Director BPM at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-11-16T06:02:00Z
Nov 16, 2023
My recommendation depends on the business requirement. If the business is more towards a PPM solution and doesn’t have too much involvement in financials. They can use Broadcom Clarity. If they want to use financial and have rate cards and everything in the system, billing, and cost rates, they can use Planview AdaptiveWork. The rest of the modules are almost the same in both solutions. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I would rate Clarizen eight out of 10. They've been a key partner for us. It's a tool that we've used for several years, and our partnership with them has grown since it was introduced seven years ago to Dell. In the beginning, Clarizen was only used by 40 people on a creative design team, and now there are somewhere around 300 to 400 active users. We have two instances within Dell, and we're also talking about merging into a combined instance. So we're invested in Clarizen and still moving forward. It's a big part of our marketing plans. To anyone who is thinking about implementing this solution, I would suggest that you nail down what your expectations are and think long-term versus what your current pain points are. Everyone wants to fix everything as quickly as possible but look at the long-term. If you're planning two, three years down the line, are you going to have to reconfigure the tool every year? You need to set it up to have lots of flexibility when you're planning for each fiscal year. Is there going to be a taxonomy or a setup that is flexible enough where you can kind of shift everything to the next fiscal year, or do you have to undo and redo everything? Think that through. One thing that I learned when trying to scale Clarizen is that it's good to be flexible, but at the same time, we still have to come to an agreement in terms of taxonomy. We want to customize it, but there's only so much configuration that you should be doing, and it's worthwhile. We need to understand that. We can use the tool in many different ways, but piling on additional workflow rules and configuration makes it more complicated. You don't have to keep on customizing just because you can. You have to question how much benefit you're getting from customization versus just using the tool out of the box. Maybe it's best to amend our processes so that they fit how the tool already works.
Information Technology Service Delivery Consultant | Senior Project Program Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Consultant
2021-03-02T11:17:21Z
Mar 2, 2021
I think Clarizen is a nice product if you're looking for a portfolio and project management solution outside of the IT space. But you need to be aware that they are a leader in this area, and you experience that in their support. On a scale from one to ten, I would give Clarizen a seven.
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My recommendation depends on the business requirement. If the business is more towards a PPM solution and doesn’t have too much involvement in financials. They can use Broadcom Clarity. If they want to use financial and have rate cards and everything in the system, billing, and cost rates, they can use Planview AdaptiveWork. The rest of the modules are almost the same in both solutions. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I would rate Clarizen eight out of 10. They've been a key partner for us. It's a tool that we've used for several years, and our partnership with them has grown since it was introduced seven years ago to Dell. In the beginning, Clarizen was only used by 40 people on a creative design team, and now there are somewhere around 300 to 400 active users. We have two instances within Dell, and we're also talking about merging into a combined instance. So we're invested in Clarizen and still moving forward. It's a big part of our marketing plans. To anyone who is thinking about implementing this solution, I would suggest that you nail down what your expectations are and think long-term versus what your current pain points are. Everyone wants to fix everything as quickly as possible but look at the long-term. If you're planning two, three years down the line, are you going to have to reconfigure the tool every year? You need to set it up to have lots of flexibility when you're planning for each fiscal year. Is there going to be a taxonomy or a setup that is flexible enough where you can kind of shift everything to the next fiscal year, or do you have to undo and redo everything? Think that through. One thing that I learned when trying to scale Clarizen is that it's good to be flexible, but at the same time, we still have to come to an agreement in terms of taxonomy. We want to customize it, but there's only so much configuration that you should be doing, and it's worthwhile. We need to understand that. We can use the tool in many different ways, but piling on additional workflow rules and configuration makes it more complicated. You don't have to keep on customizing just because you can. You have to question how much benefit you're getting from customization versus just using the tool out of the box. Maybe it's best to amend our processes so that they fit how the tool already works.
I think Clarizen is a nice product if you're looking for a portfolio and project management solution outside of the IT space. But you need to be aware that they are a leader in this area, and you experience that in their support. On a scale from one to ten, I would give Clarizen a seven.