Acuity PPM Reviews

Acuity PPM’s biggest strength is how effectively it brings structure and visibility to portfolio management, particularly through its financial tracking and work intake capabilities.

The financial tracking features gave us a much clearer view of budget allocation, forecast vs. actuals, and overall investment across the portfolio. This significantly improved decision-making at a senior level, as we were able to move from fragmented spreadsheets to a single, reliable source of truth.

The best aspect of Acuity PPM is its simplicity and accessibility for intake and basic project tracking. The platform makes it easy for business users to submit requests and for teams to track work without requiring extensive training or complex configuration.

Key strengths include:

It is an absolutely comprehensive tool that is easy to set up and operate, approachable by all team members despite of computer competence. It is attractive and flexible allowing the user to customize fields according to the organization or project needs. The platform provides consulting services that is very responsive and resolves issues encountered in no time.

There's limited feature and more updates are required because it is a bit old fashioned and that affects the productivity. Other than it is sleek and efficient in every-way possible.

It provides an abstract needed and ample detail about every single projects which has helped in improving decision making, risk management and business process coordination. It is designed to aid in selection, organizing and implementation of project portfolios. This enables status tracking, provide significant report to the higher ups and enhance visibility of the project portfolio.

Acuity PPM is intuitive and easy to use software for managing projects portfolio's unlike with spreadsheets or traditional PPM software which are problematic and complex.The products intuitive interface results in strong user adoption which translates into higher data quality to help make superior strategic decisions.Acuity PPM provides a smooth implementation and strong adoption at all levels of the organization because its implementation are measured in days not weeks or months.It provides rich functionality while maintaining a simple User interface and experience.

The product is quite good and there is nothing much to dislike however there is need for more robust permission or role set up.There is need also to add more additional features such as more txt formatting in the status reports, abilities to export the project list and project status.

Acuity PPM simplifies my reporting process by centralizing all status reports in one place .This product makes project scoring and prioritization easy with their configurable scoring model and risk -value bubble chart .It can control the quality of work and select the right projects coming into the portfolio.Acuity Ppm makes it easy with their balanced approach to creating project level resources plans and viewing this information at the portfolio level.

It's as described. It's clean, extremely easy to setup, does what it's supposed to do and has made my life easier.

I can't think of anything I dislike about Acuity.

I was managing resource planning and my project list via spreadsheets which was visible to Sr. Leadership. Acuity has simplified the process.

Very easy to use for both experienced portfolio managers as well as end users

Overall, we loved the functionality it has. We are now looking for a solution that is part of a project management tool as well.

Enable business insight into the IT portfolio, project status, etc.

Acuity PPM provides rich functionality whilst maintaining a simple user interface and experience.

This simplicity has contributed to a smooth implementation and strong adoption amongst staff at all levels of the organisation.

Some organisations may wish to provide more granular user access.

However, I appreciate the simple user access options that encourage increased visibility of project performance for all users.

Ease of use of the product and the fact that the dashboards are visually appealing.

A small annoyance is that there are multiple data entry screens rather than one screen containing all fields for input.

It is a wonderful tool in which to centralise tracking and reporting of our company's substantial project portfolio. We've found that there is also an eagerness within our project community to use the tool after only one demonstration, with key stakeholders engaging very quickly. Acuity PPM's ease of use is a huge advantage, as is the fact that the dashboards are very visually appealing.

The tracking of over 200 initiatives within the company in one "easy to use" tool that provides ready reporting for our senior leadership team. An immediate benefit that springs to mind is that Acuity PPM provides powerful insights into our project portfolio performance and health. The tool also drives much needed consistency and enables better delivery outcomes for our project community.

Super simple to set up and navigate. Clean user interface, and great functionality that allows you to manage a Project Portfolio effectively. The perfect system for an organisation with a low or developing maturity in Project Portfolio management, as it's simple to implement and use, and you aren't paying for a hundred advanced features you don't really need. I spent 8 months looking for a solution for Portfolio management, and Acuity is the only one I found that delivers a simple solution, suitable for most organisations - it doesn't try to be a Project Management software solution, which means it can be implemented on top of existing Project Management software seamlessly. On top of that, the Acuity team behind the scenes are constantly releasing new features and developments, have offered endless support in our implementation, and are committed to their vision of building a lightweight Project Portfolio Management system.

Some aspects of the functionality and workflows are a little clunky, that require a few more clicks that necessary to get to the end state. Not a big deal, but can sometimes be a little annoying.

Unable to export Project Status Updates to a format suitable for Exec level reporting is also a downside. Again, workarounds exist, but hope to see this functionality improve.

If you're still using spreadsheets to manage your project portfolio, don't hesitate to try Acuity - it's super cost-effective and easy to setup. Don't expect it to replace your Project Management tools - it sits above those tools and processes to capture just the high level data you need for Portfolio management.

I really love Acuity PPM. It has a clean, intuitive user interface that was accessible to my entire project team, regardless of computer expertise. The various built-in query and reporting visualizations make it easy to see the status of your whole portfolio.

Acuity is designed for portfolio management, not specific project management, but it integrates with other industry-recognized PM tools like Smartsheets. This wasn't an issue for me or my team, but it is something to be aware of in your assessment.

Acuity is a fantastic new software offering that fills a critical niche in the PM industry. It's far more user-friendly than the Portfolio tool available in Microsoft Project. The best thing about it is the support - this product is new to the market and is VERY open to user feedback and feature requests. That said, it's clean, streamlined, and bug-free -- much better than you would usually expect from a new product offering!

Acuity made it simple to keep track of my whole portfolio and to show my PMO team's progress (and value!) to our top management.