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OpenText Project and portfolio Management vs Planview PPM Pro comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.5
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management customer service is satisfactory, with mixed feedback on responsiveness and technical support experiences.
Sentiment score
8.8
Planview PPM Pro's customer service is generally helpful, but experiences vary with responsiveness, offshore support, and complex issue resolution.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.7
OpenText PPM needs improvements in integration, UI, security, resource management, API functionality, and enhanced communication features.
Sentiment score
5.0
Planview PPM Pro requires improvements in reporting, integration, interface, resource management, and lacks efficient "What If" planning capabilities.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management is scalable and flexible, supporting growth but with evolving tool integration and occasional slowness.
Sentiment score
6.9
Planview PPM Pro offers scalability, effective mostly for SMEs, but faces challenges with large organizations and real-time global usage.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
OpenText Project Management is valuable but costly, especially for SMEs, with user-based licensing and separate support costs.
Sentiment score
4.9
Planview PPM Pro's flexible licensing offers value for large organizations, though costs can be high for smaller entities.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
OpenText Project Management shows mixed stability: generally robust, but newer versions and upgrades can cause performance issues.
Sentiment score
7.9
Planview PPM Pro is stable but faces occasional update disruptions, with most users praising its reliability and customer support.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.4
OpenText PPM excels in user-friendly interface, real-time visibility, integration, resource management, and supports efficient decision-making and business alignment.
Sentiment score
8.4
Planview PPM Pro excels in reporting, customization, integration, and resource management, enhancing visibility, planning, and decision-making capabilities.
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Project and portfo...
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Planview PPM Pro
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of OpenText Project and portfolio Management is 2.3%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 7.2%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Portfolio Management
 

Featured Reviews

Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful for resource and financial management but needs to change Oracle database
The solution helps with tech management. It has a work plan similar to Microsoft Project for tracking progress anywhere. It can synchronize with Microsoft Projects for updating and rebooting tasks. They can also assign tasks to team members who can update progress using timesheets without a sheet. It includes a Project dashboard for managing multiple projects simultaneously and program management for overseeing groups of projects. It offers various data metrics. It has project entities for controlling risks, issues, and protections. It can calculate costs based on resource tasks and compare actual and planned costs. The tool has features for scenario comparison, allowing us to optimize scenarios based on various factors. Additionally, we can manually optimize by managing resource availability, creating staffing profiles, and making payments to optimize in any situation.
Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Notifications of approaching project deadlines help us plan and also avoid delays
Scenario planning is the most important feature. You can easily align strategic management and the portfolios within your organization. It helps you visualize all your strategic plans and the KPIs. It provides that information on a unified dashboard, in which you can track all your resources and the portfolios. It helps senior stakeholders and executives with clear reporting about project intake and demands, in real time. It also has some built-in, reusable templates and you can modify them according to your requirements. You can also create templates and workflows from scratch, so that you can plan things accordingly. The team collaboration is nice compared to other tools. You just add your team members, provide them access and, according to the user's level, they are able to use the application. For example, when we create a new project, we create work streams, timelines, and the sub-tasks. Then we have to think about how many team members are required—the skills of the developers, testers, QA teams, consultants, and marketing. We add those team members to that project and provide them access to their tasks so that we can track their progress in the real time. That really helps us. We might have 35 to 40 team members in different locations using this product simultaneously. In addition, the task management features are useful when you have timelines for project completion and for progress. It shows you any gaps or timelines that you have breached. Task management is very useful, and that would be true in any project management tool. Another helpful feature, because we define timelines in the grant chart for each project, is the time tracking. It is very crucial for us to complete a project on time and meet the deadlines for our clients. The way PPM Pro tackles these is great. It provides a notification to us when a timeline or a sub-task within it is approaching the deadline. Integration with PPM Pro is fine. It provides APIs and the integration mechanism for third-party tools and applications, like Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project. We have only integrated it with Microsoft Excel because we generally capture the requirements and the timelines offline. Because the solution doesn't work offline, in situations where the internet is not available, or we are on-the-go with a client, we capture the requirements in Excel. The integration means we get the data from Excel into PPM Pro.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
35%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Any experience with Strategic Project Portfolio Management Solutions?
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What do you like most about Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)?
Micro Focus PPM is flexible and easy to use. It's simple to customize and configure workflows.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)?
A yearly subscription needs to be procured for the SaaS version of the product, and the on-prem version is available through perpetual licensing. There is an additional cost for product support, wh...
What do you like most about Planview PPM Pro?
The product's deployment is straightforward.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Planview PPM Pro?
Licensing costs are competitive enough. The price is reasonable given that the solution is geared towards large companies.
What needs improvement with Planview PPM Pro?
The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well.
 

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Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), HPE Project and Portfolio Management, HPE PPM
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Sample Customers

Bank Simpanan Nasional, Smart Communications, Aareon AG
The Weather Channel, corcs, Crayola, Scan Health Plan, Vermont, Bank of the West, North West Company, University of Southern Mississippi, Jeffries, Purdue University, Chesterfield County Virginia, City of Memphis
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