OpenText Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Reviews & Product Details

While using HP Project and Portfolio Management tools, I come to enjoy the clean interface and usability. While there are many other software and programs that offer some of these things, HP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the only things that could be seen as a dislike to smaller and start up companies could be the cost, since their are some other tools that one could download and use that are basically free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HPE PPM:

- Provides visibility into strategic, operational demands of the organisation.

- Its ability to provide real-time information about the projects, resources, financnes, programs and

portfolios, visibility of this information allows stakeholders to review expenditure, progress, manage

workforce efficiently.

- The 'What-If' analysis provided by scenario comparison is very key in analyzing and planning for the

future.

- 'Resource Management Optimization' launched in the latest version, automates the resource assignments

and thereby providing Resource manager a big relief.

- Provides wide range of standard, pre-defined portlets and reports that can be helpful in analyzing

resources, projects, programs.

- Has a strong timesheeting ability, to which resources can timesheet to and automatically all the actual

costs are rolled up to the project.

- Has a very strong and dynamic workflow engine that can be easily configured to align to the process of

an organisation.

- Easy to customize, provision of webservices make it easy to integrate to other third party applications.

- It derives predictive analysis with data that you can trust on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of fancy reporting in HPE PPM, the senior execs and other stakeholders want to look at more graphical and animated reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This product has almost everything you need for managing requests, project, programs and portfolios. It is up to the organization to select the parts to implement. It is highly customizable, allowing you to tailor it to your needs, not just use it the same way everyone uses it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good support is severely lacking, especially considering the price. The reply to many defect submittals is "this is working as designed". The user interface is very rigid. You are limited to 3 columns of data with little control other than the column and row where the field appears. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that PPM allows me to view available funds, duration, and expected outcomes for different projects. For a non-profit organization, I've been able to define this software for out particular use. It allows us to quickly see which fundraising project is supporting the goals and objectives of our organization as well which ones aren't so that they can be eliminated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was a bit of a chore getting starting as PPM was intimidating. It did require some refining at our end to get this program to conform to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy configuration of proposal forms and workflow.

- Solid resource management and forecasting labor spend.

- Staffing plan functionality is strong and forces consistency for spend calculations.

- Roll-up of spend to programs and portfolios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Would like to see reporting improved.

- Takes a bit of time to get used to from a usability standpoint although significant improvements have been made recently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that the hours entered are automatically tabulated and submission conditions are checked on every SAVE of the application. This helps to ensure that I do not enter too many hours and/or too few hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am a basic user of the system and therefore can only review the application from that standpoint. With this in mind, as a user, I think the application is rather cumbersome. If you add more than a handful of tasks / assets / miscellaneous items to your time sheet (which can happen in a large organization), you end up scrolling all over the place to enter time and it becomes difficult to ensure you are are entering time on the correct days. This occurs because of the rather sad scroll bar that generates within the application itself, so that you find yourself scrolling the browser window, plus this internal window. Additionally, as a user, it is frustrating that you cannot create project buckets on your own or sub-buckets: nothing is very clear in the application as to what should go in each type of item and as a whole i think the product is difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only handy thing about PPM is looking up resource management details. Details such as primary skill and allocation are good to know. Timesheet management is a pain to familiarize yourself with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In our workforce, PPM is mandatory and required, but nobody likes using it. It's bulky, it's slow, and the UI is not intuitive. Many features are hidden behind screens that are hard to find without proper guidance or training. Recalling timesheets is a pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very tailorable to your shop and its particular requirements.

Splash screens and internal functionality are all tweak-able to fit your needs.

The online community is pretty widespread and questions asked are often given a lot of attention. Be sure to spend time reviewing older Q/A threads to see other opportunities for learning you may not have thought about.

At one point their website was overly complex and difficult to navigate- especially when trying to submit support requests, but in the past year or two, it has been greatly streamlined and cleaned up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Just as it is very tailorable, its complexity leads to a non-intuitive administrative interface.

It takes work and research to determine how to best accomplish your needs, but there are good online forums and KB articles to get you rolling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HP PPM has always been evolving and continues to do so. HP welcomes feedback from the customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- HP's customer Support for PPM

- HP starts with something and then leaves it in the middle, never completing it like the operational reporting solution, integration with HP Anywhere, Portfolio Management, portfolio optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HP PPM is an excellent tool for project managers. I like the project management features of work-planning, portlets for viewing status and progress. The time traking ability also is excellent. HP PPM provides flexibility to design security features on who can do what. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not line the complexity of the process and the training one requires to understand how to use the process. The resource management process is too cumbursome and has a longer learning process. Program Management module doesn't provide any value. Scenario comparison doesn't take shared resources into account while comparing plan againt capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.