KeyedIn Enterprise vs. OpenText Project and Portfolio Management

KeyedIn is well suited for a number of projects from IT, Sales, Development and Marketing. It is pretty flexible so implementing it into any number of workflows seems fairly easy due to it's customizability.

Incentivized

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.

• Easy tracking and a 360-degree overview of every ongoing project.
• Allocation of work to employees according to skill level and qualifications.
• Tracking project expenses and actual revenue.

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

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• Update to Color/general Interface
• The Ability to Download All Attachments at Once

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

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

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

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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

It is used to fully automate every stage in the project lifecycle and forecast on resources required to successfully complete projects. It empowers managers to complete projects in time and within the allocated budget. One of the many features that make this platform unique and suitable to many modern businesses is the portfolio management feature.

Incentivized

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

• In the sense that it has assisted in closing projects more quickly so that they may be invoiced for, it seems like the ROI is a pretty quick turnaround
• By breaking out tasks into a well defined workflow it allows for accountability and consistent project delivery across all agents.
• Providing services that the end user feels satisfied with is definitely a top goal. Having well defined workflows has also helped address problems by reducing the variance in each project.

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• More Streamlined
• Leadership is very informed now

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