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Planview PPM Pro pros and cons

Vendor: Planview

3.9 out of 5

34 reviews
89% willing to recommend

725 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Planview PPM Pro enhances project planning with time tracking and reporting, offering flexibility for custom fields and tailored IT reports. It supports strategic decision-making while allowing reusable project templates. Despite its strengths in integration, particularly with ConnectWise, challenges exist in setup, third-party integrations, and resource management efficiency. Reporting and dashboards need improvement to enhance visibility, and connecting outcomes with execution remains difficult, impacting project management effectiveness.

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PROS

Planview PPM Pro provides strong time tracking, portfolio management, and what-if analysis features that enhance visibility into project planning, resource capacity, and demand planning.

Planview PPM Pro is highly configurable and flexible, allowing users to customize fields, design screens, and develop reports and dashboards tailored to their needs, particularly benefiting senior IT management.

Planview PPM Pro supports the integration with ConnectWise and other IT services tools, facilitating significant improvements in resource utilization and project status visibility with clients.

Planview PPM Pro is effective for portfolio management by providing insights at the portfolio level about project statuses and facilitating stage-gate management.

Planview PPM Pro enhances decision-making capabilities by providing essential data for managing requests, estimating team efforts, and balancing demand versus capacity.

CONS

Initial setup is complex with a need for more out-of-the-box templates and easier project creation.

Integration with existing financial reporting systems and tools like Azure DevOps and Jira requires significant improvement, including reducing associated costs.

Reporting and dashboards need enhancements for better visibility and usability, including scheduling and improved data handling features.

Calculated field functionality and the ability to handle complex calculations are limited, leading to external processing of data.

Training documentation lacks clarity for non-technical users, necessitating improvement in comprehensibility of the material.

Planview PPM Pro Pros review quotes

SB

PMO Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 27, 2020

PPM Pro has improved my organization through standardization. The big thing for us is that we came from a very immature state of play. Everyone had their own risk and issue management capabilities and their own different impacts for risks. We've been able to standardize that within the program delivery arena. That for us has been a major thing. We're all speaking the same language about the same things and using the same metrics in order to capture statuses.

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Susan Breckenridge

Global IT PMO Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 21, 2020

The dashboards are one of the most valuable aspects of this solution, although, we've only developed a few that anyone's using. There is more maturity there and, of course, we're a month and a half into this, but getting our executive leadership to see these things is half the battle. I think dashboards are going to be critical.

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Sabrina D'Aurora

Business Analyst II at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 23, 2021

The solution is great for viewing projects and timelines.

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JA

Client Support and Portfolio Management at British Columbia Lottery Corp

Oct 26, 2021

It is certainly the resource management feature that is most valuable for us. It is the supply and demand. Like most companies, one of the hardest nuts to crack is understanding where your people are and getting them to do the right thing at the right time. So, certainly, out of all the functionality, this has been the saving grace for us because it now provides us with the insight to do future planning and stop taking on more work than we are physically capable of doing as a company.

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reviewer1427235

Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2020

The timesheet & staffing management function gives us clarity in terms of how capacity planning has to happen and how much actual effort is going into the programs. The risk and project status information gets captured in the project gives more clarity for stakeholders to understand how the programs are running. We have only explored a portion of the application features so far.

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Kimberly Gibney

Solutions Development Manager at Wake County

Sep 23, 2020

Just about everything about the solution is valuable. I can't pinpoint one specific thing. The tool has helped us mature as an agency, has taught us to collect better data and the benefits of having good data.

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EG

AVP at LPL Financial Holdings Inc.

Sep 16, 2020

The Warm screen, even though we're not going to the deep levels and deep details of all the projects and trying to assign resources at the lowest level, it gives us a quick visual of what resources are being worked on, what projects, and on what activities they're working on. At least at a very high level, because we're not using all the assignment components to the fullest detail, but at least with what Planview gives us as a tool and how we're leveraging it, it gives us that quick view of who's working on what project and who's booking time to what project at any given time or any given a week.

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reviewer1421352

Director of IT Application Development at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 16, 2020

PPM Pro has enabled us to set up and run a project priority committee (PPC) within the organization. Without the PPM Pro tool, we wouldn't be able to have the project information, updates, and project listings in the pipeline to be able to run the meeting efficiently, give information prior to the meeting, and also run the meeting when we meet on either monthly or on a bi-monthly basis.

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reviewer1423515

Director IT Strategic Initiatives and PMO at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 21, 2020

The solution's time-tracking abilities are one of the strong points. The only challenge is enabling it to the minute-level task. It's not at a project level but it's at an organization level. If I want it to be at a higher level as compared to some of the other projects where I want it to go to the nth level of a task for the time reporting, I cannot control it at a project level but it's controllable at an organization level. That's the only big challenge that I have.

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SS

Developer at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Sep 21, 2020

PPM Pro absolutely enables us to create reusable project templates that reflect our project management lifecycle. We had a good customer session on this, where a team utilizes portfolio management and project management of the tool very intensively. We follow all of the templates but having said that, we have so many divisions and we have so many users and project managers utilizing the tools. They have a different bunch of templates. We're not just following one or two templates. We have a number of templates that the teams are using.

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Planview PPM Pro Cons review quotes

SB

PMO Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 27, 2020

Reporting and dashboards need improvement. They've got the new beta coming out now and I've been playing around with that in our sandbox environment.

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Susan Breckenridge

Global IT PMO Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 21, 2020

From a usability standpoint, the part where there are people on the tasks section on a team is a little challenging. Then for some reason, the in-demand reports are embedded in the resource section and to run them is just completely different and separate from the reports entity which is a lot.

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Sabrina D'Aurora

Business Analyst II at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 23, 2021

The downside to the way the solution tracks time is if your project manager doesn't add you to the project, you won't see it on your timesheet, even if you did do work.

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JA

Client Support and Portfolio Management at British Columbia Lottery Corp

Oct 26, 2021

The agile functionality can be improved. The tool was definitely built around the waterfall PMBOK PRINCE2 methodology, and although there are great functions within the tool for agile, it is often compared to dedicated tools like LeanKit or Jira. At the moment, the only integration we would have is to Jira itself, not to another Planview product. I believe that's coming in 2022 at some point.

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reviewer1427235

Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2020

The calculated field area needs improvement. There are a lot of formulas and functions available to make a calculated field, but it is still not comprehensive. We process the data to represent it through a report or dashboard. Due to the current constraints, for complex calculations, we do the data processing outside PPM Pro.

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KG

Kimberly Gibney

Solutions Development Manager at Wake County

Sep 23, 2020

Integrations need improvement. We have the ability now with the FLEX licensing to take advantage of the different applications. But if you want them integrated there's a really large cost associated with that. The integration should be included in the cost per license. We shouldn't have to pay these really high fees to get the systems to talk together.

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EG

AVP at LPL Financial Holdings Inc.

Sep 16, 2020

Based on my experience, the financial management screens have gone a long way, but I think there's still some room for improvement in terms of how you model them and the different version controls.

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reviewer1421352

Director of IT Application Development at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 16, 2020

The reporting has some areas for improvement. It is not always as simple as we would like to get the reports we want or the information that we want.

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reviewer1423515

Director IT Strategic Initiatives and PMO at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 21, 2020

The integration with some of these other tools that we use, like the Azure DevOps needs improvement. I heard there are few things coming within Planview or PPM Pro itself, but I think it's still future dated. These integrations are key for us from an organizational perspective.

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SS

Developer at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Sep 21, 2020

I think PPM Pro is going to release a resource self-service admin which is going to duplicate the standard groups. I think that will help us a lot because right now a standard group has their own permission and we don't know what permission is getting out to the users. After the resource self-service admin will be in place, I think we will be in a much better position in terms of the formation profile.

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