Daptiv Review

Very easy to use. Great value for money. Supports end to end projects and portfolio management and therefore comprehensive enough to cover all areas within the PPM lifecycle

Pros

The software supports end to end projects portfolio management. Demand management including projects prioritization is great The resources and capacity management module is fantastic to use and all encompassing The dynamic applications are easy to create and use. The analytics module is very rich leading to ease of report creation and dashboarding Generally the software is very easy to use!

Cons

Scheduling - the project scheduling functionality is a bit complex and not very easy to use

Powerful, Adaptive, Complete

We have the ability to utilize Changepoint PSA as end-to-end tool from CRM, Opportunties, Projects, and invoicing. Very powerful to have the data contained in one tool.

Pros

The ability to configure Changepoint PSA to your organization is bar none. With that power comes the scalability, reporting, and end-to-end process integrations that support continuous improvement and efficiencies that support your company's overall Vision and Mission.

Cons

The power in configurability is amazing. With this comes an onus on an organization to ensure processes are well understood, standardized, and efficient as part of the implementation. If done in concert, the advantages of Changepoint PSA are tremendous.

Global Implementation of a PPM Solution

The implementation team was good support, and if we did it again, we'd define our processes first and then implement the tool. After 2 years, we are still refining our processes to meet our business portfolio needs. Overall the support for the product has been tremendous and we look forward to a long future together.

Pros

Ease of Use, configurable, helps drive standardization, ability to have integrations with other systems, ability to mature resource management maturity, and the sky is the limited based on your PPM needs.

Cons

Currency limitations for global market, some restrictions in the task planning module for ease of use with assigning percentage rather than hours by resource, limited portfolio views.

Changepoint User and Administrator

A great feature of the Changepoint PSA system is that administrators have the ability to customize the tool, which requires careful oversight, thorough planning, and established processes. Overall the PSA experience has been a positive one, where the support from Changepoint staff has been consistently present, and where the product is continuously improving.

Pros

The software has a strong and robust data structure that can be used for effective reporting, analytics, resource planning, forecasting, project management, and much more. It is essentially a one stop shop PSA offering that includes the ability to customize the product as needed to fit any business need.

Cons

As strong as the data structure is, the user interface and navigation has some room for improvement. Although this is a current need, the Product Development team has done a great job of involving the customers when looking for improvements to the system and the overall user experience. They are currently addressing this by developing system upgrades and monthly iterative releases.

Current Changepoint User

UI is not intuitive. Has many features that my company is not taking advantage of.

Pros

Time Tracking, Project Planning Worksheet

Cons

Resource Scenarios are not fast to produce.

Management and visibility into projects and portfolio

We have just begun using Daptiv as our primary PPM tool for projects and portfolio tracking and resource management

Pros

It is easy and intuitive to use, scalable from a single business unit to the entire org.

Cons

Training is required, setups need to be thought through before starting - otherwise it is very cumbersome to use the tool

Easy for project management

Changepoint is very stable, very reliable tool for managing our Professional Services business and was by far the best PSA tool for our business. Overall Changepoint has made a very positive impact on our service delivery and provides the reporting to better manage our KPI's.

Pros

Changepoint provides a signle tool to capture, track, approve and invoice out our services as well as mange resource assignments and demand for our customer projects. Reporting is excellent and provides many options to get data.

Cons

Changepoint is easy to use but is challenging to customize for specific business requirements (not opened source). Custom integrations such as Outlook or Concur can be difficult to deploy due to data challenges. User interface is not intuitive for non experts of the software but is improving with the 2020 release.

Great project and portfolio management tool!

Overall, my entire PMO team is very happy with the tool. Even to the CIO level who now has access to anything he wants regarding projects at his fingertips.

Pros

Overall interface is very intuitive and the configuration assistance from the Daptiv team helped us implement quickly. We now have all the information we need on our projects and portfolios in one place, with easy access to dashboards and reporting.

Cons

Very challenging to think of what I like least, one opportunity area is to allow for more what-if scenarios capability when wanting to implement schedule changes.

Daptiv Is A Solid PPM Tool

Tracking progress of IT Projects for Engineering/ Construction project. Daptiv facilitates creation and distribution of reports of Project status. Projects are being executed more quickly with fewer mistakes and greater transparency to management.

Pros

The Administrative and User configuration capabilities facilitate Daptiv's support of our processes rather than the tool forcing a change in our execution methodology User impersonation is invaluable in trouble shooting and monitoring adoption by quickly identifying what any user is experiencing

Cons

Very little Program Management capabilities with respect to the update of a Program based on changes in child Projects Tasks should behave more like MS Project

PS Review

Originally we had 2 major issues to solve as a company. How much time we were spending on a project and the availability or capacity of our internal resources? Changepoint provides us the time tracking functionality and once we mature we will have resource management to help better understand our resource strengths and capacity.

Pros

The tool is extremely powerful, we like the ability to be able to use different modules as we continue to learn the tool. Time tracking and resource management are most important to us at the time of choosing the tool. We are very excited about the new analytics and reporting coming out as well.

Cons

The initial set up of the software can be confusing for example the set up of roles when internally we aren't organized the same way. Internally we struggle with roles but this did force us to understand the roles and responsibilities needed for the success of using the tool.

PPM for all levels

Daptiv has changed my career. It has allowed me to be a better sales person. Every role needs to sell the work that they do. Having a tool that gathers information about a the project and portfolios that are being managed makes it easier to sell that value being provided.

Pros

Daptiv is configurable and extensible enough to allow for an organization whose PPM maturity is at any level effective see benefit from using the tool. Along with that it allows an organization the chance to move along the maturity level journey easily by extending the tool as needed.

Cons

Not enough people know about it the software and it's benefit.

PSA and PPM Review

Not a lot has changed in the 4 years I have worked with the product. There are some exciting things we would like to use, but challenge is to get managers on board. Changepoint is a slice of the pie, not the whole pie so not interested in doing everything in CP.

Pros

Industry leading. Web-based enables for better integration and visibility. APIs do perform well and need just minor enhancements

Cons

Too many clicks. Needs to be built to handle integrations better so users don't need to ask 100 questions or have to develop new enhancements to remove user error. Integrations will allow less user interaction on administration.

Great tool for Transparency

Great tool to assist with transparency with regards to resourcing, financing and project deliverables

Pros

Easy to use and configure and extract data

Cons

Cognos reporting could simplier ..

Changepoint PSA review

Pros

Capabilities it brings to the organization to manage resources, projects and financials making sure that billable time and fixed fee are processed each month correctly and easily. Reporting functionality is the best in the market, open and fully configurable. Allows to manage all services delivery in proper and timely way. No overhead while managing delivery to final customers.

Cons

In current version Changepoint 2019 user interface could be improved.

Daptiv Review

Pros

Very easy to configure and ability to develop reports to extract key information.

Cons

It tends to be slow across our organization. There are also some limitations as it relates to resource management, limiting the resource types.

Helps Us Help Ourselves

Daptiv has helped us consolidate all project processes and deliverables into one place which makes providing evidence to auditors much easier and more thorough. A recent IATF auditor commented that our mix of using Daptiv to support our product development process is an industry best practice.

Pros

User friendly and drives desired behaviors.

Cons

Reporting with Cognos 10 is clunky but looking forward to Cognos 11 with BI functionality

Daptiv Review

Overall very good product. Would enjoy more opportunities for training and more contact with my Customer Manager

Pros

Ease of use is number one and if my PMs are happy so am I.

Cons

Resource management could be more robust

Solid tool for tracking timesheet for consultants

Excellent system for time tracking.

Pros

No one ever likes submitting time cards every week but Changepoint makes it fairly painless to do. Once you login, you are presented with a screen that allows you to select various projects and enter in time. From the end user side that's really all there is to it. From an admin perspective, the ability to chart all the time across your organization is nice, along with the ability to create dashboards and reports.

Cons

We've all experienced the moment where you finally finish everything and hit submit, and the application errors out. Then you have to re-enter all the data into the system again. It would be nice of an auto-save feature is provided to mitigate these types of occurrences.

Plenty of features, but with a learning curve

We could develop a method to measure portfolio alignment by registering the expected benefit of the projects / portfolio, considering the expected end date of any (using the gant , scheduling tool) which allows to understand cash flows by month, portfolio. Other software only make a SUM ALL BENEFITS feature which is un-realistic and can dangerously bias decision making.

Pros

- It is built with foundations related to standard concepts of project management (PMI) tasks, profile, change management, issues, risks, capacity management, - Allows customization in almost all parts of the system - Has standard reports for analyze all parts of project - Cognos reporting is really powerful - User can request functionalities in an open board, everyone can see, vote and request

Cons

- Cognos reporting has a steep learning curve if you don't know SQL - Recognition of geography of projects is not standard / native (if you need reports based on that concept) - Portfolio management although powerful still needs ease of use (expect a big upgrade on this on 2020) - It is licenced through user based and not seat based

Bang for your buck

The ability to customize and configure data output through the use of custom fields and views, dynamic apps, and reporting provides holistic visibility to crucial performance data that can be as simple as a snapshot or as complex and detailed as an executive dashboard report.

Pros

Daptiv is a highly configurable, feature-rich PPM software that provides excellent visibility to project, program, and portfolio status. It allows you to manage a multitude of simple or complex projects and programs through a single user interface making tracking, analysis, forecasting, and planning a breeze. The ability to customize data output is only limited to the boundaries of your imagination.

Cons

The downside of Daptiv is the frequency that support cases need to be submitted due to unexpected errors or known issues with the software that are yet to be resolved. Generally, you have to find a workaround until the issue is resolved. The software is not cheap and although most support cases are resolved fairly quickly (within a day or two) reoccurring or unresolved issues make the price much harder to swallow.

It will work great even without a firm control

If you want to stay on track and be aware of modern tendencies of project management techniques, for instance, Daptiv PPM is definitely a worthy solution to draw your attention to, even though this is not a sample of programs available for all the types of users.

Pros

The accurateness of results we get from Daptiv is what makes us stay with this solution so far. It is really incredible that we are able to forecast how our ideas and program’s abilities will so-called cooperate and create. What is more, flows of data with the ability of operation in the real-time mode are another powerful feature of Daptiv. All in all, the program does not require constant unfaltering control from our employees, and this allows them to distribute their efforts and powers more effectively. The main reason why we prefer Daptiv PPM is the program’s abilities for making projects and adding sense and individuality to them. We must say that a major part of Daptiv’s productivity lays in its ease of use and a customizable interface at a high level.

Cons

We think one of the main drawbacks of the service is its price. Frankly speaking, Daptiv PPM is rather a solution for big- or medium-sized businesses. Even though such a price may be explained by the high quality of the service (which is true to life), but we believe the program should be adapted and modernized a bit to justify the investments needed. Well, concerning problems with functionality or productivity, we have nothing important to share.

Plan-it Management

Since we found the system over 10 years ago we could not be happier, before the system 60% of the staff was admin and project coordinators, Since we have had the system our admin and project coordination staff has been less then 10% of the staff

Pros

We have had the system for over 10 Years, We took our time in the set up and Batta testing, but once we did it has worked for us to rung and manage projects, then over the years we have added applications, report to be able to utilize the system to rung the full company from marketing, contracts to billing,

Cons

The only 2 items. # 1. Being able to billing continues events with out putting them in each time or day. # 2. Being able to due more with construction job cost accounting

PPM Software that grows with your organisation

Visibility of project portfolios across a large organisation are now possible, in both capital and non-capital investments. Our role as a PMO is to help enable the organisation realise its strategic vision through change, and Daptiv is a key enable for this.

Pros

Ease of configuration and reporting - we started from a fairly low position of maturity around project, programme & portfolio management, so needed to tailor a low complexity system initially to meet the needs of our users and manage change and adoption, then over several years we have been able to build new functionality, registers and reports in-house, and introduce this to users when they were ready. This has meant we have been able to offer more advanced features to some of our more complex programmes, while retaining an easy to understand interface and process for some of our smaller projects.

Cons

While there is work underway to improve agile functionality, there is still a gap between Daptiv task boards and some of the other agile planning tools on the market. Hopefully this continues to improve.

Flexible and Adaptable PPM Solution

The most important problem that Daptiv solve was visibility to the portfolio. We could have a real status in a consolidate/unique place All document are related with task schedule as well as the issue management. Deep analysis to the availability of the resource poll

Pros

Its very easy to use as well very flexible to customize, from project fields, dynamics apps and very customizable reports, can track all the project request with a specific approval policy. You can create a project from a template based on best practices, can customize different kind of web form.

Cons

The layout about how you create a project, there should be a way to group or have a matrix to type a different kind or options. You cannot manage micro-management task (task duration less than one day related with a constraint type finish to start.

Flexible and well supported

We are trying to use Daptiv as the single source of truth about a range of projects types and for reporting at project, program and portfolio levels. We plan to introduce a range of dashboards in 2020 which will make all our reporting much more immediate and interactive, which will in turn enable better decision making about portfolio investments.

Pros

Daptiv has the ability to meet all our varied requirements for portfolio and project management and reporting. Regular updates continue to improve the end-user experience.The support provided is first class and all the staff we deal with seem to genuinely want to assist us.

Cons

It can be slow, especially when running some reports.

The efficiency of daptiv

Pros

This allows us to complete structured planning of project and resources, while showing data lead results to our business. This tool has saved the business time and money. It enables seemless planning, delivery and reporting

Cons

Nothing, the constant evolution by the change point team ensures that the product continues to impress

A Flexible complete solutions for your PPM requirements.

We started loading some internal projects on it. Then we moved to our ERP customers implementation projects. It was a very useful solution to track projects, user testing, deliverable s management and so on.

Pros

What i like the most about Daptiv PPM is flexibility. Also provides a easy way to use it and that shows on user adoption. You can add configuration for your own BUT YOU CAN NOT add code or customization (you can though on reports), and thats very good because it will set a way to use best practices instead of rebuilding the wheel.

Cons

Reports can be powerful but can be slow. If there is too much data on them, might crash. Integration.You can integrate with other tools using Daptiv Connect, but there is no public API.

Effective and flexible solution to PPM

This software has helped us to achieve our goal of managing the chaos of program and project management.

Pros

I like the ability to customize what data elements we track as well as the reporting package.

Cons

This software is an excellent tool and I do not have any cons to list.

New user to daptiv

The main issue I had before using daptiv was to report numbers and progress you upper management. Daptiv provides the right tools to overcome this.

Pros

It’s a very user friendly tool and running reports is very easy to do. I have been using daptiv for just over 6 months and became an administrator in the last 2 months and I am able to upload new projects and edit with ease. I would highly recommend using daptiv for reporting to upper management and finance.

Cons

There isn’t anything I can think of to say the software does exactly what I need it to do.

Daptiv review

Pros

- cloud based software - frequent product updates - allows portfolio view of projects and programs; enterprise risk registry; lessons learned knowledge base - cognos back end for reporting

Cons

- on boarding and off boarding staff isn't well developed. adding a start / termination date or capability is necessary to simplify administration of staff who join and leave the organization. now rely upon work around that isn't ideal. - task boards are useful only within individual projects which doesn't allow use for teams managing multiple simultaneous projects. Lacks a scrum board at portfolio or team level. - connectors to JIRA and other external systems is expensive.

Daptiv for PMOs

Daptiv has been instrumental in helping us aggregate project-level data into information executives can use for decisions about initiatives.

Pros

We've had Daptiv for over 5 years and as our organization and PMO has evolved, we've been able to use Daptiv to meet our needs. The capabilities and features are flexible to evolve and mature as our processes and experience matures.

Cons

We tend to rely on MS Project for building and managing schedules because of all the features and because most of our PMs are familiar with it. Keeping the Daptiv task list and MS Project in sync is a challenge, even using some of the automation to help with this.

Changepoint is a gamechanger

It is our single front door controlling all engineering resource. It allows us to ensure we deliver the right things for the right reasons in the right timescales to support the business strategy. Vanity projects slipping under the radar and wasting resource are a thing of the past !

Pros

Very intuitive, the engineering and programme community required little training and its really low maintenance. You can aggregate data, slice and dice and create custom dashboards to really understand and interpret large swaths of data into meaningful and actionable results.

Cons

Nothing thus far ! We are embarking on phase 2 - to exploit more of the incumbent functionality.

Product & Customer Service

Pros

The ease of use and the great customer service you receive. Daptiv supports you through every aspect of the implementation and provides the same support afterwards.

Cons

Sometimes the configuration of field names

Daptive User review

Overall I believe that we have had a positive experience with the platform. We only utilize the app for project management at this time, but I believe that we could grow with the platform and add more services as necessary.

Pros

I really appreciate the ability to oversee multiple resources and project plans all within one easy to use system.

Cons

I wish that it would integrate with MS Teams - or had better collaboration capabilities.

Daptiv Administrator

Pros

Capabilities, Flexibility, Professional Services Support, and cost

Cons

Did not have expense report functionality needed so needed to implement another tool for that need.

Excellent forecasting tool

We have got another work stream that delivers capital projects for welfare have started using daptiv which has helped them easily identify and see their cost and forecast.

Pros

I think all users and customer’s will agree Daptiv is a very easy and user friendly tool to use.

Cons

The one thing I think it lacks is bulk delete option for workspaces. Sometimes we create many workspaces for testing purposes and it just time consuming deleting them on a individual basis

Daptiv Review

Enterprise wide Resource Visualization, Process standardization

Pros

Visualization and collaboration across the Enterprise from multiple aspects (Resource Planning, Team Collaboration)

Cons

Task Schedule Functionality is cumbersome. No capability to fast edit, quick add multiple lines to schedule, etc.

One Susyem to Manage Projects

Since using Daptiv the admin burden for project managers has decreased. We now have one system for managing projects vs. having to access multiple platforms. Our weekly project updates and status reports are extremely easy to produce.

Pros

1) we now have one system for all our project management tasks, tracking tasks and milestones, document repository, timekeeping, reporting. 2) System is reliable and easy to use. 3) Resource Capacity Planning and Allocation are easy to see in one view

Cons

Through no fault of the software, its just how it was set up ..but having some difficulty with looking to expand to another Department. This is a work in progress but there is some potential impact on milestones and project tasks that have been set up and that will need to be modified.

Katcon´s Technical Center Resource and Workload Management

Pros

First of all I liked the technical sales approach we were given before taking a decision. The vendor was vastly knowledgeable and the solution was explained very professionally. I had the task to find a product that could help the company manage the engineering workload since we were merging resources from other countries. This is no easy task. When we were presented with this solution immediately it clicked since it was exactly what I had in mind.

Cons

Vendor-wise, no issues, the service provided was always excellent. I would say that perhaps the reporting is not that intuitive and required several training sessions to really be able to create customised reports.

Daptiv PPM Tool

Very effective from a project management perspective. Time tracking is simple as we implemented project-level time entry.

Pros

The tool is very flexible and easy to configure. We have also found it is easy for our new PMs to pick up and start using with minimal overhead.

Cons

It may be too flexible, in the past we "jumped" into adding fields or apps before flushing out all the details. This caused some fields that are no longer used.

Very Good Tool!

This is a nice tool to use and it gets better month on month.

Pros

A good tool for project management and for task management. Custom fields can be configured easily and native fields easily adapted for use. There are a lot of features to easily drive Project management practice maturity. The support services are also awesome. They are also always improving and launching new release of features which is commendable.

Cons

Reporting: Reporting is not good enough. I still have to export my data to an Ms Excel to do detail analysis. I can't easily customize reports on the tool and as a PMO analytics, reporting is very very key. Portfolio management : The tool still need a lot of work to adequately serve as a Portfolio Management tool. PMO Governance: This aspect still require a lot of work Resource Management: The features are complex and not easily understood for usage.

Excellent tool, easy to use

Real time view and control of overall portfolio with quick and easy segmentation for targeted reporting, insight and subsequent actions. Simple tool, easy to configure to suit needs of project and programmes of all sizes with no additional configuration required. Powerful reporting tool with Changepoint Analytics with easily consumable and customisable reports to be used as dashboards for full user interactivity

Pros

Ease of navigation, ease of configuration, maturity of reporting functionality

Cons

Minor missing features for more sophisticated reporting (SPI &CPI specifically) but requests already raised to resolve

Daptiv PPM?

Overall, we've had a bumpy ride with Daptiv. Our implementation did not go well due to the fact that Daptiv did not ensure/encourage us to use their defined process and due to lack of stakeholder involvement from the business. Most individuals within the company are very willing to try to help address issues, but there are some, at the lower levels, who just say no or it's not something they can do.

Pros

Daptiv has nice visuals and, once you get used to specific functionality it is fairly easy to use.

Cons

The current reporting functionality (Cognos 10) is cumbersome and not very user friendly. Reporting is currently not a strong capability within Daptiv.

Daptiv Review

Daptiv is a one stop shop for our PgMO. We house everything related to our programs and projects in the system. This provides us the ability to report out to executives on everything we have going on and where it is at from both a completion status as well as a budget status.

Pros

The ease of use and that it is SAAS based and can be accessed from anywhere.

Cons

The administration area needs to be updated, it is antiquated and there should be better functionality in this area.

Easy to setup, easy to use

We used Daptiv's implementation services to stand up our instance and that in itself was an amazing experience. The consultant was extremely knowledgeable and helped us figure out a manageable first iteration.

Pros

There is a ton of out of the box functionality and best practices baked into this software suite. This makes it quite easy to enable useful functions that help drive improved processes.

Cons

We implemented a year ago and so far we haven't found anything material that we don't like!

Portfolio Management

Pros

Supports project intake process, scoring, governance and resource capacity planning. Provides enterprise visibility to leadership team on all project and operational work across the organization.

Cons

Can't undo changes made within work spaces at task level or dynamic applications.

Daptiv Customer Support unlike any other

Overall, the software is very waterfall orientated but it is good at providing value at that.

Pros

I like the reporting aspect the most about the software. Especially now that it is using cognos 11, the reporting is much easier now.

Cons

The flexibility and customization of task boards. It is lacking conditional formatting and filtering that we need for our agile framework.

Daptiv PPM Tool

We are know able to provide a complete portfolio view of NPI for our company, the reporting we get out of the tool used to take hours on end to populate.

Pros

The ability to customize the product has been the biggest selling point for us as we have numerous business units.

Cons

Since we use the tool for over 10 businesses some of the admin functionality for adding users is cumbersome.

PPMO Helpful

Overall, working with Daptiv PPM has helped us in several areas: recognizing resource constraints and where we need to prioritize, and also data governance - recognizing how we can clean up our data.

Pros

The Resource Allocation feature is the most likeable feature on this. I think that it helps us manage our resources and really look at the organization's project capacity. Where we need to explore for future development.

Cons

The inability to move around views/fields in the workspaces is difficult. I think that we have the ability to customize a lot of different areas, but that is one where I wish it was more available to customize. Also would really like to integrate more with Power BI.

PMO manager review

My prior organization utilized Oracle's PPM solution which was branded as Instantis. It was a fairly comprehensive tool but was difficult to work with and pull data from. I was amazed at the difference with Daptiv and how much easier it is to work with.

Pros

I like how customizable it is to meet the needs of my customers. Because of where our organization is on the maturity curve, we needed to start with many manual fields to get the data we need from our PMs.

Cons

Its something thats been addressed in the latest iteration but the reporting capabilities via Cognos 10 were extremely difficult to work with, without having a cognos expert within the organization. Very excited for Cognos 11