Planview Enterprise One is a one-stop shop!
March 07, 2019

Planview Enterprise One is a one-stop shop!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Portfolio and Resource Management (formerly Planview Enterprise)

Overall Satisfaction with Planview Enterprise One (formerly Planview Enterprise and Troux)

Planview Enterprise One is used across the whole organization, primarily for project and resource management. We currently have over 8k projects and 1,000 users which are made up of project managers, team members, and senior management. Planview Enterprise One solves our need for a central location for all project management. It enables us to run various reports for delays to capture risks, issues, and changes, along with health. We also have an interface with Salesforce, consisting of a bi-directional data feed. The use of MS Power BI allows us to customize reports and make them available in a user-friendly analytic tile, or through the mobile app.
  • Incorporates Product, Projects, Resources, and Financial information all in one tool.
  • The analytic tiles are a cut above other applications on the market.
  • Its ability to interface with other applications.
  • Resource availability. Many PMO's/Resource Managers look for resource availability based off of the project scope date/go-live. To be able to enter that specific date along with a range (i.e. 12 weeks) for a new business implementation. Then see resources who have capacity would be ideal.
  • Portfolios to include an attribute for DATE. This would allow us to see only projects created, canceled, or completed in 2018 (for example) versus EVERY project since we've been on Planview starting from 2016. Allow us to filter down this portfolio by date(s)
  • Improved Resource Assignment Tile. People want to see a simple desk type calendar. The visual would provide tasks by (Gantt) color over which you could see the task name over the duration. The detail table at the bottom. Simple, clean, user-friendly. That way they are familiar with the view and can see ahead to help plan.
  • Planview Enterprise One has helped us capture and monitor risks to help prevent and/or offset potential project delays.
  • Allowed us to determine the cost of canceled projects.
  • Has helped justify the need for additional resources through the use of resource capacity and utilization reports.
All are great products, but Planview Enterprise One fit all of our requirements the best.
Yes, our environment is hosted by Planview. This allowed for easy setup, less maintenance, and support. A Planview Solutions Architect was responsible for our configuration. I have heard this can be very challenging for many companies and I can see why. However, we had an advantage in that we were migrating from another project management tool onto Planview. We had an understanding of the required workflows, basic configuration, and existing attributes along with user profile information.
The value and benefits of having your portfolio and resource management integrated are countless. Our company manages IT and Operational projects. In some cases, the project managers and team members work on both types. You can see the lifecycle of a product, the resources, and monitor the programs associated. Again, a one-stop-shop!
Collaboration has been a hot topic. We conducted a poll and, to our surprise, many people had different definitions of what collaboration meant and what they needed it for. It's not a one size fits all. For example, some teams, such as Marketing. want a whiteboard collaboration. There can be multiple contributors that "mark up" the whiteboard. Then through the process of elimination, key items or "sticky notes" are retained and noted for further use. Teams such as Meetings & Events wants the ability to upload diagrams of convention rooms. They can mock-up and rearrange the floor plan layout. Other teams want collaboration through the use of revising legal documents and the recording of the initials/name of whoever updated last.
It's an interesting conversation once you realize the word collaboration does not mean the same thing to everyone.
  • Through the use of Strategies and Outcomes.
  • An interface with Jira.
  • Well suited for large organizations, especially global ones where you need to have visibility across project and resource portfolios.
  • Well suited for companies that have multiple overlapping applications that do the same thing. Enterprise One can be your one-stop-shop.
  • Well suited for companies that have multiple independent applications (Jira, Salesforce) that can interface with Enterprise One.
  • May be less appropriate for small companies with no PMO or the need for such a robust application. ProjectPlace maybe a better fit in that case.
  • Less appropriate may be a company that does not have the support for governance and compliance.