GenSight Enterprise Portfolio Management vs. OpenText Project and Portfolio Management

GenSight Enterprise Portfolio Management is well suited for companies that want to implement top-down portfolio management capability to analyze risk vs. value, prioritize, optimize balance, maximize value and ensure strategic alignment of the global R&D portfolio. It may not be the best fit for companies that want to implement a bottom-up project management capability to track the status of programs and milestones.

For Project Management, Micro Focus PPM includes all most every feature you need. You can manage your projects using work plans, project health, resource assignments, actuals, and costs. Additionally, you can get required approvals with workflows like sponsor approval or CR approvals. However, at project costing we need to make customizations due to lack of several outsource costs on it.

• The system offers easy system navigation and creation of custom reports.
• The system allows a multitude of project related fact fields enabling a comprehensive understanding of project standing
• The staff is fantastic at working with the clients to make the system as useful as possible.

• Easy to manage tasks among project's stakeholders
• Satifying resource management capabilities
• Complete dashboard (fully customizable screens and integrations)

Incentivized

• Updates to Resource Requirements & Financial Model based on changes to Project Start and Launch Dates
• Flexibility for Portfolio Admins to change attributes
• Flexibility to run ad-hoc reports and integration to visualization tools

• User Interface needs lot of improvement
• Too many clicks required to do the job
• Report creation is horrible

Incentivized

We have many business processes using it along with our project management staff.

Incentivized

GUI needs to be enhanced for today's technical and agile development requirements. It is very cumbersome and out-dated (at some pages)

Incentivized

We have a Change Management Team for internal support of Micro Focus PPM. So, they give close and quick support to our problems. They contact product support when it is necessary. They regularly upgrade the product. Generally, I can say that there is a good support for this product.

Have your methodology defined prior to the vendor coming on board to start any configuration changes.

Incentivized

GenSight was better suited for Integra and was easier to implement.

The vision of supporting DevOps, complementary functionalities with other software products of Micro Focus, native support for agile/waterfall methodologies made Micro Focus to be evaluated as more valuable against other PPM products. The complementary functionality with the other enterprise software products of Micro Focus (ALM, ITSM family etc) especially had a major effect on the selection.

Incentivized

• The system has most certainly setup our business for success and now it's up to us to capitalize on the data contained within.

• More Streamlined
• Leadership is very informed now

Incentivized