We performed a comparison between Planview Portfolios and Trello based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product gives the whole team an overall view of the status of every single project that we develop, alongside budget management and support triage."
"Being able to assign our individual tasks helps us a ton. I’ve worked with other companies that did not use Monday, and sometimes things would fall through the cracks as there were misunderstandings about who’s the responsibility it was to do something."
"It's colorful and easy to learn to use for all types of employee positions."
"I don't go on Monday every day so being notified through email and Slack is helpful."
"The automation process is one of the best."
"I love the time-tracking feature."
"With multiple team members working on multiple fast-moving briefs, tasks, and projects - often remotely and in different timezones - Monday.com has become our reliable source of truth to oversee and manage everything that's going on."
"It is easy to use and our processes are much better organized and reviewed."
"The solution view into resource capacity and availability helps us to manage work."
"In my opinion, the financial planning feature is the most valuable feature of Planview Enterprise One."
"We can view a project both at the top level and dig into the particularities. It's given us greater visibility into the work itself."
"The resource management and assignment features are valuable. The timesheet management is also valuable because that is a requirement for us. So, the ability to see timesheet forecasting and timesheet actual submission from resources has been very useful and valuable to us."
"I would say it works really well for forecasting remaining effort, especially in terms of forecasting the dollar amounts. We've gotten pretty good at adjusting rates because we have a lot of contract workers."
"We provided whatever feedback we had to the Planview team, and they went in and built those additional features that we requested. For example, they created a great way for our users to search for a specific resource, project, program, or role. We were not using some of the features, and we wanted them to not be visible, and they helped us with that. They also brought a feature to provide visibility into when a resource was never assigned to any task. There was no visibility to this before. This feature was really very good for visibility into the resource portfolio."
"The sheer amount of information available in one single interface is valuable. Everything is there. It is also a lot of work to maintain all the information, but generally, you can find everything you need within this one tool."
"We use time reporting. We convert time reporting into financial costs and do contractor and capacity planning for our resources. We track our work. So, that's the module we use extensively. As a matter of fact, we have upwards of 300 open projects at this given moment. It is pretty close to 300 open activities that are working."
"The user interface is great. I find it very easy to create cards."
"I think task management, prioritization, rankings, and collaboration features are useful."
"The solution is great for project management."
"Another feature that impressed me is the clear Kanban board, as it provides a clear view of to-to tasks, assuring the team not to forget anything."
"The usability of this solution is its most valuable feature. It offers a great flow of creating a business rule that allows you to just add identifiers and qualifiers."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"I like how user-friendly, visual, and intuitive it is. It doesn't take a lot of time to figure out how to make it work for you."
"Trello is very easy to install and set up. It is also easy to use. Its interface is excellent."
"There was one time that I had used CTRL + C to copy one of the text fields, and accidentally pasted it into all other rows/projects. I know there is an "undo" button you can click on for a few seconds, however, it would be helpful if you could undo it even after it's been a few minutes/hours."
"We'd like more automation."
"The calendar selection for dates is not the easiest to navigate."
"I would enjoy my own personal board on Monday that only I can see."
"The tool is beneficial for some businesses yet prohibitively expensive for others."
"There are occasional glitches in the system that cause the website to be down temporarily."
"It would be nice to have more customization around the documents, such as different title headings, fonts, etc."
"They should make it possible in the inbox to select all inbox updates and mark them as read."
"It is not an end-user-friendly product, and that's really the biggest thing. The hardest or the biggest hurdle I've ever had to face was adoption. I did the installation of the HP product in 2011. The company used it from 2011 to 2015, and the adoption was very high. When I was given the Planview product, adoption was very low. It wasn't as extensively used. We actually had people who wanted to go back to HP PPM because the interface of Planview was so broken, and it still is to some degree. So, it is not user-friendly. It doesn't flow the way a project manager thinks. What we did with HP PPM was a lot more manual programming. It wasn't as nice in terms of the interface, and it wasn't as pretty, but you could design it and build it so that everything flows with the way you worked, but Planview doesn't quite do that. There are a lot of screens. You have to jump back and forth. There are so many different places you have to go to just to do some basic tasks. That's the biggest thing that has really hindered adoption."
"Its reporting needs to be improved. My main complaint when it comes to Planview is that it is good to maintain all the data but to actually use the information that is in it, you actually have to use a different tool. We use Power BI. So, we pull all the information, and then we use a Power BI dashboard to stage or look at the information."
"The solution needs to be better at accepting new ideas for upcoming releases."
"The out-of-the-box reports, as far as I can tell, are weak. We've had to build a lot of reports using Power BI, which we connected to it."
"One big issue we have been having during our annual planning is that only the creator of a portfolio can edit it. This means that only the creator of a portfolio can edit which projects are included or excluded in it."
"We don't use the Progression feature. We will use it at some point in time. Until then, we want to have a way to set time to help decide what's in the past, present, and future. It is one of the things we've been discussing with Planview."
"The solution is stable. However, it's so robust, there's so much data, that it has the tendency to lag."
"I think the capabilities are there, but it seems difficult for me to even create a report as I am not a Planview technical expert. It is not particularly intuitive. It slows us down in reporting the big picture to management."
"It is not a scalable product."
"Pricing can be improved."
"It would be great if there was a tour for new users to explain how this solution works. Using this solution for the first time can feel complicated."
"As a team board it did not work well for us."
"Many more categories could be enabled."
"Trello could add an analytic tool that allows me to see the performance of each team member, answering questions like whether they meet the deadline or miss the deadline."
"There aren't as many tracking tools."
"It's really simple, which is a good thing, but it only does one thing for us."
Planview Portfolios is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 11 reviews while Trello is ranked 9th in Project Management Software with 12 reviews. Planview Portfolios is rated 7.8, while Trello is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Planview Portfolios writes "Helps prioritize projects, share the big picture with management, and has a great planning capacity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trello writes "Designed for team collaboration and project management; user interface is easy to understand, with drag and drop functionality". Planview Portfolios is most compared with Planview PPM Pro, Broadcom Clarity PPM, JIRA Portfolio, SAP Portfolio and Project Management and LeanIX, whereas Trello is most compared with Asana, Jira, Wrike, Smartsheet and Airtable. See our Planview Portfolios vs. Trello report.
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