Microsoft 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.
$10
per user/per month
Planview Portfolios
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Planview Portfolios is an end-to-end project portfolio management and enterprise architecture management tool. It includes two components: Portfolio and Resource Management and Capability and Technology Management. The platform is available as a cloud-based or on-premise service.
Microsoft Project is better suited to layout and manage project schedules. In regard to building project schedules with dependencies and resource loading, There is more flexibility and ease of use in Microsoft Project over Planview Enterprise.
MS Project Server and MS Project provided MANY more capabilities for detailed project planning than Planview. Unfortunately, I did not select Planview.
Vice President Information Technology Administration
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In a mature SharePoint environment the Microsoft Project Server can be an appealing option - in prior environments I saw very easy integration between Project Server and SharePoint. Microsoft Project is a great tool for projects that are conducted in isolation, meaning they …
HP PPM and MS Project Server were past predecessors to PVE1, and both fraught with misconfiguration, lack of top-down support, and neither had effective resource management capabilities. We sort of backed-into PVE1, as we were initially entrenched with Projectplace. As luck …
Planview and Microsoft Project have many similar features. However, the direct contact with the Planview team for questions, tech support, and training is unprecedented and appreciated. Microsoft Project: -Weaknesses: Limited to single project management, lacks risk and time …
Planview Portfolios is the market leader in the area, the flexibility of the product and the continuous investment by Planview makes Planview Portfolios currently the best in the market. The support organisation for implementation and run of Planview Portfolios rounds off the …
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Manager
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We are just in the process of deploying AgilePlace and will connect with Portfolios Smartsheet, which does have the functionality we need. We are just starting to use AgilePlace. We have a business group doing a proof of concept.
Planview has much more potential in terms of it's products and capabilities. It can integrate more easily with many more of our other products and software. Planview reporting is much more intuitive.
We find Planview Portfolios gives us a better platform to work with projects and with the use of Planview ProjectPlace can run our stand-ups and interact with the cards on the boards more readily.
Compared with other systems, Planview is much easier to use. It has the right balance between functionalities and configuration. It offers a good value against the cost. It offers also a cloud service that help companies to start with the right effort.
Planview is a much more robust Resource and Portfolio Management tool. It is easier to use and provides drill down visibility to address critical issues.
They don't have a resource management feature, no portfolio feature, it would have cost hundreds of thousands each year for us to have our data transferred to our data warehouse nightly in order for us to do real time reporting.
As previously stated Planview provided the enterprise view needed into work and resources as well as allowed for better reporting. Users could perform work based on their license type that could be configured by role. It held historical data that could be leveraged later as …
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Project Manager
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I didn't select Planview, but having worked with it and other comparable systems, it was a complete and well developed PPM system. In regard to support and staff at Planview, they were fantastic! But I would like to stress that buying this system will not automatically solve …