# EPM Live Reviews **Vendor:** Ignite Enterprise Software Solutions **Category:** [Project and Portfolio Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/project-and-portfolio-management) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About EPM Live EPMLive is the leading Work Management Platform revolutionizing the way organizations manage projects and work. ## EPM Live Reviews ### 1. Can integrate well with Microsoft programs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2018 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** Ability to integrate with any Microsoft program is the best part. Gives a quick snapshot of where our project is at in terms of progress( can easily compare the baseline KPI and actual data) Very easy to use. No need for a special training. Anyone who is proficient with at least one of the Microsoft programs will be able to use it. Pricing tiers are OK, affordable for small-medium companies Amazing features for reporting Other features are also flexible and customizable **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** It is pretty expensive. Small companies may not be able to afford it. But if you can afford it, go for it !! **Recommendations to others considering EPM Live:** Anyone who is proficient with at least one of the Microsoft programs will be able to use it. Very quick, smooth and easy to use. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using EPM Live has helped our team in better decision making which in turn has saved us time and money. No doubt on why it is considered to be one of the leading project portfolio management software. ### 2. EPM Live excellent tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** If you just want basic information on your projects, a place to keep the information, this system will work for you. It is good for mini projects like Service Request **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** You have too many steps to make what should be simple changes like closing a project or service request. Additional cost required for necessary reports, changes made to the system like adding a new Status or emailing a status report Can take weeks or months to resolve a ticket when it's turned in, lots of back and forth with their help desk. Told numerous times it the problem is our internet browser, our settings only to discover it was a problem on their end. Not as user friendly as they lead you to believe. We are still unable to provide a useful dashboard for our leadership, we pull information and have to manually make changes to get the information we need. **Recommendations to others considering EPM Live:** EPM Live is well suited for a business that feels they are slightly disconnected between departments. If you think you're sales and support staff need to be better connected with your development and programming (like us), then you can benefit immediately. There are a host of other features to help any business that has a lot of "irons in the fire". They make it a lot easier to pinpoint what areas need more attention and what areas probably should be spending so much money. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** we were hoping it to be. We decided to bring in EPM Live's WorkEngine to improve our resource capacity planning and visibility. It also brought all critical business information into one central location so our executives and project managers are able to see the information they require to make strategic business decisions and manage project portfolios. I have found WorkEngine to be very user friendly. It allows all users of all maturity levels to work successfully on their tasks. Specifically what I value is the resource management, the ability to collaborate with team members and reporting options ### 3. Can integrate well with Microsoft programs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2018 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** Ability to integrate with any Microsoft program is the best part. Gives a quick snapshot of where our project is at in terms of progress( can easily compare the baseline KPI and actual data) Very easy to use. No need for a special training. Anyone who is proficient with at least one of the Microsoft programs will be able to use it. Pricing tiers are OK, affordable for small-medium companies Amazing features for reporting Other features are also flexible and customizable **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** It is pretty expensive. Small companies may not be able to afford it. But if you can afford it, go for it !! **Recommendations to others considering EPM Live:** Very easy to use. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anyone who is proficient with at least one of the Microsoft programs will be able to use it. Very quick, smooth and easy to use. ### 4. Awesome PPM product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Louis C. | Project Manager, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** What I liked best is the availability to feed information and have visibility to executive stakeholders and sub teams that require up to date status of on going projects. This is a very effective PPM tool and does integrate well with sharepoint. **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** I think that sometimes it seems to be slow when I am use to everything being fast and responsive. On our network it had slow response times when requesting information. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not used it with my new company, I am actually in the process of getting approval to move this PPM tool to my new company y and become more effective with our projects. ### 5. Very likely and simple to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pooja P. | Laboratory Technician, Food & Beverages, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** In my department, we use EPM to enter our time sheets for work done on projects. It was easy to use and user friendly **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** Sometimes it crashes and unstable but I guess it was an administration issues. Also, it slows down some times **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not used it with my new company, I am actually in the process of getting approval to move this PPM tool to my new company y and become more effective with our projects. ### 6. Fully customizable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** EPM Live is fully customizable to support all types of ventures, including professional services, new product development and IT management. **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** If you don't have Sharepoint it will have additional coast for Sharepoint software. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large team, multiplie project handled in one data base. ### 7. Decent Product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kingsley S. | Financial Educator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** In my department, we use EPM to enter our time sheets for work done on projects. It was easy to use and user friendly **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** Sometimes it crashes and unstable but I guess it was an administration issues **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** The project management teams mostly use the features in EPM live. I only use the timesheet section to enter my times on projects ### 8. EPM Live for IT Department **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2014 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** The best is process and concept of this PM Tool. Especial, I like the Cost management module and some Online planner ssuch as Online Planner, Agile Planner and Kanban. **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** The product quality is still my concern. Most of modules are still having many defects but I think it is on the moved and will be better with some release in the future. Also, the quality of support team is need to improve with both EPM Live skill and customer care. they could have the process to support customer better. the support staffs should be trained with ITIL model Some others are also not very well such as EPM Live webpart. The MyWork component is still poor performance. It doesn't seem to work if we have totally over 50 items. the page is unable to load or hung with some bad java script **Recommendations to others considering EPM Live:** I still need more time to work on this product as well as to see support quality from support team. If there is improvement in some next releases as well as quality of support team. I will recommend this. There is only few module I feel it is very good at this time is reporting module, Cost management, resource planner. some others are still need to improve such as Timesheet feature, synchronization between Planner, such as Online Planner and MS Project Planner **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** At this time, we are only focusing on Service Request and project area since we still have some issues with others. Our PMO department is utilizing this for all company projects with resource planning, cost management. ### 9. 3+ Year User of EPM Live **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2014 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** Sharepoint interface is clean and fairly intuitive. Navigation is what you would expect to see in project management tool such as EPM Live. One of the best features is the ability to upload multiple documents at once. Resource management is also handled very well by EPM Live. **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** Performance is horrible. We use a cloud account so I can't speak to performance or speed of a locally hosted account. EPM Live is down an unacceptable amount of time. I'm sure the "official" uptime statistics are much higher than what is actually the case. Often times when it is up the site is so slow it's unusable. Also, browser compatibility and setup is unacceptable. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize EPM Live as our primary project management information system. We use it as a central repository for files, schedules, issues, risks, etc. Unfortunately, EPM Live's performance issues don't allow us to maximize such a system's potential or buy in from the enterprise. ### 10. Great OTB PPM solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2014 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** The EPM Live PPM is a great out of the box solution offering the necessary tools to easily track and manage projects as well as provide robust reporting for capturing standard project management metrics. **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** Slight complexity with customizing fields to collect specific and unique performance metric reporting. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing project management framework and processes that aligns with system solution. ### 11. Collaboration Management **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2014 **What do you like best about EPM Live?** Easy learning platform and collaboration tools. **What do you dislike about EPM Live?** Options can be confusing at first glance. **Recommendations to others considering EPM Live:** Smooth transition into collaboration. **What problems is EPM Live solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaboration is successful, cut down on emails, better transparency. ## EPM Live Discussions - [What is EPM Live used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-epm-live-used-for) - [View EPM Live pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/epm-live/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+07%3A59%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bb91a988-7be9-4d36-a6ba-a835e149aac0&secure%5Btoken%5D=9eb14391f4759f7df3cc70329f724ef51eef1eb4dc06108101179c58ebf0f10c&format=llm_user) ## EPM Live Features **Portfolio Management** - Portfolio Types - Planning - Alignment - Portfolio Mix **Project Management** - Dependencies - Priorities - Lean Management **Resource Management** - Definition - Allocation - Optimization **Data & Analytics** - Data Consolidation - Visualizations - Performance - Risk Analysis **Strategy - Project and Portfolio Management** - Simulation - Tracking - Planning - Objectives - Visiblity - Alignment - Risk Management - Implementation - Optimization - Prioritization ## Top EPM Live Alternatives - [Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-project-portfolio-management/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (1,577 reviews) - [Oracle Primavera](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-primavera/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (340 reviews) - [Scoro](https://www.g2.com/products/scoro/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (479 reviews)