Planview AdaptiveWork

Formerly Planview Clarizen

If you have a young Project Management Office (PMO), Clarizen fits very well in that scenario, you do not need too much project management experience to make it work for you. Also if you have a PMO with some experience you will find all the capabilities you need in a Project Management (PM) or Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool.

If you need detailed reports on timelines and capacity, Clarizen is the tool for you. Works best if you have a large team/department as it may be overkill for a smaller workforce.

Well suited for the simplicity of business users, and comparable product to higher end expensive tools like MS Project suites. Although not much in the way of reporting and graphical/statistical presentations and scorecarding, it does have an standard API tool to interface with other tools of that trade.

Clarizen is suitable for both projects in PMBOK and AGILE methodologies. If a company is converting to Clarizen from another tool, an evaluation of the number of current projects is needed since moving current projects from other tools to Clarizen might be a challenge. Since of your firm and how many concurrent users will be an issue - need to test in your environment to make sure it can keep up with your overall companies needs.

Clarizen is an excellent program to track projects in a timeline format. It is simple to learn by just using it hands on. If you want to get to a more advanced level of using Clarizen, some training or manual reading may be necessary.

The scenario making Clarizen the best option for the job is one in which there is a corporate environment needing a solid system for projects to be managed well. It is an all around excellent product that makes the entire project management process simple, completely collaborative, and easy to explain to the most basic of computer user. However, non-profit organizations are probably going to need to look elsewhere for a solution due to the current pricing structure.

For project management, this software is exactly what you need. Multiple projects (with subprojects) can be set up and viewed at a glance to evaluate progress. Project specific information and charts can be provided to clients at a moments notice and once set-up, projects are easily copied and used as templates for future work. The devils are always in the details, and there is no shortage in the details that may be incorporated into this system. Depending on your needs, this software can probably do it - it will just take a little time to get everyone on board.

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If the colleague is looking for a system that can handle very complex projects, this is the one. If they are looking for something simple, this suite will likely overwhelm them. If they need to customize anything, this would also be exactly what I would recommend to them. The support staff has been tremendous for us and that would also be a reason I would recommend Clarizen to a colleague.

I would not recommend this product to anyone nor would I consider using it again in the future.

It works great for our company - I'd imagine any company that needs a sophisticated, effective project management tool will be happy with Clarizen.

Very well suited for people who run multiple projects with multiple resources

I believe a younger, more innovative company will enjoy it's social media aspects, ease of use and client transparency. When working with older, more stubborn employees, the system breaks down and becomes frustrating for everyone. This is typical with any new system and change, not necessarily Clarizen's fault, but rather nature of the beast.

The product has simply not been useful enough to me. I don't see myself recommending it for colleagues. This could be a result of poor implementation, and my company not thinking through their objectives for implementation. However, I prefer to manage using microsoft products.

Clarizen is well suited to new companies or those looking to make modest changes to their Project Management. This is a best of breed application that can adapt slightly based on the preferred method of project management. It should not be assumed that it will be able to accommodate every feature a company currently uses to manage projects. Embracing a best of breed system will likely have more positive outcomes even if overall different that what might have been done previously.
Clarizen has excellent support and a great knowledge base for users at any skill level.

I would recommend Clarizen to companies looking for an out of the box solution that just works. It's basic feature set is robust, supports the import of Microsoft Project files, and can have a very positive affect on the efficiency of both managers and employees alike.

Clarizen is a very forgiving system, and it is okay to make a mistake. There is very little you could possibly do that cannot be easily undone (including deleting tasks or entire projects!)

First you have to use Clarizen as a complete and central solution for your project management. You'll need to learn how to work within Clarizen that why I strongly recommend you'll hop on one of a daily Clarizen webinar where experienced Clarizen geek will show you where are all those nice features that will boost your project performance.

The people at Clarizen are great to work with, always willing to help you out and have been more than generous with their time and attention to our needs.

Overall, the product is developed very well. Custom field creation is very straight forward. You don’t have many screens to pass through like in Salesforce.com. It is very user friendly. Workflows and validation rules are a bit more code based than Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com has a much more simple approach/ non-technical. You can do more with Clarizen, but it’s harder. I don’t think they were SAS 70/SSAE 16 compliant yet.