Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Project

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

8.8 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Project won the following awards in the Task Management category

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3 Top Rated Features

2023

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1 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Project Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

3
Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+87 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?

4% Negative

9% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Trustworthy
Transparent

Feature Ratings

Average 84

List Tasks

Drag and Drop Prioritization

Task Assignment

Due Dates

Task Status

Task Prioritization

Task Categorization

Dependencies

Calendar View

Shared Task List

Add Notes

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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Microsoft Project Reviews

Monika C.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Construction
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Dec 2022

excellent programme for multi-user planning

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

Simple and intuitive user interface. A major benefit is the ability to import and export data from Excel. It's simple to create custom calendars and extract gantt charts.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best feature of Microsoft Project is that it is the easiest to use project progress tracking tool I have ever used. We all use Excel in our daily lives, which contributes to its usability. I consider Microsoft Project to be an advanced version of Excel with extra options for tracking projects and capturing progress.

What do you dislike most about this product?

For business implementation, the cost of using this server licencing can be on the high side. Smaller businesses could consider this to be prohibitively expensive. In the near future, hopefully, they will reconsider and realise that they can capitalise on the market through faster expansion and grabbing a larger portion of it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One can go for this software. This is one of the best Software

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Caring
Over Delivered

Priya K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Flexible to meet users particular needs.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It has a variety of scheduling tools that project managers can use to set due dates, track project progress, list tasks and assign them to members therefore ensuring efficiency.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We have been able to improve our customer satisfaction because Microsoft project helps us to deliver our projects on time, scope and budget.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It does not integrate with non-Microsoft products.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

They should give it a try. It is very flexible to meet the users particular requirements and can be used for other purposes such as roadmapping and financial management.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Olivia C.

Role: Operations
Industry: Energy
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Why you should use Microsoft Project

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It has the ability to filter complete and incomplete tasks. This makes Microsoft Project the best project manager as compared to other similar software.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I can change the background, color, font styles making my work easy and appealing. It's also easy to add recurring tasks. Microsoft Project automatically recalculates the downstream texts whenever I change the task dates.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Microsoft Project has a complicated user management making it time consuming. In addition, project deployment may require plenty of additional configuration.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I found Microsoft Project great for both large and small projects and even daily task management. It allows you to allocate proper time to projects making it easy for planning.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Unique Features

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Microsoft Project Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

3 Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+87 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Project?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

List Tasks Display outstanding tasks

Drag and Drop Prioritization Ability to re-order tasks using drag and drop

Task Assignment Ability to see task assignee

Due Dates Ability to track due dates of tasks

Task Status Ability to display current status of tasks

Task Prioritization Ability to assign a priority to tasks.

Task Categorization Ability to categorize tasks

Dependencies Ability to add dependencies to other tasks

Calendar View See tasks by due date in calendar view or Gantt view

Shared Task List Ability to share a list with a team and have multiple team members edit the task list

Add Notes Ability to add free form notes to tasks

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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Microsoft Project Reviews

Monika C.

excellent programme for multi-user planning

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Priya K.

Flexible to meet users particular needs.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Olivia C.

Why you should use Microsoft Project

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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