Planview Portfolios serves as our main tool to track development efforts for new products during their entire life cycle and to centralize all the steps and requirements for easy access of the team members who execute the process while also providing good data to monitor process health. The primary positive use is to provide our team members a unified experience instead of jumping through multiple tools and access requests.

It has allowed us to work with teams, stakeholders, and project managers to identify where issues may lie with staffing and what potential tradeoffs may be required. Resource managers are able to manage and schedule their resources with ease. Resources are also able to review their schedules to see what expectations and schedules are upcoming.

We are also using Planview Portfolios for project management, capacity, demand planning, intake, and financial reporting.

Planview Portfolios offers great features such as capacity monitoring, task breakouts, portfolio groups, life cycles, document storage, the ability to create simple or complex life cycles when needed, viewing a portfolio of data at once for an approval group view, and resource management expansion over the years which has allowed more valuable data to be gathered.

I find myself relying heavily on the product because it has already solved for getting project data into the tool and identifying who is managing those projects. It has also helped to align those efforts to company leadership strategies. User administration is easy and flexibility in the project life cycle workflows is excellent.

Planview Portfolios has positively impacted my organization with faster project prioritization and decision making, as well as improved resource and team utilization. There is visibility into hidden work, Power BI reporting functionality with portfolios, and visibility for resource managers in supply and demand.

We save time while making decisions because we are able to gain more data, enabling data-driven decision-making to be very fast. Being able to see and manage all projects in a single location has been very positive, and the reporting frequency available via OData Power BI has also been positive.

By using Planview Portfolios, we have saved considerable time and improved our organization by delivering projects to our clients on time and within a good health margin and required budget, hence saving time and cost. We have also improved our teamwork and collaboration. In my opinion, it is very time-saving and has added more to our team, especially when dealing with complex projects, enabling us to complete them on time.

Improvement in integration should be prioritized, and flexibility with out-of-the-box reporting should also be enhanced.

Automated notifications for new work and approvals should be improved.

Recently, I have encountered challenges because it is difficult to manage and approve the worked hours.

I have been using Planview Portfolios for the past four years and a few months.

Planview Portfolios is very stable, with no crashing and no downtime.

Planview Portfolios's scalability is impressive because it can be used by any size of organization, handling small or large projects seamlessly.

The customer support for Planview Portfolios is excellent; the support team has always been proactive and responsive.

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I previously used ServiceNow IT Business Management.

I switched from ServiceNow IT Business Management to Planview Portfolios because while ServiceNow offers a great platform to manage applications from a programmatic and tactical vantage point, Planview takes it up a level, allowing strategic teams like enterprise architecture and PMO to view the whole landscape and make long-term decisions, which is far better than the previous tool we were using. Planview also has more tools than most modern EA teams will probably ever need, and it takes time to see the value; however, once the value starts to emerge, the possibilities are limitless.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been very positive, as it is a very flexible and scalable tool that can be used by any size of organization, making the price perfectly competitive and affordable.

Before choosing Planview Portfolios, I evaluated Microsoft Power BI.

I rate Planview Portfolios nine out of ten according to my experience.

The reason I chose a nine out of ten is because Planview has the perfect project management tool to manage the entire project life cycle from a centralized source, ensuring controlling, tracking, and delivering projects on time with good health margins and within the agreed budget to our clients.

I would rate the customer support nine out of ten.

My advice to others looking into using Planview Portfolios is that it is a great tool, probably the best tool for both project management and APM capabilities on the market right now. It is well-suited for companies who are ready and able to commit, which means total buy-in from the entire organization. I also think it is a decent tool. I gave this review an overall rating of nine out of ten.

Planview Portfolios has been the perfect project management tool for me to manage the entire project life cycle from a centralized source, ensuring controlling, tracking, and delivering projects on time within an agreed budget and time frame. It helps me optimize my project portfolio in my organization by prioritizing projects, allocating resources, and tracking progress.

Planview Portfolios is highly customizable software that enables users to create custom fields, workflows, and reports. It fits perfectly with increased efficiency and productivity. It has performance reports in real time, where it enables us to make data-driven decisions. It also helps the automation and digitization of our processes, hence saving a lot of time and cost.

Planview Portfolios has positively impacted my organization by improving our time management by 20% and reducing the sending of internal emails by more than 10%. We have been more stable and have been able to gain more product; we have been able to be more productive in my whole organization because it has reduced internal communication clutter of emails and improved our time management by 20%. Hence, we are able to focus and put that time into more strategic tasks and projects.

The best features Planview Portfolios offers in my opinion include good integration with the financial area, good capacity planning, purchasing, and billing. There is comprehensive monitoring of the project from start to finish, strict control of hours worked, full control over cost and margins, and correct and accurate billing. The integration of financial and project data in a single solution helps us to deliver projects on time within the agreed budget and with healthy margins.

It provides company-wide consistency thanks to the central source of data and a DMS system with centralized documentation to facilitate its search and indexing.

Planview Portfolios can be improved by enhancing the DMS system and centralized documentation to facilitate its search and indexing, visualizing difficulties, especially in WBS management, and improving the management and approval of hours worked. I would also like to see more automation features added.

I have been using Planview Portfolios for the past five years and a few months.

Planview Portfolios is very stable; I have not experienced any lagging.

Planview Portfolios is very scalable because it handles my organization's growth, allowing us to work with both small projects and big projects at the same time while finishing on required time, with healthy margins, and on required budget.

The customer support for Planview Portfolios is very proactive and responsive.

I previously used Planview AdaptiveWork.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reveals that the cost is a bit not affordable for a small organization, but for medium and large enterprises, I would say it is very cost-effective and affordable.

I have seen a return on investment as it helps my organization to optimize project resources and allocation and track progress. Planview Portfolios supports collaboration across teams and departments, hence increasing collaboration. I also love the ability to provide visibility and transparency across an organization; it allows us to create custom reports and dashboards for easy data analysis, hence making data-driven decisions easily.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reveals that the cost is a bit not affordable for a small organization, but for medium and large enterprises, I would say it is very cost-effective and affordable.

Before choosing Planview Portfolios, I evaluated other options, including Jira Software.

My advice for others looking into using Planview Portfolios is that it is a unique tool that provides everything a work team needs to organize their activities. I personally use it for project planning, collaborating with a team, and customizing reports. Planview Portfolios is the best tool for organizations to do multiple works.

If you want to organize your projects by priority and progress, this platform is for you. It helps you visualize directly what you still need to finish and how to improve. It also helps to improve the relationship between collaborators and to work as a team. However, it could improve in the sense of giving more dynamism and ease of use to its platform while remaining very easy to use for everyone. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Planview Portfolios is very efficient and can be treated as a one-stop solution for project management. I appreciate the functionality to manage portfolios, manage projects, and the ability to customize life cycle workflows with a simple or complex approval process. The ease of reporting across all functionalities using standard reports or creating custom reports with Power BI tools is excellent. I have also used AgilePlace, and the Project Place user interface is performing well. I am excited about the hub where we can integrate all applications, which will be a milestone for Planview.

We have also used Planview Portfolios to track financials, forecast and actuals on all our strategic investments over one thousand one hundred million dollars in annual spend, capacity and resource management, as well as the CTM enterprise architecture product.

I also appreciate the workflows and life cycles in Planview Portfolios, which perform well. Planview support is responsive and effective. Integration with Power BI has significantly increased the scope of reporting where we gain insights to make data-driven decisions easily.

Regarding the features of Planview Portfolios, user administration is very simple, especially because of the user-friendly and intuitive interface.

Planview Portfolios has been a great tool, especially when dealing with large projects, serving as one source of truth for our projects, particularly financial projects, and providing a single source of truth for resource capacity.

Visibility into hidden work and project prioritization with Planview Portfolios has been outstanding. Our Power BI reporting functionality with portfolios and visibility to resource managers in supply and demand provides great analytics, which gives us insights and has enabled us to improve our decision-making by fifty percent.

I believe easier and less expensive ways to integrate with other platforms in our company would be great improvements for Planview Portfolios.

Customer support for Planview Portfolios has been very responsive and helpful.

We have been able to deliver projects on time to our clients using Planview Portfolios, thus saving cost, money, and time. The soft benefits such as increased visibility and transparency of the work being done are also significant.

Planview Portfolios has increased our ability to monitor and guide processes, process health, and compliance automatically without manual intervention. It has also provided a central platform that fits different use cases for different teams while keeping all data interconnected.

My advice for others looking into using Planview Portfolios is that it is a great tool, well suited for complex processes involving many users where a process is robust and somewhat stable. Also, when there is availability to have dedicated tool support, it excels, especially when working on large projects and on tight time frames and budgets, making it a highly recommendable tool. I rate Planview Portfolios a nine out of ten.

My main use case for Planview Portfolios is that it has the best and most effective project management tool to manage the entire project life cycle from a centralized source. This ensures controlling, tracking and delivering projects on time within the agreed budget and with healthy margins.

I can provide a quick specific example of how I have used Planview Portfolios to manage a project from start to finish; it fits perfectly with increased efficiency and productivity. It has performance reports in real time. It also helps with the automation and digitization of our processes, which saves a lot of time. Good integration with the financial area, good capacity planning, purchasing, and billing.

Planview Portfolios has positively impacted my organization by improving our time management by 20% and reducing the sending of internal emails by more than 10%.

I appreciate how Planview Portfolios handles reporting and analytics; the reports and real-time analytics help to make data-driven decisions easily.

Planview Portfolios handles resource management and capacity planning effectively. We are able to allocate the resources accordingly.

Planview Portfolios can be improved by making the platform more dynamic and user-friendly, especially for non-technical users.

An important improvement would be to add more automation features and provide more online documentation videos that would make it much easier to use for non-technical users.

Management and approval of hours worked should be calculated more precisely.

I have been using Planview Portfolios for three years and a few months.

Planview Portfolios is very stable.

Planview Portfolios is very scalable because it grows with the organization. It can handle all the projects that we are working on and helps us to deliver on time and within the right cost timeframe.

The customer support for Planview Portfolios is very responsive and proactive.

I previously used BlueJeans Events before adopting Planview Portfolios.

It was very easy to integrate Planview Portfolios with my existing systems; it was a seamless integration.

I have seen a return on investment; I am able to deliver the project on time and within the best cost timeframe. Management of invoices and services based on billing milestones has been great. Centralized project-related transaction documents, resources, and activities in one place enhance visibility. Reports and real-time analytics enhance real-time data-driven decision making.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Planview Portfolios has been cost effective and affordable.

Before choosing Planview Portfolios, I evaluated other options, specifically BlueJeans Events.

Out of those features, I find myself relying on company-wide consistency thanks to a central source of data, enabling visibility. The DMS system centralized documentation to facilitate its search and indexing has been great.

Planview Portfolios helps me to optimize my project portfolio in my organization by prioritizing projects, allocating resources, and tracking the progress. It is very highly customizable software that enables users to create their own custom fields, workflows, and reports.

Collaboration, customization, and integration are great features.

My advice to others looking into using Planview Portfolios is that it fits perfectly with increased efficiency and productivity. It has performance reports in real time. It also helps with the automation and digitization of our processes. This makes it a good project management tool.

Planview Portfolios helps us manage both investment and execution risk while also ensuring optimal value realization in my organization. It is a very good tool and an excellent option for tracking projects that follow traditional methodology and have a defined beginning and end. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

My main use case for Planview Portfolios is that it provides clear visibility into our work and resources, allowing for better organization and decision-making processes. This has also enhanced visibility, which ensures that our users can easily track progress, identify bottlenecks, and make informed decisions to optimize workflow efficiency.

A specific example of how I use Planview Portfolios in my daily work is that we use it throughout the year to support strategic planning, prioritization, financial planning, and project management processes. The main problem we were looking to solve was having multiple sources of project management and related business case data, such as financial data. Planview Portfolios offers us a single source of truth and enables a faster, more reliable decision-making tool.

I also appreciate the ability to see the business objectives and the support work activity end-to-end, including financials in regard to my main use case for Planview Portfolios.

The best features Planview Portfolios offers include managing approvals through lifecycles, custom screens, and scripted dialogues, which allow access to data only to certain roles, thereby creating data limitation. We have not really started using this, but I appreciate how it will connect with Projectplace and AgilePlace. Additionally, it is extremely flexible with reporting and dashboards, offers robust business case functionality, and provides comprehensive financial data.

These features help my team day-to-day through the robust system performance, comprehensive resource management capabilities, and visibility enhancement. The visibility ensures that users can track progress, identify bottlenecks, and make informed decisions to optimize workflow efficiency. The system stability and reliability contribute to a seamless user experience, enabling all users to focus on their tasks without disruptions. The comprehensive set of features empowers users to allocate resources strategically, analyze costs accurately, and align project timelines with available resources seamlessly.

Planview Portfolios has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to save time. Through the CIO, approvals are no longer sent through email; they are done in the tool. There are more timely reviews and approvals, thanks to the email notifications. Additionally, there has been accurate budgeting, the ability to complete more project work within a given short timeframe, and the ability to take additional projects as resources allow.

One area where Planview Portfolios could be improved is the reporting module, which needs to be more flexible as it is not easy to switch between data representations easily.

Regarding improvements needed, the size of field names and ALT structure values need to be larger for a better user experience.

Another improvement needed for Planview Portfolios is the option to configure the return on investment metrics calculations, especially with IRR calculations.

I have been using Planview Portfolios for five years and a few months.

My advice for others looking into using Planview Portfolios is that if you are planning to do robust project, program, and portfolio management with integration with other critical tools within the organization, Planview products are the best suited for this kind of work. Additionally, Planview product teams work with customers such as us to implement and improve features requested by users quickly and efficiently. This makes Planview the recommended application for project management and other needs.

I want to highlight that our project teams now have a better view of their project's health and rely on the system to perform their tasks effectively. I would rate this product a nine out of ten.

My main use case for Planview Portfolios is to ensure governance and decision auditability by incorporating embedded workflows, approval management, and key document retention supporting a single configured delivery life cycle. Additionally, Planview Portfolios serves as the primary tool for project financial management where it provides accountability and rigor throughout the organization.

A specific example of how my team and I use Planview Portfolios in a real project is that it is ideal for large enterprises where executives, transformation leaders, finance teams, and EPMOs need to drive business outcomes across multiple functions. It helps create dynamic plans that adapt to change and accelerate strategy delivery.

I integrate Planview Portfolios with our ERP systems and with Planview and Projectplace for multiple use cases and purposes.

Planview Portfolios has positively impacted my organization by helping us track the priority of major projects during multiple market downturns and providing a central source of truth to coordinate stopping projects to preserve cash. Portfolios have allowed us to decommission several other in-house solutions, a custom SharePoint database of small cost-saving projects, and a legacy ChangePoint time tracker.

I have seen cost savings and efficiency improvements because it enables us visibility to the financial baseline, strokes targets compared to forecast, and flexibility allowing our company to grow in its use of the tool by turning on modules one at a time.

The best features Planview Portfolios offers include approval management, financial management, and a configured delivery life cycle, where it manages large portfolios with thousands of projects, rolling up financials across the strategic hierarchy for projects around the world.

Out of those features, I rely on strategic alignment the most day-to-day, where the system ensures that work gets done to make sure strategy informs execution and vice versa. End-to-end visibility enables us to analyze performance data across the organization to measure the success of strategic initiatives with key performance indicators and make timely decisions to ensure outcome realization. Adaptive program management helps me manage dependencies, track progress, and mitigate risk by integrating top-down financial and capacity planning, roadmaps, and cross-functional delivery teams.

Planview Portfolios supports a variety of reporting and analytics methods that stand out to me.

Planview Portfolios can be improved as the user interface defaults to the last opened portfolio, which can waste a lot of time loading a large portfolio if that is not what I need at that moment. Job management logs need better error messages to diagnose issues.

Reporting flexibility is needed so that end users can create their own quick ad hoc reports for analysis and for better data-driven decisions.

Other improvements needed for Planview Portfolios include increasing what the data system can process regarding reporting, as well as allowing strategic structure capabilities to be similar to all others. Currently, I find it limited in adding or deleting from a structure standpoint and have to go the portfolio route.

I have been using Planview Portfolios for four years.

Planview Portfolios is very stable and reliable in my experience.

Planview Portfolios' scalability is excellent as it can handle growing workloads or larger projects easily.

The customer support for Planview Portfolios has been quick to respond and very proactive since I have reached out to them several times. I rate the customer support as an eight out of ten.

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Before Planview Portfolios, I used Jira Software.

I decided to switch from Jira Software to Planview Portfolios because Planview Portfolios is much easier to use, and it is also very cost-effective. It is a great project management tool with detailed schedules and dependencies, which is why we decided to switch.

I have seen a return on investment because it improved visibility of the entire change portfolio across the bank and across my organization, and improved our ability to connect strategy back to work, making critical business decisions easily. It also centralizes executive-level program information to generate executive reporting.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that Planview Portfolios is one of the best and a very cost-effective tool.

Before choosing Planview Portfolios, I evaluated other options such as Microsoft Power BI and Planview AgilePlace.

My advice to others looking into using Planview Portfolios is that it is great for managing large portfolios of projects, especially those with detailed schedules and dependencies.

I love Planview Portfolios because it has better integration with reporting and other systems compared to the alternatives I had before. I would rate this product a nine out of ten overall.