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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0 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Project Ratings

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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

Gonçalo R.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Mar 2022

One of the best project management tool available

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It has every possible and thinkable feature for Project Management, very clean look

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It has every feature

What do you dislike most about this product?

Hard to learn

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is definitely one of the best project management tools, but it will take some learning and training to understand how to proper use it

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Dayana J.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Mar 2022

Tool for the task assignment, scheduling, due-date

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

With capacity management tools like visual interactive maps of capacities and resource utilization, along with extensive resource monitoring, users may obtain visibility into how materials are used. Teams may enter modifications from anywhere with easier task and multitasking, allowing for more leadership supervision and worldwide cooperation. Regardless on their processes and objectives, teams can use Agile or Traditional techniques on the Project interface.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft project with comprehensive forecasting methods for project monitoring and control, the system helps customers streamline programs, finances, and asset management. It's an Office 365-based convenient choice for project management framework (PPM) and routine work. Project helps management teams remain productive by providing features like as built-in templates, familiar planning tools, and accessibility to projects throughout devices. Through tight connectivity with Power BI, that provides advanced analysis and built-in analytics, organizations can analyze and optimize project portfolios.

What do you dislike most about this product?

This, in my opinion, is more essential than preparation, because a lack of technological visibility could place the operation at danger more than just a bad plan. The only criticism has with Microsoft Office applications is that it has been downloaded on the computer; otherwise, it is perfect. It can be perplexing at times. It can also be difficult to allocate resources while functioning with several teams and numerous employees per team.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommendations due to take use of the timeline feature to visualize projects. Users can also access the Team Scheduler to see what coming is up in the near future and predict changes or difficulties. Improve communication by copying project documentation to Microsoft Office programmers like Presentation or email, and saving essential plans and data to Microsoft 365 or Microsoft.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Sandeep Parmjeet Singh B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Fantastic Product. Love it

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

Features and Ease of Usage

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Entire Product itself is my favorite

What do you dislike most about this product?

Requires lot of training for usage

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly Recommend

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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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

Gonçalo R.

One of the best project management tool available

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Dayana J.

Tool for the task assignment, scheduling, due-date

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sandeep Parmjeet Singh B.

Fantastic Product. Love it

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Task Prioritization

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Calendar View

Shared Task List

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Vendor Capability Ratings

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Availability and Quality of Training

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