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Micro Focus offers Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software via its acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise applications, including the former HP PPM platform.Micro FocusKings of the IT Demand Management Solution2019-03-02T21:50:50.983ZMicro Focus PPM (formerly HP PPM) is being used by the whole organization—across all IT silos, the technical support team, the software development team, and all executives. Micro Focus PPM is solving demand management of our company by using Workflow Management, Resource Management, Portfolio Management, and Program Management modules.,Micro Focus PPM has itself approach to Project and Portfolio Management domain. It is perfectly solving our demand management problem and silos transparency problem of companies.
Demand management is supported by its perfect visual and scalable workflow engine.
Resource management requirements perfectly solved with PPM in project-based working teams.
Portfolio Management and Program Management modules perfectly designed to manage all projects overall and easily.,The workflow engine is perfect, but there is room for improvement. The Workflow engine script language is not capable enough. For example, if you want to call an RPC (Remote Call Procedure) you have to do it in a tricky way.
Each rose has a thorn. In the Workflow engine, you can configure each field's visibility and obligation state in a form depend on the status of workflow steps. Even if your approval step has passed you can still see and edit fields in the form and can save your changes.,9,As an IT manager, you can see all the demands. You can also see volume, categorization and cost/benefit of demands in one system. What is the resource utilization depend on demands
As a business, you can see all your demands, which one in what status, is it in the program of IT or rejected. If it rejected you can know acceptable reasons.
Executives know which projects are really supporting the objectives of the company, and which projects are added greater value than the others.,CA PPM, Microsoft Project Server, Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud, Planview PPM Pro (formerly Innotas) and SAP PPM,SAP PPM, CA PPMCelil ÇİYNEKLİComplete PPM Solution2019-04-29T17:41:18.412ZIn my organization, Micro Focus PPM is used by Project Managers, Business/Technical Analysts, Test Engineers and Developers. Starting with a proposal from Business unit, Project Managers (if it concerns more people and units) or Business/Technical Analysts (if it concerns a small unit or group) use this tool as a central management platform. All documentations and KPIs are managed over this tool. All resources are attached to projects and kept track of timesheets. All deployments (change management) are managed/directed by this tool.,Easy to manage tasks among project's stakeholders
Satifying resource management capabilities
Complete dashboard (fully customizable screens and integrations),sometimes it needs some walkthroughs over screens in order to achieve a task
Unable to emphasize the important fields of pages (customization may result in messy screens)
Old GUI style avoids the advantage of new technologies,7,The price is high per user, so the ROI might take longer
Complete solution (easy to integrate with other HP products to achieve other requirements)
May need to build new teams for reporting and operational requirements,CA PPM and Microsoft Project,JIRA Software, SoapUI Pro, BMC RemedyVerified UserHP PPM - Robust, Flexible and more than a project management tool2017-04-03T21:20:54.564ZHP Project and Portfolio (PPM) is being used to track all IT projects for the State of Oklahoma, all pre-construction projects for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, for the workflow of many internal processes for the Office Of Management and Enterprise Services (invoicing, purchasing, position tracking, change management and internal billing). The tool aids the department in defining business processes and automating them.,The dashboards and search capabilities allow for an enhanced end user experience, allowing them to customize their views and access to data.
The automated workflow tool allows us to define and automate business processes across the organization.
The Project tool allows us to track and monitor IT projects across the state.,The Staffing Profile and Resource Management module could be easier to use and allow for more flexibility in determine resourcing leveling.
The financial summary could be made more flexible if you were able to put notes on each financial summary line.
Allowing for an easier interface from a financial module to the financial summary would allow for easier updating of the actuals.,10,Positive - allowing for us to be able to automate many of our manual or paper processes.,Microsoft Project Server and Carasoft,Cherwell Service Management,2,2,Workflow of business processes
Project Management
Tracking of Enhancements
Change Management,Automating many of our business processes
Tracking Applications,If there was an option to share dashboards on a public website, we could use it to power our Projects.Ok.Gov website.,10,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability,Not at all,Professional services company,No,Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled,Decisions around time tracking for the staff,10,No,8,Yes,They are always quick to respond at getting the product back up and going when it is down.,Searching
Administration of the tool
Dashboards,Staffing Profiles
Resource Leveling/Resource Management,Yes,8Fonda LogstonNot a great Project Management Tool2017-06-15T18:14:03.300ZHP Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is used by the entire organization in IT to manage projects from discovery to delivery. The entire project reports of all phases are generated from PPM. At the same time, time tracking also happens in PPM. This allows for budget tracking within the tool.,Time Tracking
Project Status Reports,User Interface needs lot of improvement
Too many clicks required to do the job
Report creation is horrible,3,More Streamlined
Leadership is very informed now,IBM Marketing Operations, IBM Campaign, IBM InteractVerified User
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Micro Focus PPM (formerly HP PPM)
13 Ratings
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