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Planview ProjectPlace pros and cons

Vendor: Planview
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

Planview ProjectPlace excels in promoting real-time collaboration and significantly affects project progress positively by shortening cycle times.
It supports examination of project priorities and time tracking through its portfolio access, enhancing strategic project management.
Integration with tools like DocuSign and connection to Enterprise One boosts its usefulness for capital portfolio management.
Planview ProjectPlace facilitates excellent document sharing capabilities and tracks the history of changes in documents effectively.
It integrates effectively with resource management, allowing users to commit and reserve resources efficiently.

CONS

Reporting capabilities need improvement with more data accessibility and user-friendliness.
Time reporting has issues, specifically the inability to adjust column fields, which limits description visibility.
There is a lack of integration between Projectplace and Enterprise One, with inadequate reflection of changes between products.
The mobile app could be enhanced to provide more information.
Planview Projectplace is not efficient for resource management and workload planning, needing improvements in these functionalities.
 

Planview ProjectPlace Pros review quotes

reviewer1421991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 17, 2020
I love the collaborative nature just from my role to help. I'm a strategist. I help manage those large strategic projects. Implementation is one significant piece of my role, but I love the collaboration that can exist within the tool.
reviewer1423518 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 21, 2020
The workspace ease, navigation, and portfolios are the most valuable aspects of this solution. I just got access to the portfolios from my upper management, so I'm able to look at our specific SRE portfolio to see what's a priority, look at how many hours we've tracked, and things like that. I'm not so much included in the budgeting but it's important to see what projects are higher priority and so forth.
PN
Sep 21, 2020
Projectplace absolutely supports collaboration in real-time. It's probably one of the best tools out there for collaboration. It affects the project's progress quite a bit. I have started two very similar projects in two separate business units, on very similar teams. I did one with Enterprise One, I did one with Projectplace just to see how the mileage would vary. The one with Projectplace had a very short cycle time so we were able to finish the project earlier. The one with Enterprise One was less engaging and it took a little more time. Because we were tracking the tasks inside the schedule it was not on the cards.
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reviewer1851348 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2022
The most useful features of Planview are its integration with resource management and the ability to commit and reserve various resources.
NipunSri - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 25, 2022
Right from the initial steps, we found this product easy to use.
GS
May 17, 2022
Planview Projectplace is a really good solution for document sharing and keeping track of the history of changes in the document. I also like that you can have everything you need for a project in one place, for example, for documentation, planning, and even resource planning.
reviewer1715826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2021
Clarizen's slide publisher is one of my favorite features.
Eduardo Maya - PeerSpot reviewer
May 19, 2022
It is a complete solution. It is very useful for the management of our internal processes.
reviewer1485132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 1, 2021
Projectplace has excellent collaboration features, including some nice kanban boards. We use DocuSign, and Planview just integrated it into Projectplace, so that was helpful. And I like the fact that it links to Enterprise One, the other Planview tool that we use to manage our capital portfolio.
 

Planview ProjectPlace Cons review quotes

reviewer1421991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 17, 2020
The reporting end of it needs improvement. There should be more reporting, more data at your fingertips. It should be easier and a little more user-friendly. I know there is some there, but it's just how do you get more meat on the bones, if you will, of what's available.
reviewer1423518 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 21, 2020
The time reporting is an excellent feature that they can show from an individual. The only problem I see is the description field. You can't increase that field, like to pull the column and widen the column that I've seen. I'm not seeing anywhere you could do that. Because you may have some of these cards that start with the same name and you only have so much real estate. There should be a way to adjust those columns somewhat so you can look at the description or hover over it and it tells you what the description is.
PN
Sep 21, 2020
They should also improve the interface. There are other competitors like Microsoft Project for the web, Wrike, Team Gantt who have a way better, modern user interface.
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reviewer1851348 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2022
Planview is a resource management and project management system. Projectplace allows you to create boards and associate some of Planview's work breakdown structure as a top-level tree under which you can place cards, but there are many limitations because when you make a change in Planview, it is reflected in Projectplace. However, except for a few specific things, changes made in Projectplace are not ported back to Planview. At this point, they're two completely different products. The flaw is that there is very little integration between the two.
NipunSri - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 25, 2022
If the mobile app were improved to show more information then it would be good.
GS
May 17, 2022
In terms of what could be improved in Planview Projectplace, it would depend on the purpose, because if you talk about resource planning, from my perspective, it's not the best tool. It would also depend on the company itself, for example, I've been working with another company and Planview Projectplace was needed more for workload and resource planning purposes, and I don't think the solution covered those purposes well. Its resource planning and workload functions need improvement.
reviewer1715826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2021
I believe that the graphs, reporting, and connection with the slides are areas that need improvement.
Eduardo Maya - PeerSpot reviewer
May 19, 2022
It is not easy. The deployment of the application and its functionalities are not easy. It is a complex process to create accounts, names, and catalogs.
reviewer1485132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 1, 2021
We'd like to see a heartier connection between Projectplace and Enterprise One. We know that's on their roadmap, but they haven't gotten there yet. Planview could also make better use of Projectplace's template capability.