Planview PPM Pro Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

155 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Planview PPM Pro are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Seamless Progression: Users have praised the seamless transition from request to project creation, making it easy to track project phases and process gates effectively. This feature streamlines workflow management and enhances overall project visibility by providing a structured approach to project development.

Dashboard and Reporting Features: Reviewers appreciate the reporting and dashboard tools as essential for monitoring project and request status, providing valuable insights into performance metrics and progress tracking. These features enable users to make informed decisions based on real-time data analysis and visualization capabilities.

Resource Allocation Efficiency: Many users value the resource allocation and action item tracking functionalities for their role in managing projects efficiently by optimizing resource utilization and task prioritization. The ability to allocate resources effectively contributes to better project planning, execution, and delivery outcomes.

Planview PPM Pro Reviews

68 Reviews

Planview is a solid program

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 19, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview PPM Pro in the PMO to track projects, schedules, expenses, and issues/risks.

Pros

Schedule is easy to create
Dashboards give quick overview of projects
issues and risks are easy to track
Creating projects is easy

Cons

Tracking resources
Better visual aids

Likelihood to Recommend

Planview is a great software program for tracking projects. It has all the functionality you need to get started and they are adding more capabilities all the time including AI functions and widgets.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Planview PPM Pro Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 19, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview PPM Pro and Projectplace together to manage our New Product Projects. With 200+ new projects needed a management tool to keep track of progress of all of them.

Pros

Dashboards
Reports
Time Tracking

Cons

Integration with ProjectPlace

Likelihood to Recommend

Reports and Dashboards have helped show where/how all our projects are doing, but the integration with ProjectPlace has some issues

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

PPM Pro provides a good value

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 22, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using PPM Pro in all our projects covering both waterfall and agile modes of fulfilling projects. The integration through Tasktop makes the integration almost seamless and we realize the results of our planing through the details of Jira or other SDLC products.
It is very easy to learn, easy to use and a record migration of projects to the system.

Pros

Portfolio and Project management for both waterfall and Agile projects
Integration with the market SDLC tools
fast migration of projects to start the production
a fast implementation cycle

Cons

Arabic support on the product level not only data
More levels of approvals for the lifecycle management
Improve the leankit to handle better SDLC

Likelihood to Recommend

PPM pro is an amazing fast to deploy and fast to get started in the almost all needed functionality you need to run your PMO. It is an economic and easy to learn.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

14 years of experience

Review Planview PPM Pro Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 20, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview PPM Pro as our Project Management Tool in [...] IT. We enter project requests which are reviewed and quoted by the delivery teams and then approved by the Business Relationship Management in the workflow. Later they are turned into Projects and we manage the projects in the Tool. We are trying to have all the Projects from [...] IT in that Tool because we also do Reporting on the Projects. These reports are mostly for our VPs and Business Partners to see the overview of what is going on currently.

Pros

Management of Project deliverables and milestones
Portfolio Management
Demand Management

Cons

Manage detailed project tasks
Implementation of new workflows catered to company's needs
resource management

Likelihood to Recommend

Planview PPM Pro is for centralized project solution is good.

Maybe not so suitable for large enterprise solution.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

PPM Pro is great for managing a large number of projects.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 16, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization uses PPM Pro for Project and Portfolio Management. It is highly configurable, allowing us maximum flexibility in adding or removing data points and generating many reports and dashboards to monitor project progress and health.

Pros

Reports and Dashboards.
Request Queues and Workflows.
Calculated Fields.

Cons

Resource reporting integrating with other project reporting.
User permissions need to be easier to set up and understand.
Predictive Portfolio Analysis.

Likelihood to Recommend

Planview is wonderful if you have a large number of projects and want to group them into portfolios. It seems less useful if you have only a handful of projects.

Michael McLellan

Business Systems Analyst in Information Technology at CapMetro (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Planview PPM Pro

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 15, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview PPM Pro for project and portfolio management as our System of Record for all projects. Planview allows for visibility across all levels of the organization of ongoing and planned projects. Using Planview allows us to have a seamless progression from demand intake to project creation. It also allows us to track project phases and process gates. Another benefit of Planview is that is allows us to manage resources with its resource capacity tracking capabilities.

Pros

Easily track project phases and process gates
Seamless progression from request to project creation
Reporting & Dashboards - Projects/Request Status

Cons

There is no collaboration tool (messaging, chat, etc.) within Planview
The user interface can be difficult to follow, cumbersome to navigate
Creating reports is not intuitive - need training to know how to create even basic reports/dashboards

Likelihood to Recommend

Planview PPM Pro has been super helpful for planning and managing projects and requests. I think the reporting has great insight to request and project management. However, it can be quite difficult to create simple reports. The report builder is not very easy to use, and is missing many capabilities seen in various other reporting tools. Being able to have visibility to all current requests and being able to easily turn it into a project is extremely useful.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Good software to unify project efforts, looking forward to using more Planview products!

Rating: 8 out of 10

September 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Within my organization, PMO uses PPMPro in order to track action items, issues, decisions, as well as time allocations for project core team members, project priority ranking, and core team member assignments. PMO uses all of the information for our projects in PPMPro to create dashboards for senior leadership presentations and communications. PMO also uses PPMPro as a one-stop shop for all things project related and enforces its use amongst our dedicated project core teams.

Pros

Resource allocation
Action item tracking
Dashboards

Cons

Issue tracking
Project to project depedencies
Financial calculator

Likelihood to Recommend

PPMPro is well suited for tracking new product introduction projects, as well as process changes. It serves to reliably track ongoing action items, issues, resource allocations for projects.
Areas where PPMPro is less appropriate for use: Project to project dependencies, automating action item notifications on multiple platforms, integrations of PPMPro into other platforms PMO typically uses (like MS Projects, Teams, ppt, etc)

Verified User

Project Manager in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

PPM Pro provides a good solution for the basics of project management for an enterprise

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PPM Pro to manage projects and strategic programs. We use for the details of project and capacity management, tracking risks and issues, sharing information, and providing transparency to our portfolio of work.

Pros

Customer support via tickets
Options for paid consulting
Frequent webinars and roadmap updates

Cons

It is confusing at times to determine when you can get assistance or have to use paid consulting.
The task management portion of PPM Pro can be cumbersome for the PMs I work with.

Likelihood to Recommend

PPM Pro is well suited as is for customers tracking waterfall projects or managing agile tasks elsewhere and making data from that tool available for reporting. Another tool would likely be better for a team or department that is fully agile.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

Solid Project Management Tool Foundation with Actionable Resource Management Capabilities

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Planview PPM Pro serves as the source of truth with regard to Project Health, Progress, Status, and Financials. We leverage the tool for Portfolio, Project, and Resource Management. We leverage the timekeeping features. We leverage multiple categories of Request and Issue Entities,

Pros

Ease of Custom Filed Creation and Integration
Ease of Report Data Source and Filter Creation
Resource Workbench is a powerful tool for Resource Managers

Cons

Reports and Dashboards need visual improvements.
New Reports and Dashboards cannot use OData.
Workflow needs to be added to all entities

Likelihood to Recommend

PPM Pro is not well suited for Executive Level Reporting.

Steven Wood

Portfolio Operations Analyst in Product Management at Cetera Financial Group (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Planview PPM Pro can work for you too

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Planview PPM Pro to manage our portfolio of IT projects. All projects are tracked within the system as well as time spent on each project. On a bi-weekly basis the portfolio is reviewed with the team to address any projects that require help or support. All project financials are also tracked within the system.

Pros

Dashboards in real-time
Interdependencies between projects
Financials

Cons

Program and Portfolio management - cumbersome to get program or portfolio roadmaps
High-level capacity management when project timelines change

Likelihood to Recommend

Planview PPM Pro is a fantastic tool to manage a portfolio of projects in an easy to use and intuitive approach. The data is all integrated which allows for information coming together is various modules. In addition, all reporting is real-time which helps increase the trust in the information that is presented. I highly recommend this product.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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