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    IBM Targetprocess

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AIBM Targetprocess is a Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) SaaS that connects strategy, funding, and execution. It helps enterprises prioritize work, dynamically allocate resources, and continuously adapt plans. With real-time visibility and financial insights, organizations can deliver faster, clearer business outcomes.N/A

    Planview PPM Pro

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Planview PPM Pro is a cloud-based project portfolio management product that gives PMO leaders, project managers, and resource managers a centralized system to manage project portfolios, resources, work intake, financials, and reporting in one place. Portfolio and Project Management Organizations manage their full project inventory, including proposals, active projects, programs, and portfolios, within a single structured system …N/A
    Pricing
    IBM TargetprocessPlanview PPM Pro
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    IBM TargetprocessPlanview PPM Pro
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional Details—PPM Pro offers flexible pricing based on user types.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM TargetprocessPlanview PPM Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Planview
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    90%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
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    97%
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
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    94%
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    Features
    IBM TargetprocessPlanview PPM Pro
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of IBM Targetprocess and Planview PPM Pro
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    6.8
    41 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Planview PPM Pro
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    Ratings
    Task Management7.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts6.929 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling6.532 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology5.236 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management7.329 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.430 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management6.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search5.137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools6.438 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of IBM Targetprocess and Planview PPM Pro
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    6.4
    42 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Planview PPM Pro
    -
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    DevOps Tool Integrations7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review6.724 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Collaboration6.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation5.235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers5.741 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Planview AgilePlace
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Microsoft Project Server
    Score5.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview AgilePlace
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM TargetprocessPlanview PPM Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (49 ratings)
    8.8
    (68 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    6.3
    (12 ratings)
    7.2
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM TargetprocessPlanview PPM Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Apptio Targetprocess is well suited to track work and progress of that work. In addition it is easy to tie that work to OKRs. Cost and hours rollup across the work hierarchy works well. Our users like the flexibility of Targetprocess and the ability to develop their own views and reports Scenarios where it is less appropriate is to do executive level reporting and develop reports that can pull in all of our time data since there is a 300k record limit
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    Planview
    PPMPro is well suited for tracking new product introduction projects, as well as process changes. It serves to reliably track ongoing action items, issues, resource allocations for projects. Areas where PPMPro is less appropriate for use: Project to project dependencies, automating action item notifications on multiple platforms, integrations of PPMPro into other platforms PMO typically uses (like MS Projects, Teams, ppt, etc)
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Extremely flexible: We are able to setup work for different groups in ways that work best for them.
    • Fantastic support group: They are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I enjoy working with them.
    • Automation: Their automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time.
    • Customizing screens: We can go into code for the different entities, move fields around or hide them, add tabs or additional sections as needed to make for a streamlined user experience.
    • Reporting: Their reporting is flexible and phenomenal. There are so many different ways to pull data and the interface is easy to use.
    • Their user guide is well built and extremely helpful.
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    Planview
    • New request workflow/kanban board helps visualize where new requests are in the process of the quote to cash/request to completion
    • The time tracking tool is tied directly to project tasks for seamless integration of time tracking, estimates, and actuals
    • The reporting capabilities and ease of use has allowed us visibility to data that we never had before
    • The tool is easily configurable by Administrators. We can add fields, change reports, add new dashboards within hours vs. days of trying to track things manually
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • The UI is bit complex for new users who never used it. i think this can be sorted out by providing the steps to access?
    • dashboards with large datasets can cause performance lags or timeouts
    • Introduce more flexible, template-based RBAC configurations.
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    Planview
    • The base API is not a REST based interface and is difficult to use for integration with other systems in the enterprise.
    • The UI for the maintenance of the task schedule for projects can be a bit cumbersome , although the spreadsheet style editor helps somewhat. The Gantt view is not interactive.
    • The workflow engine is designed only for initial project intake, and does not allow for an integration of the work flow with the project from start to end, so it can't be used for routing artifacts like change requests, ancillary project approvals, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Targetprocess is the most flexible application for tracking work among teams that we have found. This power comes from near limitless ability to customize your views on the work tracked in the system, and from the myriad reporting options to draw metrics and stats out of the data there. Custom fields, processes, and mashups all add to this flexibility and appeal.
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    Planview
    Because I never evaluated other tools, I would be open to considering others. Given our establishment with Innotas and the value it has provided us, separating from it would cause some organizational discomfort. However, if a tool existed with a more intuitive interface for manipulating the data and factors of projects and resources, I would be very interested.
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Overall Targetprocess's usability is good. the tool is easy to use and has features which most BUs and organizations can use. Additional features like AI integration would help the tool and its overall usability. providing additional dashboards for specific roles and executives within the tool would benefit Targetprocess with its scale
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    Planview
    PPM Pro has very effective process capabilities around Project, Demand, and Resource Management as well as Reporting/Dashboards. Very stable platform, never any downtime. We now also have PPM Pro Sandbox which we have leveraged for any new major developments such as Request Management.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Some minor outages are experienced, though these tend to pass within an hour usually and work can continue
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    Planview
    Innotas is very rarely down if at all.
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Reports are fast loading, considering they can refresh in a second or less and we have 7 years of work tracked in over 40k entities. Pages can load slowly when the views are very busy, but not frustratingly. I am a console user most of my career and generally prefer it over webUI interfaces, but Targetprocess won me over from the beginning and I spend half my day using it now.
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    Planview
    No issues with overall response time and performance. There have been some occasions where a Report could take few minutes to render but this is vary rare. No integration issues...
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    TargetProcess' support is one of its strengths. The support team is very responsive and helpful when there is a problem but they're also proactive in providing good release notes and engaging with the community through a voting scheme to influence the priority of new features.
    The team also releases new versions frequently with new features but with no knock-ons to currently working features.
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    Planview
    Their ability to assist and answer questions when needed is incredible. They create innovative ways to share information and help customers trouble shoot. I didn't give it a ten because I believe they could do a better job of personally reaching out to customers and providing improvement guidance based on where the customer is at and their needs at the time
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    In-Person Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    Tim Srjezter was an excellent trainer.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    You should take some time to get everyone to agree how the system should be setup before work starts being tracked in Targetprocess, this avoids difficult and disruptive changes to processes or plugins later when everyone relies on it daily.
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    Planview
    It's been since 2009. A lot has changed. We have not grown as much as we could have because of executive backing.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I would say TargetProcess is an incredibly wonderful tool. As compare to JIRA Software, it is a fully featured product. It fulfills all my business needs. Tracking efficiency of this application is quite favorable
    in order to track all the details from a certain project in just a few minutes.
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    Planview
    Microsoft Project does not integrate the data or provide meaningful dashboards. We needed a tool that could manage a portfolio of projects versus just a single project view. In addition we needed a tool to track financials and internal effort all integrated into one product. Planview PPM Pro addressed all of our needs
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    I have no issues with current licensing and renewal terms...
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We use the hosted version of Targetprocess and have never run into limitations or degraded performance due to scalability. Excellent performance over 7 years!
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    Planview
    We have always used PPM Pro across multiple Business Units and Business Functions and have never encountered any scalability issues. PPM Pro offers flexibility in how the various Entities are configured across the Enterprise
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    Professional Services
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    Very effective and flexible - we obtained a pool of consulting hours that we can use at any time over 12 month period. Consulting topics can vary as we explore new functionalities in PPM Pro. Very easy to schedule ad-hoc time with PPM Pro consultant
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • No direct positive business ROI has caused executive leadership to play down use of the tool
    • We are hoping to use this to track progress of OKRs and business strategy, but don't have but in from executives on the value of this yet.
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    Planview
    • Planview PPM directs all the resources in the right channel, hence, credible performance.
    • Planview PPM initiates proper time, and resource tracking and hence is friendly for company functions.
    • Planview PPM is competent in managing diverse projects, and this offers highly sustainable business continuity.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Targetprocess Screenshots

    Screenshot of Resource Management: Reduces risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demandScreenshot of Program Management: To deliver value throughout a strategic portfolioScreenshot of Portfolio Budgeting: Shifting from project to product fundingScreenshot of Strategic Planning: Continuously links work, labor, and investments to business strategyScreenshot of Workforce ManagementScreenshot of Work

    Planview PPM Pro Screenshots

    Screenshot of What-If scenario planning for analyzing resource capacity and demand.Screenshot of Portfolio Prioritization using Predictive AnalyticsScreenshot of a true top-down portfolio structure to categorize and align work to corporate goals and objectives.Screenshot of resource focused dashboards and reports that enable complete visibility of where resources are being deployed and the demand for them in the future.Screenshot of configurable reports and dashboards that can be shared among team members or stakeholders.Screenshot of Portfolio Prioritization using Predictive Analytics.