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Planview Portfolios pros and cons

Vendor: Planview
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PROS

Planview Portfolios integrates strategy and execution across investments, providing a single source of truth for faster, reliable decision-making.
The integration capabilities allow seamless management of projects, such as between Projectplace and Planview, ensuring tasks and resources remain up-to-date.
Valuable features include resource management, financial planning, and custom reporting, enabling organizations to forecast accurately and understand expenses.
Planview Portfolios enhances visibility and transparency, connecting global teams and standardizing project reporting and management practices.
The platform's end-to-end work management capabilities have significantly improved research and development processes, better aligning project metrics with strategic outcomes.

CONS

Planview Portfolios could improve by incorporating agile interfacing and methods like other leading PPM tools.
The reporting module in Planview Portfolios needs more flexibility to allow easy switching between data representations.
Technical support at Planview Portfolios is overworked and response times need improvement.
There are significant issues with integration and the stability and reliability of integrations in Planview Portfolios need enhancement.
Planview Portfolios is not end-user-friendly, which hinders adoption and creates challenges for project managers.
 

Planview Portfolios Pros review quotes

it_user661212 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 9, 2017
The overall interface is very easy to use. It puts together strategy and execution across all your investments.
it_user808140 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect with 10,001+ employees
Jan 25, 2018
The portfolio and technology management are well built.
NM
Sr Information Technology Supervisor at Solar Turbines
Oct 15, 2019
We do a lot of big projects which are pretty expensive to structure the product development around and see the progress. Every time we start a project, we have to expense the spends for certain amounts. We need some baselines, like predictive versus actual.
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BH
R&D Project Management Coach at Johnsonville Sausage
Oct 15, 2019
We've brought our portfolio altogether. We have had multiple ways of reporting out what our portfolio is, whether it's in Excel, Word, or in different places. We brought all of our projects together in one place. That has worked out well for us. We've been able to manage the work on Gantt charts and our resources better. The big thing for us on research and development is around managing people's time, on which projects they are working on, and how much effort does it take to launch our projects.
reviewer1208481 - PeerSpot reviewer
Report Architect/Developer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 15, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting.
SL
Senior Engineer at Northwestern Mutual
Oct 15, 2019
The biggest impact has been the visibility into our IT assets.
HV
Program Manager at Citizens Bank
Oct 15, 2019
We have a fairly good picture of time tracking.
JC
Director of Operations at UK Santander Technology
Oct 15, 2019
Our transparency is increasing a lot. It is helping us to get people together. There are no dark rooms anymore. In some areas or concepts, we want to add more light to every single concept. That's the big impact that the tool is having. It allows conversations between people.
it_user1208505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Qualcomm Incorporated
Aug 27, 2020
The most valuable feature of this solution is the completeness of the standard, underlying metamodel.
reviewer1208508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 15, 2019
The most valuable feature for me is the ease and customizability of reporting.
 

Planview Portfolios Cons review quotes

it_user661212 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 9, 2017
It would be great to see Planview incorporate agile interfacing/methods in it. Like CA Clarity and other leading PPM tools – Planview should enhance or develop the interfaces to ingrate with other market leading Agile tools.
it_user808140 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect with 10,001+ employees
Jan 25, 2018
Visualization and reporting areas could use improvements by having canned reports.
NM
Sr Information Technology Supervisor at Solar Turbines
Oct 15, 2019
The technical people are very competent, but there is so much turnover in the people that we talk to, and that's frustrating. They will say, "We can make this work." Suddenly, that guy has left, and we have no one. Then, we have to start all over.
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BH
R&D Project Management Coach at Johnsonville Sausage
Oct 15, 2019
Recently, we have gotten on a newer version. We're currently on version 15. Some of the things that we've been running into roadblocks on, it looks like the solutions will be coming out in versions 17 or 18. So, we have to upgrade before somethings can get completed.
reviewer1208481 - PeerSpot reviewer
Report Architect/Developer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 15, 2019
Some of the out-of-the-box reporting is not immediately useful and although it can be configured or customized, there are still improvements that can be made.
SL
Senior Engineer at Northwestern Mutual
Oct 15, 2019
Support is still a challenge. We find it challenging more due to the responsiveness and getting a case or ticket assigned to an analyst. That's what I was just doing. I was following up on an email that we opened last week. We haven't heard anything, so following up on that.
HV
Program Manager at Citizens Bank
Oct 15, 2019
There's still a lot of reluctance within the organization. We're not using all of the capabilities that we have today. We're still doing our strategic and capital investment planning on spreadsheets rather than using the capabilities that exist within Enterprise One. I definitely need to leverage the experts here at Planview to help drive a culture change. There's just a lot of reluctance on behalf of people within the company to put data into the tool.
JC
Director of Operations at UK Santander Technology
Oct 15, 2019
It could do with a quicker response time for some reports or portfolios.
it_user1208505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Qualcomm Incorporated
Aug 27, 2020
Configuring the UI in the content management system is too elaborate and too time-consuming.
reviewer1208508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 15, 2019
I would like to be able to integrate with Oracle to supplement what we're currently doing with reporting.