Co-Founder and Director of Services at Continuous Software at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
2024-04-25T11:55:00Z
Apr 25, 2024
The user experience of the product needs to be improved. The resource management in OpenText Project and Portfolio Management also needs to be improved.
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.
Project and Portfolio Management Governance and Support at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-23T03:06:00Z
Dec 23, 2022
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.
We are using the Financial Management module for projects and also demands and proposals and it is sufficient. But 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. I don't know if they may have made some modifications to this in later versions. I would also like to see additional reports for capacity in the Resource Management module.
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-22T21:21:00Z
Nov 22, 2022
The ability to integrate Agile tools and synchronize the execution layer back into PPM was offered in the product, but initially, that capability was not very good. I had worked with Micro Focus and got a lot of things fixed. In its current state it has improved a lot, but it is not quite there. There is still a lot of improvement needed. The set of people who are actually using it is quite small, frankly. Everything in this context takes place within Jira, for us, and not in PPM. And when it comes to PPM's built-in capabilities to support Lean Portfolio Management and be aligned to Scaled Agile Framework initiatives I can't comment, other than to say that those areas are still evolving in PPM. It has a long way to go. I would also like to see improvement in PPM's reporting and alerts. PPM has reporting capabilities, including HTML reports and portlets. But a majority of clients will build their own reporting platforms, or they will use external reporting platforms like Tableau and QlikView. I would really like the reporting to improve a lot in PPM, especially the HTML reports and the ability to use some of the more recent tools, like Python and React. They could also offer us templates. The developers are mostly proficient in the PPM tool itself, but they're not hardcore UI developers. So clients usually use those external reporting tools and they hire resources who have expertise with those tools. What if Micro Focus were to create reporting templates? They have them in a few areas, but not in a significant way. If they could offer good or decent templates in the areas of JSP reports and portlets, it would help a lot. The client would use PPM itself for reporting rather than utilizing external tools.
PPM SaaS Application Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2022-07-05T08:00:00Z
Jul 5, 2022
We have been asking for some enhancements in the domain management module. There are things that we have to ask about, whether they're even possible to implement, but they're more cosmetic, look-and-feel issues, rather than functionality.
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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 would like to see different databases supported. There's only one database available at the moment, and it is very expensive. I would like better database support. On the functional side of the product, I would like to see an enhanced and improved project management module with HR components in it.
Co-Founder and Director of Services at Continuous Software at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
2020-10-23T21:37:55Z
Oct 23, 2020
There's also room for improvement in other areas such as configuration which is a little old from an implementation perspective. There could also be improvements in API which is rarely used but we do use them in some cases. From a user's perspective, it's becoming more necessary in that agile transformation. More of our customers are now looking to have everything in one place and I guess Micro Focus could make some improvements in that area as well as improvements in communication and corroboration functionality in the tool. On the strategic and portfolio functionality can be a bit more balanced and improved interactions with the other modules.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) combines workflows and data to align investments with strategy. Top-down and bottom-up analytics power this strategic portfolio and project management tool.
The user experience of the product needs to be improved. The resource management in OpenText Project and Portfolio Management also needs to be improved.
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.
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.
We are using the Financial Management module for projects and also demands and proposals and it is sufficient. But 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. I don't know if they may have made some modifications to this in later versions. I would also like to see additional reports for capacity in the Resource Management module.
The ability to integrate Agile tools and synchronize the execution layer back into PPM was offered in the product, but initially, that capability was not very good. I had worked with Micro Focus and got a lot of things fixed. In its current state it has improved a lot, but it is not quite there. There is still a lot of improvement needed. The set of people who are actually using it is quite small, frankly. Everything in this context takes place within Jira, for us, and not in PPM. And when it comes to PPM's built-in capabilities to support Lean Portfolio Management and be aligned to Scaled Agile Framework initiatives I can't comment, other than to say that those areas are still evolving in PPM. It has a long way to go. I would also like to see improvement in PPM's reporting and alerts. PPM has reporting capabilities, including HTML reports and portlets. But a majority of clients will build their own reporting platforms, or they will use external reporting platforms like Tableau and QlikView. I would really like the reporting to improve a lot in PPM, especially the HTML reports and the ability to use some of the more recent tools, like Python and React. They could also offer us templates. The developers are mostly proficient in the PPM tool itself, but they're not hardcore UI developers. So clients usually use those external reporting tools and they hire resources who have expertise with those tools. What if Micro Focus were to create reporting templates? They have them in a few areas, but not in a significant way. If they could offer good or decent templates in the areas of JSP reports and portlets, it would help a lot. The client would use PPM itself for reporting rather than utilizing external tools.
We have been asking for some enhancements in the domain management module. There are things that we have to ask about, whether they're even possible to implement, but they're more cosmetic, look-and-feel issues, rather than functionality.
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 would like to see different databases supported. There's only one database available at the moment, and it is very expensive. I would like better database support. On the functional side of the product, I would like to see an enhanced and improved project management module with HR components in it.
There's also room for improvement in other areas such as configuration which is a little old from an implementation perspective. There could also be improvements in API which is rarely used but we do use them in some cases. From a user's perspective, it's becoming more necessary in that agile transformation. More of our customers are now looking to have everything in one place and I guess Micro Focus could make some improvements in that area as well as improvements in communication and corroboration functionality in the tool. On the strategic and portfolio functionality can be a bit more balanced and improved interactions with the other modules.