We've always used PPM. We've used different versions and seen it grow up.

I worked with several project management solutions. Typically, Micro Focus is an added tool, not a replacement for an existing product. For example, many of my customers were doing project management using Excel spreadsheets before they adopted PPM, so they had no project management tool in the beginning.

Along with PPM, we have been using Jira. The Agile methodology came into the market maybe six years or seven years ago and recently started catching up. That's when people started using Agile tools like Jira along with PPM, because what PPM offers, Jira doesn't offer, and what Jira offers, PPM is not quite there.

Before we had Micro Focus PPM, we used Microsoft Project Professional and we had a lot of constraints regarding resource management. It only gave us a project management module, it didn't have other types of management or the ability to implement a lot of customization.

Our management team wanted to link demand management and project management, meaning once we had a proposal or a demand, and it became a project, they needed a link between those two modules in one system. So they decided to move to Micro Focus PPM. We have removed the Microsoft solution from the environment.

I've used other solutions. We used CA Clarity in the past. It was a good product, but with the Broadcom acquisition, the overall focus on CA Clarity has gone down. So, overall, you don't see a lot of traction in the way the product is being developed. Hence, we made a switch.

Initially, we were not using any other solution; for us, it was a manual process.

However, we have been using this product for the last couple of years and have not switched.

Nope, all PPM.

No.

We did not use a previous solution.

Customer applied HPE PPM to replace their own build solution (ArcelorMittal).

We did not have a previous solution.

We used Excel before. We needed a structural tool to manage our projects, hence, we moved over to this solution.

We used Excel before. We needed a structural tool to manage our projects.

No. We used internal Excel files with macros.

We used to use Excel before. We needed a structural tool to manage our projects.

We were not using a previous solution. Our customers were facing issues, such as hard to implement changes in old tools, no info, slow development, and no resource management. Some customers had Excel. PPM solved these issues.

Our customer was using another product. The older Demand Management tool was hard to develop and not so flexible so we switched over to this product.