We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project and monday.com 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."The ability to break down project phases is most valuable. Being able to align the tasks and reporting with project milestones and progress is also valuable."
"Microsoft Project integrates well with the Microsoft Office family of applications. It has plugins that interact with it and you can use it with Microsoft Teams. We can use plugins to communicate with JIRA, Projectplace, and Planview. It's not widely used in the company, of course, but it's something that can interact with the official tools that we have."
"We value all the features. Previously, we used Jenkins for similar purposes, but Microsoft Projects works fine. We're looking to improve integration with different clusters on production and automate various aspects of software development. This includes integration for alerting, monitoring, and pricing purposes, among other things."
"In my experience, this solution is one of the best for the waterfall management model."
"The Gantt chart view is great."
"Dependencies (not typically effectively used in "Agile" techniques) allow understanding of actual project status and challenges."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are dependency management, milestone progress, multiple resource rates, and RAG views."
"In general, this solution is very user-friendly."
"Being able to see the physical status of a single team without having to drill down to the task level is very valuable."
"We can have different boards for different needs."
"Since the tool is so easy to use, our team members can all learn it quickly and create new boards, projects, tasks, and views easily."
"Shared boards help entire teams to plan out campaigns with ease and clarity."
"In short - it keeps a remote asynchronous team in sync."
"It is nice that you can color code everything."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the project labels and organizational tools."
"Once we commit our status, changing it is hard."
"Planview FLEX licensing gives us a central repository where all the projects are stored so you can check the finances, resources, etc. It's quite useful to have everything connected. We don't have that for Microsoft Project. It's disconnected. The reporting capabilities could also be better, especially with finance and resources. Everybody complains about reports. That's why we need another tool."
"I would like to see both Time and Team based options improved."
"Its user interface could be a little bit more intuitive. Not everybody has the luxury of going to training and understanding which button does what and the functionality. The user interface should be improved to make it a little bit more intuitive. It is not user-friendly. I've dealt with it for a number of years, so it is not hard for me to figure it out, but you would need a quick reference guide or something to say, "Here are the basics. This is how you do X.""
"Microsoft's solution isn't really a collaboration tool, however. If you need a collaboration tool, you can use Slack, which can be integrated with your JIRA."
"The solution is a basic tool that does not give you analytical insights. It does not have any AI capabilities which can also help to plan."
"The technical support could be improved. They are okay, however, they could be much better."
"It would be better if Microsoft Project were included in the DevOps stack. That is, I'd like to see this tool integrated to a different stack of the applications that we normally use in DevOps, such as in Jira, for example, to deploy a different version related to the different tasks that are included in Microsoft Project."
"In my initial exposure to the interface, I did not find it to be very user-friendly."
"It has more limitations than we expected."
"It would be great to have more options on the form for external use, and an easier exporting option for client answers (rather than copying and pasting from each section)."
"I find that I cannot customize my automation for Slack as much as I need."
"There are no missing features that I can think of."
"It does everything we need it to, so no improvements are necessary."
"The tool is beneficial for some businesses yet prohibitively expensive for others."
"The solution really needs to offer templates."
Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews while monday.com is ranked 1st in Project Management Software with 222 reviews. Microsoft Project is rated 8.0, while monday.com is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of monday.com writes "We can collaborate with our customers efficiently and professionally, and automation makes it easy for everyone". Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Freshservice, whereas monday.com is most compared with Wrike, Asana, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Zoho CRM and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. See our Microsoft Project vs. monday.com report.
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