PowerSteering Reviews

Leverage powerful Business Intelligence capabilities.

Highly supported and used by most businesses.

A completely integrated project and portfolio management solution with LSS project tracking.

Aligns strategy, resources, and execution during change efforts in an intuitive manner.

Leverage cloud delivery benefits.

Could implement more intuitive Drag and Drop functionality to easily visualize comprehensive, accurate, and actionable insights.

Better integrations and mobile/ desktop support

Does not allow for Ad Hoc analysis.

Really only makes sense for large enterprises.

Consider other software like Power BI if considering for small businesses and freelance users.

Queuing Data and customer wait times.

Developing customer-focused automated ticketing solutions.

Drills down powerful insights from complex qualitative and quantitative data.

I like that it is user-friendly and easy to manage. It also provides you with a lot of options to manage data and organize it in a way that is effective and reliable.

I don't like that there aren't many oppportunities to get a discount on the system. I also feel that it requires quite a bit of training to get acclimated to the system.

I would recommend power steering for professionals who have to work with large data sets because it although it is comprehensive, it is an effective tool.

Creating comprehensive portfolios and data systems to organize and create a system to manage projects effectively to then share information with constituents.

Easy customized reports, one place to see all project information, including timeframes and project manager contacts.

The software allows timesheet entry to previous periods. You can only email timesheet users to let them know they have unsubmitted reports. There's no way to email approvers that they have timesheets to approve in their queues.

I think it would be better to have timekeeping in an ERP and have the ERP feed powersteering data on a regular basis than have the timekeeping in Powersteering

Project management, timekeeping for projects, project status and contacts all in one place.

The flexibility in reporting, configuration, and administration is great and gave my organization the confidence that they could configure this to meet all of their needs. Also, having everything (projects, time reporting, portfolio snapshot, product ideas, etc.) in one tool has a lot of promise if it can be pulled off.

This power and customization ability comes at a steep cost though in terms of usability, the user interface, and the overall experience of using the tool. For instance, we started to roll out PowerSteering for time reporting on projects for all staff after using a different tool for the last several years. The first reaction from most staff was 'Wow – where do I begin?' The interface is not intuitive and takes a significant amount of time to learn. This is fine for someone who will be using the software every day, but is a large hurdle when trying to drive adoption in the company for anything other than the most basic, mandated data entry.

PowerSteering was supposed to provide a central tool to manage our project portfolio and even expanding to include other features (like idea portal submissions from stakeholders, etc.) though we are still early along our journey and haven't been using the software long enough to see if it will really result in those benefits over a period of years.

So far we have been able to migrate tasks over to PowerSteering to reduce the number of different applications we have to manage and ask staff to use.