We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity , Microsoft Project Server, and OpenText Project and portfolio Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Broadcom, ServiceNow and others in Project Portfolio Management."It allows me to keep track of the projects, residual location, it gives me the ease of getting status reports out, and checking risks and issues."
"It is allowing us to keep track of what our projects are doing, and the idea module, what projects are coming into the pipeline."
"Within the SaaS environment (since CA is supporting it), it has been extremely stable and reliable."
"Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"What has been valuable are the workflows that are there today in order to keep our executive staff informed as well as our program managers and department managers."
"Right now, it's the PPM piece of it, the scheduling, the Gantt, the task view."
"It is easier to use than most other products that are out there."
"The product is flexible."
"The most useful feature of Microsoft Project Server is you can select a function to see the baseline."
"It is a scalable solution. We have been able to manage larger scale projects easily using this solution."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"I like the way you can build the schedule by the Don't Start Before or Don't Start After values. You can use it to build your schedule based on how you change your dates. This is how it actually builds the schedule."
"The scheduling feature is the most useful."
"Deliverables List: Most useful to enable meaningful status reporting at an enterprise level."
"It's fine to navigate for a layperson."
"One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"I like the automated calculations, especially on the resource side. When project managers enter their resource requirements into their staffing profiles, they are automatically translated into labor forecast calculations. PPM automates a significant portion of the forecast calculations. Timesheets are also built-in. We automatically process time sheets and bill them accordingly."
"Overall, they have a very strong workflow management capability. That's a very strong feature because then you can model any process easily. Whether it is a demand management process, a pipeline management process, or your project delivery methodology, it is much easier because of their workflow management capability."
"Scenario comparison is the feature most valuable to us and the reason why we decided to choose HPE PPM over other portfolio management products."
"Micro Focus PPM is flexible and easy to use. It's simple to customize and configure workflows."
"I like the ease of customization from an admin perspective. I'm really excited about some of the things that are coming in version 10.0.3 as far as what admins are able to do."
"Resource management: The resource management module is very complete and covers most of the time all needs of customers."
"It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on."
"It's a very detailed tool. As far as an enterprise is concerned, it gives you the flexibility to manage everything: portfolios, projects, finances, proposals, resources, and time... It takes care of even the minor details that need to be captured. The project management functionality is configured really well within the tool. That stands out."
"In the future, I would like to see integrated Agile features and better integration with Agile tools."
"The architecture must be improved."
"We see it as overhead. Let us collect all the data in one place. Which, it is always nice to have everything in one place, but it does cause that overhead."
"We use Service Desk Manager as well. We have a custom tool to integrate the two. One of the reasons why PPM was chosen was because, "Well, it must integrate with SDM, because they're the same company." But that was not the case."
"One of the limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio."
"Look and feel of the user experience."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM should improve how the reports are being generated and contracts management."
"Setup could be made easier."
"Microsoft Project Server's user interface is pretty average, and sometimes it can have bugs."
"The product is difficult to use for complex projects."
"The solution's desktop version is not compatible with the MacBook."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"The solution must provide Agile and AI features."
"The product's UI is not very user-friendly."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Sometimes features in PPM don't work as expected, or our users request a new feature. Typically, our partner vendor can deploy those changes. But there have been a few instances when we had to raise it with Micro Focus because it's beyond the ability of our partner vendor. When we raise the issue with Micro Focus, it sometimes takes time because it needs support from other customers using PPM, not just our bank. It goes through a voting system. Other customers need to vote for the feature. The features that get the most votes will possibly be added."
"They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky."
"The solution can sometimes be a little inflexible and a bit caustic."
"I would also like to see improvement in PPM's reporting and alerts. PPM has reporting capabilities, including HTML reports and portlets. But a majority of clients will build their own reporting platforms, or they will use external reporting platforms like Tableau and QlikView."
"Currently, HPE PPM does not allow “Project” approval, but only simple “Demand Request” approval (mobility)."
"Micro Focus PPM should be less dependent on coding. It could also benefit from some updates to the software architecture. These have been on the roadmap for years now, but they haven't been released."
"Portfolio scenarios: This is a very powerful feature. However, it’s limited to analyses."
"There are some limitations when it comes to attaching receipts. For example, if we are going to buy some non-labor-related assets such as hardware, we are not able to attach the receipts in the Financial Management module in version 9.41."
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