OpenText Project and portfolio Management Scalability

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

It's very scalable. That's one of the things that I like about it. You can change it and move around and make it work for you.

We have over 2,500 users.

I expect our usage will increase. Right now, it's being used by all of our IT department. Our usage has already increased from when we initially rolled it out. Prior to us moving to the cloud solution, it was used by about half of our organization that was focused on our eligibility systems. Then we opened it up to our IT business areas to use for time tracking and now it has been rolled out to the entire IT department. As we keep growing and continue to use the tool, we'll find more uses for it and that will definitely increase the number of users.

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Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Director, Share Holder at Marco Technology

Micro Focus PPM is scalable. My largest customer has more than 300 users. 

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

It's scalable.

I work for various clients. Some of them have a user base of 20,000, and for some it is 30,000. But the admin portion or the developer portion of it would have 10 or 15 people at most. The largest percentage of users is actually the timesheet users, with 5,000 users in project management.

We use all the modules of PPM. We try to use almost all its features. Portfolio management is the space where we are trying to consume all of its offered features, slowly. We are trying to have more and more users adopt it. We are trying to increase its scope.

Micro Focus is adding features to PPM that they feel are important to future versions. But when, as clients, we try to tell them that they should also work on XYZ enhancements, they always come up with the answer that their backlog is full and they cannot tell us when our enhancements will be implemented. They do come up with some new features, but they're quite slow in incorporating the enhancements requested by clients.

There have been a lot of improvements in the space of portfolio management, in the space of integrations with external tools, for example. There have been improvements in the reporting capabilities of PPM as well. In the initial days, it was just the JSP reports or the HTML reports or types of portlets. But over the years they have included Excel and some other dashboards.

Their updated features and innovations are important. Even though we are not very satisfied with some of the functionality, the kinds of UI improvements and features they have added have helped us carry on with the tool.

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Mahmoud NourElDin - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM Consultant at Vodafone

The scalability has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with it. We have about 200 users who use it for project management, timesheets, and some business resources.

We are using version 9.41 of PPM, but we are working on building our roadmap to upgrade to the next one. We are planning to have multiple instances of the platform, so we are investing in the product. But up until now, we have only been using one instance.

We are going to discover what Micro Focus' ability is to add and update features in the new version. But what we have seen from the demos is that they have added many valuable features for resource management and financial management and KPIs.

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KL
Project and Portfolio Management Governance and Support at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is excellent. We have at least 10,000 users working with PPM, including employees who use it for timesheets and project managers. We plan to increase usage. For example, only technology teams use PPM for timesheets, but they plan to get the business project staff to use the timesheet features, too. It hasn't been deployed yet, but it's under discussion. The user base will most likely increase. 

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Attila Mozes - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at provalida GmbH

It's very easy to build up and is very straightforward.

We have 30 users in our company.

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MM
Manager application development at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Initially, we purchased the product for 80 users, and now we have almost 2300 to 2400 users. So, it's been very scalable; very easy to scale.

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

The product is scalable.

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it_user671394 - PeerSpot reviewer
Resource manager

By US standards, we're a small company with about 1100 users. We have no issues. We don't need to change the scale much. We're using an on-premises solution and that's been without issues.

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

Nope, absolutely none, we have the right infrastructure.

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Islam Bayraktar - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM Services Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is also scalable and has good guidelines and recommendations for hardware sizing. 

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it_user648759 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Systems at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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Shirish C - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 5,001-10,000 employees

Yes, when it comes to resource management and time management, it is very slow.

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

Sometimes, yes. That might depend on the Windows environment.

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JH
Board of Directors; Treasurer at a marketing services firm

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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

Idem to previous answer, except some calculations for the nontrivial financial reports.

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it_user674328 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user674328 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user705723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Budget Management at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user704010 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT PMO at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it_user674352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user704016 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant

There were no scalability issues.

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Buyer's Guide
OpenText Project and portfolio Management
April 2024
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