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SAP Portfolio and Project Management

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A Single Choice for a Wonderful Journey

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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP PPM is fully integrated to the procurement and FICO which helps the organization generating a single source of truth for financial reporting and fully audited procurement process.

Pros

  • Integration with other SAP Modules
  • Best Practice that cater to all Industry

Cons

  • Migrate more features Fiori UI/UX

Return on Investment

  • Capture the core information of the projects that helps the Board and Project manager to see the true status.
  • To fully utilize the modules does have some learning curve

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Project

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

SAP Project and Portfolio Management using SAP Solution Manager.

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Instead of using Microsoft Project Management tools, we thought of utilizing the SAP Solution Manager ITPPM feature that enables Project managers to create projects, define project plans, create milestones, mitigate issues & risks during the project, assign resources to the corresponding project and manage the time efforts of the resources.

Pros

  • Project Management.
  • Resource Management.
  • Definition of Project timelines, Risks, Issues.

Cons

  • Creation of WBS elements.
  • Project Management Dashboard.
  • Project Management related reports.

Most Important Features

  • Project Management.

Return on Investment

  • No additional cost for 3rd party Project Management tools.
  • 20% cost saved.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Project

Other Software Used

ServiceNow IT Service Management

Too big to use?

Incentivized
Verified User
Account Manager in Marketing (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this software to manage employee information and project information. IT houses all necessary documents, approvals, and other various business-related paperwork. It also is used to book employee travel (flight, hotel, car) and submit travel for approval. It sends travel for approval to a few different parties before booking.

Pros

  • It routes travel for approval to different parties.
  • It keeps track of vacation days and time off.

Cons

  • It is not easy to use (not intuitive) in my opinion.
  • Passwords are not synced between other business profiles.

Most Important Features

  • Travel booking
  • Vacation/time trackers

Return on Investment

  • Positive - it keeps track of approvals well (travel, vacation).

Other Software Used

Ziflow, Jira Software

Likely using if part of Enterprise

Incentivized
Verified User
Director (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used SAP Portfolio and Project Management to keep track of some product development projects as well as keep track of projects for customers. At the core, it is meant to track everything, from project calendars and charts to budgets, to the status of stages. Essentially an all-in-one solution for knowing what is what and when things will be expected.

Pros

  • Gant charts
  • All in one solution

Cons

  • UI upgrades
  • Ease of use

Most Important Features

  • Project schedule
  • Budget

Return on Investment

  • It was more of a headache to use then the benefit we received.

Alternatives Considered

Asana and monday.com

Other Software Used

monday.com, Atlassian Confluence

SAP Portfolio and Project Management

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Pros

  • Well integrated across SAP modules.
  • Easy to use as project and portfolio manager.
  • Can get project performance and KPI reports on live project status.
  • Low cost for implementation if you already have SAP environment.

Cons

  • Not convenient for non-SAP environment.
  • Sometime slower depends on SAP system load and version.
  • Little confusing for new users.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use for experienced user. Inexpensive if organization already use SAP environment.
  • KPI and Reporting is excellent.
  • Scheduling meetings and recording is not that great.
  • Lot of additional and unique features for complex project and portfolio management.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Project, ProjectLibre and Trello

Other Software Used

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation), SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba Procurement, SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Leonardo IoT, SAP PLM, SAP Predictive Analytics