OpenText Project and Portfolio Management vs. Sciforma

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.

Yes, definitely. We wanted a flexible but robust software and Sciforma seemed to be the best fit

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

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• Scheduling tasks.
• Assigning resources and cost items.
• Managing a team.

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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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• The largest con for me is the clunky UI. It's not very intuitive, and has a larger learning curve to become a proficient user.
• Reports are functional, but could use some improvements.
• It can be slow at times, and you have to wait to make sure your changes are saved before moving on.

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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.

This software allows project and portfolio managers to analyze and prioritize projects based on resource allocation and available effort. It helps you compare the sorecast effort with resource availability. You can email, call or tweet them if you have concerns.

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

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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.

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We were looking at vendors but they didn't meet our expectations and weren't flexible enough.

• More Streamlined
• Leadership is very informed now

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• Before Sciforma we were running projects out of Excel and emails. Using a cloud based application means that everyone is viewing information in real time.
• Our executive leadership knows that they have one place to go for a real time status on all of our strategic projects.

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