Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM vs. Planview IdeaPlace

Oracle Agile is great for companies that need a way to manage their products and work with various resources in their department from developers, to PMs and UX designers. This is a great way to keep track of feature requests and shippable versions of the product. Implementation and user friendlessness is an issue with this tool so companies that have the budget for consulting or for additional resources to help implement and maintain will need those resources as it is necessary. Training resources should also be factored in by any institution wishing to implement this.

Incentivized

If you have a community with more than 100 active users, and you're looking for ideas around operational improvements that can be acted on in a 6-12 month window, Spigit will work great, and it's one of the best options out there. If you're trying to customize the platform much, you should plan on paying Spigit's service group to do that for you, because it's not easy to do yourself. If you're looking for ideas that will take more than about a year to implement, Spigit is as good as anyone else because that's a really tough thing to do in an innovation community!

Incentivized

• User access is easy to change for all users, there is no hassle when someone switches departments or leaves/joins the company.
• Custom searches make it easy to find documents or records, global for the whole company and custom personal searches are available.
• Objects are easy to connect through relationships tab and BOM, makes it easier to see what is affected when a change is made.

Incentivized

• Acknowledges and supports the culture around the problem and market it is trying to serve. Just using the platform won't solve our problem, we need a cultural shift and Spigit has helped support that process.
• Customer service - just overall amazing service. Responses are very quickly turned around, they've gone the extra mile many, many times. They are also very open to platform improvements and take feedback very seriously.
• As the system administrator, I feel their platform incorporates a great balance of templates, out-of-the-box formatting, etc., and customizable content. In a nutshell, we are able to do what we want but we don't have to spend forever to do it. We can use what they have or we can add in our own design.

• The overview page is dated as this UI has been in the works for many years - a very 'engineering dashboard'
• Unable to copy, paste, and modify workflows . Need to create from scratch
• Ongoing support for Oracle Agile is in question with the movement to Cloud technologies

Incentivized

• Versioning of ideas.
• "Building block" comments, highlighted and embedded in the original idea by moderators and authors.
• Italian version.
• Can be improved in the implementation funnel of ideas.
• Interfacing with other platforms e.g. management platforms, gamification platforms, LMS platforms.
• Poor gamification.

Incentivized

This rating was given because, Planview is an establish platform used within the organisation for number of years, therefore is a well known platform by the wider business community. Reusing Planview was ease due to user familiarity with the platform, so use of Planview IdeaPlace was logical and reduce the learning curve for users.

Incentivized

In simple words Oracle Product Hub cloud is easy to set up and configure, we don't have to depend on anyone to set it up. It's that super easy. But to operate them we need to have proper training and needs to complete the essential certifications. But compared to others it's easy and will help in the business a lot more than others.

Incentivized

Planview IdeaPlace (IP) stacked up very well against our old product, for example Planview IdeaPlace features and integrations with Microsoft O365 products was major attraction. Our leadership also has a simplification agenda, so the reuse of Planview IdeaPlace for this capability, tick all the right boxes and help use achieved a key CIO objective.

Incentivized

• The gains provided by Oracle agile PLM have manifested themselves mostly in terms of time, since by being able to better organize and schedule our work we have been able to expand our ROI significantly, gaining around 900% of the investment made monthly, which leaves our ROI at 9g.

Incentivized

• I've seen ideas that could have come through existing channels but may have faced layers of barriers before getting to the right decision makers bypass all of that bureaucracy and get the level of support needed to proceed. In one case, the value of just one of those ideas created a 27x ROI over the annual expense of running the software and the supporting team. In other words, that one idea justifies the existence of the program for 2 1/2 more decades if there are no other wins.
• Because the program can literally engage every employee, it tends to be the most visible and tangible innovation asset for the masses. Along side (and connected with) other innovation capabilities like internal incubators, R&D labs, design teams, lean programs, etc., it tends to be the tool that delivers on a strategy of total employee engagement for enterprise wide innovation. Employee perception of innovation has improved significantly since the inception of this program.
• The software can be used in other ways beyond innovation ideation to drive corporate values, employee engagement, and employee feedback and insights. In nearly every deployment where I have been involved, we have found ways beyond ideation to engage crowds to generate other value for the business. In each case, this was engagement that could not have been delivered in any other way except for a crowd-sourcing technology like Spigit.