Deltek PPM

Pros

This software works best in conjunction with a scheduling software such as Oracle Primavera. It allows us to measure based on industry best practices the quality of schedules.

Cons

Some of the stats given out of the box does not give a good indication of schedule quality. Will need to tweak to fit your organizational needs. May be cumbersome and can take some time to set up correctly.

Pros

The flexibility, customization, and function of the software is top notch. It serves al of our purposes and is so much better than Oracle's versions of the software.

Cons

None. I have no complaints at all. Keep being awesome.

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Reasons for Choosing Deltek PPM

Switched From

Reasons for Switching to Deltek PPM

Pros

My division uses Cobra, PM Compass, and wInsight. I like that these software tools provide the required earned value and cost data and reports necessary for the business.

Cons

PM Compass is unreliable, un-user friendly, hard to navigate, poor graphic user interface, and poor reporting tool. It makes providing reliable and accurate data to our organization very difficult. I have been asked by other companies if I would recommend this product to them and I emphatically tell them to look elsewhere. Please improve PM Compass. Thank you

Pros

I loved most things about this system. It was incredibly simple to implement. The interface was simplified so it became very easy to train new users. Projects and the JSR reports delivered enough information to manage programs/contracts. If setup correctly, it was the ultimate in getting your GovCon accounting system approved by the DCAA.

Cons

Unfortunately, the support for this product is supposedly going away. They're moving everyone to a lite/compartmentalized à la carte version of Costpoint now. This system was expensive but affordable in the sense that your average clerk/bookkeeper could be taught how to use it. Costpoint isn't for the faint at heart! :)

Pros

Let me start by saying this is clearly the most robust project management platform on the market that falls under open source code.
This platform allows you to do project accounting, deliverable tracking, change management tracking, team allocations, time accounting, and crm functions.

Being a professional project manager I love the robustness of this platform.
All labels are customizable (be careful not to re label something unintentionally).
Project Libra does offer paid setup
Updates seem to be often even as open source

Cons

The paid setup is incredibly expensive
The user interface feels "clunky" and "old" the icons and labels feel like they are straight out of windows 3.1
Open source license prevents companies from charging to sell this software however a means to monetize could be in hosting or supporting on prem deployments (license loophole)
Security becomes an issue for the deployment team to handle

Pros

Been using Cobra with OPP for 20 years. We currently use OPP 3.4 and Cobra 5.1 but are due to upgrade to latest versions any time now. Cobra is an extremely powerful tool that contains all the data that you need in PM. The trick is getting management buy in of what it’s telling them.

Cons

Restoring backups takes ages. The tool could do with a refresh with the architecture.

Pros

Helps get EV effort done and Cobra has a good user interface.

Cons

PM Compass user interface is not very good and clunky to navigate. Have issues getting WADs to work in PM compass when using Microsoft project.

Pros

Really great at EVM metrics and pricing baseline/ forecast at WP

Cons

Client server—should web app by now. Process log should be more intelligent and include more specifics

Pros

Cobra reports are created as Excel files.
Easy budget re-calculation, budget import.

Cons

The integration wizard is a little quirky.

Pros

It is great for project management. Makes archiving of project e-mails a breeze

Cons

It is not very user friendly. Also we are one of the first SAAS users and the interface between PIM and Vision is not good

Pros

Cobra is used for budget and scheduling

Cons

Ease of use for users!

Pros

If everyone is one board to learn this program, you are in for a real treat.

Cons

Very hard to become proficient at unless you read all online, free resources, and then pay a lot of money to learn the next layer of information at workshops, followed by paying more money for the private consultation to answer follow-up, in-depth questions pertaining to your firms' standard practice.

Pros

Easy to use, accepted software, training

Cons

not much, it works great. Thank you for asking.

Pros

The updates get implemented automatically without the need to upgrade on-site servers, and the customer service is always very prompt.

Cons

Most times you have to start with the lowest level of help desk before getting bumped up to someone that actually knows what they are doing. It would be nice to have 1 or even a few experts that were assigned to you so you could build a relationship and skip on some of the frustration of having a novice send you something they copied and pasted out of a manual.

Pros

Visually appealing and easy to use. Software out of the box is always a plus.

Cons

Nothing specific I like least about the product or vendor.

Pros

It can be used to track the project, Easy to handle, different projects can be managed at portfolio level.

Cons

Since we find few difficulties in updating each and everything and on pulling out a report for analysis purpose.

Pros

Its an extremely instinctive tool to use and aligned very close to project management terminology.

Cons

Cant see any cons - as I feel the cost is reasonable

Pros

Easy to use, V8 looks like MS products latest versions, multiple ways a user can get to what they need. Excellent tool for earned value management.

Cons

Not a lot, upgrades sometimes create new issues and have to wait for a patch/fix to come out.

Pros

Accuracy and integration with Cobra to calculate EV.

Cons

Unforgiving at times - greater use of undo function would be nice.

Pros

This software (Acumen Fuse) allows users to employ industry best practices when developing schedules. Seemless integration with other industry scheduling software to provide users with results targeting quality of schedules.

Cons

The scoring system within the software can be customized but it is not intuitive. Setting up the software to fit your purpose is a one time challenge, but once set up, it is a very powerful software.

Pros

Reduced IT overhead cost and up to date patches.

Cons

You have no direct access to the raw data so interfaces for third party feeds are nixed.

Pros

I like that updates are automatically applied and scheduled during non-business hours after our db is backed up and I don't need to ever lift a finger

Cons

There isn't anything I don't like at this point. Works well.

Pros

One can customise to suit one's needs. One can schedule people with no hassle and it gives good reports.

Cons

The server can be slow. One also needs time to learn how to use it. Not much to complain about.