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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Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
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Microsoft Project Reviews
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
Arelious J.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
We're solving multiple issues with MS Project
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?
At the beginning of a schedule, Microsoft Project is an effective planning tool. Used at the beginning of a contract, it aids in making plans. Useful as a starting point for further analysis. We are resolving a number of issues, including how to keep track of a large number of enterprise-level projects and programs, how to evaluate resource conflicts and limitations, and how to keep projects on track in terms of both cost and schedule.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Microsoft's product has undergone several iterations throughout the years, and the result is a refined final version. Several of the product's features are excellent, and the product's capacity to communicate with other projects and share information is invaluable to our project managers in their day-to-day operations. The budgeting system is well organized.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Disappointingly, schedule updates do not provide any obvious indications of movement. When analyzing delays in a schedule, this tool is not the easiest to use. It's not useful after the original project schedule has been created.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you need to create schedules, I highly suggest using this program. To the contrary, I would not suggest this program to anyone who regularly performs multi-stage schedule delay analyses.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Security Protects
- Continually Improving Product