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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Targetprocess

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AIBM Targetprocess is a Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) SaaS that connects strategy, funding, and execution. It helps enterprises prioritize work, dynamically allocate resources, and continuously adapt plans. With real-time visibility and financial insights, organizations can deliver faster, clearer business outcomes.N/A

    Microsoft Project

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Project is a project management software. It provides core PM functionality, including agile workflow support and resource management. Project can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise.

    $120

    per year per user

    Pricing
    IBM TargetprocessMicrosoft Project
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Project Server
    $0
    Planner Plan 1
    $10
    per month per user
    Planner and Project Plan 3
    $30
    per month per user
    Planner and Project Plan 5
    $55
    per month per user
    Project Standard 2024
    $679.99
    one-time fee per installation
    Project Professional 2024
    $1,129.99
    one-time fee per installation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM TargetprocessMicrosoft Project
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM TargetprocessMicrosoft Project
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Targetprocess
    TargetProcess feels like a more fully featured project management tool which matches our workflow better than its competitors.

    An example is that TargetProcess doesn't limit assignment of people to entities so if multiple people need to be assigned to say a story they can be and …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    87%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    42 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    Features
    IBM TargetprocessMicrosoft Project
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of IBM Targetprocess and Microsoft Project
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    6.8
    41 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Microsoft Project
    8.0
    111 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Task Management7.040 Ratings8.2110 Ratings
    Resource Management7.638 Ratings7.7107 Ratings
    Gantt Charts6.929 Ratings9.0107 Ratings
    Scheduling6.532 Ratings8.5109 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.141 Ratings4.483 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology5.236 Ratings7.783 Ratings
    Document Management7.329 Ratings9.077 Ratings
    Email integration7.430 Ratings5.082 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.122 Ratings10.067 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.826 Ratings10.073 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management6.126 Ratings7.364 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.028 Ratings7.486 Ratings
    Search5.137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools6.438 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.083 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.298 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of IBM Targetprocess and Microsoft Project
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    6.4
    42 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Microsoft Project
    -
    Ratings
    DevOps Tool Integrations7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review6.724 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Collaboration6.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation5.235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers5.741 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of IBM Targetprocess and Microsoft Project
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Project
    8.6
    79 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.355 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.276 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings10.050 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM TargetprocessMicrosoft Project
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (49 ratings)
    8.2
    (111 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    6.3
    (12 ratings)
    8.7
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (34 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM TargetprocessMicrosoft Project
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Apptio Targetprocess is well suited to track work and progress of that work. In addition it is easy to tie that work to OKRs. Cost and hours rollup across the work hierarchy works well. Our users like the flexibility of Targetprocess and the ability to develop their own views and reports Scenarios where it is less appropriate is to do executive level reporting and develop reports that can pull in all of our time data since there is a 300k record limit
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    Microsoft Project Online is suited to Turnkey Projects where more Collaboration is required in Project Progress monitoring, risk assessment and conveying, issue recording and tracking. It is less appropriate when ERP Suites other than MS Dynamics are used, i.e when Enterprises need to integrate Finance / Accounting with It and having straight project management workflow
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Extremely flexible: We are able to setup work for different groups in ways that work best for them.
    • Fantastic support group: They are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I enjoy working with them.
    • Automation: Their automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time.
    • Customizing screens: We can go into code for the different entities, move fields around or hide them, add tabs or additional sections as needed to make for a streamlined user experience.
    • Reporting: Their reporting is flexible and phenomenal. There are so many different ways to pull data and the interface is easy to use.
    • Their user guide is well built and extremely helpful.
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    • I love the Gantt Chart that Microsoft Project offers me, because it provides me with a view from various aspects, it provides me with exact details about the fulfillment of tasks over a period of time, it also allows me to make comparisons with the necessary data and the fulfilled data. by the employees, in order to know exactly if the project's expectations have been met.
    • I love the Gantt Chart that Microsoft Project offers me, because it provides me with a view from various aspects, it provides me with exact details about the fulfillment of tasks over a period of time, it also allows me to make comparisons with the necessary data and the fulfilled data by the employees, in order to know exactly if the project's expectations have been met.
    • The alert system for the fulfillment and delay of assignments is perfect. Microsoft Project allows me to configure the task system, I can assign the necessary tasks to fulfill the project, and the software alerts me immediately if the managers are fulfilling the assignments.
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • The UI is bit complex for new users who never used it. i think this can be sorted out by providing the steps to access?
    • dashboards with large datasets can cause performance lags or timeouts
    • Introduce more flexible, template-based RBAC configurations.
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    • Seems overly complicated for users sometimes in using Project and its functionalities
    • Hard to share files for those folks who do not have MS Project, and then have to print out for them
    • Can be confusing since it looks and feels like MS Excel
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Targetprocess is the most flexible application for tracking work among teams that we have found. This power comes from near limitless ability to customize your views on the work tracked in the system, and from the myriad reporting options to draw metrics and stats out of the data there. Custom fields, processes, and mashups all add to this flexibility and appeal.
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    Microsoft
    I like using Microsoft Project. It simplifies building a schedule
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Overall Targetprocess's usability is good. the tool is easy to use and has features which most BUs and organizations can use. Additional features like AI integration would help the tool and its overall usability. providing additional dashboards for specific roles and executives within the tool would benefit Targetprocess with its scale
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    Microsoft
    Project is easy to operate because data could be inserted, changed and
    deleted like you are in an Excel timesheet. Besides, it provides a great
    level of automation beween his fields allowing few data changes. Also, its
    funcionalities are well defined and grouped in upper menus, so you can find a
    funcionality quickly
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Some minor outages are experienced, though these tend to pass within an hour usually and work can continue
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Reports are fast loading, considering they can refresh in a second or less and we have 7 years of work tracked in over 40k entities. Pages can load slowly when the views are very busy, but not frustratingly. I am a console user most of my career and generally prefer it over webUI interfaces, but Targetprocess won me over from the beginning and I spend half my day using it now.
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    TargetProcess' support is one of its strengths. The support team is very responsive and helpful when there is a problem but they're also proactive in providing good release notes and engaging with the community through a voting scheme to influence the priority of new features.
    The team also releases new versions frequently with new features but with no knock-ons to currently working features.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft in recent years has transformed itself and gives a positive feeling when one interacts with the company. The company is focusing on its customers and willing to go extra mile to make customers happy.The company continues to invest in its products and bringing new features from time to time. Overall it is a positive feeling to be associated with such an iconic company.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    You should take some time to get everyone to agree how the system should be setup before work starts being tracked in Targetprocess, this avoids difficult and disruptive changes to processes or plugins later when everyone relies on it daily.
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    I wasn't part of it so I don't know
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I would say TargetProcess is an incredibly wonderful tool. As compare to JIRA Software, it is a fully featured product. It fulfills all my business needs. Tracking efficiency of this application is quite favorable
    in order to track all the details from a certain project in just a few minutes.
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    While many of the above tools are extremely well-versed, Microsoft Project's largest advantage comes from it being related to the largest business productivity company in the world. Project does have its sharing limitations - but regardless, offers one of the most robust tools in the market today. Microsoft Project is built with large-scale projects in mind but is more than up to the task for smaller projects as well. However, there are options available (especially cloud-based options) that may be more fitting for higher-level projects that do not require going into the weeds.
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We use the hosted version of Targetprocess and have never run into limitations or degraded performance due to scalability. Excellent performance over 7 years!
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • No direct positive business ROI has caused executive leadership to play down use of the tool
    • We are hoping to use this to track progress of OKRs and business strategy, but don't have but in from executives on the value of this yet.
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    • Project saved me, as the project manager, countless hours of digging through tickets and schedules to plan everything out. It also saved me time in adjusting the project triangle as needed, since it does so much automatically.
    • It is costly, and since it requires extensive training to master, it's not just the high licensing cost that you need to take into account.
    • The reporting features - even just printing out Gantt charts - makes it far easier to communicate with stakeholders. That means less time for PMs doing all of this manually, and it means less follow-up questions and delays moving forward.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Targetprocess Screenshots

    Screenshot of Resource Management: Reduces risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demandScreenshot of Program Management: To deliver value throughout a strategic portfolioScreenshot of Portfolio Budgeting: Shifting from project to product fundingScreenshot of Strategic Planning: Continuously links work, labor, and investments to business strategyScreenshot of Workforce ManagementScreenshot of Work