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What is Planview AdaptiveWork?
Planview AdaptiveWork is a web-based collaborative work management software. Planview AdaptiveWork enables users to connect employees and partners and create documents, reports and specialized workflow automation. Planview AdaptiveWork is designed to work across multiple teams to enable cross-company task, project,…
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What is Planview AdaptiveWork?
AdaptiveWork is a project portfolio management and professional services automation software to connect and engage the workforce across the enterprise. It enables PMO and professional services teams of all sizes to gain real-time visibility across all their work, automate workflows, and proactively manage risks, to deliver business outcomes.
AdaptiveWork is designed to work across multiple teams to enable cross-company and client task, project, resource, collaboration, and cost and revenue forecasting. It can serve as a single pane of glass to run an organization.
- Plan – track, manage, and prioritize internal and external client work to plan resources
- Analyze and report – create a single line of sight and visibility across internal and external client work and share with stakeholders
- Project and work management – centralize, automate, and optimize planning and administration for all execution to keep teams and customer connected to strategy
- Team delivery – accelerate delivery with multiple ways of working like traditional project, agile, and hybrid, and collaborate with stakeholders using in-context collaboration
- Financial management – capture all financials on projects and work, from labor or non-labor, CAPEX vs OPEX, billable vs. non-billable, and adapt as needs change
- Configurable workflow automation – Trigger actions on literally any item in the system, flexibly
Planview AdaptiveWork Features
- Supported: Demand and Project Planning
- Supported: Capacity and Resource Management
- Supported: Dynamic Reports and Dashboards
- Supported: Automated PowerPoint Reports
- Supported: Risk Management
- Supported: Workflow Automation and Processes
- Supported: Project Templates
- Supported: Hybrid and Agile Work Management
- Supported: In-Context Collaboration
- Supported: Budget, Time and Expense Tracking
- Supported: Revenue Forecasting
- Supported: Rate Cards
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Planview AdaptiveWork Integrations
- Box
- Google Drive
- Salesforce
- JIRA
- MS Microsoft Visual Studio TFS
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Planview AdaptiveWork Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
| Supported Languages | English, French, Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch |
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Planview AdaptiveWork is a web-based collaborative work management software. Planview AdaptiveWork enables users to connect employees and partners and create documents, reports and specialized workflow automation. Planview AdaptiveWork is designed to work across multiple teams to enable cross-company task, project, and resource management.
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The most common users of Planview AdaptiveWork are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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December 14, 2018
The Single Most Important Thing You Need To Know About CLARIZEN
Clarizen is used across our entire organization for client project management, project financial reporting, and time and expense reporting. We use it as a core project management tool for our professional solutions, as well as for internal projects and time management.
- Highly customizable, can develop organization specific workflows, modules, etc.
- Interface (in most instances) is easy to use. Timesheets, project details, and report modules are fairly easy to navigate and understand.
- Good comms tools like discussions, group pages, automatic reminders and notifications.
- Reports can be difficult and confusing to build, and don't have a lot of flexibility in terms of layout or formulas.
- Expense reporting module is not user friendly, lacks ease of use of most competeing tools.
- Mobile app is limited in functionality and difficult to navigate.
- Integration with CRM and accounting tools can be difficult and costly, especially if you have customized your Clarizen build.
November 30, 2017
Clarizen too clouded by gratuitous features
Clarizen was implemented across the whole company when I started working here. It was used for time tracking, timesheet submission and client workload accountability. It addressed the problem of tracking time across multiple client projects in an accountable way for the HR team but was not well liked by the general users.
- Clarizen's timesheet submission process was straightforward.
- Searching for projects/time codes was easy.
- Clarizen tried to offer workplace management and communication features, though we did not use them.
- The user interface could use work, it's very busy.
- For our purposes, Clarizen had too much going on. We did not use the "status" or chat features, it should try to focus on doing some things very well instead of being an all-in-one offering.
November 22, 2017
Clarizen review
Clarizen is used through most of our business to push work orders through from salesforce and assign work to resources throughout the company. It helps to provide structure and organize when projects are going to complete.
- It is easy to set dependencies for tasks throughout larger projects to know when a resource finishes a piece of the project when the next part will begin
- It is easy to save off project templates to be used for common projects
- Clarizen conversations and logging information is fairly easy to use through the site.
- I still use reporting through salesforce. It seems to be a lot harder to use in clarizen the few times I have tried to use it.
- It would be great if attachments on the salesforce Work orders automatically attached and pulled through to clarizen so we dont have to upload them twice.
November 22, 2017
Clarizen, great for project management across large orgnizations
Our company has hundreds of projects running at the same time. Clarizen is used for planning out work weeks, time tracking and internal communication across teams.
- Resource Allocation - Understand how many projects are going at once, forecasts how many hours are needed to complete a project and understand which resource is the best fit for the project.
- Internal Communication - Clarizen allows for a place to discuss specific tasks or projects between the project team. The ability to leave notes on the task level allows the entire team to review decision points and helpful information that has caused a delay.
- Gantt charts and combining all projects our company is working on to view at an overall level could be better.
- Better/easier connectivity with other 3rd party software that we use on a day to day basis would be helpful.
November 17, 2017
Clarizen - All the bells and whistles in a complicated interface
Clarizen was used by my marketing agency as a way to manage employee bookings, track time and manage travel arrangements. There were many functions of Clarizen that we didn't use, but it was a way for us to see which resources (people) had availability to work on upcoming projects and also keep track of individual time on multiple projects (most people were working on many tasks at once).
- Make it possible to see current and future bookings of all resources.
- Serve as a central hub for timekeeping and travel arrangements.
- Make it easy to keep track of your own personal time spent on projects.
- The interface was hard to navigate (e.g., you'd have to click multiple times to get to some of the screens you needed to use most).
- It was a relatively complicated system to learn so it created the need for lots of onboarding.
- Most people in my office found it frustrating to use and overly complicated for what we needed it to do.
November 17, 2017
Clarizen makes it easy!!!!
Our team uses Clarizen as a project management tool. It helps us set up timelines for our clients. Our users can make sure the project remains on track, lets them enter notes and we can also see the status of other projects for the same client within our company.
- Ease of use - Clarize is really user-friendly and easy to learn.
- Very customizable - Clarizen can be customized in many different ways and even has workflows that automate tasks for you.
- Customer Service - Clarizen customer service is always friendly and helpful.
- Workflows sometimes don't run.
- Disconnect between project and task levels.
August 02, 2017
Good overall, great support, great webinars
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Clarizen in the services team.
- User interface
- Options to view data in different ways
- Integrations
- Social
- Tracking
- Project Management
- Reports
- Ease of use
September 26, 2016
Clarizen is Effective But could use slight improvment
Clarizen is being used by all account managers. It helps identify resource conflicts and helps with timeline management.
- Identify timeline. Clarizen is very appropriate for timeline management and keeping tasks on schedule.
- Easily transferable to other colleagues. Our company requires transparency through projects and Clarizen is great at that.
- Revenue reporting. Clarizen has many features that allow for accurate and timely revenue projections and revenue recognition.
- It's very program heavy. There is a lot of coding. If this could be simplified I think that would be great
- There's so much in it, I don't think it's clear on its capabilities. So many features are being lost. I think we need to improve the communication with our point of contact at Clarizen to explain other features. We may know all that are applicable to use, I'm not sure.
- The layout could use very slight modifications. There is often a lot being displayed that can be overlooked.
February 03, 2016
Clarizen availability for any user
Our organization primarily uses Clarizen through Professional Services. It is used to manage all the accounts of the customers.
- Easy organization of customs.
- Easy customization.
- Easily accessible by all parties regardless of if they are in the field or office, being cloud-based is a huge advantage.
- More functionality for UI customization
- Easier navigation and ability to limit users to certain aspects
- Slow response times
November 12, 2015
Highly Configurable SaaS Tool with Great Overall Value
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- The Clarizen tool (V6) is likely the most configurable SaaS tool available in the PPM world - especially when it comes to the user interface. Meeting a company's need for custom fields & workflows to support unique processes is a major selling point of the tool.
- Training and support for the tool is nearly unprecedented - there is high involvement from Clarizen staff to ensure both Administrators & End-Users have the assistance they need to utilize the breadth and depth of the offering in both a highly usable & highly available manner.
- I believe one of Clarizen's strongest points of appeal is that it seems to be able to uniquely meet the needs of the SMB all the way up to true enterprise requirements for PMO's.
- While V6 has brought with it a phenomenal amount of customization of the entire user-interface, I think there is a need for Clarizen to strike a better balance in providing a greater set of pre-configured interface & workflow options for those organizations that don't need that level customization, as it can be overwhelming.
- The weakest point of Clarizen today in my mind is the "interactive" Gantt - it is surprisingly limited in configuration options and somewhat clunky in its current design.
- -- That being said, I know that within 2014 they have committed to rolling out a new interactive Gantt consistent with their updated HTML5 UI overhaul and based on the innovation updates, looks very promising.
- Though it's understandable from the need to "support" the infrastructure (and from a revenue perspective, I'm sure), I think the current licensing limitations on workflow rules, but more importantly custom field creation, as well as the process by which those limitations are "calculated" is a little convoluted.
- The mobile "app" is desperately in need of some work - it does very little in terms of value of end-users.
- -- Again, that being said, I know that within 2014 they have committed to rolling out a new mobile app that more consistent with the main UI standards.
November 11, 2015
Clarizen grants flexibility without sacrifice
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Clarizen merges a host of project, resource, and time management tools under one, integrated solution.
- It improves visibility to our performance data. Up until now, we've had to use custom solutions or time consuming deep-dives to find out the facts.
- It doesn't give good direction for how to do the things it does well. Some other PSA software have a method they ask you to adopt. Clarizen is almost too flexible out of the box, but it's also a strength.
November 11, 2015
Clarizen - A PMO's Best Friend
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Clarizen is currently being utilized by the Tulare County Information and Communications Technology Departments PMO for project management. When we made the selection and subsequent move to Clarizen we were using Sciforma (PSNext) which held many problems that needed to be solved. For example:
- A lack of project metrics, which led to “guesswork” on behalf of project managers and the PMO
- Weak or non-existent effort data, which made it impossible to accurately track time spent on projects
- An absence of work notes -- the PMO had no idea what was going on outside of weekly project meetings
- Sciforma was only being used by PMO staff and not by project teams
- Resource Utilization, Considering prior to using Clarizen resource utilization was guesswork on the part of the Project Manager I would have to say having any realistic visibility much less the excellent level Clarizen provides is only to be said as exceptional.
- Clarizen API, We made heavy use of the API integrating Clarizen with two core systems already in use at TCiCT. We integrated actual effort with Service-Now and our homegrown time management software.
- Project Reporting, Clarizen provides an excellent built in reporting tool that as of late is only getting better with the ability to create custom dashboards directly through the software. Providing management with well laid out project metric data is as important as keeping your project on schedule.
- Honestly I am so impressed with what Clarizen can do I haven't had time to stop and think about what it doesn't. If I had to pick something I would say it could provide a graphical interface for simple workflow rules.
May 05, 2015
Clarizen: The Tie That Binds
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Clarizen is used to manage and coordinate activities for a portfolio of projects utilizing a shared resource pool. Prior solutions could not adequately manage resource workload. Clarion offers high-level and detailed views so we know that projects will be completed on time.
- Resource planning
- Reporting
- Ad hoc queries
- Advanced project management
- Assigning multiple managers to work items
- License structure supports anemic customization capabilities (Professional) or robust (Enterprise); nothing in between.
April 08, 2015
Clarizen Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Allows you to generate projects for any accounts that you're working with and mark each task complete as they are finished.
- Allows you to create templates for specific product offerings to be re-used when a new project for the product begins.
- Allows you to track time spent on a project (this can be done either at the project or the task level)
- Allows you to generate status reports that will be e-mailed to you and then you can edit and forward to the client/team members
- Allows you to generate customized reports
- I would like to see an improved Issues Log that is more easily maintainable for each project.
- I would like to see the roadmap that can be shared with a client be formatted more like a high level project plan
April 07, 2015
Clarizen Review - Alorica
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Clarizen is utilized by all departments in the organization to manage projects large and small of both internal and external nature. Clarizen addresses the core business problem of collaborative project implementations through an easy and user friendly solution. The application is accessible both via the web and mobile devices providing extraordinary flexibility to the project team thus bypassing long interval updates.
- Social collaboration - Clarizen's platform allows project participants to interact in real-time through a plethora of channels.
- Reporting and Dashboards - Clarizen provides a flexible reporting and dashboard approach that provides a wealth of information at your fingertips.
- Process automation - Scheduled workflow rules allow for increased efficiency for report automation, change/risk management and project accuracy.
- Backend UI - At times Clarizen can be complicated to customize requiring a higher than normal skillset and or/professional service engagement.
- Exchange Integration - Clarizen does not have a exchange integration option which requires users to navigate away from the platform.
- Training - Clarizen training curriculum is not current (YouTube, Clarizen University, etc) which leaves a gap in implementation and or ongoing support.
March 30, 2015
Clarizen - best project management program I have seen
Clarizen is currently being implemented in our organization to manage new projects and change management procedures.
- Clarizen provides an up to date format for easy user interaction.
- It allows visibility of project status to help minimize email traffic.
- It allows external customers access to specific projects to allow them to stay on top of the projects with you.
- The on-boarding experience helped us stay on track to implement the program into our company.
- It was difficult to determine what level company participants should be in order to be the most effective but least costly.
- The sales team could be a little pushy to get you signed on with in a certain time frame.
- There was some confusion about upgrade potential and capability to down grade if necessary.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Flexible, intuitive, but with the right balance of controls. This features in this product allow us to enable business processes as we grow.
- You really need to know what you want and how your users will work in the system; the flexibility can be both a strength and a weakness.
March 16, 2015
SaaS Project Management Software is the present and future - Clarizen is representative of that belief
Clarizen was first implemented to fulfill a need within the Web Production/ Web Marketing organization as a way to manage KTLO activities. It quickly morphed in the central tool for managing all work streams, programs, projects and maintenance. With our success of using it to ring a multi-year, multi-million dollar project to market, several other groups/ PMOs within the organization took interest and began adopting Clarizen. Principally, it allowed for high visibility and predictability into project health, while allowing improved communication within project teams.
- Exceptional UX, with a high degree of client accessible customization allowed us to tailor the experience and workflows to our unique business needs.
- Communication integration and capture, with document association allowed remote/off-shore teams to be more effective. As a more open system we were free to choose a technology for document management that worked best for us; rather than a proprietary system which Clarizen replaced.
- Client engagement; extremely responsive to feature requests, and worked collaboratively with us to match the tool to our needs. I've never worked with a professional services team who was so willing to teach me how to fish when it came to running and customizing the tool.
- They may have already addressed this since I last worked with the tool; agile and particularly hybrid project methods are becoming more common. Their initial capability in 2013 was a little weak in this area when compared to software specific tools such as Jira.
At my current job, I use Clarizen for project management. I have a project created for each client and tasks within those projects to help keep me on task. Most of our departments use Clarizen for project management; there are only two departments that do not (sales and lead management). Clarizen helps address organizational issues that can occur when a company has too many clients or projects. It allows us to keep other departments on task and to review each other's workload.
- Clarizen is extremely user friendly.
- The program keeps track of your progress on any project or task.
- Clarizen can be fully customized to fit your business.
- One of the areas where I could see improvement would be that the program allows you to know if you are falling behind on a project, it will say "At Risk". I would like for it to go into detail telling how many of those tasks are late. I think that would help eliminate additional time and additional filters.
- For specific tasks which have a certain turnaround time, it would be nice if the turnaround time auto-populated.
- Rarely, when an email is sent out through a project or task, there is an error message stating that the email never sent. But, I will receive the email anyway. Probably just a small bug that needs fixing.
March 09, 2015
I wish we used Clarizen at my current job
Clarizen was used in my time as a college student in a project management course. I was assigned a team of students and our team was asked to manage a project using Clarizen. It was selected by the professor to be used after direct comparisons with competing project management software.
- Easy to use.
- Easy to assign roles and tasks.
- Easy to change projects based on interconnecting tasks.
- Great looking Gantt charts.
- Multiple projects should be easier to sort through and keep track of.
- Allow for specific people to be able to alter specific things instead of giving control only to PM (Ex. One user assigns budget, one user assigns tasks, etc.).
- Make it easier to customize project screen.
March 07, 2015
Clarizen PM Tool
Clarizen is used by 113 IT project managers from technology and procurement departments (not all organization). We use this product to manage procurement contract plans and technology projects. Overall it is a good product, but is lacking some resource management functionality and project governance processes.
- Easy to use. People can learn pretty fast.
- Only PMs have to have full license. All other resources/team members can use free e-mail license to update their projects.
- Project Schedule can be shared with anyone via widget (free).
- Customized reporting.
- Resource Management, What if scenarion analysis.
March 06, 2015
Clarizen for Project Management Ease
Clarizen was used at my company as a project management tool to help increase the efficient of launching a new product. It allowed us to see any "road bumps" that we would occur through the product development. This was used by marketing, engineering, and upper management. Management used it at a very high level to understand the product development timeline, resources needed, and potential issues that may occur. Marketing and engineering used it to understand who was responsible for which task, the timeline for the task, and the potential delay that may occur if the timeline was not met.
- Very easy to use and understand. No need to lose valuable time training for hours on product use.
- Email reminders ensured all employees understood their tasks and the timeline of their tasks.
- The interface was not always appeasing and easy to navigate.
March 06, 2015
Clarizen, Keep it up!
Clarizen was implemented as a Web 2.0 collaborative planning tool, where the teams can update the status of progress on their own. We implemented our roadmap projects planning on Clarizen. It was used by only team heads, because of the limited budget, although this limitation was mentioned now and again. The business problem it solves is at the project management level, and provides real time visibility of the status of the projects.
- Intuitive interface, flexibility of customizing interface.
- Clean interface, where you can focus on the tasks to do.
- Dashboards is a big strength.
- Its ability to notify if someone is online!
- They can improve on Gantt charts.
- They can improve on including Kanban boards.
- They can add screen sharing as a feature.
February 04, 2015
You Really Need To Use Clarizen For Your Project Management!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is being used by most of the people in our organization across several departments. It solves our problem of accurately tracking the many projects we concurrently develop and allows us to better manage our project resources. It is improving our efficiency and also our project profitability. It was a good choice and we are pleased with our decision to purchase Clarizen over the other competing products.
- Resource Management is much more straight forward and aligning project lifecycles with resource availability
- Gives a graphical and numeric look to project status and utilizations
- Is easy to setup and use
- Solves time tracking and project management within the same application
- Allowing for multiple project managers on the same project would be nice.
- Build the user manual link within the application.
- More interactive relationship with Salesforce.
November 26, 2014
The Go to Project Portfolio Tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Clarizen is by far an excellent tool for communication in highly virtualized organizations.
- Clarizen is very intuitive, easy to learn, and fun.
- Clarizen's support staff is by far the best I have worked with.
- Clarizen is ever evolving towards excellence.
- Takes a while for users to acclimate to the GUI.
- Clarizen is a web only product.
- No option for a self hosted version.