycle. Generally the lifestyle starts at demand phase. We design a workflow according to customer's needs. The workflow starts with project ideation and project selection, if the project fits company criteria it will move onto the project management phase.  

Let's say you have 10 projects and you don't know which ones to move into actual project management phase. Customers use the portfolio and analysis feature of Project Server, and decide which project to do according to capacity planning(if they have the resources) and budget. If the company has enough resources then its the projects with most benefit that gets selected. For the selected projects lifecycle will continue. As it moves forward, you will get more project detail pages, more things to work with. This will also produce some reports as well.

The solution is very good at helping you pick which project to move forward with.

The stability has been pretty good.

We've found that the solution can scale if we need it to.

The installation is fairly straightforward.

The documentation on offer is excellent.

Technical support is very responsive - particularly on critical tickets.

When it comes to integration with other systems Project Server falls short. There used to be out-of-box integration with TFS for example but with Project Server 2016 and forward that integration is deprecated. There is room for improvement here.

When it comes to project management itself, I'd like to see some hybrid solutions right now across the on-premises deployments especially. On-premise only has waterfall style project management. On the other hand Project Online has a lot better integration and hybrid (agile-waterfall) project management abilities. This should also be the case for On-premise customers.

The check-in, check-out feature, makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use. Users mostly forget when to check-in. We have problems with that. If it's a bit faster to use, or easier to use, like your Planner or other programs, it would be better. You should just be able to type in something and it's updated. The ease of use could be improved.

I've been using the solution for three years at this point.

The stability is okay. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

The scalability is okay. We don't really have any technical performance problems. If we have it, it's because of infrastructure, not because of Project Server mostly.

We mostly work with governmental agencies. On current projects, there are about 300 people working on the solution. We have ten project managers and five profile managers on our end.

Technical support is pretty good. We have seen problems due to the infrastructure and management on the customer's side, which affected some services on Project Server. One ticket I opened as normal severity which took two weeks to resolve. That said, when I opened a ticket with critical severity that is blocking some services, somebody contacted me in less than an hour. We were able to fix the problem in three hours total. I'd say overall, the support side is good. 

There's also excellent documentation, which I would rate at a nine out of ten.

The installation is very easy with MinRole helping you along the way. You can do high availability of the SharePoint services fairly easy except for the DB part. For that you have to rely on your DB Admins to give you a listener for a High Availability cluster. 

I'm not just a user, I implement solutions. We are Microsoft partners. I develop the solution from infrastructure to power bi reports. User experience, customization, and reporting.

In Turkey, especially governmental agencies, they don't want to be on the cloud. So all the environments I manage, they're on-prem.

Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're mostly happy with the product.

We primarily use the solution to track milestones on our project.

The user interface is very good. 

The product is very stable.

The solution is scalable and easy to expand.

We noticed that there are some problems or issues working with it. We are finding some workarounds to avoid them. We are not totally satisfied with that solution.

It is related to the calculation of project duration, working hours, and so on. We think that calculations are not working correctly, and there is a need to enter data a couple of times in order to give the correct calculations.

I'm not sure if there are any missing features. I can't recall feeling as if something is lacking.

We've been working with the solution for about one year now.

The solution runs smoothly. It's quite stable and reliable. We don't really see bugs or glitches. There aren't crashes and it doesn't freeze. We have been able to operate it without issues. It's been good in that sense.

The scalability of the product is quite good. If you need to scale it, you can do so. It shouldn't be a problem.

It is not my responsibility to contact technical support. I don't have experience with them. We have internal IT and their responsibility is to support the solution and to maintain everything. If there were issues, it would fall to them to contact technical support for the most part. Therefore, I can't directly speak to the solution's technical support response or capabilities.

I didn't do the installation by myself. My colleague from our company did it instead of me. I'm not sure if the process is straightforward or difficult and I cannot speak to how long deployment took.

I don't have any experience with the pricing or licensing of the solution. I'm not sure what the costs are. It's not a part of my job to worry about the licensing.

I don't have experience with other project management tools. Maybe there are some better solutions, however, I'm not sure what those solutions are. 

I would recommend Microsoft Project to other organizations.

In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been largely happy with the product.

We use it for master project scheduling, that is, the first schedule of each project.

I like the way you can build the schedule by the Don't Start Before or Don't Start After values. You can use it to build your schedule based on how you change your dates. This is how it actually builds the schedule.

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.

I have been using Project Server since it came out almost 20 years ago. In my current company, I have been using it for two years.

It is stable.

It is scalable. It appears that you can scale it as much as you want. 

We have 70 or 80 licenses, but in reality, there are no more than 10 people actually using it.

The initial setup was complex.

It is on the expensive side.

It seems to me that it is the standard for doing project scheduling, which is a shame. It should be used for more. You should be able to do more things with it because now it is not enough for people to just build a schedule and then use something else to do your daily planning. I used to work for Microsoft, so I know how these things were built. I know some of the issues they have. It seems to me that it is a product that was built on its own. It is very standalone, and it hasn't been incorporated into the Office suite or other things that Microsoft products do. For example, we work a lot with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams would be a nice front end to an MS Project.

I would rate Microsoft Project Server an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution to plan our projects.

It gives us good visibility into the amount of work needed for each person and how to delegate it appropriately.

The working blocks within the solution are excellent. I can follow four or five projects and see the dealine of items in the calendar. We can understand the amount of work - if it's full or not - and we can plan a team member's activities based on that.

The initial setup is not complex.

The solution, overall, is excellent for project planning.

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.

I've been using the solution for seven years.

The solution is reliable. There aren't glitches. There are no bugs. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very stable.

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand the product they can do so quite easily.

We use it in our company and have about 1,000 users on it currently.

We did previously use a different solution, however, it was only for about a month.

We find the implementation to be straightforward. It's not too complex of a process.

Deployment typically takes about six months or so.

We have about 40 people that handle maintenance on the solution.

The pricing of the solution is reasonable. It's not outrageously expensive.

Our finance department handles the billing, therefore, I'm unsure as to if we pay monthly or yearly and what the overall costs are.

I'm a consultant.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're currently using.

I use the solution to follow my company's projects.

I'd recommend this solution. It's excellent for planning.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We primarily use the solution purely for project management.

Basically, we use it to do project plans or schedules for our smaller or medium-sized projects.

The solution's ease of use is its most valuable aspect.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The solution is very affordable.

For the way we use the solution, it's fine. I can't think of anything specifically that I'd like to have improved now.

It would be useful if the solution allowed us to share files or project schedules. You may get that with the cloud version. However, it's not available on the on-premises versions.

It would be nice if there was a low cost version of the enterprise version, so something in between what we have now and enterprise. It would be perfect for those that don't want to go enterprise but still want to have the sharing project files capabilities.

I've been using the solution for quite a number of years. It's been about ten years at this point, in my estimation.

I believe the scalability is limited. A company wouldn't be able to expand it easily. You need to go to the next version, which is enterprise or cloud-based.

At our organization, we have five to seven people using the solution. It's mostly to do project schedules, so they are all consultants.

It's not that widely used. We probably will not look at using the current version much wider than it is. We'll probably go with a cloud-based version or enterprise version the next time we need to upgrade.

The technical support is okay. We've been satisfied with their level of service.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

The initial setup is not complex. The implementation itself is straightforward.

For us, our setup isn't that fancy. It is just a single laptop deployment and we just deployed the solution to a couple of laptops. There was no complexity whatsoever. The enterprise version may be more complex to set up.

You only need one person to manage the deployment process. In order to maintain it, you would only need one person who wouldn't need to even be on it full time.

We handled the implementation ourselves. We didn't need a consultant or integrator to assist us.

We're Microsoft customers. We don't have a business relationship with the company.

The solution is only a single cost per seat. There isn't a monthly or yearly subscription. It's only a few hundred dollars. It's pretty inexpensive.

There aren't any costs in addition to the standard fees.

We're using the latest version of the solution.

It's such a good product for running the modules.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten due to the fact that it does have some limitations. Otherwise, it's perfect.

• Project metrics
• Document management
• Financial reporting
• Resource management. 

We use the data collected to manage project data, create and manage assignments and schedule via MS Project connectivity. We also track the current and future assignments for our resource to determine their availability and workload for current and future endeavors.

One source of truth for project metrics, management, and financial reporting. Through additional dashboards and reports, we have developed a way we can distribute project data and updated it to all of our stakeholders and customers.

• Project management
• One consistently updated and backup/secured location for all project data
• Accurate project metrics are critical to being able to manage our projects from a central database.

OOB reporting is not very robust. We have utilized SSRS, Excel Services and Qlik Sense to expand the OOB reporting capabilities. We use a hosted on-premise version so that we can have better direct access to the SQL server data. 

MS Project standalone version and SharePoint repositories were our previous solutions.

Engage an experienced and highly rated vendor to help in the discovery and planning of the implementation. Project Server is better priced than many of the higher-end project management solutions.

No.

Training for the userbase is a primary concern. Make sure there is a great training plan in place to ensure the userbase can be productive very early in the process.

Our primary use case of this solution is as a portfolio of projects. It helps us keep track of the private projects.

It enables us to view all of our projects, and that is really great. We can see how we are doing right now. It improved the resource management of the organization.

The Resource Manager feature is a good. It is very direct and keeps track of the resource usage. Also, Project Server gives you the whole idea of the project size. It is mainly used for looking up a project that you want to get the total view of the entirety of the project.

It is a stable product. 

It is a scalable solution. We have been able to manage larger scale projects easily using this solution.

We have previous experience with Algera. 

It may be considered expensive, but it has features that cannot be bought by other rivals, so cost does not matter.