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"The product is flexible."
"The ability to have all of the data in one place from risks and issues to resource capacity and actual utilization."
"There were probably about five or six metrics that we used. As a result, the groups that I supported were consistently ranked at the absolute top of the organization, as we were leveraging these built-in tools for tracking."
"It helps all the portfolio managers and the program managers to take stock of the financial situation at the program and portfolio level, because it rolls up all the financials at the product level."
"It is a scalable, easy-to-deploy, and user-friendly solution for enterprise businesses."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM's most valuable feature is the plenty of modules, such as portfolio, project, resource, and time."
"Upgrades were pretty straightforward. CA took care of everything, we just did the testing."
"We just put all the data into one place and hopefully, after we have accurate data, we can make more decisions based on real data rather than gut feeling."
"The solution includes good and fast notifications for other project team members."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"The most valuable feature of the JIRA Portfolio is the many features it provides, such as code integration, documentation, roadmap, and Eclipse. The solution is useful for product managers."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"The workflow and bucket features are most helpful."
"The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects."
"The product's integration capabilities work pretty well, especially considering that more tools are always needed in enterprise-sized businesses."
"The customized workflows we can define are very valuable. JIRA's private projects is very useful as well. There are also a lot of plugins that they provide."
"The fact that you can have different access groups is definitely a pro for Smartsheet. It also has the ability to integrate with a lot of tools."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is it can be highly customized."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is its intuitiveness, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"The tool creates shareable dashboards. These dashboards allow us to display project deliverables' status, their position in the queue, expected delivery timelines, and more. The best part is that these dashboards can be shared with our clients without a license."
"Smartsheet does a really good job of creating Gantt charts. Export to Excel feature was also very useful."
"The dashboard and the layouts are quite good."
"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."
"The forms (e.g., project properties page) need to be more attractive, colorful, and field more flexibility for validations."
"The look and the feel of 14.4 is a bit antiquated."
"Maybe we need to bring some financial executive reports to our directors and executives. Maybe we can improve the use of Jaspersoft."
"Build more capability and unification into the reporting."
"The risks issues and changes are not in the new UX yet."
"The solution could improve the way the workflow is developed. I think they could be more dynamic because they are in a way static. They're very powerful, but they don't have any interaction with end-users."
"Reporting is not good as they keep on changing reporting environment."
"CA Communities need a lot of improvement."
"With Jira, an issue that arises is the length of time it takes to show certain data."
"JIRA Portfolio could improve new implementation because if I want integration for the complete wide frame tools it cannot provide any wide frame tools."
"We are based in India; I would like the product to integrate local pricing. We earn in rupees but spend in dollars. Its pricing could also be lowered."
"The initial setup could use improvement."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"Another thing could be to have an easy way to manage the Portfolio and have more ways to share and to show graphics and reports"
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"There should be an integration of efforts between the cloud service providers' side and JIRA Portfolio."
"If there was some way to store more complex files in the system, or if there was a back-end structure where you could store files, that would be ideal."
"Maybe the solution could be a little bit more flexible."
"Smartsheet's export and print functions could be more seamless. Once I create the plan in Smartsheet, I need to import it into my corporate web presentations. This isn't always smooth. I have to save it in PDF format, then cut an image from the PDF version."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"An area for improvement in Smartsheet is that if you're in the government or you're a regulated customer, you're not allowed to use APIs due to internal restrictions, so there are specific things that you cannot connect to it. Another area for improvement in the solution is that because there's a capacity of how many records you can have, and there's a capacity of how many functions you can apply, Smartsheet has set up their system where they can force people into purchasing a $20,000 additional module that is called Control Center, that will create documents for them on the fly, so they don't use so many functions and automation. Smartsheet also needs to improve on training, because the training that is out there is very little. The solution requires a steeper learning curve. You have to do your own training and you have to work on your own solution."
"Smartsheet should continue to expand the spreadsheet-type functionality because it's limited currently. Most business users are familiar with Excel and Office, so Smartsheet should adopt a similar way of navigating the program."
"Lacks the ability to edit attachments within the solution."
"I would like if Smartsheet allowed more formulas in its sheets. I don't think working with formulas is as intuitive as it is in Excel. I use Vlookups and index matches in some of my sheets, and I had to find an outside consultant to help me build out those formulas."
