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Planview PPM Pro pros and cons

Vendor: Planview

3.9 out of 5

32 reviews
88% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Planview PPM Pro enhances project planning with time tracking and reporting, offering flexibility for custom fields and tailored IT reports. It supports strategic decision-making while allowing reusable project templates. Despite its strengths in integration, particularly with ConnectWise, challenges exist in setup, third-party integrations, and resource management efficiency. Reporting and dashboards need improvement to enhance visibility, and connecting outcomes with execution remains difficult, impacting project management effectiveness.

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PROS

Planview PPM Pro provides strong time tracking, portfolio management, and what-if analysis features that enhance visibility into project planning, resource capacity, and demand planning.

Planview PPM Pro is highly configurable and flexible, allowing users to customize fields, design screens, and develop reports and dashboards tailored to their needs, particularly benefiting senior IT management.

Planview PPM Pro supports the integration with ConnectWise and other IT services tools, facilitating significant improvements in resource utilization and project status visibility with clients.

Planview PPM Pro is effective for portfolio management by providing insights at the portfolio level about project statuses and facilitating stage-gate management.

Planview PPM Pro enhances decision-making capabilities by providing essential data for managing requests, estimating team efforts, and balancing demand versus capacity.

CONS

Initial setup is complex with a need for more out-of-the-box templates and easier project creation.

Integration with existing financial reporting systems and tools like Azure DevOps and Jira requires significant improvement, including reducing associated costs.

Reporting and dashboards need enhancements for better visibility and usability, including scheduling and improved data handling features.

Calculated field functionality and the ability to handle complex calculations are limited, leading to external processing of data.

Training documentation lacks clarity for non-technical users, necessitating improvement in comprehensibility of the material.

Planview PPM Pro Pros review quotes

JS

Director, Project Management at TradeStation

Oct 15, 2019

Time tracking, portfolio management reporting, and what-if analysis create visibility into project planning, resource capacity, and demand planning.

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AW

Senior Project Manager at Husch Blackwell

Oct 15, 2019

It is flexible, because so far we haven't been able to figure out anything that it cannot do. It's highly configurable. We've added custom field design screens to fit our needs, develop reports, and dashboards that give us the ability to deliver much better information, especially to senior IT management.

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RebeccaMorrison

Director Enterprise Applications at Nassau Health Care Corporation

Oct 15, 2019

The most valuable feature of this solution is that my team can use one tool that's reliable, scalable, and provides the leadership team visibility to what's going on.

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reviewer1208517

Sr Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 15, 2019

The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting.

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reviewer1208523

Director of Project Management at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oct 15, 2019

Flexibility is the most valuable feature of the solution. We're able to do a lot of integrations with ConnectWise, which is another IT services tool that we use. So, we can integrate with that, and it's pretty flexible. We just went live a couple of weeks ago, but already we're able to bring visibility into our resource utilization and project status with clients.

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ManishSrivastana

Project Manager at New Orleans Convention Center

Oct 15, 2019

In my current company, it provides a quicker ramp up to understand what it can do for people by taking away all their barriers to entry: time, managing resources, and linking projects.

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MH

Director at Parkview Health

Oct 15, 2019

We use PPM Pro with Projectplace. It is absolutely 100 percent fantastic. Now, we can give people that more collaborative, comfortable look and feel with a Kanban board view. We give them a smart app that goes along with it, essentially not having to worry about using rigid project management. They are very complementary towards each other: PPM Pro and Projectplace. What one is not so strong in, the other one has strengths in it. It is fantastic.

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KrishnaMohandos

Director PMO at Sephora USA

Oct 15, 2019

It has helped us make good decisions in terms of what projects to take or how to prioritize projects when we have multiple directors from the business or product. It has definitely helped us prioritize and work on our critical things.

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VC

Sr R&D Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Oct 15, 2019

It gave us a clarity of purpose. Everybody knows what they are doing and that they are all aligned: Managers know what employees are doing. Employees know what they are doing and the managers think they should be doing. That is the clarity which really helps in efficiency.

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reviewer1421352

Director of IT Application Development at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 16, 2020

PPM Pro has enabled us to set up and run a project priority committee (PPC) within the organization. Without the PPM Pro tool, we wouldn't be able to have the project information, updates, and project listings in the pipeline to be able to run the meeting efficiently, give information prior to the meeting, and also run the meeting when we meet on either monthly or on a bi-monthly basis.

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Planview PPM Pro Cons review quotes

JS

Director, Project Management at TradeStation

Oct 15, 2019

The initial setup was a little complex. There is so much to customize. It'd be good to have some templates out-of-the-box.

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AW

Senior Project Manager at Husch Blackwell

Oct 15, 2019

Connecting funding and strategic outcomes with work execution is a challenge right now for us. Part of what we are facing is we have a couple of drivers of where projects are coming from. One of them is our innovation group. They are just sort of tangentially using PPM Pro for recording the status of projects and not really planning them within there. We need a stronger link between our current financial reporting system and Planview PPM Pro, so we can start to more easily record our external costs in the tool.

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RebeccaMorrison

Director Enterprise Applications at Nassau Health Care Corporation

Oct 15, 2019

Integrating with other tools should be easier and more straightforward.

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reviewer1208517

Sr Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 15, 2019

This solution does not work well as a task management system because it is very difficult to expand beyond just the basic tasks, and this would be a worthwhile area for improvement.

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reviewer1208523

Director of Project Management at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oct 15, 2019

The biggest things are the status notes and internal notes. They have made some great improvements these past couple of weeks, but they are still lacking a bit. There are still a little kludgy. It just needs to be a bit more straightforward with notes, copying and pasting. They've made huge improvements, but it still could do some work. E.g., for some reason, the formatting is still looking a little bit weird on selecting different fonts.

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ManishSrivastana

Project Manager at New Orleans Convention Center

Oct 15, 2019

I would like to see integration with third-party applications, like the JIRA, Microsoft Project, and financial applications.

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MH

Director at Parkview Health

Oct 15, 2019

One thing in particular I'd suggest is that we used the fast track service to implement PPM Pro. While it had a lot of value to it, people may be expecting a different experience. An experience where maybe an entourage of consultants come onsite to help you do the implementation, as opposed to working over the phone with just one resource. This might be an option to offer later down the road where there are complex implementations.

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KrishnaMohandos

Director PMO at Sephora USA

Oct 15, 2019

We don't use their existing dashboard functionality. Hopefully, with the new reporting release that is coming out in November, we will be able to evaluate as to how we can leverage that. What I hear, "Everyone has either a Tableau or something else because Planview doesn't provide a dashboard." We should not need to use another tool. Planview has the data, so it should be able to give us what we want. This would also reduce costs since we are paying licenses for those tools too.

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VC

Sr R&D Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Oct 15, 2019

We found that sometimes when they have monthly rollouts that there might be some unintended consequences.

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reviewer1421352

Director of IT Application Development at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 16, 2020

The reporting has some areas for improvement. It is not always as simple as we would like to get the reports we want or the information that we want.

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