We performed a comparison between Basecamp and Planview PPM Pro based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Microsoft, Asana and others in Project Management Software."The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."
"The ease of use is valuable."
"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."
"It has a nice dashboard view, so you can analyze the progress on a project from a single place. It provides a nice graphical representation of all the project management with visualizations of Gantt chart and customized reports. You can easily track all your progress on project tasks and flag any issues."
"Just about everything about the solution is valuable. I can't pinpoint one specific thing. The tool has helped us mature as an agency, has taught us to collect better data and the benefits of having good data."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting."
"The solution is great for viewing projects and timelines."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We found that sometimes when they have monthly rollouts that there might be some unintended consequences."
"I would like to see integration with third-party applications, like the JIRA, Microsoft Project, and financial applications."
"Additional Agile capabilities, including integration with the Agile development app, would be welcome features."
"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."
Basecamp is ranked 22nd in Project Management Software with 3 reviews while Planview PPM Pro is ranked 15th in Project Management Software with 34 reviews. Basecamp is rated 7.6, while Planview PPM Pro is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Basecamp writes "Easy to navigate and good for communications but needs better documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planview PPM Pro writes "Attentive customer service". Basecamp is most compared with Planview Portfolios, Jira, Smartsheet and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas Planview PPM Pro is most compared with Planview AdaptiveWork, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios, Planisware and Microsoft Project.
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