Microsoft Project Server Reviews

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 are not providing this solution, we use it.

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.

It performs very well. It's something I'm very familiar with. We use it for project management of hardware and software projects.

Traditionally, Microsoft Project has only been stand-alone, and we've never used it on a Web basis. Now we use it on a Web basis. It's been absolutely great in that sense, of being collaborative and also for resource-leveling, so that people can see at an instant just where everything is. 

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.

I think they need more flexibility with licensing, because there are preconceived ideas that don't allow as much flexibility with the various licenses.

Stability is quite good. The only issue I have had in the past is if our internet connection is pretty slow, but that can happen for any package. Other than that, it's fairly good.

Very good. We haven't reached the limit yet, and we're using multiple projects across many sites. So it seems to scale quite well.

We are on online support, but we don't use it that often. We used it on two occasions, mainly to assist in setting up particular scenarios or to trace a bug or problem with the Web server.

The support was good and we have a direct connection with our support service.

We've always used Project to some extent, but it was more stand-alone rather than enterprise. Now we're on an enterprise scheme, it's much more helpful because we've got a global 3D view of projects.

There are several criteria I look for when selecting a vendor:

• ease of use
• expandability
• resource-leveling
• cost of ownership, obviously
• support needed.

They're the key things.

Very simple. I was reasonably familiar with Project in the first instance, but because we're using it online, Web-based, rather than an on-prem, it was minimal setup from our point of view.

Smartsheet, I think we looked at that. We looked at JIRA in the early phase, but that wasn't portfolio. It was just the normal JIRA bug tracking. We do use that in the company, but not for project management necessarily, more just task tracking.

Research it thoroughly and try to match benefits, rather than just buying features.

This is a good product but we have struggled with stability from time to time. The service has stopped intermittently and it has been difficult to find a reason why. Rebooting the system has often solved these issues. 

I have been using this solution for 20 years. 

This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment. We have many clusters running for our company. 

We have had a mixed experienced with the customer support team. Some agents are technically skilled and have been able to fix our issues quickly. Others have needed to transfer our case back and forth and this has taken a long period of time. 

The deployment is very straightforward.

We deployed it by our own because we have a big team that looks after all server deployments. This same team takes care of all the maintenance support. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

• Ease of use.
• Adaptability.
• Stability.

• The centralization of all projects baselines in Project Server gave us control over the process. Additionally, we unified the information into just one source to report indicators, progress, milestones, and much more.
• Microsoft Project Server gave us an easy way to list and classify our projects, creating great views for a high quantity of information with the Project Web Application.
• We can now define our own project indicators and performance KPI’s, according to our project process. During the last 4 years we have used Project Server to save more than 400 baselines.

I think that "earned value calculation" could be improved, and also the relationship between time and cost, that sometimes does not allow adjustments during execution.

I have used this for 10 years.

I did not ecnounter any stability issues.

There were no scalability issues. We have more than 400 projects on our Project Server database, and everything works fine.

Technical support was adequate.

We did not use any previous solution.

Initial setup was hard work, but I wasn't involved.

Scope your needs carefully, in order to get exactly what you want.

We did not evaluate alternatives.

I wasn’t involved during implementation.

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 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.

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.