Microsoft Project
vs.
Clarizen
Presented By:
Rana Abaalkhail
Wafa Hasanain
Outline
Introduction
Analysis of the tools
Microsoft Project
Clarizen
Comparison
Recommendations
Introduction
Company name: Green Energy Company
Number of employs: 10
Our company is attracting new customers and
we are experimenting an exponential growth
Our manger has assigned us to :
evaluate the project management tools
Compare and grade them
Write our recommendations
Evaluation Criteria
Mandatory Criteria
Optional Criteria
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project Overview
MS project is a project management software program
MS project is developed and sold by Microsoft
MS project requires software or hardware installations
Create new project
Price of the tool
Price
SharePoint 2010 Server Standard
SharePoint 2010 Server
Enterprise CALs
SQL Server 2008 Standard
Microsoft Project Professional
License Price / user
$4,926
$95
$4,926
$83
$7,200
$995
Easiness and intuitive user interface
Generate Report
There are two options in the report section:
1- Text Reports
Generate Report (Cont)
2-Visual Reports
the tool allow us to pick between 6 different categories:
Task Usage
Resource Usage
Assignment Usage
Task Summary
Resource Summary
Assignment Summary
Generate Report (Cont)
Generate Report (Cont)
Generate Report (Cont)
Project critical path method
Project critical path method (Cont)
Resource Management
Assign Resource to the task in the project.
Visual Cues Highlight Overloaded Resources
Resource Management
Resource Management
Assign Resource to the task in the project.
Visual Cues Highlight Overloaded Resources
Generate report
Predefine template
Generate custom new reports
users communication and
collaboration
Project plans often get started as outlines or notes
created in Office applications such as Word, Excel,
or Microsoft Outlook®.
Project 2010 offers powerful ways to share your
project timeline and schedule details with people
who don’t currently use Project 2010 ( like save as
Pdf file)
Collaborate online ( share point)
Not Existence Criteria
Automatic Notifications
Task Feedback
Privacy setting
Document management
But Microsoft Professional and
SharePoint 2010 supports these criteria
Clarizen
Clarizen Overview
Clarizen is online project management software
Clarizen is cofounded by software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Clarizen does not require complex software or hardware
installations
Create a New Project
Basic Setting of the Project
Easiness and intuitive user interface
Price of the tool
Generate report
Clarizen group reports under the following categories
Generate report (Cont)
Project critical path method
Privacy setting
Admin level user
Is allowed to access and adjust all System Settings
approve Timesheets and expenses of any projects in the
organization.
Super user
Able to view and edit all scheduling aspects projects,
milestones and tasks within the organization.
Might have a permission to approve Timesheets and
expenses
Financial Users
able to view and modify financial data of the organization
External users
have limited visibility of work items within the system
Only view projects, or parts of projects, to which they are
directly assigned.
Resource Management
Define project skill for individual or grouped resources
Classify resources under different category which are job titles, skill
sets, and organizational group units
Set cost and billing rates for individual or grouped resources
Set the resource working, holiday and vacation days and hours
Filter resource based on work item qualifications
Generate the resources report
shows a resource Calendar
Resource Management (Cont)
Users Communication & Collaboration
Allow the manger to invite others to co-plan the
project
all the team are accessed to automatically
notification
All team members are able to upload and share
information and they are accessible to all the team
members
Supports publishing roadmaps and Gantt charts
through email or an HTML widget
Supports importing Microsoft project, and the
integration for Outlook
Task Feedback
Users are able to send feedback for any specific
task to the project manager.
• Document
Notes
Post
Email
Document management
Ability to attach, delete, or view document to any specific task
Ability to search all the documents
Automatic Notifications
Send project's progress reports to the managers
Send email notifications whenever certain events have been
activated
An email notification is sent to resources when an assigned task is
updated
Update progress Request is sent to each individual users.
Clarizen’s users can update their email notification setting
Comparison
Microsoft Project
Clarizen
Creation and configuration
of the basic settings of the
project
15%
15%
Price of the tool
7%
10%
Easiness and intuitive user
interface and report
10%
5%
Project critical path method 10%
10%
Privacy setting
0%
15%
Resource Management
10%
10%
users communication and
collaboration
15%
15%
Task Feedback
0%
5%
Document management
0%
5%
Automatic Notifications
0%
5%
67%
95%
Total Score
Comparison
Microsoft Project
Clarizen
Creation and configuration
of the basic settings of the
project
15%
15%
Price of the tool
7%
10%
Easiness and intuitive user
interface and report
10%
5%
Project critical path method
10%
10%
Privacy setting
0%
15%
Resource Management
10%
10%
users communication and
collaboration
15%
15%
Task Feedback
0%
5%
Document management
0%
5%
Automatic Notifications
0%
5%
67%
95%
Total Score
Comparison
Microsoft Project
Clarizen
Creation and configuration
of the basic settings of the
project
15%
15%
Price of the tool
7%
10%
Easiness and intuitive user
interface and report
10%
5%
Project critical path method 10%
10%
Privacy setting
0%
15%
Resource Management
10%
10%
users communication and
collaboration
15%
15%
Task Feedback
0%
5%
Document management
0%
5%
Automatic Notifications
0%
5%
67%
95%
Total Score
Visual Comparison
Questions