We performed a comparison between Asana and Planview PPM Pro based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to build subtasks and break things down off of our major tasks has been very valuable. It is very stable and extremely scalable. The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the ease of navigation."
"It’s a great way to communicate plans and progress across the business and is flexible about how much detail I include and how I present it."
"It is stable and easy to set up."
"Asana is a very simple interface for project managers to figure out, providing all the functions they need."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the tracking of comments and documents in one place."
"I love the way it monitors all of the current and past projects, and it sends notifications to keep everything on the track."
"Stable Kanban style tool for collaboration and task management. It runs smoothly and has a straightforward setup."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that my team can use one tool that's reliable, scalable, and provides the leadership team visibility to what's going on."
"Time tracking, portfolio management reporting, and what-if analysis create visibility into project planning, resource capacity, and demand planning."
"Has good visibility."
"The solution is great for viewing projects and timelines."
"PPM Pro is really great at the portfolio level like seeing what projects are in flight versus complete, or maybe not started. The portfolio level view is good for stage-gate management specifically."
"The timesheet & staffing management function gives us clarity in terms of how capacity planning has to happen and how much actual effort is going into the programs. The risk and project status information gets captured in the project gives more clarity for stakeholders to understand how the programs are running. We have only explored a portion of the application features so far."
"The status reporting is the most valuable feature as it's easy to use; it's simple for project managers to enter their information, and the reporting features are very flexible."
"I liked the dashboards because I need to report out on tasks completed in the last two weeks, tasks scheduled for the next two weeks, what the risks and health are. What I've been able to do is create reports based on that and then put those reports into a dashboard. The old reporting was clunky, but the beta reports got better. But then I couldn't add the beta reports to the dashboards so now they released the new beta dashboards and it works great. It does everything I need to do."
"Some updates are outdated, and their functionalities can affect the end outcomes."
"It's hard to integrate Asana into other parts of the company workflow, so integration is an area for improvement."
"Currently, there are only a few available options, but it would be helpful to have more control over the notifications received."
"In some instances, there were subtasks where more than one person needed to review it, but I could only assign it to one person. I would have to create a subtask under a subtask and then assign it to other people. This could be improved."
"There just needs to be a bit more direction on how to use it at the outset."
"It would be beneficial if Asana had a predecessor feature that automatically adjusts all subsequent dates when changes are made to a timeline. For example, if I assign a designer four hours for one task and two days for another, and the completion of a task takes longer than anticipated, it would be convenient if updating one date could prompt the adjustment of all other relevant dates. Essentially, this feature would streamline the process and eliminate the need for manual adjustments."
"It's difficult to have short-term collaborations with external users because the operations team owns the final licenses, and I work for marketing."
"You need to have an action plan, otherwise, it won't be as effective."
"There should be the ability to store historical functions, but this is not just for this tool. It is applicable to many tools. It would be great if we were able to store specific historical data, such as risk management."
"Integrating with other tools should be easier and more straightforward."
"I would like to schedule reports. I would like to be able to schedule a report and every Monday it sends that report to these people. That circumvents having to give them a license. It's just a way of saying "Okay, this is what's going on this week," and it just happens. I don't have to worry about it."
"Based on my experience, the financial management screens have gone a long way, but I think there's still some room for improvement in terms of how you model them and the different version controls."
"I would like to see integration with third-party applications, like the JIRA, Microsoft Project, and financial applications."
"We don't use their existing dashboard functionality. Hopefully, with the new reporting release that is coming out in November, we will be able to evaluate as to how we can leverage that. What I hear, "Everyone has either a Tableau or something else because Planview doesn't provide a dashboard." We should not need to use another tool. Planview has the data, so it should be able to give us what we want. This would also reduce costs since we are paying licenses for those tools too."
"This solution does not work well as a task management system because it is very difficult to expand beyond just the basic tasks, and this would be a worthwhile area for improvement."
"The integration with some of these other tools that we use, like the Azure DevOps needs improvement. I heard there are few things coming within Planview or PPM Pro itself, but I think it's still future dated. These integrations are key for us from an organizational perspective."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while Planview PPM Pro is ranked 15th in Project Management Software with 34 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while Planview PPM Pro is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Stands out with portfolios, easy setup, and real-time information, but needs big improvement when it comes to workflows, automation, and dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Planview PPM Pro writes "Attentive customer service". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike and monday.com, whereas Planview PPM Pro is most compared with Planview AdaptiveWork, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios, Planisware and JIRA Portfolio. See our Asana vs. Planview PPM Pro report.
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