The first advantage is that it helped us get away from using spreadsheets for time sheets. Also, many of our request processes that used to be paper-based have now been automated. We're also able to automate notifications to users to take away a lot of the busy work that teams were having to do to communicate with each other. And it has definitely helped our cross-team coordination and the handoffs that we have within our processes. It has also assisted with bottlenecking.

In addition, we have an integration with our help desk that allows tickets to be processed on the front end and in PPM in a much easier way than they would be on the help desk side and it allows notifications and SOAP messages to go back and forth between the applications. As a result, it has really streamlined our defect tracking process, and we're really hoping to see the same as we roll out into the future with the program and portfolio management aspects that are new to us.

On top of that, at a high level, it enables us to translate strategic plans into actionable investment strategies. We have our KPIs and business strategies in PPM and that's the way that management moves forward with our portfolios and programs. They are only willing to move forward with projects that line up with our strategic plans. The solution has definitely helped us flush that out. It gives us a place where everybody can see those things and be aware of what our business strategies are. Within our projects, we're able to see the strategies and end goals that are important to the organization. We can actually track which business objectives different projects are adhering to. That's a really cool feature that our management likes.

It gives me one place where I can do pretty much everything. If there is a project or portfolio, or even a request that I'm working on, I have the ability to charge time to each of them in PPM, instead of going through different systems. Even though we have the ability to integrate with Microsoft Project, I really like that PPM offers a one-stop-shop for everything. It saves a lot of time because I'm not going between different places or using paper forms to get information to management.

With PPM allowing us to streamline processes, get them all in one place, and automate handovers and notifications, it saves us between 15 and 20 hours a week on things that we would have otherwise had to do ourselves in emails and other types of coordination. It's made our processes a lot faster.

Micro Focus PPM helps our customers translate plans into strategic investments. It enables clients to anticipate their needs and mitigate risks. We configure PPM for clients to help them upgrade their workflows and manage their risks. Our customers benefit the most by centralizing their processes. Previously, they did everything using Excel or something like SharePoint. 

PPM helps an organization translate strategic plans into actionable investment strategies. It gives you the correct current picture of how the investments are being utilized and what their current state is. We are looking for the budget against which the money is invested and the actual cost involved. It gives you an end-to-end picture of that and we are happy with that feature.

It has helped us in tracking where money has been spent and the areas where it has not been accurately spent, so we know in which areas improvement is needed.

It gives us the flexibility to set our own goals, business objectives, et cetera, and then align our portfolio or projects along with them. It gives us what we need. That is very important.

Project and Portfolio Management has helped us save on resources and time. For example, we had an old solution for demand management in which we need to get approvals via email. But with the Demand Management module in PPM, we have all approvals in the system itself. Over the course of a week, it saves us two working days or about 15 hours. It used to take a lot of time to get approvals through email and on paper.

Overall, it has helped accelerate our organization's delivery by up to 10 percent.

Before Micro Focus PPM, we had three separate systems. One held project information, another held resourcing requirements, and a third managed timesheets. They weren't integrated, and we had to support each system. Now, everything is in one tool, improving visibility and integration. Dashboard reporting is also easier. We have another tool integrated with PPM that extracts the data from it and refreshes the dashboards instantly. 

PPM helps us translate strategic plans into actionable investment strategies because our executive committee uses it in their investment decisions. Information in PPM can be used to decide which initiatives to prioritize and which to delay based on the bank's strategy. It helps them determine which initiatives require more funding and which need to be trimmed down.

We added a new PPM feature in the last year or two. For each initiative or project loaded into PPM, the project managers must raise what we call "value measures." In these metrics, they need to indicate the actual value being delivered. It's mandatory. The value measures are used for a lot of the assessments being done. If someone asks for a certain amount of project funding, the decision-makers can do a cost-benefit analysis. You must demonstrate the project's estimated value when you ask for funding.

Regarding PPM's ability to help us achieve goals, I would rate it a nine out of ten. All the project and portfolio management features are in one tool. It provides real-time information to support decision-making, and it's easy to integrate with other tools. 

At the bank, some delivery teams do agile while others still do the traditional waterfall. PPM is suitable for both methods. PPM has helped us save resources by consolidating teams. Before PPM, we had three teams providing support for three systems. Now we only have one support team for the tool the entire bank uses. 

Planning and budgeting are vital to achieving our organizational goals. It's a ten on a scale of ten. Our leaders are focused on resourcing because they want to use the funding for projects that matter and are aligned with the bank's strategy. They are looking closely at costs and trying to bring the funding asks for our projects down to a certain amount. 

PPM has sped up project delivery because we have a process where everything has to go through checkpoints. The projects that are delivered are those that have been thoroughly vetted. PPM has helped determine which projects will be delivered. 

It helps our organization to plan our resources exactly and to support the billing process as well.

We're using all of it, and we integrate it with other systems. We migrate code for PeopleSoft, creating purchase orders, etc. So we're using the application for all kinds of crazy things.

PPM provides a single place where our teams can track and measure progress toward their goals. This consolidated view is important for our organization because we are able to see what's coming through the pipeline, what's in-flight, and what's our current resource capacity, as well as the financial burn rate. When it is all in one place, we are able to slice and dice information and look at it in different ways. That helps in the real insight into what's happening. It also helps in shaping our decisions to make sure we achieve the goals and outcomes of the organization.

When you start doing things in a structured way, you get consistent reporting. With that consistent reporting, you get things that are not working properly in a much more time-efficient way, which helps in decision-making to pick up things that are not working as per expectations. Whether it is a project, whether it is a risk, whether it is an issue, or whether it is a financial burn rate, it is all about getting the right visibility at the right time, which helps in the right decision-making to avoid any pitfalls.

PPM’s portfolio management dashboard provides the flexibility to have a list view or even a financial view. It has standard views, and on top of that, we have configured other views based on our needs. The standard views are good to start with, but when we have more information, we want to look at the information in different ways. We can configure dashboards and views, which is a plus point. We're not restricted to just what comes out of the box.

It comes with a Kanban view, which you can configure. It also provides the flexibility to create a backlog by having stage gates. So, we can do backlog management, and we can configure Kanban boards. The good thing about it is that we are able to capture that information. Once we're able to capture that information in a simpler way, then we can report it. What we have seen in some of the tools is that capturing information is not that easy, or they do it a standard way, and that's it. You don't have the flexibility to change them in a certain way or in the way the organization works. PPM allows you to adapt to best practices. Every organization is unique. If that flexibility is there, then you can have best practices along with some of the good things that the organization does. That's where the flexibility of PPM is very good.

Every organization, small and large, uses the whole portfolio structure for the hierarchy or the whole organization model. With the flexibility of having portfolios and sub-portfolios, you're able to model a hierarchy. Once you do that, the roll-up can happen from the bottom, and you can also have a top-down effect. This flexibility is good to come up with a portfolio hierarchy. This capability is good in PPM.

It has been helpful for resource consolidation. It does give us a picture of resource capacity and utilization. It has been absolutely helpful in managing our resources.

It has helped accelerate our organization’s delivery. 

It gives a more organized approach for managing the projects and helps us since many things can be automated using this tool, which were previously done manually.

We have automated our entire project delivery mechanism using this product. It's a workflow based on end-to-end delivery. From the demand till project delivery, we can manage the complete flow using the HPE PPM tool.

When we're doing it the most successfully, we do not over-allocate resources. We schedule projects in such a way that they do not clash on resources. Instead of executing all projects at the same time, we put up a schedule. And when resources were needed, they were available as was previously agreed upon. It's difficult, but you can do it with a good planning tool.

Certainly we have had good impact in our organisation.

We have explored all the features of the tool.. we mainly use it for managing programs, resources, projects and time. We do explore some features of portfolio management.

Our organisation has been able to do effective forecasting, project delivery, resource management and time tracking with the help of PPM.

- The financial forecasts comes out from PPM.

- The projects are managed in the PPM

- Resources are managed via PPM.

- Actual time tracking is done via PPM.

- We have developed many reports and integrations that has helped the organisation to save time and money, thereby automating a lot of things.

That is not applicable to us. But in terms of customer experience, the usual value of the implementation of MF PPM can be described as follows: one of the main successes is to help the company standardize procedures across business units/geographic spread branches and set up end-to-end lifecycle processes, consolidate all demands, improve visibility, transparency, and control of portfolios of investments and projects, optimize the use of resources, and focus on the investments aligned with their strategic goals. 

• Takes input from users on improvements
• Release a product with fewer defects
• Releasing a defect-free product
• Providing useful suggestions for fixing defects

Able to manage multimillion projects and resources more effectively.

Though the staffing profile is difficult to manage and update, the enforcement made us create resource plans and do demand-allocation gap analysis much better.

We gained analytics about where the bottlenecks are, increased accurate decision making, and it provides us with several "versus" visibility.

Having a backup just in case a connection is lost.

This is too early to judge on 9.41, due to a recent release.

In general, PPM provided better automation for high-priority financial reports with clients (ArcelorMittal).

Working for integrator, no personal approval. For customers: insight in the real values.

We have some roles at PMO, one of them is a program manager. We manage a lot of programs within the year and follow the steps in Excel files. Program management can be more functional, thus it improves program management.

We have some roles at PMO. One of them is program manager. We manage a lot of programs within the year and follow the steps in Excel files. Program Management can be more functional to provide better program management.

We are now more ready to consolidate and analyze our long term planning portfolio and understand our financial and resource levels before making investment decisions. We can also track time spent on the different projects.

We have some roles at the PMO. One of them is as a program manager. We manage a lot of programs within the year and follow the steps in Excel files. Program management can be more functional in order to better program management, which is what the tool does.

Our customers mostly use the above mentioned modules. Visibility, standard processes, faster development, and much less time spent for reporting