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Planview PPM Pro pros and cons

Vendor: Planview
3.9 out of 5

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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

reviewer2004219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Management consultant at Sloan Consulting
Oct 26, 2022
The status reporting is the most valuable feature as it's easy to use; it's simple for project managers to enter their information, and the reporting features are very flexible.
GM
VP of PMO at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 11, 2023
Daptiv is a project management tool, so it's pretty straightforward. The ability to manage projects and programs has been beneficial for us.
VR
Project Manager at Taco Cabana, Inc.
Feb 24, 2023
Has good visibility.
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JA
Client Support and Portfolio Management at British Columbia Lottery Corp
Oct 26, 2021
It is certainly the resource management feature that is most valuable for us. It is the supply and demand. Like most companies, one of the hardest nuts to crack is understanding where your people are and getting them to do the right thing at the right time. So, certainly, out of all the functionality, this has been the saving grace for us because it now provides us with the insight to do future planning and stop taking on more work than we are physically capable of doing as a company.
SD
Business Analyst II at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 23, 2021
The solution is great for viewing projects and timelines.
SB
Global IT PMO Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 21, 2020
The dashboards are one of the most valuable aspects of this solution, although, we've only developed a few that anyone's using. There is more maturity there and, of course, we're a month and a half into this, but getting our executive leadership to see these things is half the battle. I think dashboards are going to be critical.
reviewer1427235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 27, 2020
The timesheet & staffing management function gives us clarity in terms of how capacity planning has to happen and how much actual effort is going into the programs. The risk and project status information gets captured in the project gives more clarity for stakeholders to understand how the programs are running. We have only explored a portion of the application features so far.
reviewer1423515 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Strategic Initiatives and PMO at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 21, 2020
The solution's time-tracking abilities are one of the strong points. The only challenge is enabling it to the minute-level task. It's not at a project level but it's at an organization level. If I want it to be at a higher level as compared to some of the other projects where I want it to go to the nth level of a task for the time reporting, I cannot control it at a project level but it's controllable at an organization level. That's the only big challenge that I have.
Mike - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 21, 2020
PPM Pro provides managers the insight they need to empower decision-making. The data is always in the tool. It's just making sure people are using it correctly. We track the requests as they come in. We track our demand by each of our teams within IT and then estimate that effort so that we can see if we are getting a lot of requests to certain teams. We check the demand versus capacity as those items come in.
SB
PMO Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 27, 2020
PPM Pro has improved my organization through standardization. The big thing for us is that we came from a very immature state of play. Everyone had their own risk and issue management capabilities and their own different impacts for risks. We've been able to standardize that within the program delivery arena. That for us has been a major thing. We're all speaking the same language about the same things and using the same metrics in order to capture statuses.
 

Planview PPM Pro Cons review quotes

reviewer2004219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Management consultant at Sloan Consulting
Oct 26, 2022
Additional Agile capabilities, including integration with the Agile development app, would be welcome features.
GM
VP of PMO at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 11, 2023
The resource management tab is clunky, inefficient, and slow. And from a portfolio manager perspective, it would be nice if there were an easier way to view enterprise-wide resourcing to manage my team more effectively.
VR
Project Manager at Taco Cabana, Inc.
Feb 24, 2023
Entering day-to-day tasks is a tedious process.
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JA
Client Support and Portfolio Management at British Columbia Lottery Corp
Oct 26, 2021
The agile functionality can be improved. The tool was definitely built around the waterfall PMBOK PRINCE2 methodology, and although there are great functions within the tool for agile, it is often compared to dedicated tools like LeanKit or Jira. At the moment, the only integration we would have is to Jira itself, not to another Planview product. I believe that's coming in 2022 at some point.
SD
Business Analyst II at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 23, 2021
The downside to the way the solution tracks time is if your project manager doesn't add you to the project, you won't see it on your timesheet, even if you did do work.
SB
Global IT PMO Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 21, 2020
From a usability standpoint, the part where there are people on the tasks section on a team is a little challenging. Then for some reason, the in-demand reports are embedded in the resource section and to run them is just completely different and separate from the reports entity which is a lot.
reviewer1427235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 27, 2020
The calculated field area needs improvement. There are a lot of formulas and functions available to make a calculated field, but it is still not comprehensive. We process the data to represent it through a report or dashboard. Due to the current constraints, for complex calculations, we do the data processing outside PPM Pro.
reviewer1423515 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Strategic Initiatives and PMO at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 21, 2020
The integration with some of these other tools that we use, like the Azure DevOps needs improvement. I heard there are few things coming within Planview or PPM Pro itself, but I think it's still future dated. These integrations are key for us from an organizational perspective.
Mike - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 21, 2020
Reporting and dashboards need improvement. I know they're doing a major revamp of that. We're really looking forward to that because that's something that is really being requested by our customers to give them better visibility, reporting, and dashboards that are easier to understand.
SB
PMO Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 27, 2020
Reporting and dashboards need improvement. They've got the new beta coming out now and I've been playing around with that in our sandbox environment.