The areas that should be improved in Planview Daptiv are a subject that can be viewed differently depending on who you ask. I feel they should focus on excelling in one specific area rather than providing average capabilities in many areas. For example, their project planning software is satisfactory but not as advanced as Microsoft Projects. The same goes for the capacity planning tool and reporting capabilities, which can be improved upon by using custom Excel spreadsheets or by hiring a business analyst for additional support. In short, the biggest weakness of Daptiv is that it does not excel in any one area and only provides average performance.

In a future release, it would be beneficial to have a undo button.

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Expense management, simulation scenarios, and budget control could be great and useful features to include.

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It would be great to have what Xero does in a PPM solution—integration with an ITFM kind of tool. I'm not sure if there's any tool out there on the market that's doing that, but it would be great to see how they incorporate ITFM into the PPM services space. It would also be nice to see some improvements on the IBM Cognos Analytics. There's still work to be done on the analytics side of things, like your condition formality. On the tool itself, they've done quite a bit to improve functionality. While the user interface is quite good, it could offer some customization features. Since it's a cloud solution, they could let each client choose their own color schemes based on their corporate colors. 

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The user interface needs a lot of work. If find that the UX/UI in general is pretty clunky. It could be much better.

I find the solution has an excessive amount of features. Many aren't even kept current. Some aren't useful at all. There's an overall lack of coherence within the solution. It can make the execution difficult. Many features can easily be eliminated and it would help streamline the solution. They should get rid of 80% of the features and then really focus on the leftover 20% to make it a really great product.

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I don't work at the company anymore where we deployed this, but would say there's too much work that has to go into the configuration up front and for the first 6 months to 1 year after. That costs time, money, and resources. Not a very advanced tool. Seems interface-wise to be behind the times. Also, every time you want to engage upon improvements you have to re-engage the vendor and eat up more time and money. The security is not very robust, and the vendor did not seem to have a detailed handle on the infrastructure information, root cause of system slowness, etc. View full review »

Accessing some functions is a bit obscure and requires some knowledge of how the product works, but the upgrade from v2012 to 2014 improved that situation and I expect the upcoming upgrade to 2017 to further streamline operations.
Did you encounter any issues with stability? None that I have encountered, though our implementation is ‘hosted’ rather than in-house.

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The user interface is quirky and does not always conform to the expected Microsoft UI standards. Several areas of the product use Silverlight technology. This will be replaced in a future version of the product, but that is taking some time.

Here is an example of the user interface:

To change the value in a drop-down list box, you cannot simply click on the down arrow and choose a new value. You must use a backspace to clear the current value, then press enter to refresh the full list, and then choose the new value. And this is not consistent throughout the product. 

In some cases, the listbox works in this way, and in other places in the product, it does not.

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This solution needs more standard connectors to other solutions i.e. to Infor ERP, Confluence, ...

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Would always like to see improvement in the Resource Allocation and Capacity Planning features -- these are the areas that can / will give the greatest ROI so improvement would always be welcomed. Easier to work with, more "what if" capabilities (looking at not just in-progress projects but adding in backlog projects) and even stronger reporting would be welcome. This same feedback applies to all of the PPM tools in the SaaS based leadership Magic Quadrant. View full review »

The timesheet app is outdated. Web portal functionality is lagging behind in other features.

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