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We use Sciforma for time tracking, portfolio management, project management, resource simulation tickets, and workflow.

The integrated portfolio and project management approach is the most valuable feature of Sciforma.

The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) is a bit old and could be improved.

I have been using Sciforma for two or three weeks.

Sciforma is a stable solution if you have the right configuration.

Around 60 users often use the solution in our organization.

I rate Sciforma an eight or nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution’s technical support is very good.

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I have previously worked with Asana.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate Sciforma a seven out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

Sciforma was deployed in two weeks.

The solution's pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap.

I am working with the latest version of Sciforma.

Overall, I rate Sciforma a nine out of ten.

I can do my own reports for a large portfolio of projects, such as engineering and construction projects for most of my clients.

I find Sciforma's customizability valuable. I like the project management side, with planning, scheduling, and timesheets. And I also love the collaboration portion.

The report developer needs a bit of streamlining. You have to be good to understand it and use it. If you don't work with Sciforma regularly, it will be a challenge.

I would like to see an element of procurement management as part of demand management in the next release. You do projects, but a large part of EPC projects is the procurement and engineering side of it. Any development that touches more on engineering procurement modules, even if elementary, would be a great addition.

I've been working with Sciforma for about ten years. I do project consulting, and I do systems implementation.

I rate the stability an eight out of ten. We had no issues.

I rate Sciforma's scalability a nine out of ten. We have about 100 users using Sciforma. Our clients are small to medium engineering businesses.

In the early days, I found some bugs that I fixed with the old platform. There were communication issues trying to explain to them what the issue was. Sciforma is fairly responsive, and lately, they've gotten better.

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I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten because it's easy. We had to really understand the solution because it's huge, and we had to know which sections to bite off first. I might even rate the initial setup a nine out of ten if you know what you've got. Once we had all our data and our migration plan, it was quite easy. The challenge lies more with the organization than the system itself. Sciforma is one of the easiest tools to get going with from a technical point of view, but knowledge is key.

Deploying the solution takes from six months to a year, depending on the level of data wanted. While deploying the solution, we have to first compile the user's requirements. Then we have to drop a baseline specification in parallel with a concept rollout. Based on what's in the concept, we pick from what the client understands to be the relevant portions, the minimum requirements. Then I convert it into a project execution plan and then execute the plan.

After that, we have initial data collection for configuration and then final live data. Then we have the sign-off processes of different departments. There's a lot of upfront work to get the data prepared for transmission, and that is a big challenge. We did almost a thousand projects per year, so there were quite a lot of decisions to speed up the deployment process. The biggest challenge was to get our internal data organized and map it.

I rate the pricing a four out of ten because Sciforma's rates are good. The solution is affordable and fixed, where the price is the same throughout the usage period.

Sciforma is not software. It's a service model. You can just put it in a cloud somewhere hosted by an ISP.

One thing that took us a long time but was successful in the end was that we created an automatic process where you can tick on a quotation to automatically create the budget and the schedules. That development was quite complex, but we managed to do it in a very generic fashion that you can almost point to any Excel sheet that you can map to the Sciforma database. That was the biggest benefit of the system. I import the quote, and then the process of planning a project once the quote is landed is pretty easy.

If you're choosing Sciforma, I suggest you take what I call the vanilla version, make it work, and then fund it on one project. Only after that do the development and modification.

I rate Sciforma an eight out of ten because you want a solution that is flexible, quick to deploy, and comprehensive for mid-size to upper-scale organizations. Sciforma is in a niche position.