OpenText Project and portfolio Management Other Solutions Considered

SW
PPM SaaS Application Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

Upper management looked at other solutions before they went ahead with PPM. Prior to using PPM, we had users who were using Salesforce and PMRS and a couple of other applications, but we consolidated all of those solutions and users into PPM.

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RC
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

PPM provides a single place where teams can track and measure progress toward their goals, in a way, but not as well as Jira. A consolidated view is important and we use PPM as well as Jira. If we could use just one tool, that would be the best situation for every company. Why would a company use multiple tools if it doesn't have to? If PPM could offer functionalities like Jira has, that would be the best.

We use PPM's portfolio management, but we don't use all its features, like maintaining the Epics, Portfolio Backlog, and Kanban boards. Those are maintained in Jira. It comes down to the functionality offered by these two applications. The portfolio management abilities in PPM have recently been improved, but are not as good as Jira's.

It's mostly Jira that helps us in the area of expediting delivery. As far as execution is concerned, that part is managed by Jira, for us. But as far as the management side is concerned, like what a project is all about, who is working on it, and what the various deliverables are that need to be worked upon, those things are done in PPM.

I believe most clients would actually prefer Jira rather than PPM.

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PS
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did scan the market. We evaluated Planisware. There were products like Planview or Clarizen. There were pretty good products from the top tier that we looked into.

Product-wise, Planview was very good. Even Planisware was very good. Planview was a bit better than Micro Focus, but one of the key things was the capability to deliver and come up with innovative solutions. That's where the flexibility of Micro Focus is quite good.

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it_user568059 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees

We had evaluated various products such as Microsoft EPM and Oracle Project Management solutions, but we found this tool to be more user friendly as compared to others. It also has a straightforward implementation.

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it_user671394 - PeerSpot reviewer
Resource manager

I'm pretty sure they looked at alternatives. I don't know what products were involved in the pre-study. They chose HPE, which was Mercury back then.

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AM
Sr. Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

None, PPM as always.

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CT
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

CA Clarity, IBM, and Microsoft. Did not evaluate Planview that time.

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JH
Board of Directors; Treasurer at a marketing services firm

We evaluated other solutions.

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it_user704031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director Benelux at a tech services company

Customer (ArcelorMittal) has considered 69 solutions for the evaluation, coming thru multiple selection, to short list and demonstrations.

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it_user705723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Budget Management at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Yes, we used a benchmark study and evaluated different options.

One of the main constraints was that HPE and HPI were the same company back then when we implemented. This was definitely one of the factors that made us choose HPE PPM over the other products (the plus functionality I described earlier).

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it_user704010 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT PMO at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It should have been evaluated. We don’t know before.

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it_user674352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our biggest competitors are MS Project Server, CA Clarity, and JIRA.

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OpenText Project and portfolio Management
March 2024
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