Planview Daptiv

Easy and value for money.

Pros

This PPM tool is essential for us as it is effortless to use and offers great functionality.

Cons

The things I have notices is that there are few limitations on certain desired transactions that you need to be aware of.

Changepoint PPM - Personal opinion

Pros

The services provided are excellent and the value for money is commendable. I highly recommend it based on my experience.

Cons

In my opinion, this product holds value and gets the job done. If you ask me for ways to improve it right now I would say there are none as it fulfills my work requirements.

Changepoint PPM has revolutionized my resource management

Pros

The Team Manager feature has been very helpful in planning my team's resources. It has significantly contributed to their mental well being by preventing overbooking. The timesheets have also proven to be very useful.

Cons

Occasionally, it can be slow especially in the area where you can forecast resource usage across all projects. I also believe it could benefit from more visual indicators for over or under allocation.

Bang for your buck

Pros

Daptiv is a highly configurable and feature-rich PPM software that offers excellent visibility into project, program and portfolio status. It allows for seamless management of simple or complex projects and programs through a unified user interface, making tracking, analysis, forecasting and planning effortless. The ability to customize data output is only limited by ones imagination.

Cons

One downside of Daptiv is the frequency of support cases that need to be submitted due to unexpected errors or known issues that are yet to be resolved. Generally, you have to find workarounds until the problems are fixed. The software is quite expensive and although most support cases are resolved fairly quickly (within a day or two), recurring or unresolved issues make the price harder to justify.

daptiv review

Pros

The web application performs well and at a great speed. It is also simple to use.

Cons

This things I feel are lacking are the ability to do resource management per department across multiple projects. There are also limitations in calculations within the dynamic applications and you cannot view different parts of the same project simultaneously on the screen.

Plenty of features, but with a learning curve

Pros

The system is built on established project management concepts (PMI) such as tasks, profiles, change management, issues, risks and capacity management. It offers wide customization options across the entire system. The standard reports provided allow comprehensive project analysis. The Cognos reporting feature is exceptionally powerful. Users can openly request new functionalities on a shared board, allowing visibility, voting, and collaboration.

Cons

Learning Cognos reporting can be challenging if you are not familiar with SQL. The system doesn't have standard/native recognition of project geography (if you need reports based on that concept). While the portfolio management feature is powerful it could still use improvements in terms of ease of use (expect a significant upgrade in 2020). Additionally, the licensing is based on users rather than seats.

PPM Software that grows with your organisation

Pros

The ease of configuration and reporting is notable. We started with a relatively low level of maturity in project, program and portfolio management, so we initially customized a low-complexity system to meet user needs and manage change and adoption. Over the years we have been able to develop new functionality, registers and reports in-house, introducing them when users were ready. This approach allowed us to offer advanced features to complex programs while maintaining an intuitive interface and process for smaller projects.

Cons

While efforts are being made to improve agile functionality, there is still a gap between Daptiv task boards and some of the other agile planning tools available. Hopefully this will continue to improve in the future.

Flexible and well supported

Pros

Daptiv has the capability to meet all our diverse requirements for portfolio and project management and reporting. Regular updates continuously improve the user experience. The provided support is top notch and the staff genuinely aims to assist us.

Cons

It can be slow particularly when running specific reports.

Daptiv Is A Solid PPM Tool

Pros

The administrative and user configuration capabilities of Daptiv facilitate support for our processes which also adapts to our execution methodology instead of dictating a change. User impersonation is a priceless troubleshooting and monitoring feature, allowing quick identification of user experiences.

Cons

There are very limited program management capabilities when it comes to updating a program based on changes in child projects. The tasks also need to behave more like MS Project.

Feedback

Pros

It effectively serves its purpose for basic WBS planning.

Cons

It would be great if this could function as a more comprehensive roadmap and portfolio planning tool.