Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Reviews

Whenever a good an excellent planner with a powerful portfolio, making an application is needed, then, Micro Focus Project will not disappoint you. It is equipped with good instruments and navigation keys to plan, manage, and overlook the project like a professional. Hence, it can provide the eye-catchy portfolio and it was never easy before to make a portfolio in a single setting. People can possess a complete review of the companies and it assists them to choose more benefits.

What’s best in it is its automation ability to finish the task quickly with the aid of a strong internet connection. That’s a main hindrance if the application is not installed properly and one should understand its GUI style that is a somewhat old fashion straight off but further up-gradation can solve this trouble. This is pretty pricy, but people with serious business dealings can afford it.

I’ve been applying this application for long and I must say this is a unique thing in its line of business. I’m able to build my portfolio for many clients at once and my connection through email and messaging is easy to approach them. It can get by my files, make a good preparation for future ventures, and give such ideas that I’m puzzled how an application is so much helpful? Clients can see my products and never think once to dispense with me as every information is furnished in my portfolio.

It help us to migrate entity between Oracle business instance, managed project life cycle, managed employee working time very good.

I have no disklike with this product, maybe the price is litte higher

Software company shoud use this product.

I am the PPM expect, I have been work for this product for 3 years, I take responsibility to solve all the concern come from my customer.

workflow creation by drag and drop of various steps

ootb portlet or reporting features. nothing else

nothing they are doing great

client business

HP PPM is a very strong Project and Portfolio Management tool that is proprietary but runs on open source programming standards meaning there is less 'vendor lockin' resulting in lower support and development costs compared to competing products like CA Clarity PPM (overly proprietary leveraging proprietary programming standards). Demand Management over HP PPM gives the product the flexibility to build and accomodate robust, rapidly tailored, client centric processes over a centralized platform that support parallel project management extensions, as well as Change and Release Management for complex Enterprise applications. It is the only HP software product that I consider 'BYOP' enabled (Build your own process - my own acronym) and over the last 12 years I have worked with numerous clients that have transformed the nature of what the application does for them.

I feel the foundation license cost is high for instances with > 25 users. This limits, doesn't promote, adoption in a competitive market. I also feel that HP needs to take on more specialized vendors as opposed to vendors that have to look up 'HP PPM' on the Web when they receive an client inquiry. For example, I recently told a HP vendor that a potential client would like to buy HP PPM for Deployment Management of Oracle E-business Suite and they felt other HP products we're better suited for the task at hand ?? There is also a therefore a major disconnect between sales and delivery.

Think beyond just project and portfolio management. You're getting a centralized application that can do so much more.

IT contract management tied in with project management for clients like HP Enterprise Services, enabling the roll up of contract costs and visibility over contract financial performance. The use cases are unlimited really and vary from client to client. Accenture, for example, used HP PPM to manage all aspects of 10 year contract with BP. No other products were used to manage the service aspects of the contract :)

PPM has a very strong and flexible workflow engine that could be used to run all kinds of IT service processes apart from doing a great job in project and portfolio management. Very easy to use with little effort and quick win implementations.

HP PPM integrates easily with other tools you might have in your landscape (for example tools for test management: HP ALM/QC or the HP Service Manager).

HP PPM has a very scalable architecture able to support more than 1000 users easily.

Nothing that I really dislike. But on my wishlist I have quicker official support for current browser versions and the replacement of the Java configuration applet with a web interface (at least for the functions that are often used by administrators like user administration).

If you decide to use HP PPM for your portfolio management it is most likely the right decision. It has everything a tool in that domain can offer - the rest is getting your organization ready to really benefit from the tool - this is not a tool question but a corporate culture question.

I was part of different implementations. With portfolio management you gain a complete overview of your organizations value chains with an ability to decide where to spend your budget in an optimal way.

With Demand Management you can optimize all kinds of processes within your (IT) organization getting rid of a lot of consolidation effort compared to e.g. doing the same processes using e-mails.

The functionalities and the user friendliness.I am an HP PPM consultant for the past 9 years and I love this tool for the functionality it provide on the Project management and Resource managerment

The support of HP PPM.It is much better than before but there are still area for improvement. Another is in the sales team who are not doing a great job in marketing the tool and also in the frequent releases of the new versions

If you are looking at a tool to implement the Project Management ,Resource Management ,Demand and Deployment Mangement this is the best tool.It can also be integrated with other HP tools and non hp tools with the help of adapters and webservices.

I have involved with customers who use HP PPM for Project Management ,Resource Management Demand Management and Deployment Management. In all these areas after the effective use of the tool the customer has achieved financial benefits as well as helped them to oversee the forecast, actual etc

Its one stop shop for time tracking, time management, project management, budget forecasting!!! Great tool for project managers!!

Nothing!! Its great tool to work with!! For now, i dont see any disadvantages!!

Great tool for Project Managers!!

I am managing the project by using PPM like tracking time of all consultants, managing budget by comparing forecasted and actual budget, managing project plan and tracking project status and project risks and issues. Using this tool, company PMO also keeps track of all the projects.

We can monitor team cost, usage and allocation.

We can access a single and central source of truth about our company.

We quickly identify problems and see unforeseen changes to achieve business goals.

I can say. Local support engineers are very poor.

I can Say You must be test.

In our latest customer-focused project, we calculated the approximate monthly total cost

While using HP Project and Portfolio Management tools, I come to enjoy the clean interface and usability. While there are many other software and programs that offer some of these things, HP

One of the only things that could be seen as a dislike to smaller and start up companies could be the cost, since their are some other tools that one could download and use that are basically free.

Have an idea of Project and Portfolio Management, and reach out to others if you find yourself needing help or running into walls.

We have used HP PPM to manage our staffing profile, and collaborate among new projects.

HPE PPM:

- Provides visibility into strategic, operational demands of the organisation.

- Its ability to provide real-time information about the projects, resources, financnes, programs and

portfolios, visibility of this information allows stakeholders to review expenditure, progress, manage

workforce efficiently.

- The 'What-If' analysis provided by scenario comparison is very key in analyzing and planning for the

future.

- 'Resource Management Optimization' launched in the latest version, automates the resource assignments

and thereby providing Resource manager a big relief.

- Provides wide range of standard, pre-defined portlets and reports that can be helpful in analyzing

resources, projects, programs.

- Has a strong timesheeting ability, to which resources can timesheet to and automatically all the actual

costs are rolled up to the project.

- Has a very strong and dynamic workflow engine that can be easily configured to align to the process of

an organisation.

- Easy to customize, provision of webservices make it easy to integrate to other third party applications.

- It derives predictive analysis with data that you can trust on.

Lack of fancy reporting in HPE PPM, the senior execs and other stakeholders want to look at more graphical and animated reports.

More focus on fancy and animated reporting.

Once of the of the problem was - Implementation of Program and Portfolio management at an organisation.

The benefit was to give them more clear view of the projects happening in their programs and portfolios.

As a result , the program and portfolio managers got more visibility in deciding the projects, proposals they can pursue for the fiscal year. This is standard OOTB functionality,if used properly then it is a real benefit to the organization.