Planview AdaptiveWork Review 2022 -

What is Planview AdaptiveWork?

Planview Clarizen is an award-winning enterprise work management solution for PMOs and professional services delivery teams. Robust project portfolio management (PPM) capabilities enable program managers and service team leaders to gain real-time visibility into work in progress, automate workflows, proactively manage risks, gain delivery confidence, and deliver greater business impact. Planview Clarizen is purpose-built for mid-sized and enterprise PMOs, EPMOs, PSOs, and ESOs.

AdaptiveWork connects work across the enterprise by bringing together project management discipline, workflow automation and collaboration to turn ideas into strategies, plans, and action. With AdaptiveWork, organizations can work the way they want to work and have real time-visibility into all their workstreams. Clarizen helps keep teams focused on the things that matter and deliver results faster so they can exceed their company goals and customers’ expectations.

Thousands of global customers, such as Dell, Publicis, Jones Lang LaSalle, IBM and Siemens Energy across a wide range of industries in 124 countries rely on AdaptiveWork to help them achieve their business goals.

Planview Clarizen is an award-winning enterprise work management solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and professional services delivery teams. The solution enables PMOs, EPMOs, PSOs, and ESOs to gain real-time visibility across all their work, automate workflows, proactively manage risks, and deliver greater business impact. Key capabilities include: • Collaborative project management • Project portfolio management • Resource management and capacity planning • Demand management and prioritization • Document management • Reports and dashboards • Email and mobile collaboration • Time and expense tracking • Project budget tracking • Team collaboration

Planview AdaptiveWork is an enterprise project and portfolio management software that helps you get work done.

What do you like best?

It is very customizable and able to fit your individual needs

Available with plenty of unique and rich features for creating and managing your projects. Keeping track on all your ongoing projects through this software. It can be used for multiple organizational tasks for creating and managing various project portfolios. It is one of the most configured tools as compared all the other SAAS tools.

I really enjoy that Clarizen One is very customizable. Another great benefit is that our Customer Success Manager, Andrzej Lechowicz, is phenomenal and always attentive no matter how busy he is. Dashboards and reports are pretty easy to create especially if you are someone in IT.

Clarizen is a great project management tool with plenty of useful features. It takes a little to of getting used to but it makes tracking projects and tasks very easy after that.

What do you dislike?

There’s not much to dislike about Clarizen. The initial learning curve of using the tool is quite steep as it’s packed with features but it’s all worth it after wrapping your head around it.

One of the disadvantages at this time of the product is that it is not very friendly for the agile methodology. In order to get it to report out in a way to eliminate double-entry in other systems such as Azure DevOps or Jira, you need 3rd party integrations. We are working through figuring out how to best continue to utilize Clarizen One instead of a new product. We’ve invested a lot in Clarizen and prefer to stay with their solutions.

It is also resource intensive if your project plans are detailed. It can lock up or slow to a crawl. I believe Clarizen is working on this.

Not able to lock the view of the onscreen project. Sometimes, the reporting of your ongoing projects is not up to mark.

You have to understand what it is you need and want, which is much harder than it sounds. Very iterative process. It is a complex beast, you really need someone to be an expert in it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hopefully it will smooth out our peaks and valleys and enable us to have a good idea of when we need to hire staff as opposed to working through a temporary spike.

Using it in my organization to manage all the projects and create reports for more accessible explanation to the clients.

For waterfall projects, we are able to generate project/program cost reports, resource utilization/capacity reports, and create dashboards for our teams and senior leadership.

We are using Clarizen for managing projects and assigning tasks to different engineers internally. Tracking progress on tasks and providing regular updates in the system is making life easier for project managers and engineers.

Managing different projects

Reporting

Capacity planning

Planview AdaptiveWork Features

Pros

“For me it’s a good application to increase the effectiveness in supporting different work methods to even accelerate execution at the team level as well.”
“To add notes or comments to task and projects help to find issues and help us to increase the quality.”
“First, their staff, friendly, helpful and fulfilling the companies position of customer success. This couldn’t be more important in making Clarizen a valuable tool for my company.”
“But what I am most impressed with is the perpetual evolution towards great. Updates are delivered on a regular basis and deliver meaningful improvements.”

Cons

“On the downside, the app can be a little slow at times–mainly slow page loads or inconsistent page refreshing.”
“No integration with QuickBooks online Canada. No customization allowed with this tool.”
“The licensing model is a bit awkward when adding licenses to an existing account. The Gantt functionality is outdated.”
“Often a filter is set and forgotten about then the wrong information is displayed. Don’t minimize user training and retraining when using the software.”

Planview AdaptiveWork pricing

Planview AdaptiveWork does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.

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Not provided by vendor

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