Planview Daptiv Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.7 out of 10

Score

7.7 out of 10

Reviews

18 Reviews

Planview Daptiv: A good holistic PPM software with room for improvement

Rating: 7 out of 10

September 15, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It supports us prioritising,

managing, controlling and reporting projects/portfolios from ideas through

to realisation of benefits in order to support achievement of financial

objectives.

Pros

offers good a good user roles & rights concept
supports individual setup of Dynamic Applications for different purposes
in combination with the implemented BI software IBM Cognos you may design your individual as well as company wide template reports

Cons

In my opinion, APIs / integrations are sometimes coming to their limit
In my experience, no general archive available - therefore data sets cannot be frozen
Data roll-up for different hierarchy levels (program / project / sub-project) is very limited, in my opinion.
In my opinion, when having showing a large number projects navigation on project tab is not very handy

Likelihood to Recommend

Positive: - Easy entry of profile and status updates - Native Dynamic Applications cover basic needs - Custom DAs can be added quite easily - ... Negative: - Missing data archive to enable the review of historic data sets (Status history covers only entries of this section) - Design / Look and feel looks a little bit outdated, in my opoinion - In my experience, the Task section it is sometimes hard to find the right way to get your data into the system (especially for beginners), e.g. "Edit Task" versus "Update Task" (accessable via different ways and hard to distinguish) - ...

Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Fly high with Planview Daptiv

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Planview Daptiv is mainly used for process automation, we have over past years successfully implemented and supported the solution for a number of clients. The use of the product is from Ideation prioritisation and scoring to benefits tracking, what most clients comment the product for is the ability to scale and the IBM Cognos Analytics offered by the tool.

I recommend it for ease of use, the user interface, and how the product can be aligned to organisations maturity level.

Pros

Ideation
Capacity Planning
overall Task tracking
Timesheets

Cons

Project Profile Meta data fields
Dynamic Application Custom fields
multi currency

Likelihood to Recommend

We have implemented Planview Daptiv in Financial Services, the reception has been good.However, our retail client had challenges using capacity planning. Primarily because they were using multiple tools in the organisation like MS-Project and JIRA, and they had challenges on MS-Project to Planview Daptiv bi-synchronization as it captured time and not pulling through resources as is on MS-Project.

Bruce Moepye

Director in Product Management at Gen2 Enterprise Services SA(Pty) ltd (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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Daptiv - solid tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 25, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Daptiv within one branch of our organization for Project and portfolio management and time tracking. We use it for project tracking and status reporting at the project and entire portfolio level, and do resource management. We have ~225 users.

Pros

Daptiv provides one location for consistent information about ALL our projects to support executive reporting
Daptiv is very customizable to support your business processes and language
Daptiv has improved the usability of their resource planning ability recently and this is increasingly a strength.

Cons

The Daptiv UI has seen some significant improvements recently that were long in coming. However I am still waiting for more that are on their plan. Lack of ability to customize what appears on specific screens or to add hover over help for less experienced users make it a difficult sell for some of our occasional users.
Daptiv comes with Cognos reports that does allow reporting against all the data elements. However the lack of ability to extract data in any form other than an emailed report significantly limits the ability to interface with the data.
Changes to many of the data elements are not tracked to who made changes and when.
Access to data elements is at a very broad level making it difficult to allow third party users to use the tool with limited access.

Likelihood to Recommend

Daptiv is well suited to a mid to large size relatively structured organization. It has a top down focus and flexibility that supports executive reporting well. Like most PPM tools it does require some central administration. Right now it is not highly suited to development organization that is fully agile.

Verified User

Manager in Professional Services (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Daptiv PPM customer feedback

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Daptiv PPM is being primarily used by the IT department currently. There is some discussion to allow use of the tool outside of IT if there is a fit with specific business needs. I utilize Daptiv heavily for its project portfolio management capabilities coupled with its resource planning views. Together these allow teams to better understand which projects are consuming resources and the overall impact to resource supply and timelines for availability. The time tracking functionality has also been beneficial as it is captures actual time spent on specific projects and helps teams to provide better estimates for similar project requests.

Pros

Daptiv is particularly well suited for capturing project details in one location and the tool can function as an intake process for project requests.
This has been helpful to my organization as it has allowed us to stop using individual spreadsheets that often do not align.
The Resource Management function in Daptiv offers an overall view of project demand versus available capacity. This has allowed my team to show internal IT teams as well as the executive teams where resources are being focused.
The Time Tracking function was something that my company was missing as a centralized tool. Previously, disparate spreadsheets were used, or in some cases, an outdated tool only used by few teams was still in use. Daptiv has made time tracking easier for users as well as given visibility into where work efforts are expended.

Cons

A project management function is available in Daptiv however, my teams find that it is not useful for complex projects. It is a functional module, however it would be more useful and more widely used if it was more flexible. Entering tasks is somewhat cumbersome currently.
The Reporting functionality is very good in Daptiv, however to create custom reports requires someone to be very familiar with the Cognos tool. In my company we do not have the resources to bring someone on staff with this skillset.

Likelihood to Recommend

Daptiv is useful for companies looking to gain visibility into their project demand and understand their resource capacity against the demand. Like any tool, Daptiv does require some process changes and/or to have a disciplined approach as far as project intake and resource time tracking. A company will get out of the tool actionable information only if they are capable of inputting data consistently by and across the teams that will benefit from its use.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Daptiv for a Marketing Team

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 9, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Daptiv for several years to manage marketing projects, especially trade show planning and execution. Even though Daptiv was not ideal for trade show planning right out of the box, our marketing technology manager was able to work with our Daptiv representative to customize for the events I manage.

Pros

Capture project details.
Quick generation of standard reports.
Aggregate reports across multiple projects.

Cons

Creating a usable project profile required a great deal of customization.

Likelihood to Recommend

Daptive is a good tool for timeline and task management.

Key question: How comfortable are your team members with using all the functionality of Gantt charts?

Janice Breuer, Silver Level CTSM

Tradeshow Specialist in Marketing at FFF Enterprises (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Daptiv - end user thoughts on time/task tracking.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 9, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Daptiv is being used as a time tracking tool for project management. Each project team member is expected to log time spent on assigned project tasks on a daily basis. It is also being used to track productivity in certain departments as a time management tool.

Pros

Customize tasks to each project or user group.
Roll up reporting available for project sponsors and department managers.
End user friendly if set up correctly.

Cons

Can be time consuming to complete daily for end user if assigned to multiple projects.
When setting up tasks, there are endless numbers of items that can be listed. Sometimes too much detail!

Likelihood to Recommend

Daptiv is well suited for time tracking IF the tasks per project or department are well thought-out and scoped correctly. Thought and consideration should be given to tracking only those things that affect multiple project members.

Lynn Kutz

Quality/Performance Improvement Consultant in Quality Assurance at Good Samaritan Society (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Daptiv review

Rating: 7 out of 10

May 6, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Daptiv is used by the Information Technology department for project management, portfolio management, resource management. The intended purpose is for project administration and make sure that projects are executed within time, established resources and budget.

Pros

Reporting ability

Cons

Automatic percentage allocation to resources is problematic

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for scenarios when resource management is a focus.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Angela @ YMCA

Rating: 4 out of 10

January 18, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Daptiv is used by a select few within our organization for project management for our tactical and strategic plan.

Pros

It is a good project managmenet tool.
Track tasks and timelines.

Cons

Time consuming to track all details.

Likelihood to Recommend

I honestly do not use it enough to give this input and this would be an IT conversation. I know that it isn't to hard in my perspective to use but to keep updated is very time consuming. The Y uses it as a management tool to report to our board on our goals and progress.

Angela Oglesby

Senior Administrative Assistant of Advancement & Planning in Finance and Accounting at YMCA (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great product, though could not solve our particular issue.

Rating: 7 out of 10

January 16, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We brought Daptiv in to help solve a particular problem. We wanted a tool that could ingest a Microsoft Project file then output a schedule in a customized format. It was used at the team level for managing day to day work. A subset of the whole organization.

Pros

Supported a customized implementation. In my review I explain that ultimately they were not able to meet our needs, but the level of effort they made to try and accommodate was terrific. We were assigned a technologist that worked with us on site to try and customize the tool to suit our needs. I feel the tool itself, at the time of us using it had potential to be great for the standard Project Management Organization.

Cons

Found the user interface to be a bit clunky at the time we were using it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Managing small to medium organizations, with a PM team of 5 to 7. Key question, how does it scale? I rated this product where I did because even though the tool was not right for our particular team my understanding of it was enough that I could see how larger groups could use this to run there more larger more complex projects. Still the company worked with us to try and tailor a custom solution that we ultimately did not use.

Verified User

Program Manager (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Is Daptiv right for your Organization

Rating: 1 out of 10

January 13, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Daptiv is used as our primary portfolio and project management tool. It is used to track project, task, risk, and issue progress. It is also used as the source of record for resource allocation. The tool is used throughout all locations within our organization. The reporting module is used across the enterprise for both HR and project reporting.

Pros

Resource allocation, when fully integrated provides a in depth view of what everyone is working on, as well as their availability.
Portfolio reporting provides a good view of where all projects are at in their lifecycle.
Time tracking is simple to use.

Cons

The product becomes slow when used at an enterprise level.
Reporting studio is cumbersome and difficult to use.
Standard resource management reports do not run out of the box with mid sized enterprises.
The product does not fit well with Agile projects out of the box.

Likelihood to Recommend

Daptiv works well with small organizations. For mid-sized organizations with a lot of data in Daptiv it becomes very slow and cumbersome to use.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Daptiv PPM customer feedback

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Daptiv is particularly well suited for capturing project details in one location and the tool can function as an intake process for project requests.
This has been helpful to my organization as it has allowed us to stop using individual spreadsheets that often do not align.
The Resource Management function in Daptiv offers an overall view of project demand versus available capacity. This has allowed my team to show internal IT teams as well as the executive teams where resources are being focused.
The Time Tracking function was something that my company was missing as a centralized tool. Previously, disparate spreadsheets were used, or in some cases, an outdated tool only used by few teams was still in use. Daptiv has made time tracking easier for users as well as given visibility into where work efforts are expended.

Cons

A project management function is available in Daptiv however, my teams find that it is not useful for complex projects. It is a functional module, however it would be more useful and more widely used if it was more flexible. Entering tasks is somewhat cumbersome currently.
The Reporting functionality is very good in Daptiv, however to create custom reports requires someone to be very familiar with the Cognos tool. In my company we do not have the resources to bring someone on staff with this skillset.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience