Microsoft Project Server vs OpenText Project and portfolio Management comparison

"Technical support is good."

"It's fine to navigate for a layperson."

"Deliverables List: Most useful to enable meaningful status reporting at an enterprise level."

"The solution, overall, is excellent for project planning."

"It is well-established, reliable, and compatible."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the tool's reporting is very good."

"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."

"SharePoint site integration"

"Overall, they have a very strong workflow management capability. That's a very strong feature because then you can model any process easily. Whether it is a demand management process, a pipeline management process, or your project delivery methodology, it is much easier because of their workflow management capability."

"The data provided by PPM is trusted and is available almost immediately; without trusted data there is very less scope of any tool to be successful."

"There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management."

"It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on."

"Has a powerful workflow engine that allows creation of workflow complexities and processes."

"I like the automated calculations, especially on the resource side. When project managers enter their resource requirements into their staffing profiles, they are automatically translated into labor forecast calculations. PPM automates a significant portion of the forecast calculations. Timesheets are also built-in. We automatically process time sheets and bill them accordingly."

"Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine."

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

"There need to be more tutorials available to users."

"I'd like it if we could divide out the project calendars. On one project server, we might follow five projects or more at one time, and we'd like to see all of the items at once so that it becomes a long loop, but one where we can identify different projects in tandem and then focus on which we need to at the time. While I only have visibility into one, I'd like to see several at a time."

"It has to be more user-friendly. For instance, there should be some assistance, like when you go to certain sites, people pop up and say, "Can we help you? What are you looking for?" It's not interactive enough."

"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."

"The reporting aspects can be improved, which is one of the reasons why I'm using Qlik Sense. In the older on-prem versions, reporting was lackluster, to say the least. Project Online has a better handle on that. However, we will still be using Qlik Sense. We're also looking at an add-on app from a company called OnePlan that adds some additional functionality where Microsoft is not as clean in its approach for things such as portfolio management and some of the trends analysis."

"It is not updated in real-time. Sometimes it, therefore, is not accurate."

"This is a good product but we have struggled with stability from time to time. The service has stopped intermittently and it has been difficult to find a reason why."

"They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky."

"Micro Focus PPM should be less dependent on coding. It could also benefit from some updates to the software architecture. These have been on the roadmap for years now, but they haven't been released."

"There are some limitations when it comes to attaching receipts. For example, if we are going to buy some non-labor-related assets such as hardware, we are not able to attach the receipts in the Financial Management module in version 9.41."

"Currently, HPE PPM does not allow “Project” approval, but only simple “Demand Request” approval (mobility)."

"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."

"Sometimes features in PPM don't work as expected, or our users request a new feature. Typically, our partner vendor can deploy those changes. But there have been a few instances when we had to raise it with Micro Focus because it's beyond the ability of our partner vendor. When we raise the issue with Micro Focus, it sometimes takes time because it needs support from other customers using PPM, not just our bank. It goes through a voting system. Other customers need to vote for the feature. The features that get the most votes will possibly be added."

"Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc."

"The user interface is very, very old and is missing some functions, such as, for example, re-do, follow, and share functions. The UI is not good."

"I rate the pricing a one out of ten because the price is way too high."

"Microsoft Project Server is relatively cheaper than other products."

"It's not subscription-based, we purchased the on-premises version."

"I think they need more flexibility with licensing, because there are preconceived ideas that don't allow as much flexibility with the various licenses."

"The price of the Microsoft Project Server could improve, it is expensive here in Africa. When comparing Microsoft Project Server to Oracle Primavera for us, Microsoft Project Server is quite cost-effective."

"The technical assistance is expensive but the solution is an open source software."

"The licensing was procured before my involvement."

"I'm not quite sure about the licensing costs. We're probably paying somewhere in the neighborhood of about 80,000 to 90,000 a year for our current on-prem because we handle our own licensing. As far as Project Online is concerned, we're still trying to get a good handle on that. It looks like it is going to be in a neighborhood of about 120,000 to 150,000 a year, but we're getting a lot more capability out of it."

"A large organization will find Micro Focus PPM affordable, but it may be a bit costly for a small or medium-sized company. The license is based on the number of users."

"Support and license management are two hurdles for us. Every time we purchase new licenses, it has taken us half a year to implement those."

"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."

"We have an annual license, and it is fairly priced in comparison to that of other solutions."

"It is SaaS without a base fee."

"HPE PPM SaaS model is comprehensive, however, the base fee component has customer resistance to its recurring setup,"