Projector PSA vs. Workday Professional Services Automation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Projector PSA
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Projector's cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) software helps project-based services organizations track time and expenses, invoice clients, schedule resources, and manage projects. Its three modules span a more comprehensive set of uses than typical project management software. The Accounting module helps the user track time and expenses and manage invoices and billing. Also it syncs with the company's accounting systems as a sub-ledger. The Resource Scheduling module matches…
$15
per user
Workday Professional Services Automation
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Workday offers their cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform, meant as an all-encompassing platform but emphasizing centralized data and data projections as well as tools to optimize resource allocation (and hiring), and track revenue along with project portfolio health indicators.N/A
Pricing
Projector PSAWorkday Professional Services Automation
Editions & Modules
Team Edition
$15
per user
Professional Edition
$25
per user
Enterprise Edition
$30
per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Projector PSAWorkday Professional Services Automation
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Projector PSAWorkday Professional Services Automation
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Projector PSAWorkday Professional Services Automation
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Projector PSA
7.4
11 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Professional Services Automation
-
Ratings
Task Management9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology5.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access3.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management5.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.19 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Projector PSA
7.9
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Workday Professional Services Automation
-
Ratings
Invoicing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Projector PSAWorkday Professional Services Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(12 ratings)
8.2
(25 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Projector PSAWorkday Professional Services Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
Projector PSA
We think Projector PSA is a great tool to track and manage people in a professional service environment like management consulting. This system is easy to set up, easy to understand and should easily suit the needs of smaller and medium sized firms. It may be less appropriate for firms that rely very heavily on project management through another system (like MS Project) or firms that rely very heavily on a sales pipeline tracking system. While still very much possible to use, you would (I believe) have to do some re-keying between systems
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Workday
If you are a company with very little administrative or IT staff that can be dedicated to run, train, and launch - this is the perfect tool for you because it requires very little on the set up end and training. It looks like a social network so a platform many are already used to seeing. Its definitely a very powerful product with an easy interface, providing a stellar customer experience
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Pros
Projector PSA
  • Projector is a very well designed tool for project management. It has allowed us to eliminate a number of auxiliary tools for project timelines and WBS for the vast majority of our projects.
  • Time and expense entry is intuitive and quick for our staff.
  • Our forecasting and resource management capability has improved greatly with Projector and allows us to grow our team efficiently with minimal additional administrative burden.
  • Reporting is extremely robust. It does require some time to really get a handle on the full functionality of the reporting tool, but once you do, you can get almost any kind of report you want out of the system!
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Workday
  • Consolidated data resource. Allows Workday to be the authority for pay and benefits.
  • Advanced automation for administrators.
  • Self-serve for employees. Allows users to self manage their information.
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Cons
Projector PSA
  • Release management process needs to be improved. Currently no facility is provided to test the impact of new releases in a sand-box. This introduces business risk if there are interfaces into Projector PSA as part of it's use in the business.
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Workday
  • Would like to be able to use it for clocking in and out
  • The dashboard user interface could be improved to include more pertinent information
  • Would be nice to hide features that we use other applications for (i.e. org chart, pay, expenses)
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Likelihood to Renew
Projector PSA
We have been using this tool for a year now and find our use of it continually evolves and broadens. We are also very excited about the overhaul that's under way and feel many of the improvements being put in place will help make us that much more effective and efficient. The Projector team is also very responsive and collaborative in terms of user feedback and improvement suggestions, which helps us know they will work hard to help us get what we need out of the tool.
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Usability
Projector PSA
Desktop interface feels complex to new users.
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Workday
Its getting more streamlined with update but still has many tools that are unexplained/ not defined well
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Reliability and Availability
Projector PSA
In 5 years of use we have never experienced an unscheduled outage.
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Projector PSA
No answers on this topic
Workday
With workday support options, I would like to see a more immediately responsive response option. Possibly a chat or a responsive email response team would be helpful.
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Alternatives Considered
Projector PSA
We did pursue Quick Arrow another tool that was similar. We found that be in inflexible in use. Projector allows a lot of flexibility in setup. Our organization has very specific business processes and we were able to set up Projector to work with those processes. Several other systems we tried were not as flexible in allowing set up to our needs.
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Workday
I was not on the selection team for Workday Profession Services Automation; it was the HR system used by our parent company. However, I have had several opportunities to work with Workday in other HR roles, and have also worked extensively with Oracle products. Workday Professional Services Automation seems more dynamic than the Oracle Suite I've utilized in the past.
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Return on Investment
Projector PSA
  • Even in the small time that I stayed to see Projector PSA reporting I saw ROI projections become more realistic. There was real data to analyze that proved we were spending way too much and charging way too less on some projects.
  • Although employees were not used at entering their hours, this single reporting improved operations management and validated employees concerns that more people were needed to manage workload
  • Project proposals were more realistic because they were driven by real data.
  • Decision making overall for the department became more efficient and effective
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Workday
  • All in one platform great for businesses with locations across the country
  • We don’t use its learning/training features, or it doesn’t have, which would be nice
  • Reporting features are extensive and, though can be hard to figure out, there is clearly great capability there
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ScreenShots

Projector PSA Screenshots

Screenshot of Employee Dashboards help resources stay on task by displaying schedules and alerts.