We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Microsoft Project Server 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."It allows me to keep track of the projects, residual location, it gives me the ease of getting status reports out, and checking risks and issues."
"The solution is technically fine and user friendly."
"Visibility is the number one feature. They can see where the bottlenecks are, they can see what their project statuses are, why are things being held up, etc."
"it creates visibility across our whole organization. People that were often left in the dark wondering what was happening with projects. Now have an easy solution to see all the information they want to see across the whole portfolio."
"It is allowing us to keep track of what our projects are doing, and the idea module, what projects are coming into the pipeline."
"The performance is really good."
"The most valuable feature is the portfolio functionality because we have the ability to work with different scenarios and many kinds of financial management. We can integrate with ERP, and with other solutions from third-party vendors. The financial model in Broadcom Clarity PPM, it's the most valuable aspect."
"Right now, it's the PPM piece of it, the scheduling, the Gantt, the task view."
"The product is user-friendly."
"We use the tool in our IT-related projects. All IT efforts are managed using the Microsoft Project Server. Every week, we have a project status meeting where we demonstrate the project's status using the tool. We track tasks and progress, assign owners, and monitor milestones and all project-related work using it."
"One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"The solution scales well."
"The solution has easy integration with Excel."
"A single place for all our organisation's project records."
"Microsoft Project Server helps organizations in collaboration."
"It's fine to navigate for a layperson."
"A little bit better financial management. Right now it is more accountant-related, the financial management - of course, it's finance, it has to be financial. But it should be a little bit easier for project managers."
"I would really like a modern UI. I do not want to get on a user interface and feel like I am in the 1990's."
"The Work Breakdown Structure in the Tasks: I should be able to drag and drop to a level three instead of just stuck at level two."
"Reporting is not good as they keep on changing reporting environment."
"We're looking at adding the Agile piece to it. I want to make sure that that integration is very smooth."
"Maybe we need to bring some financial executive reports to our directors and executives. Maybe we can improve the use of Jaspersoft."
"The forms (e.g., project properties page) need to be more attractive, colorful, and field more flexibility for validations."
"It would be good for them to work on the user interface to make it more interactive."
"When a lot of users logged onto the site, it took a big toll on the service. Therefore, there is a scalability issue."
"We sometimes need support from the IT department for installing and deploying the Microsoft Project Server. It is not user-friendly, and users cannot install it themselves."
"The solution's synchronization with Jira Projects should be improved."
"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 check-in, check-out feature makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use."
"The cost could be lower."
"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."
"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 2nd in Project Portfolio Management with 137 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 56 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios and Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and Jira. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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