Sciforma

Vorteile

Wir nutzen diese SaaS ausschließlich im Bereich der Entwicklung.Sciforma hat uns sehr dabei geholfen die Ressourcen und die Aufgaben zu planen. Jede Zeitbuchung wird zunächst überprüft und im nächsten Schritt in das Projekt übertragen. Dies sorgt für einen angemessenen und überschaubaren Workflow.Die Rollen sind sehr hilfreich, um schnell neue Mitarbeiterdatensätze in Sciforma einzufügen.Sciforma berücksichtigt die Intensität, die Dauer und den Aufwand in einem Projekt. Diese Kriterien sind pro Person individuell einstellbar. Somit ist sichergestellt, dass eines dieser Kriterien immer fix ist und sich nicht dynamisch anpassen kann. Sehr praktisch!Der Ticketdienst war stets sehr zuvorkommend und hilfreich. Die Antwortzeit war sehr kurz.Die Projektrechte an Mitarbeiter war sehr einfach zu konfigureren. Es ist ebenfalls möglich, das Projektteam aus Ressourcen zu begrenzen, die dem Projekt zugeteilt sind.Der Statusbericht je Projekt war sehr hilfreich, hat vier Textboxen, die formatierbar sind und bei denen Bilder hinzugefügt werden können. Zudem zeigt der Statusbericht allen Beteiligten den aktuellen Stand des Projekts auf.Außerdem möchten wir uns für das tolle OnBoarding im Jahr 2021 und für die Customized Reports bedanken.

Nachteile

- Die Meldungen auf der rechten Seite unter "Projekte>Arbeit" ist sehr hilfreich, um Unstimmigkeiten mit der Projektplanung zu identifizieren. Da in der Entwicklung selten genau der geplante Aufwand erreicht wird, ist die Liste der (teilweise über 80) Meldungen sehr lang, sodass die wesentlichen Meldungen nicht sofort identifizierbar sind.- Wenn die Projektplanung und alle Aufgaben von Anfang an definiert sind, ist die Basisfunktion ein sehr nützliches Tool. Werden im Projektverlauf weitere Aufgaben erstellt, muss zunächst die Erstellung und Planung dieser Aufgabe in einer Basis gefunden werden, um die Diskrepanz zu ermitteln.- Eine Aufgabe, dessen Restaufwand auf 0h fällt, wird automatisch von Sciforma auf "Fertiggestellt" gesetzt. Wird der Restaufwand nachträglich manuell erhöht und dieses automatisch erstellte Datum zur Fertigstellung gelöscht, wird ebenfalls der komplette Istaufwand für diese Aufgabe aus dem Projekt gelöscht. Die Stunden aus dem Stundenzettel müssen danach erneut in das Projekt übertragen werden.- Die Ladezeit auf der Cloud von Seite zu Seite empfanden die User als etwas lange (bis zu 10 Sekunden).- Der Aufwand konnte nur in "Tagen" dargestellt werden, auch wenn "Stunden" im Designer eingestellt war. -> Umrechnung in Excel notwendig. (wahrscheinlich ein Fehler durch den Import unserer älteren Daten)- Das automatische Abmelden nach 30 Minuten war teils sehr störend (Anpassungen am Statusbericht im PupUp-Fenster wurden verworfen).

Vorteile

Als Admin kann man im Designer selbst Korrekturen vornehmen. Das System arbeitet sehr zuverlässig und nach ein klein wenig Erfahrung, beherrscht man das System sehr gut.

Nachteile

Ein Klick kann dazu führen, dass sie das ganze Gantt-Chart verschiebt und nicht mehr rückgängig gemacht werden kann (sofern man vergessen hat das Projekt vorab zu sperren).

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Gründe für den Wechsel zu Sciforma

Vorteile

Super Software, einfache Bedienung, umfangreiche Funktionalitäten , Backend kann selbst durchgeführt werden, Sehr guter Kundensupport, Anbindungen an weitere Systeme möglich, Sehr gutes und ausgereiftes Ressourcenmanagement, Zeitenrückmeldung per APP bald möglich, regelmäßige Updates

Nachteile

Durch die Vielzahl an Funktionalitäten ist es anfangs schwierig sich innerhalb der Software zurecht zu finden
Viel Vorbereitung um bestehende Funktionalitäten auszureizen

Vorteile

Einfache ProjektplanungEinfache FortschrittsaktualisierungGute Portfolioübersicht

Nachteile

Das Onboarding was etwas holprig. Die Unklarheiten konnten allerdings im Anschluss gelöst werden.

Vorteile

I have reviewed, implemented, used and replaced several enterprise-level PPM solutions. Sciforma is, in my opinion, the best single-platform solution on the market to enable teams to run various methodologies, yet still report holistically at the enterprise level regardless of the methodology used to run each project. It's a true one-stop-shop for an organization that wants the flexibility to manage projects differently. You are able to do all traditional project management functions related to schedule, Gantt, budget, resource allocation, portfolio reporting and more. The Agile features are simpler than some of the big-name leaders who focus ONLY on Agile, yet robust enough that prior users of those large systems will still find comfort in managing their Agile efforts in Sciforma. For those organizations who are more comfortable with a hybrid-approach, this solutions easily integrates iterations/sprints into the Gantt view. If you have a Steering Committee making decisions about which projects should be started and when, or if your Finance group wants to in-depth financial impacts of the projects, this solution will make everyone happy. Sciforma is going to change how my organization approaches project and resource allocation decisions.

Nachteile

There are a couple things I'd like to see improved in the tool, though this may be personal preference.
1) I would prefer more automated data to be shown in the out-of-the-box project status reports rather than subjective text boxes and some high-level project data points.
2) I prefer an Agile burndown chart that predicts the sprint completion.
This said, Sciforma does allow you to build custom things (like the status report I want to see), and I've been able to create wish-list tickets for future development--and the product team has accepted several suggestions and placed them on the product roadmap.

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Warum Sciforma gewählt wurde

Zuvor genutzte Software

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Sciforma

Vorteile

Designer mode, that allows us the flexibility and capability to create and modify our own tools for the production view.

Nachteile

So far, I don't see anything that I don't like because the more I explore, the more I learn something new.

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Warum Sciforma gewählt wurde

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Sciforma

Vorteile

I like how it keeps track of your previous records and is good for accountability purposes. It is extremely convenient and easy to see what tasks I have been working on the past few weeks.

Nachteile

Many times the software UI is very clunky and leaves for a fairly annoying experience. Once in a while, buttons don't work and certain loading screens freeze. Though the effects are not critical, I do find the software to be somewhat of a pain to deal with at time and I think that's something that SciForma shouldn't be.

Vorteile

We used it to plan a large project with multiple teams. The Gantt charts helped us align timelines and avoid delays.

Nachteile

Setting up complex dependencies took some getting used to, but it worked perfectly once set.

Vorteile

User adoption is key in any enterprise system, Sciforma's ease of use enables that, it is quite intuitive and a beautiful sight to behold, we've come to see that users highly appreciate that effort. Technically it is very strong (the strongest) yet fully maintaining the balance between technical complexity and ease of use.

With the release of Sciforma 7.1 we've seen massive leaps forward on a solution that was already at a peak compared to it's rivals, the introduction of Programme Management amongst, and the focus on building stronger connections with various data elements has seen Sciforma being highly appraised by our clients.

Nachteile

There are very little to no cons, everyone ultimately has their preference and Sciforma is ours. We are fully confident in the continuity that Sciforma constantly reassures us with by staying ahead of the race and breaking new grounds in this space.

Vorteile

I used SciForma for classical Project Management schedule, task, resource management. All features are easy to use, intuitive. I am very happy with them.

Nachteile

At the moment I haven't found anything that I am unhappy with.

Vorteile

The software is definitely very simple to be used and it doesn't need customization because the "out of the box" features are very wide. The team accepted the change and in a short time we have been running at 100%.

Nachteile

so far I haven't had any issue with Sciforma, it meets my expectations. We had some troubles installing the on premise version. The support we got was very prompt and the configuration problems were solved in a short time.

Vorteile

We spent a lot of time implementing not only the tool but all the understanding and the processes around it. We have over 200 users in more than 50 projects.

Nachteile

With versatility comes complexity. The "Help" is not always useful for end users. A pre-requisite to your clients is really the knowledge of concepts coupled with experience in Project management.

Vorteile

Great tool for time tracking, project scheduling and status reporting to executives.

Nachteile

Less self-help sections for learning the tool.

Vorteile

The ease of the user interface, maneuvering throughout the system, and easy customization. The tool helps standardize our PMO and strategic efforts.

Nachteile

Nothing so far. The key for anyone wanting to implement Sciforma is to complete the implementation data entry template one week prior to the vendor arriving onsite. This made our implementation very smooth!

Vorteile

Sciforma est un outil très complet, qui propose des solutions valables pour des projets aussi bien simples que complexes.
La gestion des portfolio est un atout de Sciforma.

Nachteile

Le reporting n'est pas à la hauteur de l'outil. Les données sont là, mais difficilement exploitables sans un outil tiers ou de la personnalisation de rapport.

Il est nécessiare d'avoir en interne des personnes capables de former et d'accompagner les chefs de projet dans la gestion de l'outil.

Vorteile

Everything. I can't one negative thing on the software as a whole. Everything operated as advertised and overall was better

Nachteile

Na I didn't have any issues at all. The software over exceeded my expectations and for that there's no negative to or least liked to write .

Vorteile

L'outil est très puissant mais les fonctions principales sont faciles à comprendre et maitriser.
Les vues de Gantt sont pratiques d'utilisation et l'affectation des ressources et charges est un vrai point fort.
Les plans de charges sont aussi beaucoup utilisés.
Il apporte une bonne visualisation des plannings (vue Gantt) et de la répartition des ressources (plans de charges).

Nachteile

Les profils génériques sont un vrai point fort pour nous mais leur utilisation soulève quelques bug et il manquerait pour nous quelques fonctions associées à ce sujet.
Le logiciel est complexe et en cela la logique utilisée n'est pas toujours évidente à saisir, il faut faire attention à l'ordre des actions pour avoir le résultat obtenu. De plus il y a plusieurs manières de réaliser une même action et c'est parfois difficile de s'y retrouver.
Dans les points faibles plus secondaires :
Il pourrait être pertinent que la position Verrouillée soit le cas par défaut et non l'inverse pour éviter de se rendre compte trop tard qu'on ne peut revenir en arrière.
Il ne faut pas aller trop vite avec sinon le logiciel à du mal à suivre.
L'impression des projets en vue Gantt avec le tableau en PDF n'est pas très jolie à moins de faire une impression personnalisée et tâtonner pour ajuster la vue à la bonne taille pour voir tout le projet sans sauts de pages superflus ou vue trop petite.

Vorteile

- Can be used as boxed solution or customized to your needs
- Great visualization and traceability features incorporating different project management styles
- Accurate milestone tracking
- Start workflows, assign and track tasks
- Assign resources and manage the team

Nachteile

- Initial roll-out and training was time consuming, like with every major change

Vorteile

Project Management is the best part of this tool where we can manage our multiple projects effortlessly. It's very easy to use and quickly implement features to our work.

Nachteile

Still now, I didn't find any disadvantage of this tool. If we explore more features and face any difficulties will share for sure.

Vorteile

Sciforma has a comprehensive functionality that covers the entire Project/Product life cycle management, where all aspects relevant to the cycle are in one product, with comprehensive dashboards to manage it all. I particularly like the ability to create connections between the objects in Sciforma, which maintains the relationships between the Program and all the other objects, like relevant projects, products etc.. which keeps the focus clear to enable driving your Program strategy. in addition to the one area where you can manage all your deliverable, issues, CRs and Actions, see who is managing each, and where they are in the workflow.

Nachteile

Although still accessible through the HTML, a mobile app for workflow approvals would be great to have.

Vorteile

This software is very useful. It helps to track project milestones, project status, project costs. It also can be customized to meet our company needs. Sciforma engineering team is very helpful and responsive. They helped to create different dashboards we requested for different groups such as engineering group, finance group and operation group. Also these dashboards can be exported to an excel file to email to different groups.

Nachteile

As far, I do not feel any feature is missing as this software supports all our requirements.

Vorteile

La combinaison des besoins d'un projets sont regroupés à un seul endroit. On est forcé à l'uniformité dans la présentation et le suivi des projets. La navigation dans les fonctionnalités de base est instinctive.

Nachteile

Gardez en tête que je commence tout juste a utiliser l'outil. Ici nous sommes limités dans les jetons donc les accès sont restreints et donc on doit se priver de certaines fonctionnalités. Aussi, nous sommes en train de tester le produit et le registre des décisions ainsi que les risques sont gérés ailleurs vu que je ne peux pas former l'ensemble de la direction sur l'utilisation de l'outil. Si l'échéancier est incertain (comme dans la plus part des cas au départ) c'est difficile de suivre les couts, les épics pour les cartes indépendamment. L'idée du produit est très intéressante mais je crois que pour les projets en définitions et les projet en replanification globale il y a du potentiel d'amélioration dans les versions suivantes.

Vorteile

I have been working with Sciforma for a couple of years and have gained experience as both a user and a consultant. In my opinion, these are their three main advantages:

1. The interface is very clear and intuitive; everything has been made to facilitate the use of the software. The user approval at my customer’s has been pretty good so far.

2. I like their pricing model, which is based on users roles. It’s pretty flexible and allows for scalability. My customer started with only 30 users and now has grown to 120 users. They wanted to implement time tracking in phase 2 of their deployment; the user console Sciforma provides allowed me to do the configuration exactly as requested, thus meeting their needs 100%.

3. They offer a lot of features, which is great for me as a consultant. I can offer Sciforma to pretty much all of my customers and tailor it to meet their needs.

Nachteile

I don’t have any issues so far, my customers are really happy about the tool.

Vorteile

La couverture fonctionnelle est large.
Cela permet de pouvoir gérer les projets et les portefeuilles de projet de tous les départements de l'entreprise.
j'apprécie d'avoir une fonctionnalité pour le future qui nous permettra de renseigner la stratégie de l'entreprise et des différents départements et de pouvoir mesurer la contribution des projets à l'atteinte des objectifs et le niveau de contribution des projet à la stratégie d'entreprise.

Nachteile

nécessite de bien définir le processus à déployer.
J'aurai apprécié d'avoir un paramétrage std, des bonnes pratique pour démarrer simplement avec la solution.
Une évolution à prévoir est de pouvoir directement manipuler les infos dans le Gantt pour l'établissement des road map par exemple.

Vorteile

- User interface is great
- Ability to override forms, create our own dashboards.
- Having a Business Case centre and demand management helped us

Nachteile

*General slowness regarding:
- SSO
- Gantt chart manipulation - scheduling a simple task requires a lot of patience as the system takes a while to validate entries and save them. Very cumbersome and we had a lot of complains with this.
- Slow moving from one screen to another

* small number of built in reports. Other tools have a whole bunch of reports to chose from and also allow you to create reports by selecting what objects go where - a more intuitive and user friendly report building mechanism.

Vorteile

The possibility to customize and add new features.
The concept of having different extensions and being able to assign specific extensions to certain users

Nachteile

I truly can not think of cons for Sciforma PPM, I do think that it is a valuable tool that would make life easier for end users.

Vorteile

It's great for time tracking, which is what we mostly use it for.

Nachteile

Sciforma lacks reporting features, it seems like it could be stronger in that area.

Vorteile

Sciforma has the function of exporting information into excel, PDF & images. This enables flexible compilation of data.

Nachteile

Same terms are used throughout the interface at various locations and with different meanings. This causes some confusion sometimes.

Vorteile

good UI, flexibility, performance, API .

Nachteile

the gant is not ese to use , no trace log

Vorteile

It s easy to set and use (very user friendly)
It allows us to manage project using waterfall or scrum methodology
Give us a real added value
We can use it from a table, laptop or a mobile.

Nachteile

We have a SaaS version for our company so we need to have internet conexion all the time in order to use it.

Vorteile

Fonctionnalités étendues, beaucoup d'écrans et de menus.
Interface WEB est un plus
Mises à jour live disponibles immédiatement pour tous les utilisateurs OK.

Nachteile

A vouloir tout faire, le danger est de na pas faire "tout bien".
Des impasses par rapport à MS Project (qui n'est pas une référence pourtant) ex : personnalisations représentations GANTT.
Des bugs non résolus à date soulevés par nos utilisateurs : l'utilisation avancée de certaines fonctionnalités pointues montre assez vite les limites.

Vorteile

Le logiciel est complet et répond à la gestion des capacités des ressources et la planification des projets.

Nachteile

Il y a énormément de fonctionnalités qui ne sont pas forcément utiles dans une première utilisation ; ce qui peut déconcerter et complexifier la mise en place et l'utilisation.

Vorteile

easy to use (task scheduling and follow-up). Seems quiet complete even though we do not use features yet.

Nachteile

Reporting features are not esay to implement

Vorteile

It helps to manage time and resources used in projects.

Nachteile

The software is slow response and maybe due to software itself.

Vorteile

Sciforma has a sleek user interface that allows users to pin certain projects to their timesheet every week, hide less important / inactive projects, and annotate individual tasks with ease. I've also never experienced trouble with the platform loading slowly or crashing. Overall the software provides a good user experience.

Nachteile

Sciforma allows users to track their time down to half-hour increments. While this feature may be useful in a legal firm or other setting where very small time increments need to be kept track of and billed to separate clients, in a normal lab-based or office-based setting this degree of granularity is not necessary. Attempting to track working time down to the half-hour is both impractical and facilitates micromanagement when supervisors approve timesheets. This is not an inherent limitation of the software, however workplaces adopting Sciforma should be cognisant of this effect and allow employees to log time in a weekly percent-based manner rather than logging every hour of every day.

Vorteile

Puissant, complet (couverture des phases avant projet : idées/opportunités, puissance des rapports, planification, capacité à faire et projection)

Nachteile

Complexité d'appropriation, quelques bug ou incohérences du logiciel de base. Difficile de faire des rattrapages et de comprendre certaines anomalies même en étant accompagné d'experts certifiés

Vorteile

Holistic, Scalability, Flexibility, UI/UX, Hybrid in many ways, For example: SaaS & OnPremise , Agile & Waterfall

Nachteile

Document management, Lack of structured integrations for ALM tools, and viewers

Vorteile

As a certified project manager (PMP), I can say this software fits very nicely with my training and it has great ease of use.

Nachteile

So far, this software has not presented any cons to our organization. Obviously we wish the price per user per month was lower, but the price is very fair.

Vorteile

Ideation and Demand Management is quite easy to use and configure. Business Case scoring critearia very easy to define and implement. Scorong for Portfolio Simulation and Capacity Planning very friendly interface. Workflow and approval totally customizable. Very easy to implement not only the tool but your methodology. Resource Allocation is very flexible and Waterfall/Agile can be implemented simultaneously.

Nachteile

Smartphone interface, which is intended to be realeased next quarter, at least to the team register time.

Vorteile

Customer service, New versions every month to get rid of the annoying bugs

Nachteile

Designer view could get really complicated

Vorteile

It is very well categorized with very much details needed for updating the time spent over the week.

Nachteile

The layout could be improved to be more user friendly. When more projects added to the worksheet, the layout can be a bit confusing.

Vorteile

Sciforma is a powerful project management software that allows you to keep track of all aspects of projects.

Nachteile

The level of detail can sometimes be daunting.

Vorteile

It has everything a PM would want in a tool and more.
I also like that the tool can be customized to meet the needs of our company.

Nachteile

Not as user friendly as I would like - little harder to navigate but once you got it you got it.

Vorteile

It makes it very easy to allocate things to the correct project, and to specific tasks within a project.

Nachteile

I don't like giving an hour by hour breakdown of each day on the timesheets, as it is time consuming to fill out

Vorteile

Ability to see the hours updated in real time when you enter them, ability to standardize categories.

Nachteile

annoying to scroll through all the categories to find what you need. wish you could save commonly annotated notes and reuse them for other timesheets.