What is Microsoft Project?
Stay organized, focused, and in charge. Tackle anything from small projects to large initiatives. You may or may not be a project manager, but now you can be the boss of any project with a powerful, easy-to-use app.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Project?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
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Feature Ratings
Planning and Scheduling
Dependency and Milestone Tracking
Collaboration
Resource Management
Document Management
Workflow Management
Budget Management
Reporting
Hierarchical Task Management
Time & Expense Tracking
Mobile Access
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Usability and Intuitiveness
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
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Microsoft Project Reviews
Mitchel C.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
comes with the Microsoft Suite, but look elsewhere
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?
Seems like a glorified excel to create Gantt charts
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Familiar microsoft feel
What do you dislike most about this product?
It seems more like excel than its own stand-alone product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Check out competitors as well, you may like this if you have created project plans in excel.
Pros
- Fair
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Saves Time
Cons
- Slower Product Innovation
- Under Delivered
Lokesh D.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Managing Projects Made Easy with Microsoft Project
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?
Other project management applications exist, such as Trello and Asana, but they don't compare to Microsoft Project in terms of depth and usefulness. It's recommended that you use them for less ambitious projects or teams who have limited means.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Thanks to Microsoft Project, I am able to organise my work more efficiently and meet all of my deadlines. Its capacity to monitor activities, organise resources, and generate Gantt charts has been crucial to the accomplishment of many projects. It's great that it works well with the rest of Microsoft Office, which streamlines my team's and stakeholders' ability to share and edit documents.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Microsoft Project does have certain drawbacks, though. The software has a lot of options, and it may take some time to become used to using them all. For startups and sole proprietors, the software's price tag may be prohibitive.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you need a powerful and versatile solution for managing projects, go no further than Microsoft Project. While mastering all of its capabilities may take some time, the benefits are undeniably worth the effort. Microsoft also provides an abundance of online groups and tools to aid in the software's adoption and use.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Albert R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2023
Processes better managed with this system
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?
Unlike other systems, this is usually one of the most similar to the conventional systems used to keep controls, it allows you to execute projects and shape them in the way that best suits the organization in a professional way, it has many templates that can be customized to be more oriented to the brand and allows even to calculate costs with an accuracy required professionally
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like this tool because the reports are always made in real time, it also allows you to monitor each stage of the project, it has metrics for better visualizations and even allows you to create estimated delivery times as one more option of your business functions I have not encountered any problems
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have not encountered any problems
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The tool is quite complete, mainly for medium or large organizations, and its costs are reasonable for its function
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
