Item: Planview AdaptiveWork
Rating: 10
Author: Andrzej Lechowicz

Overall Satisfaction

Pros and Cons

Pros

In 2010 my company was about to decide what project management tool should we use to manage the project. We were hesitate among 3 or 4 different solutions and after investigation we decide to go with Clarizen. That was one of the best decisions in the Project Management department. Clarizen grew over past years so fast that now it provides a wide range of great features that help us to undertake each project successfully.
Clarizen is fully collaborative and recently also social tools where all stakeholders and the project team can communicate and exchange the information regarding a project.
Clarizen helps us to follow best practices in Project Management discipline. The Clarizen modules are equipped with all necessary indicators (scheduling, financial, hr, performance, etc) so you can easily track your project. One think you should remember: you have to input all the information about the project so you will get nice reports. Otherwise you'll obtain partial information. Clarizen is designed to fully manage your project.

Cons

Clarizen could be a little bit faster. Sometimes when you're changing the modules you have to wait (fractions of seconds, but still). It's important in terms of usability.
To be more open for integration with SAP, Dropbox, any other software.
Documentation management could be enhanced. (Project Templates such as Project Charter, Change Order, Project Closure).

Return on Investment

Clarizen (when used properly) is perceived very positively by the customer. It adds value to our company.
Makes communication within our project very easy therefore we're improving our delivery time of projects - it means the project life cycle is more predictable.
Makes our project team more professional. Most of the project executors are engineers that are mainly focused on project development. With Clarizen they can also manage their part of a project.

Clarizen is multi platform SaaS solution, available also on cell phone devices. The price of licenses is really accessible and most of our engineers are already familiar with this software. Moreover, Clarizen is growing so fast that it has already become a serious player on the PM software market.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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