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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86 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 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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Time & Expense Tracking
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Business Value Created
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Ease of IT Administration
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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
Charlotte R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Projecting the Power of Microsoft Project.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?
As a project manager in our company, we use Microsoft Project Professional and Microsoft Project Online as our primary project management platform. We manage various projects, including marketing, strategy, and technical projects. Microsoft Project allows us to plan, track, and analyze all our projects efficiently.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Our project managers use it to define project goals, identify tasks, develop a project schedule, assign resources, track progress, and analyze project performance. . It enables us to monitor the entire schedule, phases, and stages, as well as the budgetary and financial schedule.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Microsoft Projects is challenging to look at resource loading over multiple projects or multiple project files. The network diagram is also still limiting, and we often use VISIO to create network diagrams instead of MS Project.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I find Microsoft Project's features customizable, and its APIs are well documented, allowing integration with other tools. Microsoft Project can also be customized for agile project management. . We can use it for any type of project, from research to large company projects. We can also link tasks between different MS Project files
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Richard Z.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Microsoft Project provides us with an amazing prog
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?
Without a doubt, Microsoft Project has been an excellent tool to be much more organized and to plan in detail each of the new projects in my company. I have to emphasize that thanks to the help of Microsoft Project I have been much more efficient in my job for have a more managed work development, the spreadsheets are of great help to guide us and file each of the jobs that we are about to execute simultaneously, the simplicity of this program allows us to understand each of the parameters and tools that are at our disposal scope, the results have been to enhance the management and order of our work to implement it remotely.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
One of the greatest characteristics that framed this program in my work area is the immediate order that it has made in my work area, the benefits of this is the response capacity for each of the projects that are specified in my system within and Outside the web, the mission of this program is to create a better work root to optimize performance and optimize the work performance of each of the software users in each and every one of the processes and activities, without a doubt this program reduces the workload by making the flow and development of work much easier through tools that teach how to manage the tasks that constantly enter my job
What do you dislike most about this product?
The problem with this software is its mobile versions, since they do not meet our expectations to work calmly without any obstacles, this version is unfortunately very messy and difficult to execute, in addition to not having certain tools that can be applied on a computer very easy, on the other hand, before acquiring this program it is important to highlight the high cost of this program, it is one of the most expensive among its main competencies.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
One of the best reasons to have this program is the simplicity that this program provides at work, it is worth having this program in a work area, since its objective is to clean and order the flow with which it manages the projects of a company, recommending Microsoft Project is easy when the results are seen in our work infrastructure, this software is my support to flee my work to success in each activity.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing