OpenText Project and Portfolio Management vs. WorkOtter PPM

For Project Management, Micro Focus PPM includes all most every feature you need. You can manage your projects using work plans, project health, resource assignments, actuals, and costs. Additionally, you can get required approvals with workflows like sponsor approval or CR approvals. However, at project costing we need to make customizations due to lack of several outsource costs on it.

I know it works well for IT but not sure how it would work for construction. I think construction has a different set of needs.

• Easy to manage tasks among project's stakeholders
• Satifying resource management capabilities
• Complete dashboard (fully customizable screens and integrations)

Incentivized

• Users find it easy to use which is important if you have a large number of users who don't have time for a lot of training or when new hires come on-board.
• WorkOtter has a lot of advanced features that we don't use but when we do need one, it is nice to know the feature is waiting for us. We have used several of these features for special projects.
• It does a good job with resource management.

• User Interface needs lot of improvement
• Too many clicks required to do the job
• Report creation is horrible

Incentivized

• Nothing significant. Maybe could be faster at times but I'm not sure if that is our own internet connection.

We have many business processes using it along with our project management staff.

Incentivized

GUI needs to be enhanced for today's technical and agile development requirements. It is very cumbersome and out-dated (at some pages)

Incentivized

We have a Change Management Team for internal support of Micro Focus PPM. So, they give close and quick support to our problems. They contact product support when it is necessary. They regularly upgrade the product. Generally, I can say that there is a good support for this product.

Have your methodology defined prior to the vendor coming on board to start any configuration changes.

Incentivized

The vision of supporting DevOps, complementary functionalities with other software products of Micro Focus, native support for agile/waterfall methodologies made Micro Focus to be evaluated as more valuable against other PPM products. The complementary functionality with the other enterprise software products of Micro Focus (ALM, ITSM family etc) especially had a major effect on the selection.

Incentivized

• More Streamlined
• Leadership is very informed now

Incentivized

• I think it has really helped us make sure we are using resources effectively but I think it is hard to prove. Although we don't have hard ROI numbers, I believe the general feeling is that you really need a good PPM tool or will waste a lot of time and money.
• It helps with communication since we have a standard process.