Planview Portfolios Reviews

Name: Planview Portfolios
Brand: Planview
Rating: 4 (63 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

63 reviews
90% willing to recommend

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What is Planview Portfolios?

Planview Portfolios enables enterprises to accelerate strategic execution by integrating business and technology planning, optimizing all resources, and delivering breakthrough products, services, and customer experiences to achieve maximum business performance.

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Planview Portfolios is the #8 ranked solution in top Project Portfolio Management solutions and #13 ranked solution in top Enterprise Architecture Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Planview Portfolios an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Planview Portfolios is most commonly compared to Jira: Planview Portfolios vs Jira. Planview Portfolios is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 14% of all views.

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Featured reviews

EduardoMaya

Project Office Manager at Hoteles City Express

We work as an internal support factory and use Planview Portfolios to manage our projects and develop software. And we are trying to migrate to agile functionality. We used the software for booking reservations in hotels The benefit of Planview is that you can manage all the features…

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Bobby Ozuna

Planview Portfolio Support Analyst at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

The issue we had was during a test case and had to do with Enterprise One linking to third-party apps. For Enterprise One, for what it's supposed to do, I don't have a problem with it as a PM. It does what I need it to do and the issue doesn’t necessarily impact traditional project management. You can manage budget, time, and resources - the three key pillars of project management - and IT can all be managed within the tool, Enterprise One. For the more granular visibility that people expect, there are always third-party applications, like LeanKit. That gives you that more granular picture for managing the work, however, that doesn't necessarily take away from the scope of what project management is in Enterprise One.

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Raghavender Benkal

PM Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've been encouraging our users to manage their schedules directly in the Work and Assignments module. So far, it has been good, but we've been in conversation with the vendor product team to improve the performance of the Work and Assignments module. Right now, it is a bit slower. 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. It provides flexibility for configuring assignments, but one of the things about which we've been talking to Planview is related to certain resources that are associated with a project. When the project extends, their demand also equally goes up. There are also resources where if a particular task has to crash, it may need additional effort. So, it is between the fixed effort versus fixed duration. Planview is more duration-based. For example, if you crash a task, the system rightly thinks that you're crashing the task, and you need to finish the work by doing overtime or working additional hours. If you are taking 30 hours to finish a task in three weeks, and for whatever reason, you have to crash the task into two weeks, 30 hours need to be fulfilled within those two weeks. If the task moves to four weeks, instead of three weeks, you still have 30 hours that get distributed among four weeks, so you will be able to finish the task. That makes sense for those resources that are associated with the task, but there are certain resources, such as a project manager or project administrator, for whom when a project extends, the demand also equally goes up. So, if somebody is assigned 50% for a project, and assuming that the project is moving out by a month or two or three months, the effort shouldn't go down. Currently, the allocation goes down, and our resource managers have to go and update the effort back up to 50% or whatever the demand is. We are interacting with Planview to provide a solution. Right now, we have to go and update the additional demand because of the change in the project.

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Planview Portfolios mindshare

Product category:

As of July 2024, the mindshare of Planview Portfolios in the Project Portfolio Management category stands at 7.1%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Portfolio Management

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"Planview Management integrates seamlessly with other tools and systems used within the organization, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and collaboration platforms."
"The Kanban board has really helped us be more agile and we can keep track of everything that is ongoing."
"In my opinion, the financial planning feature is the most valuable feature of Planview Enterprise One."

Room for Improvement

"While Planview Management provides robust reporting and analytics capabilities, further enhancements could include more advanced data visualization options, predictive analytics features, and customizable dashboards to provide deeper insights into project performance and trends."
"The solution needs to be better at accepting new ideas for upcoming releases."
"The reporting is absolutely shocking. It's not good reporting and requires improvement."

Pricing

"When we went through that process, I believe it is competitive with others on the market. However, there are less expensive options available. It's a more premium offering at a higher price."
"I don't know about the actual pricing. I have not come across any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"Planview is a little pricey. From a licensing perspective, for just a simple timesheet user who does nothing in the system but reports time, the licensing is a little pricey, but you have to look at it from what it is that you get.We have 6,000 users, and I don't manage the system at all. I just have to do add them to the system. The servers, maintenance, OS levels, security patching for the OS, and all other things are not something that we maintain. So, you have to look at it from an operational perspective. It is not just the product itself. A holistic view has to be taken when you look at the product and how you're going to support it. I would have to hire an entire operation staff to bring it in-house, and at the end of the day, that might cost me more."

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