Microsoft Project Server Reviews & Product Details

Microsoft Project Server is an on-premises solution designed for comprehensive project portfolio management and everyday project management tasks. It enables organizations to effectively plan, prioritize, and manage projects and resources, aligning them with business objectives. Built on Microsoft SharePoint, Project Server offers a familiar interface that enhances team collaboration and productivity. Key Features and Functionality: - Flexible On-Premises Solution: Provides a scalable and customizable environment tailored to an organization's specific project management needs. - Comprehensive Project Portfolio Management: Allows for the selection and management of optimal project portfolios, ensuring alignment with business strategies. - Resource Management: Simplifies the allocation and tracking of resources, offering visibility into team workloads and facilitating efficient resource utilization. - Collaboration Tools: Integrates with SharePoint to enhance team collaboration through social features, discussions, and information sharing. - Anywhere Access: Enables team members to access project information and updates from virtually any location, supporting remote and distributed work environments. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Microsoft Project Server addresses the complexities of managing multiple projects and resources within an organization. By offering a centralized platform for project and portfolio management, it helps organizations: - Align Projects with Business Goals: Ensures that project initiatives are in sync with strategic objectives, enhancing overall business performance. - Optimize Resource Utilization: Provides tools to effectively manage and allocate resources, reducing bottlenecks and improving efficiency. - Enhance Collaboration: Facilitates better communication and teamwork through integrated collaboration features, leading to more successful project outcomes. - Improve Decision-Making: Offers advanced reporting and analytics capabilities, enabling informed decisions based on real-time project data. By leveraging Microsoft Project Server, organizations can achieve greater control over their project portfolios, improve resource management, and drive successful project delivery.

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Microsoft

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Project Online Professional

$30

per user per month

Project Online Premium

$55

per user per month

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Average based on 190 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

4 months

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What is Microsoft Project Server, and what problem is it built to solve?

Microsoft Project Server is used to bring project plans, schedules, resources, and status information together in one shared environment. It helps organizations coordinate work across teams and gain a consolidated view of project and portfolio progress.

What company sizes and industries is Microsoft Project Server the best fit for?

Positive-rated users are most represented in enterprise and mid-market organizations, with small businesses also represented. Industry representation is strongest in areas such as information technology services and construction.

Enterprise: Organizations with more than 1,000 employees are a prominent group.
Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees are also strongly represented.
Small business: Organizations with 50 or fewer employees are represented as well.
Information technology and services: A recurring industry among positive-rated users.
Construction: Another notable industry represented in positive feedback.

How long does it take to implement Microsoft Project Server across a team?

Implementation timelines vary, but 1–3 months is the most commonly reported range. Go-lives under a month and implementations taking 3–6 months are also reported.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
1–3 months	Most common
Under 1 month	Also reported
3–6 months	Also reported
6–12 months or longer	Less common

What customer support options does Microsoft Project Server provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

The support experience is mixed. Some users describe helpful online support, while others find support difficult to reach or would like more responsive assistance and guidance.

What tools and platforms does Microsoft Project Server integrate with, and how do these integrations help users get more value from the product?

Microsoft Project Server offers 1 listed integration. Users also describe connections across the Microsoft ecosystem and with reporting tools.

Reporting and analytics: Power BI.
Microsoft productivity and collaboration: SharePoint, Excel, Microsoft 365, Office, Teams, Outlook, and Exchange.

These connections can bring project information and documents together, support collaboration, and help teams share portfolio and project reporting with stakeholders.

What features or capabilities could make Microsoft Project Server even more useful?

Microsoft Project Server could be more useful with clearer navigation and stronger reporting options. Users also point to opportunities to streamline routine planning and improve connections with other tools.

Usability: Make common tasks and navigation more intuitive, especially for new users.
Reporting: Provide more flexible reports, visualizations, and ways to share project information.
Planning automation: Reduce manual updates and improve automated reminders and schedule guidance.
Interoperability: Make it easier to connect with and exchange information across other project and business tools.

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Michelle B.

Senior Solutions Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/19/2020

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"MS Project Server is a MUST for any organization managing multiple projects & resources"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

The ability to view and manage resources for capacity planning is one of the most helpful features of MS Project Server. An upside to being able to manage resources is quickly & easily identifying resource overallocation & remaining availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

The least helpful aspect is the Status Reports feature, as it hasn’t really changed or been upgraded since its introduction in Project Server 2003. A downside to using Project Server is the infrastructure cost & requirements to implement & maintain it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Project Server:

Leverage your current reports and reporting requirements to help you understand your organizational needs and functionality within the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

Definitely being able to manage resources better! To be able to view assignment details across all projects and view the impacts of those assignments in easy-to-read graphs with supporting details is awesome. You can even manage resources without an official 'Resource Manager', as PMs and other users can use the features within the tool to at least review resource utilization and remaining availability before assigning them tasks within their own project schedules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andres V.

Assistant Product Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/8/2020

"It's a good program overall. Easy to use"

4/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

How easy it is to edit it. I like the details of the program itself. Personally, I think the program overall looks great and does the job right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

I did not enjoy navigating the program. It's difficult to find specific things at times. It's silly to have to navigate to a site only then to have to open a document in Word to view the information in it. It negates the whole usability purpose of the web. It's so tied in with Microsoft Office on Windows it is unusable on any other platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Project Server:

Navigation is key. A better layout can help go a long way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it to plan out big up and coming projects for my employer. It helps set out a plan for our project and keep the team on the same page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alejandro S.

Marketing Manager & PR

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/20/2020

"It pushes you to reach your goal and motivates you to have quality-work perspective."

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

The visual help gantt diagram designs on the tool gives you along with the score of how your progress is.. it pushes you to have a work ethic to always been active and don’t make the project longer than what it should take. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

The trainee program and culture in many companies is not enforced cause the advertisement about this tool is not enforce by Microsoft. It’s very useful, so it should be a tool advertise and instructed in schools and universities as Word, excel or power point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/22/2020

"Most comprehensive enterprise project management software"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

This is probably one of the most mature and extensive enterprise project management solutions on the market. every reporting, analysis,resource management tracking, etc. problem I have ever encountered or can think of has some kind of feature that Microsoft has implemented to address or at least try to address. The people behind this product definitely have the input from the most experienced of project managers.

Otherwise there probably is a software vendor that has made a VAR business out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

PMO solutions are a very competitive field, and everything is constantly evolving. Microsoft is a good example of a holding company that has bought out various companies with entirely different technology stacks that don't perfectly always complement each other in unison. They have many products that compete internally for market share and as a result trying to train a PMO group to support and completely leverage this application to its full potential can be monumental task.

There is a huge learning curve to the MS Project application adoption, MS Project also has a plethora of bugs and connection errors when trying to synchronize with MS Project Server, especially when you compare it to its competitors like JIRA or ServiceNow.

The permissions sync structure through SharePoint out of box could use some work, biggest gripe is the ability of non admins over the site being able to edit pages, you have to do a major overhaul of permissions to account for this and people usually find this to be a problem when the site becomes very developed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Project Server:

Make sure you have a well rounded IT team, or a team that is very willing to learn a lot about supporting sharepoint, Dashboard BI analytics, can think logically and empirically step by step, and is very good at documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

When hundreds of people across various departments are all working on something and trying to just "do their own thing" it can be very difficult to keep track of all of them and make sure no one is doing redundant work or work that is wasteful. This product makes use of extensive version controls and notifications and sharing, the work is much more visible across the organization once you can users disciplined enough to follow a process.

It also saves a lot of time on the low/no code solution front, this makes developing a solution within this platform SO MUCH faster, it's essentially giving someone the capability of building a sophisticated web application for a business process within days where a custom web developer would otherwise take weeks if not months. You get to leverage all the stuff your organization has already set up using Microsoft, AD Identity access management, FAST search, SQL database and reporting, along with all the new stuff if you migrate to the cloud.

It's like Wix for corporate intranet, but because its a corporate intranet the capabilities of the platform goes so much further. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harshal T.

Development Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/6/2020

"Best tool for Project Management"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

This is the best tool to capture all the project hours and each and every resource contribution towards the project. Also one can automate processes in this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

Servers could slow down sometimes and your work may be lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Federico B.

Senior Project Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/24/2020

"Perfect tool for integrated project and load management"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

MS Project Server makes it so easy to understand who is working on what, the load management, and to get insights out of our projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

The setup is a bit cumbersome and the fact you must have MS Pro to get the most out of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to have a hard time identifying what our consultants and technicians would work on in the coming weeks, and having several project managers led us to over-allocation in some periods and free people during others. These did not help at all to manage our customers' expectations. With the introduction of MS Project Server, no more over-allocation or under-allocation periods, and it was so easy to provide information to our upper management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lida K.

IT Project Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/4/2020

"Good product overall"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

Powerful tool, lots of good EPM functionality. Good project prioritization module. Support of new Agile framework. Each project has a separate SharePoint site for collaboration. Easy to configure. To maximize the benefits some degree of project management maturity would be useful. Project Online is a valuable addition to the Office 365 suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

This is just a recommendation: This tool is not really easy to use for regular user, a good training program needs to be developed for more successful end user adoption. Need integration will Azure DevOps. Anybody who need access to a project schedule must have license (even to view it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liav K.

Microsoft Partner Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/16/2020

"Very good and comprehensive EPM tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

ease of use, Gantt views, and enterprise-level resource tools, easily register time on work items and take people's work schedule into accounts, determine the work budget (planned versus actual). It also comes with great BI capabilities and dashboards for SharePoint and portfolio management. Planning, reporting, and project team collaboration are at the touch of a mouse button making the decision process enhanced and much more accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

some bugs that are to be patched.. and sometimes the file size makes the loading or updating slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/25/2020

"Keep track of project timelines and milestones in an easily digestible and convertible format"

4/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

Project allows the streamlined use of project planning and with the ability to place project book's in a shared drive format can allow the live updates to keep the team on track. I love how Project is very similar to Excel in functionality, looks, and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

Microsoft Project is dislike other competitors out there because it runs as "the old" way of tracking projects. There are numerous "newer" softwares that will do the same tracking as Project, but with a bit more ease of use for the user and the viewer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Project Server:

Look around before confirming your system use. Better options out there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy project planning. Integrates nicely with the Microsoft office Suite. Project helps to capture milestones, timelines, and related content into a clear roadmap for the team to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pietro M.

Project Management Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/25/2020

"Project Server yes, but..."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Project Server?

Project Server has a huge amount of features (time recording; project progress monitoring; risk and issues; integration with SharePoint) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project Server?

It is not always easy to scale it down, so users might be overwhelmed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Project Server:

Try to secure a strong sponsorship from the top management. It helps. Also, don't overestimate Project Management maturity level in your organisation. When rolling out Project Server, you can adopt an incremental approach where you make available new features in phases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project Server provides a single repository for all projects in the organisation. It helps standardization and reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.