We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Microsoft Project based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's definitely improving our ability to make better decisions, and improving the quality of data that we have, to make the decisions for the strategic good of the company."
"It has been able to collect all the data, and in some ways, provide dashboards of aggregated data. "
"It's very good out of the box, without configurations required."
"Easy to use, visually. The new UX is intuitive."
"Project Management features that are excellent in managing the Project Management Life-cycle, along with other related details like Financials, Resources and flexibility to customize, as per requirement."
"The app style of the new UI is absolutely fantastic. It's the right way to go. Our users will love it."
"The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity PPM are demand, project, and product management."
"Having information all together in one single source."
"It's a scalable product, especially the online version."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the scheduling, managing the resources, budgeting, tracking the progress, viewing the progress, reporting, and it is very easy to use."
"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."
"In my experience, this solution is one of the best for the waterfall management model."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"I have found that the chart reporting feature is very helpful for us currently."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The solution is very complete. It makes it a great option for project managers and they can use it extensively in almost any organizational setup."
"We use a product called TFS and we would definitely like to see integration with that. It's not there right now. Agile Central is the one that is integrated with."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM should improve how the reports are being generated and contracts management."
"In the timesheet UX, you can't do things like splitting time, managing overtime versus regular time, very easily. That would be helpful."
"The forms (e.g., project properties page) need to be more attractive, colorful, and field more flexibility for validations."
"I'd like to see blueprints. I'd also like to see the user interface simplified, and to have a lot of templates available on each blueprint."
"In terms of what could be improved, the end user interface could be improved to be more intuitive, because we sometimes have issues with customization. Sometimes we are not able to customize everything for the end user's interface, and they require more customization. We should be able to perform a deeper customization here."
"Reporting is not good as they keep on changing reporting environment."
"There are some tool limitations. We had to create some of our own summary competencies to create more of an agile tool concept, or an agile team concept, that they did not really have."
"We need more integration with Microsoft Teams and other collaboration tools."
"It's hard to reach technical people to get the help you need."
"I'd like the solution to be less expensive."
"When a project plan becomes huge, it is painful to arrange and structure the project in Microsoft Project. Currently, you require a separate product for managing agile projects, and people are using Jira and Rally to manage stories in agile. Primarily, on the software development side, people are kind of moving away from Microsoft Project."
"The stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"They should assist with tedious tasks."
"The solution could be more flexible when it comes to integration."
"The new version has made it a bit more complicated."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 8th in Project Management Software with 137 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project 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 writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Jira, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios, Smartsheet and monday.com, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and monday.com. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Microsoft Project report.
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