Planview Daptiv Reviews

We primarily use the solution for tracking our projects. That includes tracking our projects holistically, and tracking time, general financials, and status reporting.

The most valuable aspect of the solution is probably just the project repository. It's a great place to keep our projects. 

The timekeeping features are great and very helpful.

The user interface needs a lot of work. If find that the UX/UI in general is pretty clunky. It could be much better.

I find the solution has an excessive amount of features. Many aren't even kept current. Some aren't useful at all. There's an overall lack of coherence within the solution. It can make the execution difficult. Many features can easily be eliminated and it would help streamline the solution. They should get rid of 80% of the features and then really focus on the leftover 20% to make it a really great product.

We have been using the solution since maybe the beginning of 2019. It's been almost two years or so.

The solution is pretty stable. I'd rate it four out of five. It's quite good. I can't recall any issues. I don't remember dealing with any glitches or bugs, and I can't recall it ever crashing on us.

You are able to scale the solution if you need to. I'd say it's pretty good in that regard.

We have about 190 users on the solution right now in our IT segment. It's mostly people doing timekeeping. We also have project managers and portfolio managers on the solution as well.

I've dealt with technical support in the past and so far I have to say I've always had a good experience. I'd rate them four out of five.

That said, new users need to be aware that they do tend to charge for their services once you ask for anything behind just a ticket.

I can't really speak to the initial setup. I don't know if it's complex or straightforward. I was hired as the company was finishing the implementation, so I missed the initial setup and full deployment.

Since it's a cloud solution, an SaaS, they tend to let us know when downtime will happen for maintenance. The solution handles the maintenance on their end.

The licensing is pretty complex. Each kind of user is a different price. It's approximately $300 per year. They charge additional fees for technical support and other additional services.

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with the product.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we are using. It's on the cloud, so it is probably the latest version of the solution.

I probably wouldn't advise someone else to go with Daptiv. I'd probably tell a company to go with a timekeeping app, or, if they're trying to do project tracking, there's probably a different SaaS project tracking app or solution that would be better.

Overall, I'd rate the solution four out of ten. There are other solutions that may be more suitable. This solution lacks a lot of UI and is overstuffed with too many features that daren't useful.

We use Changepoint to perform Multi-Project Management with more than 100 resources in different projects.

Changepoint gives us a view of the project status and needs very clearly, which are things that we used to miss with MS Project and Excel.

The most valuable feature is the reporting functionality.

This solution needs more standard connectors to other solutions i.e. to Infor ERP, Confluence, ...

I have been using Changepoint Daptiv for three years.

100% availabilty

Works fine and is usabl for companies

Works well

Prior to using Changepoint, we used Microsoft Project.

Straghtforward

In-house with little support

Hard to say, today we know much more about our projects health

Complete Daptiv Package was better

Clarity, MS PRoject

Reporting Engine

Changepoint is the application my firm uses for professional services time keeping, revenue account and projection, non-working time accounting and project management. Why? All employees record their time in this application, Changepoint allows us to accurately record and analyse all billable and non-billable time, determine resource demand for projects, analyse utilization factors and report on sales pipeline and revenue generation.

Consequently, it is the single point of truth for both our project managers and our senior leadership.

Over the past 3 years, we have enforced accurate and complete data entry at all levels. As a result, we are now able to report on ‘actual’ results through the entire business and project life-cycle and are now analyzing ‘predictive’ information to provide more accurate and complete information about future demand and revenue projections.

Accessing some functions is a bit obscure and requires some knowledge of how the product works, but the upgrade from v2012 to 2014 improved that situation and I expect the upcoming upgrade to 2017 to further streamline operations.
Did you encounter any issues with stability? None that I have encountered, though our implementation is ‘hosted’ rather than in-house.

3 years.

Not to this time. We have some very large projects (2000+ lines) that are running without issues.

Excellent. The online documentation is very complete and useful, particularly for functions that are not often used. The technical support personnel who provide us with error-correction and administrative requirements are knowledgeable and responsive. It is always a pleasure to deal with them.

Changepoint was in place when I arrived, though I have taken over System Administration and now perform all of these functions. It appears that the initial setup was probably pretty complex and I have altered some of the base settings as we have evolved the use of the product and the organization.

I am only marginally familiar with pricing and licensing as this product was already in place when I arrived.

I recommend it as a one-stop-shop for professional services.

Resource management is a valuable feature of this product.

The only marked improvement was in resource management. Changepoint allowed us to model resource request/assignment workflow in our large PS organization.

The timesheet app is outdated. Web portal functionality is lagging behind in other features.

I have used this solution for around 16 months, i.e., from November 2014 through March 2016.

I did not encounter any stability issues.

The technical support is good, but not great.

We switched solutions due to the corporate mandate. The previous solution that we were using was Projector PSA; it was overall a superior product.

The setup was complex. It took us around 18 months from start-to-finish.

Do not go with perpetual licensed solution!

As I mentioned earlier, it was a corporate mandate, so did not evaluate other options.

You should check on ownership situation. CP was in the middle of spinning out of Compuware when we implemented it. Thus, there were many questions about the future, new direction, etc.

The most valuable features are resource allocation and capacity planning.

The user interface is quirky and does not always conform to the expected Microsoft UI standards. Several areas of the product use Silverlight technology. This will be replaced in a future version of the product, but that is taking some time.

Here is an example of the user interface:

To change the value in a drop-down list box, you cannot simply click on the down arrow and choose a new value. You must use a backspace to clear the current value, then press enter to refresh the full list, and then choose the new value. And this is not consistent throughout the product. 

In some cases, the listbox works in this way, and in other places in the product, it does not.

We have been using this solution since 2013.

I don’t know any details about scalability. However, we have Changepoint deployed at a number of sites worldwide, with about 1,000 users.

I was not part of the negotiations. I do know that the licenses for people with project manager and other advanced permissions are more costly than for those who only enter time. We needed more people to have the project manager and additional permissions licenses than Changepoint initially estimated.

It is important to have a Changepoint expert/consultant to assist with the initial setup. You need to know a lot of details about how fields function so you will know how to choose the configuration settings.

1. Show all projects (demand) in their portfolio -- in-progress and backlog -- by organizational unit
2. Show how many hours they were spending by project vs. "keep the lights on" efforts and
3. Provide better estimates of when new projects potentially could be started by measuring resource allocation and capacity