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OpenText Project and Portfolio Management vs Trimble Project Management comparison

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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 (18th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2668566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
workflow streamlines processes and ensures activities are completed properly
The most valuable feature of OpenText Project and Portfolio Management is its workflow. The workflow is amazing and highly effective in streamlining processes. Additionally, it is used to ensure that activities are completed properly, as part of the typical project and portfolio management. It meets my needs as a good project and portfolio management tool.
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

"The portfolio management and the resource management are the key features."
"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."
"PPM really has a powerful workflow and form engine that allows us to create workflow complexities and processes, with a good balance between flexibility and best practice that generally allows us to implement any kind of requirements a customer might have."
"The most valuable feature is resource planning or resource management."
"Resource management: The resource management module is very complete and covers most of the time all needs of customers."
"Recent Program Management lifecycle, Program Management aggregation views due to interactive UI (selection of risks, issues, and changes in Program Overview) and “flash look & feel" of this functional chunk, which is different in comparison to other parts of HPE PPM."
"At the top of my mind, I can't really tell, but functionality wise and time and effort wise it has done miracles here."
"The availability of multiple integrated modules is a vital aspect"
"Using Trimble Project Management has made our project efficiency more efficient than not having it."
 

Cons

"Better user interface. Usability in terms of better UX."
"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."
"The product releases after 9.3 have many bugs in the Resource Management module."
"User interface continues to be poor. The product does not have a similar view in the different modules, e.g., staffing vs financial management, it looks like you are working with a different product and it is not easy to use or intuitive."
"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 HPE PPM license prices are a bit high. HPE PPM does not support agile management."
"They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky."
"The reporting does exist, but it is not great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"We have an annual license, and it is fairly priced in comparison to that of other solutions."
"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."
"There is an additional cost for product support"
"HPE PPM SaaS model is comprehensive, however, the base fee component has customer resistance to its recurring setup,"
"It is SaaS without a base fee."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
University
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
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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