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What is IBM Targetprocess?

IBM 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.

Categories & Use Cases

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Resource Management: Reduces risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demand
Program Management: To deliver value throughout a strategic portfolio
Portfolio Budgeting: Shifting from project to product funding
Strategic Planning: Continuously links work, labor, and investments to business strategy
Workforce Management
Work
Corporate Goals
SPM Priorities
SPMCC Finance
SPMCC Funding Request
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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Targetprocess has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 83 ratings of IBM Targetprocess's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Support for Agile Methodology

    Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Resource Management

    Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Timesheet Tracking

    Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Gantt Charts

    Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Support for Waterfall Methodology

    Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.

    Category average: 5.9

  • Search

    Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.

    Category average: 6.2

Reviews

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High scalability...

Incentivized
Julien WadaView profile
Software Engineer in Information Technology at WhistleOut (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, specifically in the technology and information department, we use IBM Targetprocess to monitor all devices and ensure the proper performance and functionality of our infrastructure.

Pros

  • Monitor all devices
  • Report generation
  • Ensure that your infrastructure functions correctly.
  • Performance predictions.

Cons

  • It can improve its ease of use for new users,.

Usability

Return on Investment

  • It integrates seamlessly with AWS billing data for improved cost transparency.

Pretty decent at what it does

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Organize our software backlog and track all the work items done by the various teams. We also track our issues, bugs, dependencies, releases, and more for all of the projects and teams that work within our IT and technology development departments. Dashboards are then used to track progress across these and to see how they influence each other.

Pros

  • Customization
  • Multifaceted
  • Single Source of truth

Cons

  • Automation and detailed views can be complicated to maintain
  • Customization is often at the portfolio level leading to more portfolios then we would want
  • Forecasting could be more advanced

Usability

Return on Investment

  • Clearer planning
  • Better cross team collaboration

Other Software Used

GitLab

My IBM Targetprocess experience.

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're an IT services provider company. We manage all technical operations from the Service Desk to project management in TP.

Pros

  • Helps managers create and organize work tasks.
  • Helps workers manage their own and their assigned tasks.
  • Helps managers to visualize progress in a graphic way.

Cons

  • Lack of information regarding comments submitted from Requests. It does not save the notification options configured when logging a comment.
  • People complain that the main search option is not user-friendly.
  • The navigation tree would benefit from a tool to track the number of clicks on each branch. It is impossible to know which views or reports people are actually using.
  • IA tools support.

Usability

Return on Investment

  • Reduced need for multiple tools because it includes service desk and project management.
  • Easy to plan projects.
  • Good reporting tools.
  • Easy to integrate with financial tools.

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

LTP

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TP for creating work instructions, capturing decomposition of features and planning.

TP helps developers from knowing what work has priority.

Pros

  • TP properly visualizes work items for daily use.
  • TP assists to reduce time in planning meetings due to the usability of the boards.
  • Planning boards help discussion about budgets with management.

Cons

  • TP only features deterministic planning. We desire probabilistic planning.
  • The learning curve for starters is pretty high.

Usability

Other Software Used

GitLab, JFrog Artifactory

IBM Targetprocess Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The problem is to benchmark the figures and forward to the right target model

Pros

  • Benchmark
  • Future ready

Cons

  • User friendly
  • reporting

Usability

Return on Investment

  • Transparency is positive
  • User friendly and portfolio overview could be better

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow CPQ and SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

Other Software Used

IBM Apptio, SAP S/4HANA for product compliance, Microsoft 365

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