Planview Daptiv Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pros

It is easy to use, configure and extracting data is not a problem anymore.

Cons

Cognos reporting could be simpler.

Pros

It is cloud-based software with frequent product updates. It offers a portfolio view of projects and programs, an enterprise risk registry and a knowledge base for lessons learned. The Cognos backend provides robust reporting capabilities.

Cons

The onboarding and offboarding processes for staff are not well developed. It would be helpful to have the capability to add start and termination dates to simplify staff administration when they join or leave the organization. Currently, we rely on workarounds that are not ideal. The task boards are only useful within individual projects which limits their usefulness for teams managing multiple projects simultaneously. There is a lack of a scrum board at the portfolio or team level. Additionally, the connectors to JIRA and other external systems are costly.

Pros

Daptiv PPM is a valuable tool that keeps me organized while managing multiple projects.

Cons

There are certain limitations when it comes to changing the workspace type after a request is submitted which increases the effort required to process a request.

Pros

The usability is excellent and you can start using it out of the box.

Cons

I have nothing to add here as we are happy and progressing very well.

Pros

Things I like the most are that he navigation is not a problem, configuring the tool is a breeze and the reporting functionality is mature.

Cons

There are some features that are missing for more advanced reporting (specifically SPI & CPI), but I have already raised requests to have them resolved.

Pros

The tool is highly intuitive and requires minimal training for our engineering and program community. It also requires very little maintenance. We can aggregate and analyze data, creating custom dashboards that provide meaningful and actionable insights from large data sets.

Cons

So far, there's nothing! We are now moving on to phase 2 where we plan to utilize more of the existing functionality.

Pros

This tool allows us to precisely plan projects and resources while demonstrating data-driven results to our business. It has saved us both time and money, facilitating seamless planning, delivery and reporting.

Cons

There is nothing I dislike. The constant evolution by the change point team ensures that the product continues to impress.

Pros

I am confident that all users and customers would agree that Daptiv is an easy and user-friendly tool.

Cons

The only thing I feel it lacks is a bulk delete option for workspaces. Sometimes we create numerous workspaces for testing purposes and individually deleting them takes up a lot of time.

Pros

We now have a single system for all our project management tasks, including task and milestone tracking, document repository, timekeeping and reporting. The system is reliable and user friendly. Resource capacity planning and allocation are easily visible in a single view.

Cons

Due to the initial setup, we are facing challenges in expanding to another department. It is a work in progress but it may have potential impacts on milestones and project tasks that will require modifications.

Pros

The ease of use and configurability of the software drive standardization and enable integrations with other systems. It supports the maturation of resource management capabilities and its potential is limitless based on your PPM requirements.

Cons

There are currency limitations for the global market and some restrictions in the task planning module make it less user-friendly when assigning percentages instead of hours by resource. The portfolio views are also limited.