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OpenText Project and Portfolio Management pros and cons

Vendor: OpenText
3.9 out of 5

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PROS

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management provides trusted and readily available data, crucial for tool success.
Its portfolio and resource management features are highly comprehensive and valued among customers.
The workflow engine in Micro Focus PPM offers significant flexibility, allowing for complex workflow creation and process modeling.
Customization from an admin perspective is straightforward, with enhancements anticipated in future versions.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management's integrated modules offer detailed management across portfolios, projects, and financials, along with efficient automated resource calculations.

CONS

Reporting in OpenText Project and Portfolio Management is limited and often requires external platforms like Tableau and QlikView.
Portfolio scenarios are powerful but limited to analyses, restricting project approval capabilities.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management can be inflexible and lacks features, requiring additional requests for deployment.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management faces issues with stability, sometimes requiring interventions beyond partner vendors.
The database dependency on Oracle is seen as a negative, with suggestions to move away from it for improvement.
 

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management Pros review quotes

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Apr 8, 2024
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.
reviewer1905414 - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM SaaS Application Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Jul 5, 2022
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.
reviewer2668566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Mar 7, 2025
The most valuable feature of OpenText Project and Portfolio Management is its workflow.
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reviewer2032002 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Nov 22, 2022
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.
Mahmoud NourElDin - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM Consultant at Vodafone
Dec 1, 2022
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.
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Apr 20, 2023
Micro Focus PPM is flexible and easy to use. It's simple to customize and configure workflows.
reviewer2059929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project and Portfolio Management Governance and Support at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 23, 2022
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.
reviewer2027955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 18, 2022
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.
Attila Mozes - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at provalida GmbH
Apr 25, 2022
Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine.
Islam Bayraktar - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder and Director of Services at Continuous Software at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jun 11, 2024
The availability of multiple integrated modules is a vital aspect
 

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management Cons review quotes

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Apr 8, 2024
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management should move their database from Oracle.
reviewer1905414 - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM SaaS Application Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Jul 5, 2022
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.
reviewer2668566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Mar 7, 2025
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management could improve in several areas such as portfolio planning and resource allocation.
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reviewer2032002 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Nov 22, 2022
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.
Mahmoud NourElDin - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM Consultant at Vodafone
Dec 1, 2022
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.
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Apr 20, 2023
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.
reviewer2059929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project and Portfolio Management Governance and Support at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 23, 2022
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.
reviewer2027955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 18, 2022
They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky.
Attila Mozes - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at provalida GmbH
Apr 25, 2022
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.
Islam Bayraktar - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder and Director of Services at Continuous Software at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jun 11, 2024
The user experience of the product needs to be improved