OpenText Project and portfolio Management Reviews

Microsoft Project integration: Microsoft Project is, in my experience, the most used project planning tool. Companies will not change to another project planning tool. The integration is seamless and on different levels. The new file-based integration, without the need of having Microsoft Project even installed, is a huge advantage!

Financial management: The financial management is very extensive, complete and easy to use without too much configuration. Extensions to meet company needs can be done with virtually no limitation.

Resource management: The resource management module is very complete and covers most of the time all needs of customers.

Working for integrator, no personal approval. For customers: insight in the real values.

Portfolio scenarios: This is a very powerful feature. However, it’s limited to analyses. Once an optimal portfolio scenario is found, alterations need to be done manually in all effected objects (projects, initiatives, assets). There should be a functionality, including workflow capabilities for approval, to mass update the objects in the portfolio according to the defined scenario in the scenario comparison.

I have been using this for 2.5 years.

We have not encountered stability issues.

I rate support 7/10.

We did not have a previous solution.

Stops is complex and configuration is always needed. No out-of-the-box usage it possible.

It is SaaS without a base fee.

The demand, project and time management parts are the most valuable features. We can manage our demands very easily with HPE PPM's flexible infrastructure.

The staffing profiles and work-plan structures are very useful for capacity management. It is also user-friendly.

We have some roles at PMO, one of them is a program manager. We manage a lot of programs within the year and follow the steps in Excel files. Program management can be more functional, thus it improves program management.

Budget management could be provided. Reports can be enriched.

We have been using HPE PPM for nine years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scalability issues.

Optiim supports us for technical solutions. Our customer satisfaction is extremely high, our rating is 9 out of 10.

We used Excel before. We needed a structural tool to manage our projects, hence, we moved over to this solution.

Setup is straightforward.

It has a parametric infrastructure, which provides efficiency whilst managing projects and demands.

At the same time, HPE PPM's customization is also very easy, so time-saving is ensured.

Demand, project, and time management parts are most valuable. We can manage our demands very easily with PPM flexible infrastructure. Staffing profile and work plan structures are very useful for capacity management and are also user-friendly.

We have some roles at PMO. One of them is program manager. We manage a lot of programs within the year and follow the steps in Excel files. Program Management can be more functional to provide better program management.

Budget management could be provided. Reports can be enriched.

We have been using PPM for nine years.

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

We used Excel before. We needed a structural tool to manage our projects.

The setup was straightforward.

It has a parametrical infrastructure. This provides efficiency while managing the projects and demands. At the same time, PPM customization is very easy, so time-saving is ensured.

Scenario comparison is the feature most valuable to us and the reason why we decided to choose HPE PPM over other portfolio management products.

We are now more ready to consolidate and analyze our long term planning portfolio and understand our financial and resource levels before making investment decisions. We can also track time spent on the different projects.

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 development of this product has been done module by module. Demand module having a lot of attention while reality is that we use a lot of time, financial management and scenario analysis and these have remained unchanged since v.9.14, and all our submitted enhancement requests for these modules have been rejected.

For almost five years now, we implemented it back in Nov 2012 (v.9.14).

Yes, we did in the 9.14 and 9.23 versions, now we are more stable. However, we still have problems from time to time. PPM requires a lot of infrastructure resources.

No.

PPM support maintenance services we have been contracted in Spain and are responding well. We are rating this service level as very good.

However, there is a poor level of technical support from the labs and 1st level technical support. This means that we are waiting for months in order to fix some non-critical issues. A couple of years ago, we had critical issues during the Chinese New Year and we had to wait several weeks for a solution.

No. We used internal Excel files with macros.

It was complex as PPM was rigid and could not be adapted to our environment. We are in a EUR/USD environment meaning half of our spend in the same project is in EUR and the other half may be in USD.

Additionally, it was sold to us as a multi currency tool, while this was not true, as financial summaries did not support multiple currencies for the same project.

HPE sold the tool as real multi currency and it was only after the purchase that we found out this was not the case.

As a result, we had to build our own solution/customization to work in multiple currencies and we had to pay a significant extra cost, a cost that was totally unexpected for us.

Poor management of licensing through a third party. With our first purchase, we were sold and paid for licenses we could not use, due to poor configuration of quotation. We had to deal with two different third parties.

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.

Yes, we used a benchmark study and evaluated different options.

One of the main constraints was that HPE and HPI were the same company back then when we implemented. This was definitely one of the factors that made us choose HPE PPM over the other products (the plus functionality I described earlier).

Be ready to have a lot of complaints from the end users in terms of usability and not a high level of responsiveness from technical support and R&D. Do not expect R&D to develop on your enhancement requests.

Demand, project and time management parts of the tool are the most valuable. We can manage our demands very easily with the PPM flexible infrastructure. The staffing profile and work plan structures are very useful for capacity management, and they are also user-friendly.

We have some roles at the PMO. One of them is as a program manager. We manage a lot of programs within the year and follow the steps in Excel files. Program management can be more functional in order to better program management, which is what the tool does.

• Budget management could be provided.
• Reports could be enriched.

We have been using PPM for nine years.

No.

No.

Optiim, our vendor, supports us for technical solutions. Thus, our customer satisfaction is extremely high. Our rating is a nine out of 10.

We used to use Excel before. We needed a structural tool to manage our projects.

It is straightforward.

Not applicable.

It should have been evaluated. We don’t know before.

It has a parametric infrastructure. This provides efficiency while managing the projects and demands. At the same time, PPM customization is very easy to use, so saving time is ensured.

Project management, time and resource management, demand management, and workflow automation.

These are the most critical and important modules that can make the PPM usage successful.

These are connected to each other. If want to do PPM, you can not say 'I will not manage demands', nor can you say 'I will not do resource management, etc.'

These modules are the base for a successful PPM usage. If you use these modules properly (with industry best practices), you will get the most out of it.

We gained analytics about where the bottlenecks are, increased accurate decision making, and it provides us with several "versus" visibility.

Portfolio management, hybrid project management, top-down budget and resource planning, application portfolio management.

Eight years.

Sometimes, yes. Especially in a Windows environment.

Sometimes, yes. That might depend on the Windows environment.

They can take to the result which is expected from them.

No.

Straightforward, because we decided to align with best practices.

Power license must be divided. Administration and project management shouldn't be in the same package.

CA Clarity, IBM, and Microsoft. Did not evaluate Planview that time.

Keep it simple, of course. Apply phased or sprint based approach. Not Big Bang.

Demand, Dashboard, and Reporting. These are the most powerful modules for our customers

Our customers mostly use the above mentioned modules. Visibility, standard processes, faster development, and much less time spent for reporting

Project and Portfolio.

We have used this since 2007.

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

We are somewhat satisfied with tech support.

We were not using a previous solution. Our customers were facing issues, such as hard to implement changes in old tools, no info, slow development, and no resource management. Some customers had Excel. PPM solved these issues.

It depends on customers' expectations. Some customers wanted a complex process for the start and some started with easier processes.

Our biggest competitors are MS Project Server, CA Clarity, and JIRA.

It is easy to perform changes (workflow/process). Even the customer can easily administer and develop it.

Demand Management and reporting are the most valuable features.

There is a need to improve the following modules:

• Project Management
• Program Management
• Portfolio Management
• Financial Management
• Time Management
• Resource Management

We are HPE PPM implementors since the year 2007.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scalability issues.

It takes longer but we always get help from the technical support.

Our customer was using another product. The older Demand Management tool was hard to develop and not so flexible so we switched over to this product.

The HPE PPM license prices are a bit high. HPE PPM does not support agile management. HPE ALM Octane, that supports agile projects, costs are extremely high.