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OpenText Project and Portfolio Management vs Trimble Project Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Project and Portfo...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (9th)
Trimble Project Management
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (17th)
 

Featured Reviews

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Useful for resource and financial management but needs to change Oracle database
The solution helps with tech management. It has a work plan similar to Microsoft Project for tracking progress anywhere. It can synchronize with Microsoft Projects for updating and rebooting tasks. They can also assign tasks to team members who can update progress using timesheets without a sheet. It includes a Project dashboard for managing multiple projects simultaneously and program management for overseeing groups of projects. It offers various data metrics. It has project entities for controlling risks, issues, and protections. It can calculate costs based on resource tasks and compare actual and planned costs. The tool has features for scenario comparison, allowing us to optimize scenarios based on various factors. Additionally, we can manually optimize by managing resource availability, creating staffing profiles, and making payments to optimize in any situation.
reviewer2798931 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate VP, Engineering & Project Management at a university with 10,001+ employees
Consistent capital project workflows have improved collaboration and real-time data use
In my opinion, the best features of Trimble Project Management are that it is quite good as a database and process, and it has been working well for us. The big challenge is on the reporting side; it does not provide great dashboards and that type of functionality. Using Trimble Project Management has made our project efficiency more efficient than not having it. It is a project management information system, so it is very important to have for our organization. Trimble Project Management's real-time data integration has been a valuable feature; we have a data warehouse that it sends information to, and we use Tableau to create dashboards.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine."
"Demand, project and time management parts of the tool are the most valuable."
"There are lots of project management tools that do a good job, but not so many that can manage portfolios and the bigger planning picture."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText Project and Portfolio Management is its workflow."
"Scenario comparison is the feature most valuable to us and the reason why we decided to choose HPE PPM over other portfolio management products."
"Customer service and technical support are excellent and great at helping us when needed."
"Time Management Resource Management Project Management"
"There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management."
"Using Trimble Project Management has made our project efficiency more efficient than not having it."
 

Cons

"Currently, HPE PPM does not allow “Project” approval, but only simple “Demand Request” approval (mobility)."
"They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky."
"There is quite a few areas of improvement - Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc."
"We had a couple of issues with stability or performance degradation about a year ago, around the time of the initial rollout. Since then, we've only had two unexpected outages that were quickly resolved."
"The solution can sometimes be a little inflexible and a bit caustic."
"Budget management could be provided."
"The user interface is very, very old and is missing some functions, such as, for example, re-do, follow, and share functions. The UI is not good."
"The user experience of the product needs to be improved"
"The reporting does exist, but it is not great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is SaaS without a base fee."
"Now, we also received an increase in the support license prices, without any advanced notice. At this point, switching to unify all our licensing under HPE and customer support has been poor."
"Support and license management are two hurdles for us. Every time we purchase new licenses, it has taken us half a year to implement those."
"A large organization will find Micro Focus PPM affordable, but it may be a bit costly for a small or medium-sized company. The license is based on the number of users."
"HPE PPM SaaS model is comprehensive, however, the base fee component has customer resistance to its recurring setup,"
"We have an annual license, and it is fairly priced in comparison to that of other solutions."
"There is an additional cost for product support"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
7%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
University
8%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise15
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Questions from the Community

Any experience with Strategic Project Portfolio Management Solutions?
Hi, @Cheryl Joseph Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management solution could be a good candidate, see my review on this product, or if you may need more information to drop me a message. You can...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)?
The price of this solution is reasonable. It is not overly expensive and provides a fair value for the features offered.
What needs improvement with Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)?
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management could improve in several areas such as portfolio planning and resource allocation. Additionally, strategic portfolio management and investment management s...
What needs improvement with Trimble Project Management?
The reporting does exist, but it is not great. The reporting is not optimal, but otherwise, Trimble Project Management is serving us well.
What is your primary use case for Trimble Project Management?
Our general use case involves a 350 million capital budget at the university, so we use Trimble Project Management for all aspects of the design phase and construction phase, and for project manage...
What advice do you have for others considering Trimble Project Management?
I was unable to download the Hive to e-Builder Trimble comparison, so I do not know; it was difficult to obtain. If you could send it to me, then I could provide my takeaway on it. We are consideri...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), HPE Project and Portfolio Management PPM
Meridian Proliance PPM, Proliance Project Portfolio Management
 

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Sample Customers

Bank Simpanan Nasional, Smart Communications, Aareon AG
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